Parkour Lifts Young New Yorkers Up Above It All

New York Press | April 10, 2008
As a dispossessed teenager in a working-class suburb of Paris, Frenchman David Belle invented parkour, a way of moving with the purpose of findng the most efficient way of crossing a landscape, usually an urban one, by adapting to obstacles without hesitation or disruption to the intended path.

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