Parkour and the City

Parkour and the City
Author: Jeffrey L. Kidder
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0813571987

In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger. Parkour’s modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour’s dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as “traceurs” or “freerunners”) reject a “daredevil” label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety—rather than a “pushing the edge” ethos normally associated with extreme sports.

The Parkour Code

The Parkour Code
Author: Jay Francis Mistretta
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0557384761

The Parkour Code is a modern fictional novel for young adults. Six high school seniors, known as the X squad, seek adventure by locating hot spots around their city. These Parkour athletic performers each have a unique ability. They display their talent during an event or jam session. Their overall objective is to free flow at the world's largest Parkour facility. *Parkour is the discipline of training the mind and body to overcome obstacles **A freerunner utilizes landscape to perform movement through its structure. By incorporating moves from parkour, an athlete adds creative vaults, tricks, and street stunts over and around obstacles

Parkour is My Jam

Parkour is My Jam
Author: Zawardo Journals
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-11-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781708754594

Our Unique Journal Notebooks are Sure to Put a Smile on Someone's Face.- 120 blank lined pages - Professionally designed soft matte cover - Can be used as a journal, notebook or a composition book - 6" x 9" dimensions; lightweight and portable size for work, desk or school - Perfect for jotting down thoughts, taking notes, writing, organizing, goal setting, meeting notes, doodling, drawing, lists, journaling, and brainstorming - Makes a great gift for any special occasion: Christmas, birthday, gift exchange or any gift-giving occasion

Parkour Is My Jam

Parkour Is My Jam
Author: Parkour Lover Funny Journals
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2019-11-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781704740867

Lined Notebook for Parkour Lover - Funny Design Beautiful cover color, nice design saying 'Parkour Is My Jam' and simple lined interior - that's what your perfect lined notebook for every person who loves parkour looks like. 100 white pages in very compact size of 6x9 inches with space for all crucial notes, thoughts every person needs to write down in their parkour theme journal at univeristy, work and not only. This notebook from our funny hobby series is perfect for: Writing down ideas and thoughts at work - you may use it as your beautiful diary, journal remembering about beloved hobby - parkour, Writing down your plans, to do lists or describing your dreams, Using it as daily journal - using it at work, school and not only, This Parkour Is My Jam Journal is a good present idea: give it to your daughter or son who has such hobby as parkour, give it to your friend if they love parkour, it's perfect for your co-worker's birthday if you know their big hobby is parkour. Notebook specification cute design saying 'Parkour Is My Jam', 100 pages, soft cover, black and white interior, lined pages and special space for date, 6x9 inches

Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City

Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City
Author: Thomas Raymen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1787438112

This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the paradox of parkour against a backdrop of late-capitalism.

The Parkour Legacy

The Parkour Legacy
Author: Ryan Gallet
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1257643940

The Parkour Legacy is a story for teens. Utilizing the skills of parkour, Xtreme PK Motion plot a course toward a novel venture. For them, this time, change is inevitable. In order to find your way, sometimes you must lose your path. When you do, don't forget to leave a legacy! *Parkour is the discipline of training the mind and body to overcome obstacles.

Stupid

Stupid
Author: Kim Firmston
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459406133

Martin's been diagnosed with ADHD, but he feels something about his diagnosis isn't right. The Ritalin he's prescribed doesn't seem to make a difference. When Martin's grades continue to sink no matter how hard he tries, his father writes him off as lazy and just plain stupid. His dad is convinced that Martin just needs to focus more on his studies and less on making movies. One night while out pursuing his passion on the city streets with his camera, Martin meets Stick and is introduced to the energetic and exciting pastime of parkour -- free-running. While filming Stick's flips and tricks, Martin begins to see a connection between how his brain interprets the world, all jumbled and fast-moving and out of order, and what the free-runners see. Camera in hand, Martin sets out to make a video that will show his dad what he sees, and hopefully get him to understand that Martin's real learning disability, dyslexia, has never been properly diagnosed.

Breaking the Jump

Breaking the Jump
Author: Julie Angel
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 178131554X

From its humble origins in the backstreets and rooftops of Paris's urban jungle, to the tops of London and New York's skyscrapers, Parkour, has become an adrenaline-fuelled implosion on the urban landscape. But more than a sport that most jaw-dropped onlookers can hardly comprehend, Parkour is an exploration of movement and a return to our body's natural ability to run, jump, hang and move with fluidity. For the first time, Julie Angel tells the story of Parkour's beginnings - the diverse, intriguing and unusual characters who went to the rooftops, hung off the stairwells and drain pipes as they trained through the night, often risking their lives and created something that has become a worldwide phenomenon. Breaking the Jumpÿtells the unknown story behind Parkour's rise, and asks what is it that drives those who stand on the edge and think `go'.

Deviant Leisure

Deviant Leisure
Author: Thomas Raymen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2019-09-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 303017736X

This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society, ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this collection of essays pushes far beyond criminology’s traditional interest in ‘deviant’ forms of leisure, to consider the normalized social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training; and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK, US, Europe and Australia, Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm represents the first systematic attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of serious criminological importance.

A Companion to Sport

A Companion to Sport
Author: David L. Andrews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2013-06-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118325281

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics