Talk:Parkour/New Article Drafting May 2006

This page is meant as an area for drafting a replacement Parkour article. Please add content here, and keep all discussion in Talk:Parkour#Rewrite of article.

Introduction - Parkour is a physical discipline of French origin involving/aiming/etc...

Common techniques

Vaults

General explanation of the concept of vaults. i.e. A jump over an object, assisted by placing the arms on that object. Definately explain that there are different vaults applicable in difference circumstances, but it's probably not appropriate to list/explain specific vaults.

Jumps

Explanation of the concept of gap jumps, precisions, drops (rolls?), maybe arm jump & muscle ups.

Other techniques

E.g. Climbing, balance, maybe tic-tacs.

History

About David Belle, Raymond Belle, etc.

Free running

Define FR as being like Parkour with tricks integrated. Definately don't use the term "Freestyle Parkour" (except maybe to state that the term is deprecated), and explain that FR is generally considered to be a different discipline to Parkour due to the fact that it has a different aim to parkour and includes movements (i.e. tricks) that are against the philosophy of parkour (in that they are unnecessary).

Parkour in the media

Keep this section from the current version of the article.

See also

Also retain from current article.

References

Use Cite.php style footnotes if necessary (perhaps for the history section).

External links

These should be kept to an absolute minimum, in line with Wikipedia:External links and WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. Definately no websites of local groups.