Wednesday, 23. May 2007
Topic: SPORT - on May 23, 2007 at 9:59:00 AM CEST
Yamakasi
The Yamakasi are a group of practitioners of the sport of l'art du déplacement (French: the art of movement).
The sport resembles, and has its origins in, that of parkour which involves surmounting (often) urban obstacles as efficiently as possible. The philosophy of the Yamakasis, however, is that of aesthetics and complete freedom of movement from point A to point B, as opposed to parkour which focuses on efficiency of movement between point A to point B, without the emphasis on aesthetics. Hence Yamakasis perform flips and tricks, while traceurs (parkour practitioners) do not.
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