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Toronto Urban Gymnastics
Call it what you like, Urban Gymnastics, Parkour, l'art du déplacement. These three athletes show off their skills in Toronto's jungle gym that's accessible to everyone. While this video is more a showcase of moves, it shows just how this sport is progressing.
Parkour has been gaining popularity all over the world. I see it as a natural reaction to living in an urban environment. Man has always interacted with his environment. And when that environment becomes walls, bridges and buildings, this is the natural progression.


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Totally odd choice of music for an action packed urban gymnastics video set in Toronto.
I'm glad and all we don't have to listen to the usual go-to Xtreme! corporate "punk" music or gangsta rap, but, c'mon!
A lot of the aspects and disciplines of 'Tricking' and 'Parkour' intertwine, but in application, they are very different.
Whereas Parkour focuses around flow and the efficiency of getting from point A to point B. Tricking, in full essence of the word, is the performance of tricks. Where Tricking and Parkour meets can often be found in many of the videos found online (beginning with those of David Belle from France a few years ago) where the application of parkour is showy, and reflects the traceur's personality in their movements.
Of course, like many things created by the public and analyzed by the public, theses definitions are not uncommonly disputed. However, what I have presented above is what is generally agreed upon within the parkour communities of Canada and many European Countries.