Browsing by Author "Puddle, Damien"
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The Attempted Grobalization of Parkour by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
(Informa UK Limited, 2023-01-01)On December 3rd, 2018, the 82nd Congress of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), voted to include parkour as the FIG’s 8th gymnastic discipline. Unlike, trampoline and acrobatic gymnastics, which became ... -
Making the jump: Examining the glocalisation of parkour in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Once a niche physical pastime of a small group of men in the urban suburbs of France, parkour is now a global phenomenon. Parkour provides an ideal context to investigate contemporary youth, and adoptees of this primarily ...
