The first time he saw David Belle, Mark Toorock knew he had to become a traceur.
Belle’s cat-like balancing acts, his eye-popping feats of agility, his sheer strength … “What I saw, frankly, was a guy with superhuman capabilities,” Toorock told FOXNews.com. “[He] was doing all these things without pads or a wire.”
That was back in 2002, when parkour — an extreme sport popularized in France during the 1990s in which participants run, jump and flip from Point A to Point B as efficiently as possible — was relatively unknown outside of Europe.
Now the obstacle-based urban sport …Â Details