{"id":15021,"date":"2009-06-20T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T17:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15021"},"modified":"2009-06-20T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T17:35:53","slug":"parkour-parkour-craze-growing-among-thrill-seekers-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15021","title":{"rendered":"Parkour &#8211; Parkour Craze Growing Among Thrill-Seekers in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15022\" title=\"parkour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/parkour.jpg\" alt=\"parkour\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/parkour.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/parkour-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first time he saw David Belle, Mark Toorock knew he had to become a traceur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Belle&#8217;s cat-like balancing acts, his eye-popping feats of agility, his sheer strength &#8230; &#8220;What I saw, frankly, was a guy with superhuman capabilities,&#8221; Toorock told FOXNews.com. &#8220;[He] was doing all these things without pads or a wire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That was back in 2002, when parkour \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was relatively unknown outside of Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now the obstacle-based urban sport &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,527265,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 The first time he saw David Belle, Mark Toorock knew he had to become a traceur. Belle&#8217;s cat-like balancing acts, his eye-popping feats of agility, his sheer strength &#8230; &#8220;What I saw, frankly, was a guy with superhuman capabilities,&#8221; Toorock told FOXNews.com. &#8220;[He] was doing all these things without pads or a wire.&#8221; That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parkour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15027,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions\/15027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}