Parkour Worldwide Association

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The Parkour Worldwide Association (PAWA) was a 2005 by David Belle , was established sports federation to Parkour to develop to present and market commercially. The aim was to “show, convey and develop parkour true to the original” and “spread the true philosophy of parkour and make the art of locomotion an integral part of our society”. The creation of a "Parkour Center" comparable to the Shaolin Temple in Kung Fu was named as the main goal . Sandra Hess managed the German branch of PAWA.

Among other things, PAWA planned a “World Tour” to finance the event. The Berlin Postbahnhof and the Bundestag underground station (which was still closed at the time) were, for example, the setting for such demonstration shows. However, this commercialization contradicted the common philosophy of parkour and was rejected by many traceurs . Jocelyn Demoniere was PAWA International President. David Belle therefore again distanced himself from PAWA. The background was different views: here only concerned with efficiency - there on the art of movement itself, including acrobatic elements.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Schultheiß: Parkour: A chance for school sports. Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95684-755-4 . ( limited preview )
  2. ↑ Parkour Worldwide Association ( Memento of May 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Petra Lambeck: Le Parkour: The world as a playground . In: Deutsche Welle . August 8, 2007.
  4. ↑ Sandra Winkler: "Parkour": The wild way through the city . In: The world . November 24, 2006.
  5. ↑ Marco Dettweiler: The wall is not enough . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 31, 2007.
  6. ↑ Wolf von Dewitz: The sport of parkour as the art of locomotion . In: Rhein-Zeitung . August 30, 2007.
  7. ↑ Katrin Bauer: Youth cultural scenes as trend phenomena . Waxmann Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-7337-9 . ( limited preview )
  8. ↑ Maik Hillbrunner: Gymnastics with Style: Le Parkour as a way to make gymnastics more appealing for school sports students. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86341-772-7 . ( limited preview )
  9. ↑ Jürgen Schmidt-Sinns, Saskia Scholl, Alexander Pach: Le Parkour & Freerunning: Basic book for schools and clubs . Meyer & Meyer 2014, ISBN 978-3-89899-870-3 . ( limited preview )