Parkour (abbreviated PK) is a physical

discipline which focuses on efficient

movement around obstacles. Developed in

France by David Belle, the main purpose of

the discipline is to teach participants how to

move through their environment by

vaulting, rolling, running, climbing, and

jumping. Parkour practitioners are known as

"traceurs".

Parkour's modern history began in the

1920s, though movements similar can be

found in the Eastern martial arts ninjutsu

and qing gong. Georges Hébert began

teaching the fundamental movements

related to parkour during this time period,

and eventually the training became the

standard for the French military. David and

Raymond Belle would expand on Hébert's

work, and David would eventually found the

Yamakasi group, the first group dedicated to

parkour.

I would like to do free running

because it looks fun, very

challenging and it would keep

you fit.

Most people get inspired by watching other

people or watching video clips and video

games.

Sponsored free runners get paid to free run and

get free pairs of shoes. They go through more

than 5 pairs a week.

The Running Man is a street and fad dance that originated in late 1986 early 1987 and was performed most notably by MC Hammer, LMFAO, and Vanilla Ice during their live concert shows and music videos, but achieved renewed popularity in the 2000s. It is also used in some forms of the Melbourne Shuffle dance style. It consists of a hopping or sliding step done in such a way at speed to simulate a runner. The Running Man craze started in Cardiff, Wales. It features many people dancing the Running Man and ends with the "rights" to the dance being signed over to MC Hammer under duress.The Running Man dance is also popular in PlayStation Home for PlayStation 3 where people line their avatars up in long train lines and perform the dance.Will Smith performed the running man in Drums and dance as his old title, Fresh Prince.The dance Jumpstyle similarly contains moves whereby the legs are swung back and forth, almost imitating the running man in an airborne manner.

Shuffling also originated from B boy. B boys called it the running man.

The Melbourne Shuffle (also known as Rocking or simply The Shuffle) is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Some variants incorporate arm movements. People who dance the shuffle are often referred to as rockers, due in part to the popularity of shuffling to rock music in the early 1990s.

The Electro Hop group LMFAO featured several electro house dancers performing the shuffle in their "Party Rock Anthem" music video. LMFAO also organized an online shuffle contest for their video, the winner appeared in their Party Rock Anthem video. LMFAO are seen doing the Shuffle in the music videos for their singles Champagne Showers, Sexy and I Know It, Sorry for Party Rocking.

D1 NZ Drifting

Origin Drifting as a driving technique is documented as early as the 1930s as being used by drivers of the Grand Prix cars of the day. At least one piece of extant period footage used to promote the sale of a rare Auto Union D-Type racer clearly depicts the driver throwing his vehicle into a controlled drift to navigate a bend in the road racing track.[2]

Modern drifting as a sport started out as a racing technique popular in the All Japan Touring Car Championship races. Motorcycling legend turned driver, Kunimitsu Takahashi, was the foremost creator of drifting techniques in the 1970s. He is noted for hitting the apex (the point where the car is closest to the inside of a turn) at high speed and then drifting through the corner, preserving a high exit speed. This earned him several championships and a legion of fans who enjoyed the spectacle of smoking tires. The bias ply racing tires of the 1960s-1980s lent themselves to driving styles with a high slip angle. As professional racers in Japan drove this way, so did the street racers.Keiichi Tsuchiya (known as the Dorikin/Drift King) became particularly interested by Takahashi's drift techniques. Tsuchiya began practicing his drifting skills on the mountain roads of Japan, and quickly gained a reputation amongst the racing crowd. In 1987, several popular car magazines and tuning garages agreed to produce a video of Tsuchiya's drifting skills. The video, known as Pluspy, became a hit and inspired many of the professional drifting drivers on the circuits today. In 1988, alongside Option magazine founder and chief editor Daijiro Inada, he would help to organize one of the first events specifically for drifting called the D1 Grand Prix. He also drifted every turn in Tsukuba Circuit in Japan.

Present day Drifting has evolved into a competitive sport where drivers compete mostly in rear-wheel-drive cars, to earn points from judges based on various factors. At the top levels of competition, the D1 Grand Prix in Japan pioneered the sport. Others such as Formula D in the United States, and the NZ Drift Series in New Zealand have come along to further expand it into a legitimate motor sport worldwide. The drivers within these series were originally influenced by the pioneers from D1 Japan and are able to keep their cars sliding for extended periods of time, often linking several turns.