History Of Parkour

Before the First World War, former French naval officer Georges Herbert travelled throughout the world. At the time the visit in Africa, it was impressed by the physical development and competence of the indigenous tribes qu' it meets:Their bodies were splendid, flexible, nimble, skilful, durable, resistant and yet they an' had any other tutor of the gymnastics, but their life in nature. Georges-Herbert, On May 8, 1902 the village of Saint-Pierre, in Martinique, where it was in station, suffered from Al' volcanic eruption of the mount Peeled. Herbert coordinated Al' evacuation and of rescue of some 700 people. This experiment had a deep effect on him, and reinforced its conviction that sporting competence must be combined with courage and altruism. It finally developed this philosophy in its currency: " to be strong to be utile" (to be strong to be useful) [17]. Inspired by tribes autochthons, Herbert becomes tutor d' physical education with the college of Reins in France. It started to define the principles of its own system of Al' physical education and to create apparatus various and of the exercises to learn with its natural method [17], qu' it defines as: Methodical, a progressive action and continues, of Al' childhood with Al' adulthood, which has like objective: to ensure the physical development integrated, Al' increase in organic resistances; putting Al' accent on the aptitudes in all the d' kinds; physical exercises and essential public services (to go, run, jump, movement with four legs, climbing, Al' balance (balance), the jet, lifting, defense and swimming), the development of its energy and all the other facets of Al' action or virility so that all the credits, at the same time physics and virile, are controlled; a dominant moral idea: Al' altruism. Georges-Herbert, [18] Herbert set up a meeting of natural method composed of ten fundamental groups: to go, run, jump, movement with four legs, to climb, balance, throw, of lifting, Al' self-defence, swimming, which belong to three principal forces: [18] * Energetic and virile direction: Al' energy, of will, courage, the freshness and of firmness * Moral direction: benevolence, Al' assistance, Al' honor and Al' honesty * Physical direction: muscles and the breath During the First World War and the Second world war, Al' Herbert teaching continued to develop, to become the quality system of Al' French military teaching and formation. Thus, Herbert was Al' one of the promoters of course - a course d' obstacles, worked out by a Swiss architect, who is the standard in the military formation and led to Al' development of civil courses of health and the courses of confidence. Moreover, French the soldiers and the firemen developed their races with obstacles called course of the combatant and Parcours SP
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