Next meeting 22/04/10 The next meeting will take place on 22/04/10 with the following agenda:
- presentation of Parkour;
- situation on the Italian mafia (thanks all'interevento 's sos company).
What is Parkour?
"To understand what Parkour is to think about the difference between what is useful and what is not useful in emergency situations. Only then can you understand what Parkour is and what is not "
(David Belle)
Parkour, PK for short, is a discipline born in metropolitan France in the early '80s. The art du déplacement (Art of displacement) and the parcours (the path) were the first words used to describe this form of training. The term was defined parkour by David Belle and his friend Hubert Koundi in 1998. Parcours du combattant comes from (the path of the fighter), or the path of war used in military training proposed by Georges Hébert. Practitioners of Parkour are called "traceurs" or "Traceuses" feminine.
Parkour arrived in Italy around 2005 and developed thanks to the web. Minor sites of local concern founded by practitioners begin to create the first meetings between traceurs.
Parkour is not just a sport, it is also applied to social issues. The values \u200b\u200bof parkour are important to teach young people to respect themselves and know their limits in order to address the great little obstacles that life puts in front of the path belongs to every human being. As a result, many start
national associations, from the most attentive to the healthy development of Parkour to other targeted simply riding a trend.
Among the other important cities in the development of Parkour in Italy: Florence, Milan, Turin, Vicenza, Prato, Bolzano, Ferrara, Bologna, Rome, Naples, Caserta, Trani.
There are many partnerships that the main Italian and foreign associations with other shake, parkour is usually used, even in the wake of fashion, to show a real way, Intelligent use of alternative and compared with the peripheral areas, breaking down architectural barriers (with TALE, the Italian fund involved in breaking down barriers architecture) and in general to develop, especially in children and young people, a healthy respect for the environment and a critique of research on themselves.
The goal of parkour, then, is to move as efficiently as possible. For efficient means: safe, fast and direct. To distinguish what is from what parkour is not enough to think of a situation to escape: everything that can be useful for escape is parkour. What is the sos
business?
Sos Impresa is an association founded in 1991 in Palermo initiative of a group of free traders to defend their entrepreneurship, to oppose and resist the organized crime racket. The development and strengthening of the national network will start the next year (1992) with the birth of a number of local organizations.
The Association particularly encourages the development of defense strategies and counter-extortion racket, wear and all forms of crime that hinder the freedom of enterprise. All this is encouraging the spread of new initiatives and anti-wear anti-racket, and through the provision of appropriate legislative proposals.
also undertakes to provide legal assistance and solidarity with Victims of the Mafia and entrepreneurs in particular to those affected by extortion activities and usurious. Such activities are performed by a civil criminal proceedings.
Another praiseworthy activities is the publication of studies, research and documentation of analysis and information on the Mafia and response strategies, which promotes and advertises through meetings, debates and conferences in order to raise public awareness and the institutions on the infiltration of organized crime in the local and national level.