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Inside dash: A dash vault but the legs are outside the arms. Dash 360: A dash with a 360-degree twist performed either before or after the dash. Weave: Practitioner goes through an opening (for example, between two bars) and quickly comes out the other side. Monkey roll: A monkey vault followed by a roll, without landing on your feet before the ...
Video games based on Spider-Man (3 C, 31 P) T. Thief ... (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Parkour video games" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Damien McFerran of Pocket Gamer rated 8 out of 10 stars for the Android version and wrote that Vector ' s playability makes up for its lack of innovation. [1] In their review of the iOS version, Slide to Play wrote "Vector is a fantastic free-running simulation with plenty to love", though the reviewer described the gameplay as "a bit repetitive at times". [2]
The WFPF partnered with Athletes for Hope, a charitable organization founded by Tony Hawk, Lance Armstrong and Mia Hamm among others, to facilitate opportunities for athletes to serve as role models for underserved youth around the U.S. WFPF athletes have donated their services to events at the Harlem Children’s Zone as well as at the New York Fresh Air Fund.
Freerunning is an athletic and acrobatic discipline incorporating an aesthetic element, and can be considered either a sport or a performance art, or both. Freerunning is similar to parkour, from which it is derived, but emphasizes artistry over efficiency and speed.
The word parkour derives from parcours du combattant (Obstacle course), the classic obstacle course method of military training proposed by Georges Hébert. [23] [24] [25] Raymond Belle used the term "les parcours" to encompass all of his training including climbing, jumping, running, balancing, and the other methods he undertook in his personal athletic advancement. [26]
Direct-drive mechanisms are used in applications ranging from low speed operation (such as phonographs, telescope mounts, video game racing wheels and gearless wind turbines) [14] [15] [16] to high speeds (such as fans, computer hard drives, VCR heads, sewing machines, CNC machines and washing machines.)
[56] [57] Both of these combined a 3-speed manual transmission with automated shifting between the 2nd and 3rd gears, instead of the Vacamatic's "underdrive" unit. The Packard Electro-Matic, introduced in the 1941 Packard Clipper and Packard 180 , was an early clutchless manual transmission that used a traditional friction clutch with automatic ...