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Parkour as acrobatics: an existential phenomenological study of movement in parkour
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Aggerholm, Kenneth Larsen, Signe Højbjerre |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | Journal: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health The aim of this paper is to pursue a novel understanding of parkour. Through an existential phenomenological analysis based on the phenomenology of embodiment and spatiality found in Merleau-Ponty and drawing on Sloterdijk's philosophical account of acrobatics, we will examine the bodily experience of practitioners in parkour and analyse their process of practising and performing tricks as an acrobatic movement phenomenon. The practitioners use three central terms to describe this process: challenge, break and clean. We use these terms to frame the analysis of how the practitioners are bodily related to what is not yet possible (challenge), how they repeat towards making new tricks possible (break) and how they perfect their bodily experience of moving (clean). Parkour as acrobatics describes the circular and vertical process of revising and refining one's bodily relation to the world, through which practitioners are continuously attracted to new challenging moves and carve out new possible movements for themselves and others. |
| Related Links | https://nih.brage.unit.no/nih-xmlui/bitstream/11250/2470600/1/AggerholmQuaResSportExercHealth2016.pdf |
| Ending Page | 86 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 69 |
| ISSN | 2159676X |
| e-ISSN | 21596778 |
| DOI | 10.1080/2159676x.2016.1196387 |
| Journal | Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2016-04-29 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health Cultural Studies Phenomenology Motor Intentionality |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Health (social science) Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Social Psychology Sports Science |
