Annotated Bibliography

Saville, Stephen John. "Playing With Fear: Parkour And The Mobility Of Emotion." Social & Cultural Geography 9.8 (2008): 891-914. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 23 Mar. 2012.

Summary: this article is mainly about the importance of fear in the sport of parkour. The article deals with how when do parkour the participants must harness emotions and expand on them. Fear which generally seen as a bad thing is what often fuels the participants. They play with different emotion and stop looking at them as good and bad ,but as a fuel for whatever they do.

Marshall, Bill. "Running Across The Rooves Of Empire: Parkour And The Postcolonial City." Modern & Contemporary France 18.2 (2010): 157-173. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 23 Mar. 2012

Summary: the article shows the impact of parkour on the growth of the “Imperial City”, Quebec  City. They also give a brief look into the past of the city and also the origins of parkour. They explain how the core of the city is the flow and energy of the people. The article also takes a look into the mind of the so called founder of parkour  ,David Belle, and the reasons he created the sport of parkour. The article stated that parkour started to gain momentum in the working class youth.  It went further on to explain other things that add to the fuel and reasons behind its apparent growth in popular culture. They integrated  the growth of motor vehicles  into its growth they said that that the pedestrians were confined to the sides of the road ,this paired with the want to rebel fueled this.

Research Memo

Hypothesis:

Parkour is about getting someplace using jumps, vault and turning obstacles into opportunities. Parkour is a sport clouded with an air of danger. Many people believe it is dangerous and possibly fatal to tracer [people who participate in parkour]. What I hope to find out is what type of people does this adrenaline laced sport attracts and why?

Context:

I discovered out that many people believe that parkour is overly dangerous. They also believe it has a high injury rate. The survey targeted young males as respondents. The reason behind this is that I looked for people that seemed to be informed about what parkour was.   I should have allowed more people to the survey and add more demographic questions.  During the second round I put more demographic questions and added more people to my target “audience”. The reason behind this was that I wanted to detect more trends among the questions and I wanted more diversity in my response.

Questions /Respondents	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8		9
Have you heard of parkour before now?	Yes	no	yes	Yes	yes	yes	yes	yes		yes
On a Scale of 1-10 how dangerous is parkour	9	10	7	5	6	10	10	10		8
Circle all that apply You do parkour You know someone who does parkour You have heard of parkour	3	1,2,3	2,3	3	2	1,2,3	1,2,3	2,3		2,3
Parkour should be regulated more	disagree	agree	agree	disagree	disagree	Agree	agree	disagree		disagree
Parkour is a form of self-expression	true	false	true	true	true	true	true	true		True
Free running and parkour are the same thing	false	True	false	false	false	false	false	true		False
Parkour is for little kids	agree	Agree	disagree	agree	disagree	disagree	disagree		disagree		disagree
Parkour is a growing fad in the urban communities	agree	agree	agree	disagree	agree	agree	agree	agree		agree
Parkour is deadly to participants	disagree	agree	agree	agree	agree	agree	agree	agree		agree

Data Analysis:

The data I collect can be seen on the chart above. The first ten I did I noticed some trend. The first trend was that all but one of the respondents said that they believe that parkour is deadly to tracers. The interpretation of this trend is that the general public over all believes it to be a extremely dangerous to all the people who participate. On the danger scale you see that most gave it a high number ( 8 or above) on the danger scale ,this adds to the idea that it is a dangerous sport. For the open ended response I saw  they were answered similarly but most having to with teens or young people, along with one ninja.

Conclusion:

The conclusion is that the public opinion is that parkour is dangerous. They believe that young people and peoples whose trade requires it do this. The survey supported my hypothesis about the general publics view about parkour with the exclusion of one response  caught me off guard for the question who parkour attracts as a participant “ninjas”.

This site is great place for parkour

"Clown Fish." Getty Images. Points of View. EBSCO. Web. 30 Jan. 2007.

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Research Questions

Who does parkour attract as a particpant? This is the quistion that spurred my research. After this many quistions were born from this main quistions

• What is the danger involved in parkour?
• What is the poupose of parkour?
• How popular is parkour?
• What is parkour's origin?

Hopfully the research that i will conduct will answer all and maybe some quistions that you your self have.

My Survey

Parkour Survey

This survey’s purpose is to gather information on the public’s opinion on the general aspects of parkour also known as free running

What is your age? _________

What is your Gender? Male/Female

Ethnicity? _______________

Who do you think that Parkour attracts as participants?

Have you ever heard of parkour before now

Yes/No

On a scale of 1-10 how dangerous do you think parkour is?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Circle all that apply

o   You do parkour

o   You know someone who does parkour

o   You have heard of parkour

Parkour should be regulated more

Agree/Disagree

Parkour is a form of self expression

True/False

Free running and Parkour are the same thing

True/False

Parkour is for little kids

Agree/Disagree

Parkour is a growing fad in urban communities

Agree/Disagree

Parkour is Deadly to participants

Agree/Disagree

In The Start

I saw a movie with parkour in and was facinated with the fluidity of it and how it seemed so fluid and random. I was never good at classical sports and I am not very good at this one eather but it not really a sport but kind of a life style . it something im trying to get into and it helps you see obsticals as oppertounity. the sport was fast and never the same as it was as the time before. it seemed the the people who did this sport were superheros with the abillty to breack the law of gravity.