What Is Sport?

Borge, Steffen

doi:10.1080/17511321.2020.1760922

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“…Parkour fits perfectly with Suits' definition of game: "a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles" [23], and less so with Borge's understanding of sport: "an extraordinary, unnecessary, rule-based, competitive, skill-based physical activity" [24]. Indeed, there are no written rules in parkour apart from staying safe (hence the motto "être et durer", French for "to be and to last" borrowed from an elite regiment of the French army) and respecting each others and the environment; and until recently, one of the few things the originators agreed upon was that parkour is non competitive [25].…”

Section: A Lifestyle Sportmentioning

confidence: 60%

How is parkour new and singular? A narrative review across miscellaneous academic fields.

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Faity²,

Maldonado³

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Parkour is a growing sport that mostly involves jumping, vaulting over obstacles, and climbing in a non dedicated setting. The authors gathered all known relevant literature across miscellaneaous academic fields in order to define parkour with regards to other sports disciplines.Parkour is a lifestyle sport, and as such provides an alternative to mainstream ones, away from strict rules, standardized settings, and necessary competitions. Traceurs (parkour adepts) consider the city as a playground and as an outlet for their creativity, but they also have a strong taste for hard and individualized challenges. They usually train on non specific structures, at ground level. Although their social background is not clear, they are mostly young and male.Traceurs are stronger than recreational athletes, especially in eccentric exercises. However, their endurance skills may be below average. One of the core specificities of parkour is its precision constraint at landing, which turns a standing long jump into a precision jump, regulated on-line so as to prepare for landing. The running precision jump follows the same landing pattern, and its flight phase contrasts with long jump techniques. Injuries, which are not more frequent than in other sports, often occur at reception and on lower limb extremities. This risk is coped with targeting the landing area with the forefoot instead of letting the heel hit the ground like in gymnastics, or with rolling in order to dissipate the impact. Overall, parkour focuses on adaptability to new environments, which leads to specific techniques that have not yet been extensively addressed by the literature.

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Section: A Lifestyle Sportmentioning

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How is parkour new and singular? A narrative review across miscellaneous academic fields.

PAGNON¹,

Faity²,

Maldonado³

et al. 2021

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“…More importantly, these sports involve a particular "style of life", that gives their adepts a particular and exclusive social identity [19]: they show high commitment in time and/or money, promote an hedonistic way of life, and tend to reject regulation and control, and to be critical of competitions [20]. Parkour fits perfectly with Suits' definition of game: "a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles" [21], and less so with Borge's understanding of sport: "an extra-ordinary, unnecessary, rulebased, competitive, skill-based physical activity" [22]. Indeed, there are no written rules in parkour apart from staying safe (hence the motto "être et durer", French for "to be and to last" borrowed from an elite regiment of the French army) and respecting each others and the environment; and until recently, one of the few things the originators agreed upon was that parkour is non competitive [23].…”

Section: A Lifestyle Sportmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Parkour practice is not standardized, there is no specific equipment, and traceurs show risk-taking behaviors [26]. As a consequence, one might consider parkour a (15), fracture (6), wounds (12), contusions (21) min 1 year of practice, no other medical condition precision jump (41), vaults (22), arm jump (12), climbing (4), other (21) Table 3: Epidemiological studies related to Parkour. MSD: musculotendinous disorder; NR: not reported…”

Section: Iii5 Parkour and Dangermentioning

confidence: 99%

What Makes Parkour Unique? A Narrative Review Across Miscellaneous Academic Fields

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Parkour is a growing sport that mostly involves jumping, vaulting over obstacles, and climbing in a non-dedicated setting. The authors gathered all known relevant literature across miscellaneous academic fields in order to define parkour with regards to other sports disciplines.Parkour is a lifestyle sport, and as such provides an alternative to mainstream ones, away from strict rules, standardized settings, and necessary competitions. Traceurs (parkour adepts) consider the city as a playground and as an outlet for their creativity, but they also have a strong taste for hard and individualized challenges. They usually train on non-specific

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“…Sport is a social kind. Understanding sport as a social kind in detail is no mean feat, but that need not worry us here (Borge 2019, 83-94;2020). I take it to be uncontroversial that sport being a social kind means that our sporting activities or practices and our understanding of ourselves as doing sporting activities or practices are what make something sport and not some other kind of activity or practice.…”

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A critical note on sporting supererogation

Borge

2021

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

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Alfred Archer recently argued that there is good reason to think that sporting supererogation exists. In the present paper, I take a closer look at Archer's two key cases from association football and his arguments in favour of positing that there is a sporting supererogation phenomenon or realm that needs to be reckoned with. I argue that his project fails and that the notion of 'sporting supererogation' as championed by Archer should be rejected.

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What Is Sport?

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

How is parkour new and singular? A narrative review across miscellaneous academic fields.

How is parkour new and singular? A narrative review across miscellaneous academic fields.

What Makes Parkour Unique? A Narrative Review Across Miscellaneous Academic Fields

A critical note on sporting supererogation

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