Welcome to Quadra Team
We are Quadra Team from Patras, Greece. We train both parkour and free running and the reason we made this team is not about fame, we just wanted to start something organized so we can help our parkour community in our city to grow bigger and safer and to make people think of us as serious athletes not as "kids that jump around".We currently started creating this website so people can donate money in order to make our community stronger and help us create our own gym because these days we train outside and people have had some serious injuries.
Parkour
Parkour (French pronunciation: [paʁˈkuʁ]) (abbreviated PK), also called as the "art of displacement", is a training discipline that developed out of military obstacle course training.
Practitioners aim to move from one place to another, negotiating the obstacles in between. The discipline uses no equipment and is non-competitive. A male practitioner is generally called a "traceur", a female a "traceuse".
Developed by Raymond Belle, David Belle, Sébastien Foucan and other members of the original Yamakasi group, parkour became popular in the 1990s and 2000s through a series of documentaries and films featuring these practitioners and others.
Practitioners aim to move from one place to another, negotiating the obstacles in between. The discipline uses no equipment and is non-competitive. A male practitioner is generally called a "traceur", a female a "traceuse".
Developed by Raymond Belle, David Belle, Sébastien Foucan and other members of the original Yamakasi group, parkour became popular in the 1990s and 2000s through a series of documentaries and films featuring these practitioners and others.
Movement
There is no official list of "moves". In many cases effective parkour techniques depend on fast redistribution of body weight and the use of momentum to perform seemingly difficult or impossible body maneuvers at great speed. Absorption and redistribution of energy is also an important factor, such as body rolls when landing which reduce impact forces on the legs and spine, allowing a traceur to jump from greater heights than those often considered sensible in other forms of acrobatics and gymnastics.
According to David Belle, the practice is to move in such a way that will help you gain the most ground as if escaping or chasing something. Also, if you go from A to B, you need to be able to get back from B to A, but not necessarily with the same movements or "passements". Despite this, there are many basic versatile and effective techniques that are emphasized for beginners. Most important are good jumping and landing techniques. The roll, used to limit impact after a drop and to carry one's momentum onward, is often stressed as the most important technique to learn.
According to David Belle, the practice is to move in such a way that will help you gain the most ground as if escaping or chasing something. Also, if you go from A to B, you need to be able to get back from B to A, but not necessarily with the same movements or "passements". Despite this, there are many basic versatile and effective techniques that are emphasized for beginners. Most important are good jumping and landing techniques. The roll, used to limit impact after a drop and to carry one's momentum onward, is often stressed as the most important technique to learn.
Basic Equipment
Equipment
A traceuse vaults an obstacle.
There is no equipment required, although practitioners normally train wearing light casual clothing:
A traceuse vaults an obstacle.
There is no equipment required, although practitioners normally train wearing light casual clothing:
- Light upper body garment such as T-shirt, sleeveless shirt or crop top if anything is worn on the upper body;
- Light lower body garment such as sweatpants, some wear tracksuit bottoms or shorts.
Free Running FR
Freerunning (FR) was evolved from parkour and includes combinations of gymnastics or acrobatics moves. According to its creator, Sébastien Foucan, "Freerunning is the art of expressing yourself in your environment without limitations: It is the art of movement and action." He says freerunning developed from parkour when he started making it more personal to the individual, adapting it to each person's strengths and weaknesses.
Both parkour and freerunning contain the ideas of overcoming obstacles and acting as an individual; in freerunning ("follow your way"), though, the greater emphasis is on acting as an individual.
Both parkour and freerunning contain the ideas of overcoming obstacles and acting as an individual; in freerunning ("follow your way"), though, the greater emphasis is on acting as an individual.