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Parkour as a Donor Sport for Athletic Development in Youth Team Sports: Insights Through an Ecological Dynamics Lens.
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- Inspirations of traditional Chinese martial arts Qinggong training for parkour.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Parkour and Intrinsic Motivation: An Exploratory Multimethod Analysis of Self-Determination Theory in an Emerging Sport.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Comparison of basic motor skills and physical fitness between (pre-)pubertal children from parkour and team sports.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
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- To Sample or to Specialise? Sport Participation Patterns of Youth Team Sport Male Players.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- What Makes Parkour Unique? A Narrative Review Across Miscellaneous Academic Fields.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Review
- An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Understanding Human-Environment Interactions in the Adventure Sport Context-Implications for Research and Practice.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Creativity in Motion: Examining the Creative Potential System and Enriched Movement Activities as a Way to Ignite It.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The Poor "Wealth" of Brazilian Football: How Poverty May Shape Skill and Expertise of Players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- Parkour-Based Activities in the Athletic Development of Youth Basketball Players.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Physical Literacy - A Journey of Individual Enrichment: An Ecological Dynamics Rationale for Enhancing Performance and Physical Activity in All.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Eccentric Resistance Training in Youth: Perspectives for Long-Term Athletic Development.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2019Review
- Validity and Reliability of a New Specific Parkour Test: Physiological and Performance Responses.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Analyses of talent development in sport have identified that skill can be enhanced through early and continued involvement in donor sports which share affordances (opportunities for action) with a performer's main target sport. Aligning key ideas of the Athletic Skills Model and ecological dynamics theory, we propose how the sport of parkour could provide a representative and adaptive platform for developing athletic skill (e.g. coordination, timing, balance, agility, spatial awareness and muscular strength). We discuss how youth sport development programmes could be (re) designed to include parkour-style activities, in order to develop general athletic skills in affordance-rich environments. It is proposed that team sports development programmes could particularly benefit from parkour-style training since it is exploratory and adaptive nature shapes utilisation of affordances for innovative and autonomous performance by athletes. Early introduction to varied, relevant activities for development of athleticism and skill, in a diversified training programme, would provide impetus for a fundamental shift away from the early specialisation approach favoured by traditional theories of skill acquisition and expertise in sport.
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