{"id":98378,"date":"2024-02-05T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T08:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=98378"},"modified":"2024-02-05T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T08:48:28","slug":"98378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/98378\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jump without thinking\u2019: The parkour runners reclaiming Algiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead css-1wt8oh6\"><em>A growing community in Algeria\u2019s capital is taking up the daring urban sport, and forming strong bonds in the process.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"article-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"responsive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-71-1706359800.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 120px, (max-width: 270px) 270px, (max-width: 375px) 375px, (max-width: 570px) 570px, (max-width: 770px) 770px, 770px\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Parkour-in-Algiers-71-1706359800.jpg?resize=120%2C80&amp;quality=80 120w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Parkour-in-Algiers-71-1706359800.jpg?resize=270%2C180&amp;quality=80 270w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Parkour-in-Algiers-71-1706359800.jpg?resize=375%2C250&amp;quality=80 375w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Parkour-in-Algiers-71-1706359800.jpg?resize=570%2C380&amp;quality=80 570w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Parkour-in-Algiers-71-1706359800.jpg?resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80 770w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><figcaption>Through parkour, young Algerians showcase their athletic prowess alongside Algiers\u2019s historic mix of architecture [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-info-block css-ti04u9\">\n<div class=\"article-b-l\">\n<div class=\"article-author-name\"><span class=\"article-by\">By\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"article-author-name-item\">Sarah Goodman<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple css-1yjq2zp\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 3 Feb 2024<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">3 Feb 2024<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"social-share-buttons\">\n<div class=\"update-reading-list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-ibbk12\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p><strong>Bab Ezzouar, Algiers \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0There are two steps to preparing to jump from the roof of one building to another. Step one: Measure the distance and practice landing on solid ground. Step two: Rehearse running up to the edge.<\/p>\n<p>Bilal Ahmedali is training with two friends and fellow parkour athletes on the roof of an abandoned mall in the Bab Ezzouar neighbourhood of Algiers. The shopping complex\u2019s west wing bends like a horseshoe with a five-metre gap between its ends, and a nine-metre drop to the red-tiled courtyard below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-on\"><\/div>\n<p>Months earlier, while training on the same rooftop in a larger group, Ahmedali had run up to the edge but hadn\u2019t been able to take the leap. \u201cI knew I could jump that \u2013 I was just scared. I went to the edge 20 times trying to do it, but I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On this September evening, without much deliberation, he decided to attempt it again \u2013 and this time he made it. \u201cI went, saw it once, came back. Saw the gap twice, came back. The third time, I directly ran and boom, I jumped it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653099\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2653099 size-arc-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-70-1706359693.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traceur Akram Abdelmoumene hones his parkour skills through the city of Algiers [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a video uploaded to Facebook, Ahmedali can be seen hurtling through the air in a graceful arc before planting both feet neatly on the parapet opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Belkahla, 30, who has just finished filming his friend, says he feels delighted, but he notes that there is no \u201cplan B\u201d on a jump like that. \u201cIt is joyful and risky at the same time. There\u2019s a saying in parkour: \u2018Think before you jump; jump without thinking.\u2019 It\u2019s the hesitation that will kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A psychology student at the University of Algiers, Ahmedali, 24, says he finds calm in taking these extreme leaps. \u201cI\u2019m someone who has intrusive thoughts. And when I go do parkour, there\u2019s just me and the concrete \u2013 everything else is blurred away. It\u2019s me and the run I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653086\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653086\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-69-1706359643.jpg\" alt=\"parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018Community is so important. You feel that what you are doing has meaning when other people do it, too,\u2019 says Traceur Bobbaker Nawi [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"a-sport-with-a-philosophy\">A sport with a philosophy<\/h2>\n<p>Ahmedali and Belkahla are members of a growing parkour community which provides an outlet for young Algerians to make the city \u2013 and the sport \u2013 their own. In Algeria, where public funding for sports facilities is limited, this community of young people is using social media to showcase their athletic prowess alongside Algiers\u2019s historic mix of architecture. The city\u2019s urban topography reflects epochs in the nation\u2019s past and lends itself to a unique kind of parkour, as these athletes turn the Ottoman Casbah and French colonial boulevards into obstacle courses of their own conception.<\/p>\n<p>Parkourists \u2013 or \u201ctraceurs\u201d, to use the French term \u2013 can be found across the country, although their ranks have been concentrated in the capital since the sport took hold in the early 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>Khadidja Boussaid, a sociologist and postdoc at the University of Algiers, explains that parkour offers young Algerians a way to appropriate public spaces, adapting urban structures to their own ends. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of taking ownership of a city, a little like street artists who tag.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653048\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-63-1706359345.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traceur Akram Abdelmoumene trains above the tag \u20181937\u2019, referring to the founding year of a local football club [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scouting new training locations is an essential task for Algiers\u2019s traceurs. Sarah Latreche, 33, became interested in parkour while studying architecture at university.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-newsletter-slot\">\n<div class=\"sib-newsletter-form general-style\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup Widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMost people see buildings as a place to live,\u201d she says. \u201cBut for us [in parkour], it\u2019s the building we\u2019re interested in \u2013 the construction itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sport with a philosophy, according to Bobakker Nawi, a 21-year-old student who posts Instagram videos of himself bounding over concrete barriers to soundtracks of Radiohead and Phoebe Bridgers. \u201cGetting through \u2013 or over \u2013 an obstacle makes you feel some sort of achievement,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s the same in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653113\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653113\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-74-1706359849.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Algiers\u2019s upper Casbah, the team discuss their next move [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"route-to-parkour\">Route to parkour<\/h2>\n<p>Parkour emerged in the suburbs of Paris in the late 1980s and integrated elements of French military exercises with a new, free style of running. The term itself is a reworking of the French word \u201cparcours\u201d, or \u201croute\u201d. Around the turn of the millennium, the sport began to receive mainstream recognition when it was featured in blockbusters like Yamakasi in 2001 and the 2006 Bond movie Casino Royale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\">\n<div class=\"ads__slot\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-269388031671\" class=\"freestar-ads\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sebastien Foucan, 49, was among parkour\u2019s founders and he, himself, played the villain using the sport to evade Daniel Craig\u2019s James Bond in a construction site fracas. Parkour is often featured in cinema as a virtuosic way of ditching an adversary, but Foucan insists the sport originated as a form of joking around. \u201cWhat really made it possible was the imagination and capacity for play that we have at a certain age,\u201d Foucan tells Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re using the urban setting to develop yourself \u2013 and others can join in,\u201d he says. \u201cAs I see it, that\u2019s how we started.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653053\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653053\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-57-1706359380.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scouting locations in downtown Algiers, among streets named for Algeria\u2019s anti-colonial resistance fighters [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Mahfoud Amara, a professor at Qatar University, the global rise of parkour corresponded with a tense political moment in Algeria, as the country emerged from its decade-long civil war in the 2000s. \u201cDuring the tumultuous \u2018Black Decade\u2019 of political violence \u2013 when opportunities for leisure and entertainment in the country were severely limited due to security threats \u2013 satellite TV channels, including French channels and notably Canal Plus, provided a precious escape from the harsh reality,\u201d he explains. These broadcasts, he says, allowed Algerian youth to connect with new sports and subcultures like parkour.<\/p>\n<p>Imad Bouziani, 23, recalls the influence of films like Casino Royale and thinking that the traceurs on screen looked like superheroes as they outran and outwitted their enemies \u2013 often emissaries of the French state. Parkour also signified something abstract for him: \u201cIt\u2019s the freedom \u2013 the freedom that comes with movement. With the ability to go wherever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653116\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653116\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-76-1706359902.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018It\u2019s the freedom that comes with movement. With the ability to go wherever you want,\u2019 says Imad Bouziani\u00a0 [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"parkour-on-the-casbah\">Parkour on the casbah<\/h2>\n<p>Since the 2000s, the rise of social media has enabled parkourists to find one another. In 2017, Ahmedali and Bouziani created a WhatsApp group to coordinate training in and around Algiers.<\/p>\n<p>On Fridays, they would get up before sunrise to take 6am buses to the scattered boulders of Roman ruins at Tipaza, or they would go to try out flips on the concrete rooftops of university campuses when classes weren\u2019t in session.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the locations were, at times, off limits. On one occasion, Ahmedali recalls being chased by a security guard who \u201clooked like the Hulk\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653127\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653127\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-82-1706360066.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akram Abdelmoumene (L) and Imad Bouziani (R) practise their parkour skills in the Algiers Casbah [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bouziani\u2019s favourite place for parkour, however, was always Algiers\u2019 historic Casbah. Although he has family ties to the area, his primary interest in training there lay in its variety of buildings and its iconic status as a bastion of resistance during the Algerian War of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Social media also helped to bring traceurs together from across the country for an annual \u201cParkour Day\u201d, hosted for the first time in Algiers in 2014. People will go to extremes to take part. For his part, Ahmed Bendaho took a bus and then a train some 1,000 km (621 miles) from B\u00e9char in the Sahara Desert to Algiers\u2019 Parkour Day in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bobakker Nawi puts it simply: \u201cCommunity is so important. You feel that what you are doing has meaning when other people do it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\">\n<div class=\"ads__slot\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-221493744444\" class=\"freestar-ads\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a self-selecting group, and that\u2019s part of what has solidified their relationships. \u201cYou share the thing you love with people who love it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653131\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653131\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-83-1706360114.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traceur Sidahmad Boukercha descends a staircase leading to the Casbah\u2019s marketplace, watched by a cat [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"la-sablette\">La Sablette<\/h2>\n<p>Parkour is an extreme sport; some traceurs have had to leave it behind when relocating, for personal or professional reasons, to places like Dubai or Canada. For others, injuries have marked a turning point. Just before the pandemic lockdown, Bouziani suffered a serious knee injury while attempting a double backflip.<\/p>\n<p>Although in good spirits these days, he looks back at the training hiatus as \u201csoul-cracking\u201d, but also adds that the imposed pause gave him time for introspection: \u201cI identified why I got injured and it was mainly my poor physical conditioning. So the conclusion was to get stronger.\u201d Bouziani is now focusing on long-distance running instead.<\/p>\n<p>But for Fares Belmadani, 27, parkour is something he\u2019s firmly committed to professionally in Algeria. Now a certified parkour coach, he aims to promote the sport and help it gain more recognition across the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2653000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2653000\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-2653000\" src=\"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Parkour-in-Algiers-36-1706357589.jpg\" alt=\"Parkour\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2653000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akram Abdelmoumene and Fares Belmadani train in the Soustara neighbourhood of Algiers [Fethi Sahraoui\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He has already secured public funding for an official parkour area on \u201cla Sablette\u201d, a sandbar projecting, like a hook, from the coastline of Algiers into the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Latreche has used her background in both architecture and parkour to create the blueprint for the Sablette training park. Currently, her design is being built at a warehouse in Algiers before its installation on the coast. Amid wood shavings and construction equipment, a jungle gym of life-size Tetris pieces is emerging \u2013 the building blocks of a space where future generations can train.<\/p>\n<p>Belmadani estimates they\u2019re about 60 percent finished, and hopes to inaugurate the space before Ramadan this year. \u201cSomeone asked me if I\u2019m thinking about leaving Algeria,\u201d he says. But he plans to stay: \u201cThe Algerian youth are the potential that Algeria has.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-source\">SOURCE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2024\/2\/3\/parkour-traceurs-of-algiers\">AL JAZEERA<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing community in Algeria\u2019s capital is taking up the daring urban sport, and forming strong bonds in the process. 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