Word: traceurs
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...among the handful of members who regularly show up for twice-weekly practices with the club he registered at his school last fall. Ryan Ford, 19, a business major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set up a similar club in November. In three years as a traceur, as parkour people call themselves, Ford has had one notable injury: separating his shoulder last summer after his foot clipped a rail and sent him headlong toward concrete. But instead of face planting, he managed to keep rolling over. "I like to think parkour actually saved me from more serious injuries...
...reason to tread lightly. In January, after Indiana University's daily newspaper ran a photo of a traceur standing on top of a school arch, the university's police department served him with a written notice that if he did this stuff on campus again, he would be arrested. Although there are technically no laws against peripatetic back flipping, IU's Captain Jerry Minger says there are rules in place to protect school property as well as personal safety. "What if somebody came up with some kind of French term for dodging traffic?" Minger asks. "Dodge le traffique is great...
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