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Yamakasi adalah olahraga khas daerah perancis, yang merupakan gabungan antara gerakan lari dan lompat dengan berbagai gaya.
Yamakasi are a French group of practitioners of parkour, l'art du déplacement, free running, street stunts and other types of acrobatics. But, the term 'yamakasi' is also used to call a particular form of a performance in order to distinguish it from other similar activities mentioned above.
Overview :
The art originally termed Art du Deplacement, now also referred to as freerunning or parkour, was founded in France in the 1980s by a group of nine young men who called themseles The Yamakasi. Yamakasi is a Lingala word meaning loosely 'Strong Man, Strong Spirit', and summed up the original and still core aim of the discipline - to be a strong individual: physically, mentally and ethically.
The Yamakasi founders were Yann Hnautra, Chau Belle, David Belle, Laurent Piemontesi, Sebastien Foucan, Guylain N'Guba Boyeke, Charles Perriere, Malik Diouf and Williams Belle.
Etymology :
The word yamakasi is taken from the Lingala language, which is spoken in both Congo states. Ya makási can mean "strong body, strong spirit, strong person"
References in Popular Culture :
* The characters in the 2001 French film Yamakasi used parkour to steal money from seven rich people to get enough money to afford a heart replacement surgery for a child.
* The Yamakasi group return in 2004 with Les Fils Du Vent, sometimes wrongly labeled as a sequel The Yamakasi move to Bangkok and battle the Yakuza and their Thai associates who are attempting to take over the city. Châu Belle Dinh, a member of the Yamakasi, who plays 'Baseball' in the first film; switches sides to play a bad guy with good intentions.
* ESPN did a parkour report in 2007 with Laurent Piemontesi and Châu Belle Dinh members of Yamakasi.
From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamakasi
