I had been meaning to post this for quite a while, but forgot, and remembered again, when I made some posts in here about wishing there was more actual content. So here it is. Taken from LockDown's post on pkcali.com. He got the info from Andi on parkour.net I looked a few pages back and did not find a post like this. Either way, it deserves to be brought up again so that people can read it. Take a look.
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Andi from parkour.net wrote this for a different forum. Helps to explain what the different names mean. Because not all of them translate to the english terms the same. I like the french terms better they capture what pakour means better than the english terms.
Structure:
French Name (how to pronounce) English Term
Description
Saut de Fond (soh'd foh) Drop
literally 'jump to the ground / jump to the floor'. to jump down something.
Passement (passmoh) Vault
The general word for all kinds of vaults.
Saut de Chat (soh cha) Kong, Monkey
literally 'jump of the cat / cat's jump'. To dive over an obstacle, and in the end of the obstacle push off with the hands to bring the body back in a vertical angle, ready to land.
Saut de Détente (soh detoht) Gap Jump
Saut de Bras (soh'd bra) Cat-leap, Squirrel Leap
literally 'jump of the arm / arm jump'. To land at an obstacle in a hanging position, the arms hold the body.
Saut de Précision (soh'd presision) Precision Jump
Saut Aveugle (soh Ahveul) Blind Jump
to not see the landing area when you jump off the ground.
Passe Muraille (pas moorai) wall hop, wall climb, wall pop, pop vault, double tap
a general term for all kind of overcoming/scaling walls or similar obstacles.
Franchissement (froshismo) Under bar, jump through gap
literally 'break through'. To jump/swing through the gap between obstacles. General term for all similar movements.
Laché (lahshay) hanging drop, monkey swing
'lachér' literally means to let go. When you hang (on a bar, on a wall, on a branch) and let go (be it into a saut de fond or from swinging and jump to the next obstacle or branch...), general term.
Planche (plonsh - though the n is very silent) Muscle up, Cat-leap Climb-Up
to get from a hanging position (wall, rail, branch, etc) into a position where you 'stand on your arms' above the obstacle. General term.
Tic Tac (tic tuck) Tic-Tac
to kick off one obstacle to get the height to jump over another.
Saut (soh) jump
to jump over an obstacle for example.
Roullade (ruhlad - the 'u' like in ‘ruthless’) roll
forward, sideways, backward, whatever direction. General term.
Demi Tour (deh-me tour) any kind of turn vault
literally 'half turn'.
Equilibre (eq-we-lee-bray) Balance
any form of balance also includes handstands, headstands, etc."------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hope you guys find this interesting. It's time to work on our french
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