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Post by crawty on Dec 31, 2007 13:03:50 GMT
This Thread is for the discussion of the movement Cat Pass / Saut de chat.This basic vault, like many others, can be applied to many situations, but commonly long and wide obstacles and waist/chest height obstacles. With a Saut de chat, your arms are placed on the obstacle while diving over it, basically your legs are tucked up into your chest as they travel through your arms, moving at speed and clearing the obstacle in some circumstances gaining distance is needed. 
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Post by scuttle on Mar 13, 2008 20:25:26 GMT
isn't that just a diving kong vault?
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Post by ANTISFIT on Mar 13, 2008 21:08:29 GMT
"kong" is a another site term, which is incorrect & outdated.
its called cat pass in britain, and saut du chat in france, meaning vault of cat, or something like that.
plus, technically all cat passes you do are diving
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Post by Lukman on Mar 13, 2008 22:37:23 GMT
It's been know as a through vault for many years in Britain. You could argue that "Cat pass" is as unnecessary a term as "kong".  |
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Post by ANTISFIT on Mar 13, 2008 22:54:53 GMT
saut du chat is the original term.
"Jump from the cat"
the tenses are wrong, but you get the drift (from google translate)
jump of the cat = cat pass
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Post by Lukman on Mar 14, 2008 0:12:41 GMT
It is? Here was me thinking that gymnastics has been around, and has had terminology established, for far longer than parkour...
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Post by ANTISFIT on Mar 14, 2008 9:10:06 GMT
this isn't gymnastics is it?
;]
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Post by Lukman on Mar 14, 2008 19:18:02 GMT
So tell me...
Why don't you call an underbar a breakthrough?
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Post by ANTISFIT on Mar 14, 2008 20:50:12 GMT
eh?
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Post by Lukman on Mar 16, 2008 0:57:31 GMT
I've heard franchissement translated as a crossing, or a break through. I don't speak French though, so don't quote me on it.
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Post by kidkunjer on Apr 4, 2008 16:55:54 GMT
who cares what it's called?
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Post by gladders on Apr 4, 2008 17:52:12 GMT
quite undecided really
as if your talking to someone about a certain technique or movement - it needs a name to define it, also, if your talking to some one about it its easier to give it a name then a discription
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Post by kidkunjer on Apr 15, 2008 13:56:03 GMT
but then if others know what you mean, how does it make words "unnessecary terms" words are like fishing nets. if you caught the fish you no longer have to mess about with the net. there is no point in arguing what things are called; it is as unnessacary and energy wasting as a backflip |
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Post by gladders on Apr 15, 2008 14:29:24 GMT
yeah i agree - but im just trying to say if they do not kinow that word but i agree about it and ythe back flip !  |
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Post by ANTISFIT on Apr 15, 2008 19:21:21 GMT
backflips aren't unnecessary - if you're falling backwards, you can rotate back & land on your feet
they're good for flexibility,
they're good for confidence building, etc.
and, parkour is about moving your own way,
but termed names can be helpful
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