Yamakasi are a French group of practitioners of l'art du déplacement, free running, street stunts and other types of acrobatics.*Daniels, Mark. [LINK: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3773384792923323349] "Generation Yamakasi", French Documentary with English subtitles, Accessed April 18, 2007 Overview The group resembles, and has its origins in, that of parkour which involves surmounting (often) urban obstacles as efficiently as possible. The philosophy of the Yamakasi, however, is that of aesthetics and complete freedom of movement from point A to point B, as opposed to parkour which focuses on efficiency of movement between point A to point B, without the emphasis on aesthetics. Hence Yamakasi perform flips and tricks, while traceurs and traceuses (parkour practitioners) do not. Yamakasi was created in 1997 by former members David Belle, Sébastien Foucan, Yann Hnautra, Charles Perrière, Mal