Anyone out there practise parkour/freerunning?
#26
Posted 17 June 2007 - 01:10 AM
Err, you'd be referring to David Belle and his group of friends, btw.
#27
Posted 17 June 2007 - 01:12 AM
#28
Posted 17 June 2007 - 01:21 AM
I guess a good way to say it would be, a jump over a rail existed before him, but a lazy vault didn't.
#29
Posted 17 June 2007 - 01:27 AM
I think I first saw Belle in a tv program in the UK. It was called Jump Britain. Although I knew of Parkour before I knew of him....I guess that says it all really.
#30
Posted 17 June 2007 - 01:56 AM
It's like with football or rugby say, you can believe someody created them quite easily, as they're very artificial, with many rules, but movement has always been in our nature, and thats all parkour is a form of. I don't believe someone has the right to take credit for that.
And nah, I've seen Jump Britain (And London), they were pretty much what started it off over here in the UK, but Belle created it back in 1990, which is long before.
#31
Posted 17 June 2007 - 02:46 AM
And I thought it was Belles father who came up with the idea of parkour, or something?
Also, I don't see parkour becoming an olympic sport. With the concept of getting from A to B, how would you track the progress? What would the course be like? If it the 'olympic version' of parkour was just showing off drills, then wouldn't that be gymnastics?
#32
Posted 17 June 2007 - 04:25 AM
#33
Posted 17 June 2007 - 04:46 AM
Also, I don't see parkour becoming an olympic sport. With the concept of getting from A to B, how would you track the progress? What would the course be like? If it the 'olympic version' of parkour was just showing off drills, then wouldn't that be gymnastics?
Raymond Belle, a firefighter and French soldier who fought in Vietnam, who helped influenced David as well as Georges Hebert's "Natural Method of Physical Culture." As both Sebastian and David has said in the past, they simply put parkour or freerunning together. It has always been done, but they have redefined the art to a discipline that is practiced.
If you have been following the news lately, today, the parkour and freerunning community grows exponentially, but the community is split. Hundreds look for David's wisdom, but he quietly has some plans of his own. Both parkour and freerunning classes are being offered, competitions are being organized, and money is being made off of the disciplines. We are in troubled times and WE, as a community, need to pull together to determine our future, and the future of parkour and freerunning. This is exactly why I am against competition. Also, the American scene is really divided. Right now, APK and the site's owner, M2, is under heavy scrutiny. You all know that UFF has turned out to be one big money making business, APK is turning into a monster itself. M2 has secretly started organizing competition and there are rumors that he is signing deals with American businesses. Right now, many small communities, such as NCParkour, are getting together and helping form a new website that will help America understand what we do and why we do it.
Traceurs, in general, do not jump from rooftop to rooftop on a regular basis. In fact, most of us stay on the ground and rarely jump anything over one story. There are times when someone gets hurt, but injury has always been a factor. Most of us start off small by learning vaults, then wallruns, then cats. We never stop drilling, conditioning, or training so that we become less prone to injuries. Only one death due to practicing parkour has ever been recorded.
#34
Posted 17 June 2007 - 06:12 AM
#35
Posted 17 June 2007 - 07:42 AM
It could be judged on technique, style, complexity.....just like any extreme sport such as skateboarding or Snowboarding. It doesn't really matter what the course was like as someone who is good at parkour could adapt to it and use their imagination right? Obviously there would have to be rails and places that allowed for jumps and balancing movements.
#36
Posted 17 June 2007 - 09:06 AM
haha parkour sounds so british and then redlion comes and goes aye mate hahaha just thoght it was funny kk im out
o i dont do this shit
#38
Posted 17 June 2007 - 12:39 PM
Definately. I don't see any problem in making money from t-shirts, but they're making money from teaching others parkour and freerunning. They're also trying to make themselves as well as the UFF glyph the symbol of both parkour and freerunning.
Parkour is strictly the movement from point A to point B in the most efficient way without going backwards. Both technique and style do not matter as long as the movement is efficient! A freerunner's ultimate goal is to move as gracefully and beautifully as they can throughout their enviroment. Neither parkour or freerunning is a sport, which is what millions of people have yet to understand. They are disciplines that are practiced.
#39
Posted 17 June 2007 - 10:47 PM
Parkour is strictly the movement from point A to point B in the most efficient way without going backwards. Both technique and style do not matter as long as the movement is efficient! A freerunner's ultimate goal is to move as gracefully and beautifully as they can throughout their enviroment. Neither parkour or freerunning is a sport, which is what millions of people have yet to understand. They are disciplines that are practiced.
You.
You captured it right there... Parkour isn't only the movement... It's the mentality, the disciplines... Someone see's an ad with parkour in it, and they think "ooh, I can impress my friends like that!" =/ Something needs to be done...
#40
Posted 17 June 2007 - 11:03 PM
#41
Posted 20 June 2007 - 06:18 PM
YouTube
#42
Posted 20 June 2007 - 06:53 PM
#43
Posted 20 June 2007 - 11:25 PM
Side note, how do these free runners train their bodies to take all the shock that's absorbed from high falls ()?
#44
Posted 20 June 2007 - 11:35 PM
Side note, how do these free runners train their bodies to take all the shock that's absorbed from high falls ()?
They find ways not to absorb the shock (hence why people roll, the momentum is carried forward instead of down)
#45
Posted 21 June 2007 - 08:44 AM
That's quite an old video. 3Run is definately a great "team." They're really only a few 3Run guys, but many people who join their forums along with making their own videos add 3Run to their titles or videos. I've trained with two or the original members, Duncan (TK17) as well as Luc. I think Luc will be coming to a state jam we're having this weekend, too; Duncan will be in SF.
#46
Posted 21 June 2007 - 10:13 AM
Bao do you have any videos of yourself? I'd like to see them if you do
#47
Posted 21 June 2007 - 12:10 PM
Maybe. I recently released a video that contained footage from last October to December. It was way before I started my actual conditioning, training, and drilling though.
#49
Posted 21 June 2007 - 03:05 PM
#50
Posted 21 June 2007 - 04:16 PM
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