YouTube Live! Parkour Preshow Demo - Pt. 1

[frivolas]

When will people realize that arguing wether it's FR or PK or ADD is just plain LAME?

[MegaSinner1]

can u show a tutorial on how to make a vault box :)

[PancakeRecipes]

free running was the first name and it came from France

[PKPepe]

NO IT WASN´T!!!

The first name was "L'Art du desplacement", named by the Yamakasi. Then it became "Parkour" to make it easier. Then, Free Running has come as a translation for Parkour in English.

[PancakeRecipes]

Dude free running has been in France for years and years. Long before I ever heard the name Parkour. Jackie Chan mentions it in a interview way back in the day in like the 80's. He said the French free runners inspired his long chase scenes were he free runs.

[PKPepe]

Watch the videos of SFPK meets Dan Edwardes - Q&A on this Channel and you will see What Dan Edwardes says...

[hooblahew]

@PancakeRecipes The term freerunning came to America long after the term Parkour was first used in France to describe this discipline.

[PancakeRecipes]

@hooblahew

I was first told about free running by a very close family friend who is French in the 1980's. He never mentioned the term Parkour. He said it inspired a lot of kung fu movies. I have actually seen a interview with Jackie Chan from the 1980's talking about "free running".

[PancakeRecipes]

To add I would definitely consider Jakie Chan to be the first free runner or Parkour artist. Even wikipedia claims he was doing it before either phrase was coined.

[NuiPK]

@PancakeRecipes Wikipedia IS editable, but I'll give you that. The movement behind parkour is based on a french philosophy of movement founded in the 1700s, which in turn was based on natural human movement, so it could have evolved anywhere any time.

[hooblahew]

@PancakeRecipes I think I understand what you're saying, free running was first used as a general term for the art of movement?

[PancakeRecipes]

@hooblahew

Yes, I think that's how it happened. Before it was an official sport the term in English was free running and described the basic movements and ideas behind it. But maybe even before that someone in France called it Parkour? I haven't seen any evidence of that in terms of dates though, and there's some info on a few websites out there but no concrete dates for the terms. I personally think the term free running better describes the sport so I guess I am a little biased.

[hooblahew]

@PancakeRecipes that sounds about right

[NuiPK]

@PancakeRecipes The name "Free running" originated in America when the documentary Jump London came out. In it, Sebastien Foucann came to London to make a documentary about Parkour. He was asked to translate parkour into English and what he came up with was "Free running."

Jump London was a major catalyst in the development of Parkour in English speaking countries because it was aired on television, and was one of the first English documentaries on parkour. The name free running stuck.

[davidbelle2010]

@PKPepe the majestic force trained together with david belle and sebastian foucan when they were young then they splited and gave it diffrent philosofi so david belle=parkour no flips fastest way from point a to b....sebastian foucan=freerunning,flips just run an do flips...the majestic forece=yamakasi,almost the same as freerunning but with a mix of parkour;)

[davidbelle2010]

@PKPepe the majestic force trained together with david belle and sebastian foucan when they were young then they splited and gave it diffrent philosofi so david belle=parkour no flips fastest way from point a to b....sebastian foucan=freerunning,flips just run an do flips...the majestic forece=yamakasi,almost the same as freerunning but with a mix of parkour;)

[MaxBathos]

Good to hear a proper explanation to the audience from Dan Edwardes (is that Dan Edwardes?).