YouTube Live! Parkour Preshow Demo - Pt. 1
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When will people realize that arguing wether it's FR or PK or ADD is just plain LAME?
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@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.
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@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.
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can u show a tutorial on how to make a vault box :)
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@PancakeRecipes that sounds about right
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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.
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@PancakeRecipes I think I understand what you're saying, free running was first used as a general term for the art of movement?
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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.
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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".
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@PancakeRecipes The term freerunning came to America long after the term Parkour was first used in France to describe this discipline.
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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.
PKPepe 2 years ago 3
Good to hear a proper explanation to the audience from Dan Edwardes (is that Dan Edwardes?).
MaxBathos 3 years ago 3