{"id":129,"date":"2003-04-13T18:48:05","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2003-04-13T18:48:05","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T18:48:05","slug":"le-parkour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/le-parkour\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Parkour"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was all set to break new ground and create a comic featuring Le Parkour <\/a>somehow. Then Warren Ellis <\/a>went and did a Global Frequency<\/a> story on it a month ago.<\/p>\n

Here’s a little summary on the whole shebang<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nparkour<\/u>
\ndraw a straight line on a map of your home town. start from point a, and go to the point b. don?t consider the elements which are in your way (barriers, walls, wire fences, trees, houses, buildings) as obstacles.
\nhug them: climb, get over, jump: let your imagination flow: you?re now doing parkour<\/p>\n

attitude<\/u>
\nto parkour, it?s also to know how to deny evidences, to keep a critical acumen. example; the streets. a marked out route, where we no longer need to wonder if we must take it or not. it?s here, we take it, that?s all. no thought needs to go into it at all. whereas the parkour?s attitude is to wonder; “perhaps there is another way to move forward, a way which hasn’t been explored yet?” the parkour is the adventurous spirit dared in conquered fields and which is applied at both literal and figurative senses<\/p>\n

?it teaches me not be scared in life, when new situations come to me, i deal with them calmly, like I would do before a new jump? st?phane vigroux<\/p>\n

creation<\/u>
\nwhat could be defined as bungee jumping without elastic rope was created in lisses, in essonne 14 years ago by david belle. this one began as a child to play the ?parcours du combatant?, under his father?s influence (troop soldier?s son in Vietnam between 9 and 18) and jackie chan?s movies. it?s a matter of moving with as much agility as possible, with silence. this parcours du combatant, david converted it with what he had. he didn?t have access to the jungle, but he had the city. so he started to climb all the things that he found in lisses. s?bastien foucan, intrigued by david?s reputation, joined him when they still were in primary school, and the team was born.<\/p>\n

proposing a new way to deal with a static environment, the parkour seems like capoera on buildings, without safety wires. those cat looking men are urban acrobats.
\n
\nit?s way too dangerous to be legal, but it isn?t officially illegal either, although because of the danger, those who practice stay more or less underground.
\n?we just claim the fact that we move differently, not that we take risks to get a pride and say to ourselves i do that and you don?t? david belle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea of people willingly throwing themselves up and off of buildings is brilliant to me. Hell, I couldn’t and wouldn’t do it, but it’s fun to watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

philosophy<\/u>?the day when all will be flat, we?ll be dead?
\nthe people who practice parkour apply this principle on a physical level, and offers to transpose this attitude on a moral level. all depends actually on the way which the obstacle is taken. an obstacle in normal circumstances prevents us from going further, it paralyses. in parkour however, everything is viewed as an obstacle that can be used to create movement<\/p>\n

? tell me how you move and i?ll tell you who you are?<\/p>\n

parkour=thoughtlessness?<\/u>
\nwhile interviewing other parkourists on internet, -it?s there that they can communicate, in sites like parkour.fr or pisteurs.fr<\/a>, because the movie has spread throughout the world – we can see that they think too that the yamakasis carry with them a kamikaze image, even suicidal guys, nevertheless parkour has nothing to do with risk taking. To sebastien, we can go on a bench and do a more interesting trick than a jump from the 6th floor of a building, ?in parkour, big muscled guys are clumsy guys? adds st?phane vigroux. what?s important for the traceurs, -and all the true parkourists from france and from elsewhere, is the grace and the lightness.<\/p>\n

besides, they have never had a grave accident with them, perhaps because david and seb don?t randomly do anything. each jump is calculated precisely. it has nothing to do with the image proposed by the movie. finally, the parkourists aren?t basically anti-police, or anti-society, they aren?t children of housing estates (evry is a green suburb), and they respect their environment.
\non this subject, sebastien is losing his temper: ?i can?t bear when someone tell me: ?don?t touch this tree?, I say to myself ?but this tree, I respect it more than you do, so get busy, go for a jog and stop boring me silly?<\/p>\n

for sure they don’t respect all the signposts, or else they couldn?t practice, but isn?t it better than doing nothing at all and smoking drugs? furthermore, it is not in their interest to destroy their environment because it?s more than their work field<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was all set to break new ground and create a comic featuring Le Parkour somehow. Then Warren Ellis went and did a Global Frequency story on it a month ago. Here’s a little summary on the whole shebang: parkour draw a straight line on a map of your home town. start from point a, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}