Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Extreme Free Running in London
Free running was meant to start out an anglicized term for Parkour. It was first suggested to Sebastien Foucan during the filming of Jump London. Free Running has grown to be descriptive of a sort of "cousin" activity to Parkour - Free Running is more expressive and creative in nature, with moves such as acrobatics, flips, and spins added for flair, creativity, or just because someone wants to. The main difference then between Parkour and Free Running is that Parkour is defined by purpose "get somewhere quickly and efficiently using the human body", and Free Running is defined by the activity or art of moving through your environment however you want, moving your way, following your own path.
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OMG dude that is so insane!
JT
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so so sick
yeah!!
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what was extreme about it?
There's no way back from hell?
Cool; but does it really qualify as extreme? Compared to any number of Free Running videos on Youtube, this was pretty mediocre. It reminded me of a cross between an Okay Go! music video and a Mentos commercial.
I gotta agree with Russ. This was middle of the road as far as Parkour videos go. Alot of just basic vaults, one ok-ish wall-walk that was completely gratuitous.
Definately nothing that made me sit up and go "kickass!" like alot of other Parkour vids have.
lame.
awesomer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4JJ5QuGNQ
anyone in decent shape can do this. didn't anyone do this when they were teenagers? with a skateboard? while high on reefer?
BAD ASS!
lame, and what was with the retarded slow-mode at random points throughout?
so free running is the crappy pointless cheap version of parkour
just like this is the crappy cheap version of all those really good parkour videos?
wha whaaaaaa
I'll be honest, even if I'm the only one, it was dull.
It appears that Free Running, the British version of Parkour is British to the very core. It's boring, it has no soul, it is devoid of the point of parkour.
If I wished to see business men run across town in suits, I would step out of my office at 12:05 and look towards the nearest Subway or McDonalds. Parkour was always more than that.
Epic fail. :-(
Hey, I just saw this on Digg.com and had to comment... Firstly, this is NOT free-running; It's Parkour. Free-running involves gymnastics and acrobatics. The video is shot by Julie Angel and the guys are part of www.parkourgenerations.com
Check the website and see all of their videos. (this one included)
Next up, the people who are disrespecting these traceurs don't know what they're talking about; One of those people in the video is Stephane Vigroux... check his name on YouTube and see what Parkour is.
Lastly, this is an open invite to anyone who lives in the UK or can come to London... Come along to the training... just once... and see how fit you really are. Check the website for details on when/where the sessions are held and show come show us what real fitness and parkour skill is all about, yes? no?
well this is parkour. but i dont see this video showing the meaning of parkour.
why do u need to vault over and over again when u can simply run?
why do u need to vault out and vault back in? why do u see them running in seperate directions? why are they doing unnecessary plamspins? its a nice video but not impressive. the music sucks btw.
http://www.3run.co.uk/ this is extreme free running.
^ No the music doesn’t suck.
I thought it was pretty awesome if I could have that level of fitness, Wow!
Great vid, though I wouldn't say 'extreme' if I recall some other ones I've seen.
you guys who think that free running is the lame version of parkour, your 100% wrong. this was just a very poor representation of free running. and also, free running is just another phrase for parkour, not something different. it has evolved over the past few years by adding unnecessary flips and what not, but anyone who knows what they are talking about knows that the two are in fact the same.
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