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Parkour - Develop Your Own Style
Parkour - Develop Your Own Style
By Adam Sinicki
Believe
it or not I invented parkour. I wasn't the first to invent parkour, I
am not Sebastian Foucaine. However I still did invent on my own as it
were and free of any help from the internet. I was doing 'Monkey
Stunts' which I adapted from Jackie Chan's moves and publishing them
on my very shit website 'Frog Fight' long before I ever heard of
'Jump London' or knew what a 'traceur' was. (Simillarly I invented the
theory of evolution when I was 13 only to find out that had been done
too...).
This
is why it made me a bit annoyed when I would upload my videos to
their sites and get told I was 'doing it wrong'. That I had no flow,
and that I wasn't using the correct moves. What I would do see is to
set up something like a set piece, or figure out a cool trick I could
do, and then do that – maybe
linking
a few together but not necessarily. I'd build the video up and at the
end I'd do a 'big stunt' which would be the showstopper such as a
handstand over a motorway on a bridge, or climbing up an alley way
several stories.
But
that was wrong, because parkour means tying things together in a
'flow' and doing cetain moves. Hell if there' s flip in there then
it's not parkour. This
was when I was thirteen or something, about ten years ago, and
already
there
was a bureaucracy. Guys...
that's
missing the entire point of parkour!
Parkour
is meant to be about freedom. Freedom from the constraints of the
city, and the freedom to express yourself and move as you choose. So
if people are putting restrictions on it and definitions and
organization
(I
despise that word) then it's not really parkour is it? That's why
differences in style and types of movement should be celebrated and
not quashed by the internet nerds. It's exactly
what
happened with Bruce Lee and Jeet Kune Do – he developed Jeet Kune
Do as a martial art without form to get away from the 'classical
mess' and the bureaucracy that had settled into martial arts over its
protracted history – but people decided to stick to his methods
rigidly and create sets and forms completely missing the point of a
free flowing form of combat. And that's why he renounced the name
Jeet Kune Do shortly before he died. Don't do that to Sebastian or
David – what did they ever do to you?
I've
seen some really incredible parkour videos, but an awful lot of them
involve the same few moves over and over – some vaults, some
handstands, some wall spins, and lots
of
rollie pollies (they don't call them that though). That's because
rollie pollies are the correct
way
to do parkour.
The videos that have really stood out to me though are the ones that
are different in some way and unique. I saw a guy do a sort of
parkour set using just a few railings and he never moved the camera –
he just went over and under the same railings, using them to flip
himself and demonstrated mental flexibility. It was captivating.
So develop your own style, be free and be creative and drive this
thing forward because frankly it's starting to lose momentum. Think of
how Michael Jackson changed dance, or similarly how Bruce Lee changed
martial arts. Be different and you stand a chance of being truly ground
breaking and inspiring. I don't
do parkour, I do Monkey Stunts, and frankly they're awesome.
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Parkour - Develop Your Own StyleBy Adam Sinicki
Believe it or not I invented parkour. I wasn't the first to invent parkour, I am not Sebastian Foucaine. However I still did invent on my own as it were and free of any help from the internet. I was doing 'Monkey Stunts' which I adapted from Jackie Chan's moves and publishing them on my very shit website 'Frog Fight' long before I ever heard of 'Jump London' or knew what a 'traceur' was. (Simillarly I invented the theory of evolution when I was 13 only to find out that had been done too...). This is why it made me a bit annoyed when I would upload my videos to their sites and get told I was 'doing it wrong'. That I had no flow, and that I wasn't using the correct moves. What I would do see is to set up something like a set piece, or figure out a cool trick I could do, and then do that – maybe linking a few together but not necessarily. I'd build the video up and at the end I'd do a 'big stunt' which would be the showstopper such as a handstand over a motorway on a bridge, or climbing up an alley way several stories.
But that was wrong, because parkour means tying things together in a 'flow' and doing cetain moves. Hell if there' s flip in there then it's not parkour. This was when I was thirteen or something, about ten years ago, and already there was a bureaucracy. Guys... that's missing the entire point of parkour! Parkour is meant to be about freedom. Freedom from the constraints of the city, and the freedom to express yourself and move as you choose. So if people are putting restrictions on it and definitions and organization (I despise that word) then it's not really parkour is it? That's why differences in style and types of movement should be celebrated and not quashed by the internet nerds. It's exactly what happened with Bruce Lee and Jeet Kune Do – he developed Jeet Kune Do as a martial art without form to get away from the 'classical mess' and the bureaucracy that had settled into martial arts over its protracted history – but people decided to stick to his methods rigidly and create sets and forms completely missing the point of a free flowing form of combat. And that's why he renounced the name Jeet Kune Do shortly before he died. Don't do that to Sebastian or David – what did they ever do to you?
I've seen some really incredible parkour videos, but an awful lot of them involve the same few moves over and over – some vaults, some handstands, some wall spins, and lots of rollie pollies (they don't call them that though). That's because rollie pollies are the correct way to do parkour. The videos that have really stood out to me though are the ones that are different in some way and unique. I saw a guy do a sort of parkour set using just a few railings and he never moved the camera – he just went over and under the same railings, using them to flip himself and demonstrated mental flexibility. It was captivating.
So develop your own style, be free and be creative and drive this thing forward because frankly it's starting to lose momentum. Think of how Michael Jackson changed dance, or similarly how Bruce Lee changed martial arts. Be different and you stand a chance of being truly ground breaking and inspiring. I don't do parkour, I do Monkey Stunts, and frankly they're awesome. Copyright 2012 The Biomatrix.Net
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