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THERE
HAS LONG BEEN CONFUSION AND DEBATE ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN PARKOUR AND FREERUNNING.
Late last year M2 discussed the matter with Joss and
got PAWA's stance on FreeRunning. This has not been
well received from the Foucan camp and Seb wants to
set the record straight.
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FREERUNNING
By Sebastien Foucan
10/06/06
The Reason:
At the beginning the name free running was an idea of a person
called Guillaume Pelletier who worked with us at the time
of Jump London.
Because some people think what I'm doing is not Parkour now
I call it
"freerunning." Because there is a misunderstanding
and people put a definition on what I'm doing! I create freerunning
and I'll put my official definition.
What is Freerunning?
Everything I'll say it's no more Parkour, it's freerunning!
Freerunning it's a lifestyle and an attitude.
Freerunning is to see your environment differently and being
able to utilize it to develop yourself!
My Parkour lifestyle is Freerunning.
My way has no name.
Freerunning is the name people have given to my way!
"Freerunning is following your own way, and this is my
way."
Sebastien Foucan
PARKOUR
VS FREE RUNNING
By Joss PAWA
2005
Free Running? A kind of demonstration mixing parkour techniques,
and acrobatics to be more spectacular and serve the medias
and marketing, but also a sport.
The term Parkour has been invented by David Belle and Hubert
Koundé in 1998 and the word Free Running has been created
much later by Sebastien Foucan for the purpose of spreading
Parkour in a marketing fashion (they thought the word "parkour"
wasn't international enough and Sebastien Foucan proposed
them this word).
The problem is that they fully mixed acrobatics to impress
people. This is where Freerunning becomes different from Parkour.
To make a comparison, Free Running is like artistic katas
in martial arts, the goal is only to be spectacular.
So it is related to parkour but doesn't answer to the same
philosophy. I mean, when you practice to show how spectacular
your jump is gonna be, people aren't focused anymore on the
difficulty, on the obstacle but on you.
This showing off attitude isn't the parkour philosophy which
preaches for humility. In this, Free Running and Parkour are
fundamentally opposite even if the first one is related to
the second one. Like the traditional way and the freestyle
way.
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