Parkour VS FreeRunning
Parkour VS FreeRunning
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.
posted by Max Law @ 7:27 AM
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