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It was ages ago. About 7 years ago.

I watched a man on tv called Jump London.

I watched the most recent one, which was still like 10 years ago.

And I just started doing it with my mates, just jumping off of stuff.

Not really knowing what we were doing. * CAUTION: do not jump off of things without professional training

And then I heard from someone that someone in Leeds were doing classes. So I came to Leeds and I found people doing it. Not teaching but just people on the streets.

I bumped into them. They told me the time they were meeting and everything and said if you wanna come along and train.

Theyve been doing it for a year or two so they knew what they were doing. So I was actually learning, instead of just jumping off of stuff.

Theres such a big difference between parkour and free running.

For parkour, its just like getting from point A to B as quickly as possible. If theres a building in the way, obviously, youd then jump off the roof. But the definition of free running is doing stuff in an urban environment just to express movement in general. We train like a mixture of both.

We train our movement, but not because we want to run away from anyone but we just like the idea of being efficient.

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The most memorable thing about parkour is just the trips.

Once a year, we go to france. We get to go to paris where it first started.

Just the 12 of us.

So thats memorable in its

History Lesson:

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In 1902, a volcano blew its top on the Caribbean island of Martinique. A French naval officer, Lt. George Hebert, valiantly coordinated the rescue and escape of over 700 people from the scene, both indigenous and European. The experience had a profound effect on him as he watched people move, well or badly, around the obstacles in their path. The heroism and tragedy he witnessed on that day reinforced his belief that, to be of real value, athletic skill must be combined with courage and altruism, “Etre fort pour être utile” – “Be strong to be useful.”

Having traveled extensively, Hebert was impressed by the physical development and movement skills of indigenous peoples in Africa and elsewhere, and so created a physical training discipline that he called “the natural method” using climbing, running and manmade obstacle courses to recreate the natural environment.

We dont go there for a typical holiday. Its all training.

Its a group of people who all know what they want to do. Like exactly. Its like expressing themselves and going to different places and different environments.

In the background, theres a lot of professional interest. But at the mo’ it’s such a niche thing. Its all mostly stunt work or performances. And if you train with Do you look to do a lot of people in na Leeds, we dont do as many professio lly? is th flips and stuff, we just practice moving efficiently. So the only sort of professional thing you can get into is sort of, doing performances and stunt work, which Im not too bothered about. Obviously, some people are, but Im not too bothered honestly. Ive got my own job so I do this for fun. I got my career.

Im a 100 percent for advertising it as much as possib think of parkour is complete different from ever of people would want to say it’s the same as foot different because you’re using your body in so many doing more than running, theres so many different mean if its taught right and people arent doing s jumping off buildings before youre ready to jump off b benefit you in so many different ways. Its sort of like you, not just physically, but mentally you feel a lot Because you keep overcoming obstacles and stuff yo yourself in a situation where you calculate every movement.

So when youre ble. Because what people dealing with things rything else. Like a lot in real life you just tball and stuff, but its apply the same y different ways. Youre principles. You need to calculate, what t things you can do. I you gonna do next, stupid things like whats happening over buildings. it can there, its just really easy e, develops to apply it anywhere else. Like better. in school, I know people with ou put learning difficulties and its helped them through school, because theyve taken what they learnt outside and applied it to a classroom based environment.

What’s going through your mind in the middle of a stunt?

Usually? It’s nothin’. It’s just blank. At first you think about itlike you think about everything leading up to the jump but then it’s such a quick split second, a lot of times because you’ve practiced it so many times. You start with all the little things before going on to something big. Say if you wanna jump over a wall, because you’ve done it so many times in smaller things, that your body knows what it’s doing. So subconsciously you just go and do it because you practiced it a million times. Especially when it comes to roof jumps. Like the first thing you do when it comes to massive roof jumps, you’ve always practiced it like a thousand times on the floor with jumps that aren’t dangerous at all that when it comes to the roof jumps, it’s just like second nature.

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