Origins of Parkour - Episode 2: The felines
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2012
- This work is something I wanted to do for a long time. I was thinking of how much some species of animals were involved in the conception of the whole set of basic parkour techniques. In fact, the first generation's traceurs claimed themselves to be influenced by animals and said in interviews they used to watch documentaries about monkeys and felines to get inspired.
Anyway, they didn not explain in details how animals had inspired them, and the way they used what they saw in their trainings then. But we could possibly think some techniques were directly copied from the animals, which is quite interesting.
We know David Belle and his father are the ones that conceptualised parkour, but it could be interesting to think about what inspired them to do so. Of course, we also know Georges Hébert and his "natural method" was a huge source of inspiration for them. But animals, due to their conditions of living (eat or being eaten: hunt animals in order to have anything to eat; escape from its predators to survive), have always had to move this way, and developped the most powerful, precise, fast, controled and fluent moves, with only one thing in mind: efficience. Efficience being actually what their subsistence depends on. But they not only move perfectly efficiently, but also develop their training methods (little cats and monkeys learn by playing) to improve their techniques. So we have quite a lot of reasons to be interested in watching and studying them. We could, by watching them, find new techniques, improve the ones we already use, and even improve our training methods. Animals don't practice parkour which is a human concept but survival. But their daily survival challenge makes them become pionners in efficient displacement, which is maybe the greatest opportunity we ever had to learn about it.
Open your eyes and turn on your brain: animals have a lot of things to teach us.
"Origins of parkour" is a 4 episodes video series by L'1consolable.
"Episode 2: The felines".
Directing, editing, and music: L'1consolable.
Images sources: Teghead; Arkive.org; National Geographic; Discovery Channel; Theslowmoguys; and some other people that took the time to film these animals.
A big thanks to everyone that filmed and produced these beautiful images.
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This was awesome, brings me back to when quadrupedal movement was an actual study and not just some thing to do to look cool.
Naïm, I'm loving this series, and your music is amazing for it.
Naim that was so awesome, the pinnacle of youtube entertainment haha! I didn't think part 1 could be beat, but damn there are some crazy cats in this video.
so long i been waiting! thank you! i cant wait for episode 3 =D
Wow, really cool in the beginning there with the cat. Awesome!
2:02 "tag, you're it"
Begins with the most legit vertical catpass ever!
What you do with these videos are amazing
No words to describe this! pff awesome work allways inspiring. Greatings form Venezuela
Fantastic. These are beautiful videos! I love watching the animals and naming the "parkour techniques" they're "using"! Inspiring!
2;30 what a cute shot :DD
love it naim! thank you for creating this =)
Истинное, Изначальное Движение:) Спасибо, здорово.
c'est vraiment cool merci d'avoir fait sa :D
j’espère qu'il y aurat un épisode "écureuil"
its awsome that we humans can combine what felines and monkeys do
Wow, you open our eyes, thanks
Merci!
awesome stunning video. Made me laugh and speechless at the same time
Impressive!! Keep it up!
2:38 sweeeeet!
awesome footage, especially the leopard hunting ! thanks for sharing
2:37 KARATE CHOP!
great video though
Seeing domestic cats wallrun is the greatest thing ever
Elle est tres bien cette video Naim ! Les animaux nous surprendrons toujours =)
incredible O.O
yes but we can still learn...and enjoy
2:30 was so scary!
magnificent
cougar at 3:06 snow is a blow he ran through like a boss
very inspirational...wanna try some moves in the training. quadruppi-wallruns and quadruppi-tictacs could work ^^
1:35 lmao i love doing that .
Great Video & Great Beats-where I can get??
LOL That Gavin's cat XD
I wonder what episode 3 will be =D
HOLY RAP this is awesome
in the monkey one i could actually see the human movement in the animals....this was cool in its own way too tho
so sweet you made a vid about us
when a cat see a traceur jumping, it probably thinks "stupid humans"
1:36 spidercat!
Saw a clip from an old school teghead video in there.
Esto de ser un animal!
Excellent ! Tu m'aurais dit j'avais de la vidéo de chat aussi ! Pendant le tournage de Parkour 2runs on en a filmé un ! Saut de (chat) BRAS ! :D
I really need the song that starts playing at 2:25. Amazing!
soooo funny but true
If you study how the cats jump, and the movements they make you can achieve this great jump and sadly with out tails to use as balance we have to maintain mental stability
at the start the cat scaled the fence like its nothing
we dont have claws ...and we weight far more ...right?
CLAWS OP! :P
I really would like some clawns right now...
song at 2:19 please
Felines - the mother of all traceurs...
Magnifique. Emotive ta vidéo.
Le chat à 5:07 il ressemble à un humain??
so,stop say i'm stuck in the tree
They are felines, we are humans.
you don't say?
A 2:13 cela m as beaucoup plu =)
I wonder if I can put a leash on a cat and do parkour with it...
2:03 "height drop..."
Omg 2:02 that cat falling from like 30 feet and jumping 20 what the hell!?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4:52
and people say cats are lazy
we could do that , only when we walk by 4 foots
wow i see how it was inspired from the felines BUT no so much as it was inspired from the monkeys (in episode 1)
everybody wants to be a cat
I want to be cat!!)
Kiffant cke tu fait naïm :D.
slt, pour ta video je ne savais pas que les chats etait capable de temps de choses, jobserverais plus souvent le miens désormais, :p dE plus pourait du me dire ce ke tu pense de moi, lavis dun professionelle est super important!
Damn nature you scary..
I say that because that was my cousin in this video...
I should be in this... -_-
srry snow lep I think I saw you fighting with ur bro in talking animals earth rangers
como me gustaria ser un gato...
really?,think i was a unicorn
SLOWMO GUYS!!!
01:36 :))
The unicorns not exist.
My cousins getting way too popular...
parkour is in our instint...in the world animal...if we saw a tiger how do u guys think we can escape?? yeap doing parkour XD
i wanna be a cat
xDD
Since when do cats, or other non-human animals have 'training methods' ? If you take a newborn kitten from it's mother and it spends its life around humans, it will still pretty much do all the same cat-things. Humans are not like this. If you take a human out of a human environment, you no longer have something that walks upright on two legs and behaves 'like a human'.
2:33 Don't give a single fuck...
Merci!