Origins of Parkour - Episode 1: The monkeys
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 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 1: The monkeys".
Directing, editing, and music: L'1consolable.
Images sources: Arkive.org; BBC; National Geographic; Visive productions; 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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their speed and flow is remarkable... i wonder if any traceur can think that fast of what to do next... you can increase that by training, yes, but this is far too fast... its both inspiring and fascinating to watch them
thanks for this... you sure had a good reason to leave UF
looks like we've lost some agilty in our evolution
Fantastic compilation, Naim! This is incredible footage of supremely adapted animals, and it's good to have it all collected in one place.
Haha after watching the first minute, I had to take a break to go and watch the Monkey Parkour video Visive made. For some reason, that had a stronger impact on me, but this is cool too; with more of an educational aspect to it. Props on that one mane!
And not a Single Flip. True parkour right there, they really understand the concept.
thank you for this video series..its awesome that you went through with making these as many people would think of something like this and not take the time to talk about/spread the word
Very well put together. You should do squirrels for one of the episodes. They are our inspiration here in the states (maybe an occasional cat too).
This video makes me smile. Nice one Naim!
i could watch this stuff all day. thank you for this:)
Soo much flow. Can't wait to train with them sometime.
easily one of the coolest things ive ever seen . . . thank you man
its in their nature. its how they live, its how they survive.
Humans have just evolved on from that... perhaps we as practitioners of parkour are simply going back to our roots, instead of learning something new
great work naim! cant wait for the next episode
Very nice idea and good work choosing and put all this images together! Loved it! I have watched some of this footage before because since I started training I watched it in order to improve myself!
Tank you l'inconsolable for the things you have given to the parkour comunity and to simple traceurs that just like training like me! Can't wait to watch the oder tree videos.
Take care! xxx
- Cris
PS: Nice songs brother! Some day I'll go to Marseille to train with you! ;)
These little creatures knows their plyometric..
It looks amazing. They're not jumping but rather bouncing. And its not this kind of heavy, jerky landings, but extremely soft and relaxed. Its amazing how soft and fluid they move. Its It looks like they're floating. We're (humans) in quite a bad shape... parkour required a lot of conditioning, a lot of training and yet we're not even close to the monkeys in terms of physical achievements.
yes i totally agree, but they go so fast they dont even need to flip in their flow. its that good!
wow.. this really DID inspire me, alot!
Glad to see another video from you :). I wish i had the arms of a gibbon. been doing a lot of training in trees lately.
Thanks for uploading this =D its awesome
I loveeeeeee this vid L1consolable!! =D cant wait for 2!! =D the music is great too
Es alucinante la perfección que tienen algunos animales para desplazarse, lo tienen por instinto y genética, en cambio los seres humanos necesitamos un acondicionamiento increíble para acercarnos a esa perfección. No sé los demás, pero estar tan lejos de lograr esto y que haya tan pocas personas relativamente que quieran ser así de útiles... así de libres, me hace que siga queriendo formar parte de esta comunidad y hace que siga luchando por acercarme a esa perfección. Mucho amor, gente.