On the Edge, a parkour documentary about fear
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- This is a documentary about freerunning, fear, and how fear influences the freerunner/traceur. In the documentary, I talk to Cyriel Gerrits and Jasper de Gier, both pro parkour athletes with respectively 14 and 8 years of experience in the sport. I'm also talking to Juliasz Krol, a sport psychologist by tough mind. Cyriel and Jasper talk about their experience with fear and how they deal with it, and Juliusz talks about the theoretical side of it.
This is a documentary that I have made as a masterpiece for the minor in Visual Storytelling at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences. It was a really cool challenge to make it, and I am more than happy with the results.
I hope you all enjoy the viewing, and hopefully, it helped you as much as it has helped me.
this is awesome. thank you so much for sharing
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Good documentary, I really liked how you described fear 🫶
This is a really interesting exploration of what we call "Brain Says No" here. One of the solutions I've found is that where you can, moving the target even a few millimeters closer can completely change the dynamics. Obviously can't do that with walls, but sometimes a different angle will have the same effect. I've tried the deep breath and go, but doesn't work well for me.
That is the thing with fear. It is really personal, and what for someone works might destroy the confidence of someone else.
nice video man, and nice stick!
thanks man, it means a lot
Nice one bro
Nice, man !
There's a lot of "overcoming the fear" discourse around parkour, and I think most of it is wrong. As the psychologist says, fear comes in when you try to do something that makes you uncomfortable. I think trying to "overcome the fear" is wrong, you simply have to become more comfortable with the situation; eventually, you also get more comfortable with fear/risk itself, and are able to do scary jumps that make you nervous, but can still do them in total control, extremely confidently.
Saying that you are physically capable of making a jump and that you shouldn't be afraid is a very common, *very misguided* take. It's about how consistently you can do a move, how precisely are you able to evaluate it just by seeing it (this is actually mentioned in the video), how well you know you operate under mental pressure, how well you know you can abort the move (also mentioned), etc. We have to insist more on this in the community. If that slip at 8:00 is real... it makes sense that you were scared. Even if you would never make that mistake in a scenario where you didn't have any fear, you were rightfully scared because you were not used to operate under such mental pressure. And this leads to mistakes in practice, as you keep part of your focus on the "unknowns" instead of "the move" (and righfully so). So, being certain that you are physically able to do something doesn't mean you will be able to pull it off *safely*, there are many other factors. This can be trained, though. But so many people try to hype and lie to themselves away from fear instead of realizing that they need to become better, more consistent, more precise, more experienced. "Being able to" is not black and white. You can have more or less certainty. You shouldn't try to overcome the fear by being "brave", you should overcome fear by reducing the unclear variables, the unknown factors, and through conditioning on dealing with fear itself.
I think Ed Scott is a great example of what happens when you are super careful and yet a master at your discipline. He doesn't just do a move for preparation and says "ok I can do it". He already knows he can, but *he still repeats the preparation* as many times as needed to make sure he's perfectly consistent. And when he goes at it, you can see it if he's nervous, but when he sends the move he will do it with total control and confidence. He very rarely goes crazy celebrating because he already knew he was fully capable of doing it (and he does some *really scary* things). Compare that to "Send It Gang", for example: they are adults, so they can subject themselves to whatever level of risk they want (and they are more prepared than 99.999999% of people out there), but they are still super reckless in comparison to someone like Ed. I think Send It Gang should never be taken as an example of how to "overcome fear" (you should only subject yourself to certain levels of risk if that comes from within). If you struggle with fear, try to be like Ed instead. When you are good enough and can get rid of enough uncertainty, some things will still be "scary", but you are never jumping "afraid".
damn, what a story, and a really good explanation on the topic. I agree with most of the things that you are saying. First of all, both of the slips at the standing pre were actual slip-ups, both times I underpowered the jump. I personally don't like the send it culture, because of the risk that they take. they are insane athletes for sure, but they are also athletes who are always injured. I do believe however that many people, including myself, underestimate what they can do. And there will, for me at least, always be a point where I know I can do it but it is still scary mostly because my mental game isn't at the same level as my physical capabilities. And at those moments you just need to say "okay I can do this, let's send it" otherwise I'll never be progressing.
@@vandeweijer_filmstudio Agree, that's a good point. You have to push yourself hard, believe in yourself and be constantly hungry to go further if you really want to find where your limits are. Keep it up!
Great Video Thank You #fear #fearless #inthezone😮
Personally, taking deep breaths doesn't work well for me as I then focus too much on my breathing and that disrupts the focus I need for the challenge. What I like to do to help me commit is visualising and going through the movement step by step. I then try to figure out the essentials of those steps and what are the parts that scare me. I then practice those parts specifically to eliminate the variables that make me scared. Once I've done that, it's just a matter of feeling it cuz I then know I can physically and technically do it, it's just a matter of trusting the process.
What works for you works, cool to read your breakdown like this. Makes me a better athlete as well.
Great documentary! Inspiring!
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