Walls Turned into Ground
#32. Walls Turned into Ground
Parkour Montréal, 2007 © Rachel Granofsky
Parkour is a style of movement through the city invented by the Frenchmen David Belle and Sébastien Foucan in the late 1980s and now practiced worldwide. It emphasises fluidity, speed, efficiency and freedom, training traceurs to move as quickly as possible through the city regardless of obstacles. Practitioners frequently interact with buildings in new ways by finding routes, observing details, and confronting problems that ordinary users and pedestrians confined to the sidewalks are unaware of.
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I hope for their sake that this is near a hospital.
Ceci ouvre ouvre un monde fabuleux, dé-sclérose l'espace admis et élargie non pas seulement le déplacement utilitaire mais le mouvement, l'aire d'exister, le jeux de la vie.
C'est un nouveau langage, demande d'être admis, d'être entraîné, mais tout comme marcher demande de l'être aussi.
Parkouring is so great you know, I used to do it every day, but not any more, I dont even know why...
Cool! I'd like to learn to do so too! It reminds me of the films where someone flees. I liked the film with Mel Gibson. Well, I couldn't even imagine that people learn to do it on person and that it exists for nearly 30 years already.