Here is another great video from Julie Angel and Parkour Generations. Finding a different route through the city Stephane Vigroux, Forrest, Sébastien Goudot, and Chris Keighley utilize Parkour to reach their final destination; the bank. And most impressive of all they do this while wearing suits and Chris is even carrying a briefcase! In spite of this there is nothing too spectacular here, but it’s a superb and entertaining all around film nonetheless.
We are starting to have so many videos on this site that we aren’t always sure which ones we have already posted and which ones we still need to post! Yesterday’s post from the Parkour Generation’s Rendezvous I workshop reminded us of a few videos we thought we already had on the site but upon further investigation we found out that we did not. A fair amount of these videos are from Julie Angel and Parkour Generations, and as such we have decided to continue for a time posting a series of their work.
Today we present a film called Parkour Generations: Vision which has already been view more than 200,000 times on YouTube alone! And there’s no question as to why it is so popular. Although it has no plot, the video features Stephane Vigroux, Forrest, Kazuma, and is nothing short of inspiring. Its description says this:
A rare insight into parkour vision by some of the originals of the discipline. When some of the best parkour practitioners in the world take their friends of equal skill and experience to a new spot, lines of opportunity appear. Not training, just fun, creative & chilled.
Here is a video from Rendezvous I put on by Parkour Generations. The workshop was conducted in London on the 13th and 14th of May, 2007, and prominent instruction was given by Forrest and Dan Edwardes. You may also recognize other famous Tracers who attended the event including Stephane Vigroux, Sébastien Goudot, Kazuma, Cicso, Thomas, and Yann Hanutra and Laurent Piemontesi from the Yamakasi. We posted three videos from Rendezvous II in our What is Parkour? series that we conducted almost a month ago. Unlike this video which highlights the physical training from Rendezvous I, those videos from Rendezvous II exclusively highlighted a questions and answer time with the Yamakasi. Divided into three parts, you can view the videos from that interview by going to our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th installments of that sequence.
Here is the fourth installment of our What is Parkour? series and the last piece of our three part mini-series featuring the Yamakasi. Stay tuned to MisterParkour.com as we end our five part series tomorrow with a rare video of David Belle speaking openly about Parkour and what it means to him.
For part three of our What is Parkour? series we will continue with our mini-series featuring the Yamakasi. Embedded here is video 2 of 3 of the question and answer session that took place at Rendezvous II.
Also, here is another link to a great video we posted a couple weeks ago. Featured in the link below is a short video of David Belle briefly answering the question “What is Parkour?” However, please note that this is NOT the rare David Belle video we have promised to post in this series. That video of David (with the transcribed translation) will be the final installment of our five part series so stay tuned.
For the second installment on our What is Parkour? series we have decided to start a mini-series by posting the first of three videos featuring the Yamakasi. On December 8th, 2007 Parkour Generations put on their second Parkour seminar titled Rendezvous II at the WestminsterAcademySportsCenter in London . Some of those in attendance included the Yamakasi, the Vigroux brothers, Forrest, Dan Edwardes, Kazuma, Sebastien Goudot, Francisco Soto-Tautiva and Thomas Couetdic. At the end of the day of training, the Yamakasi spent almost half an hour questions from those in attendance. This is part 1 of 3 of their answers.
A few weeks ago we also posted a Parkour documentary by TK17. The movie is a full length 90 production titled “Parkour Project: Pilgrimage,” and it takes an in depth look at Parkour and its origins in Lisses, France. The majority of the movie focuses on Lisses, but we decided to include a link to this post because the first 20 minutes specifically does a great job of answering the question, “What is Parkour?”
Starting today www.MisterParkour.com is beginning a five part series that is designed to answer the question, “What is Parkour?” Throughout this series we will be featuring videos with insightful explanations of Parkour from Stephane Vigroux, Forrest, the Yamakasi and of course David Belle. The fifth part of this series will showcase a rare video of David Belle where he speaks for almost four minutes about what Parkour is and what it means to him.
For the first video in this series we start with an excellent video featuring Stephane Vigroux. This video is currently being promoted on YouTube and it was prominently featured on the YouTube homepage a few days ago. In this video Stephane performs some incredible Parkour moves and directly answers the question, What is Parkour?
A few weeks ago we posted a Parkour video featuring Forrest. It also does a great job of answering the question, “What is Parkour?” so we decided to include it in this post as well. The video is made in the same style as the video of Stephane above. In the feature Forrest performs some great Parkour moves and thoroughly describes what Parkour is and why he does it.
This is a great Parkour video of the Vigroux brothers hard at play. Featuring Stephane and Johann Vigroux this is a collection of footage shot from 2001 to 2003.
A short 1 min video with David Belle, Sébastien Foucan, Stephane Vigroux, and Romain Moutault. Even though we have searched the internet we still have no idea what “On r’met ça!?” means. If anyone has any idea please let us know.
Here is an older Parkour video called Slomo’. It features not only David Belle and Stephane Vigroux, but also some of the first followers of David which many people have never heard of including Johann Vigroux, Steeve Rognognie, Romain Moutault, Rudy Duong, and Jérôme Ben Aoues.
Pay special attention to David’s palm spin at 2:09 and his hand placement on both vaults immediately after. His techniques on both moves are worth studying.
