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Post by pkpete on Jan 22, 2007 22:05:56 GMT
Somthing i found out the meaning of parkour is to get to A - B using your own creative route while Freerunning is using the skills of parkour but adding flips to add flair while FSPK is a combanation of both en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParkourQuite alot of infomation on that link that i didnt know about parkour do you know David belles dad actually created parkour and taught his son  |
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Post by ef1 on Jan 23, 2007 14:00:19 GMT
parkour.net will answer all your questions a lot better than wiki..trust
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Post by ef1 on Jan 23, 2007 15:26:11 GMT
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Post by cord on Jan 23, 2007 20:19:08 GMT
Parkour is efficiency and A to B as quick as possible.
Freerunning is everything.
FRPK is gay.
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Post by jungle on Jan 23, 2007 20:57:08 GMT
frpk cant be both because if ur involving flips and stuff u will undoubtly be heading in the wrong direction eventually and be slowed down on landings and wrong directions. i think frpk is crap but i can understand more on the freerunning side.
it is very hard to mix both pk and tricking tho, u'll always be stronger in one then the other
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Post by fogs on Jan 23, 2007 21:36:58 GMT
If i write FR/PK it is in referance to the two seperate identities it isnt meant as a combination of both (hence the slash).
I write FR/PK because it covers pretty much everything, rather than writing one or the other and offending someone, You know how rediculous people get about whether it is called Parkour or FreeRunning or whatever,.
For me FR/PK means freerunning &/or Parkour as seperate entities, definitely not one thing.
If it was upto me i wouldnt use Parkour to describe what i practice or what i see others practice.
I know some of you like to call what you practice 'Parkour' so i write FR/PK to indentify with you all. I really never meant for it to be taken so seriously. It isnt meant as a definitive term or anything like nthat simply a way of adressing you all whichever way you like to identify what you practice.
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Post by ef1 on Jan 24, 2007 10:34:40 GMT
look closely at petes post, he said fs/pk which is freestyleparkour an abonimation of an idea created by uff and now gladly not mentioned as much, wiki has some catching up to do..i think this is what cord and jungle mean not as you say fogs fr/pk which is a common descriptive abbreviation.
david belle/parkour,yamikase//freerunning both these arts grew side by side in france, it was a lack of true facts that led to the english scene being split down the middle with some people choosing parkour and dismissing the concept of freerunning as parkours unwanted brother!
anyone who studies the french scene in depth will know the truth about the beginings, while those who rely on the jump london/britain series will only have a distorted and confused idea of what parkour or yamakase//freerunning really means.
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Post by fogs on Jan 24, 2007 13:17:46 GMT
Just thought i'de clear it up from my perspective as it is me who regularly uses FR/PK as a referance.
I agree FSPK is a misguided perversion of the accurate terminology.
Many people just cannot leave the magic word alone 'PARKOUR', what is it with this word that makes so many want to claim it as their own discriptive term to interperet as they please. Very strange!
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cord
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Post by cord on Jan 26, 2007 13:00:39 GMT
freestyle parkour is a contradictory term. Its non existant. It doesnt exist.
Parkour has restrictions and rules. If its not efficient its not parkour basically. There are no flips, spins etc.
Freerunning is what (apparently) sebastien foucan created. However his philosophy and freerunning in general is the same as YAMAKASI which was around even before parkour.
Freestyle parkour is straight up f*g**try to be honest. f**k you if thats your bag. Its just blatant UF brain washing.
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cord
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Post by cord on Jan 26, 2007 13:02:30 GMT
frpk cant be both because if ur involving flips and stuff u will undoubtly be heading in the wrong direction eventually and be slowed down on landings and wrong directions. i think frpk is crap but i can understand more on the freerunning side. it is very hard to mix both pk and tricking tho, u'll always be stronger in one then the other FRPK FSPK or whatever doesnt even exist. Its not real. It was just a money making scam. f**k sake f**k FREESTYLE PARKOUR |
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Post by fogs on Jan 27, 2007 20:14:25 GMT
Cord,
FR/PK isnt a style it is simply a way of addressing freerunners and Parkour trainers.
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Post by cord on Jan 28, 2007 16:35:28 GMT
you do know that FRPK is what urbanfreeflow ''created'' right??
its their version of freerunning. Months later even they abandoned it because they could see it wasnt making any money.....
If they created it and then ditched it then it automatically becomes void. And thats apart from the fact that parkour cant be ''freestyle''. Freestyle parkour cant exist.
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Post by Danny on Jan 28, 2007 17:34:16 GMT
you do know that FRPK is what urbanfreeflow ''created'' right?? Wasnt that FSPK? And Fogs is just saying that when he says fr/pk he means freerunning/parkour not the UF nutse. |
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Post by ef1 on Jan 29, 2007 14:32:01 GMT
yeah its fspk not fr/pk. fr/pk is a common descriptive term meaning freerunning / parkour whereas fspk has no separating dash and is a combination invented by uff meaning freestyleparkour.
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Post by fogs on Jan 29, 2007 18:07:34 GMT
EXACTLY!
Cheers Ef1.
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