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gravity's a suggestion and the city is a playground you weren't supposed to touch.
means A movement discipline where you travel through urban or natural environments using running, jumping, climbing, vaulting, and acrobatic flourishes, prioritizing creative, expressive motion over the fastest possible route.
from A descendant of French parkour, which grew in the late 20th century out of the 'méthode naturelle' military training tradition. The English term 'freerunning' was coined around the early 2000s as parkour spread internationally — reportedly to translate the idea for an English-speaking audience while signaling a freer, more stylistic, less purely efficient flavor of the same art. It's a plain compound of 'free' + 'running,' the 'free' carrying its full weight: free of paths, free of rules, free of the assumption that walls are walls.
- split from parkour
- David Belle's discipline, plus flips for pure style
- coined 2003
- named by Sébastien Foucan in a documentary
- no destination
- unlike parkour, the point is expression not efficiency
- concrete classroom
- handrails and rooftops become apparatus overnight
- injury currency
- every practitioner pays rent in scraped shins
storror — british freerunning crew with 3m+ youtube subscribers, pioneered urban parkour content since 2011
daniel ilabaca — scottish freerunner, world champion competitor, viral video star with 50m+ views on 'storror' collaborations
world chase tag — professional freerunning competition in london since 2015, combines tag and parkour with prize money
felix colgrave — british freerunner and stunt performer, featured in commercials and films, olympic torch relay runner 2012