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The creation of parkour show-reels and documentaries has been crucial to the spread of parkour, and is common in the parkour community. [16] [48] Jump London is a 2003 documentary explaining some of the background of parkour, culminating with Sébastien Foucan, Johann Vigroux, and Jérôme Ben Aoues demonstrating their parkour skills.
Sébastien Foucan (born 27 May 1974 in Paris) is a French freerunner.. He is the founder of freerunning and considered an early developer of parkour.Known for his views on the philosophy of parkour and freerunning, Foucan stresses the need for training in the basics of both for individual safety and to maintain a positive public perception of the activities.
Jérôme Ben Aoues has been practising parkour since he met Sébastien Foucan, almost immediately after the creation of the popular movement art parkour. [1] He has starred in 4 movies/documentaries, Yamakasi - Les samouraï des temps modernes, Jump London, Jump Britain and The Making of Jump Britain.
Jump London is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television. It later spawned a sequel, Jump Britain that first aired in January 2005. Both feature documentaries were directed by Mike Christie.
Freerunning was founded by Sebastien Foucan, who discussed the subject in 2003 documentary film Jump London. Foucan developed freerunning as a more inclusive form of parkour. [2] Parkour's efficient military style obstacle course training lends itself to martial art as a means of weapons avoidance and efficiently closing a distance to an ...
Jump City: Seattle is an American television series that aired on G4 from February 15 to April 5, 2011. It featured four of the top freerunning and parkour teams in the United States participating in a parkour competition. Each week, the athletes competed in different parkour challenges spread out across the streets of Seattle. The series ran ...
David Nicolas Williams Belle (born 29 April 1973) is a French actor, film choreographer and stunt coordinator. He is deemed the founder and leading pioneer of the physical discipline parkour, coining it based on his training and the teachings from his father Raymond Belle.
Sports centred on the skill of jumping for precision or distance. ... Parkour (7 C, 10 P) Pole vault (14 C, 18 P) R. World records in athletic jumping (90 P) S.