Origins of Parkour - Episode 1: The monkeys
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2012
- This work is something I wanted to do for a long time. I was thinking of how much some species of animals were involved in the conception of the whole set of basic parkour techniques. In fact, the first generation's traceurs claimed themselves to be influenced by animals and said in interviews they used to watch documentaries about monkeys and felines to get inspired.
Anyway, they didn not explain in details how animals had inspired them, and the way they used what they saw in their trainings then. But we could possibly think some techniques were directly copied from the animals, which is quite interesting.
We know David Belle and his father are the ones that conceptualised parkour, but it could be interesting to think about what inspired them to do so. Of course, we also know Georges Hébert and his "natural method" was a huge source of inspiration for them. But animals, due to their conditions of living (eat or being eaten: hunt animals in order to have anything to eat; escape from its predators to survive), have always had to move this way, and developped the most powerful, precise, fast, controled and fluent moves, with only one thing in mind: efficience. Efficience being actually what their subsistence depends on. But they not only move perfectly efficiently, but also develop their training methods (little cats and monkeys learn by playing) to improve their techniques. So we have quite a lot of reasons to be interested in watching and studying them. We could, by watching them, find new techniques, improve the ones we already use, and even improve our training methods. Animals don't practice parkour which is a human concept but survival. But their daily survival challenge makes them become pionners in efficient displacement, which is maybe the greatest opportunity we ever had to learn about it.
Open your eyes and turn on your brain: animals have a lot of things to teach us.
"Origins of parkour" is a 4 episodes video series by L'1consolable.
"Episode 1: The monkeys".
Directing, editing, and music: L'1consolable.
Images sources: Arkive.org; BBC; National Geographic; Visive productions; and some other people that took the time to film these animals.
A big thanks to everyone that filmed and produced these beautiful images.
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looks like we've lost some agilty in our evolution
Not at all
And a tail.
And what about the hair?
maybe we lost a bit of it in exchange for our minds being the one that is agile.
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their speed and flow is remarkable... i wonder if any traceur can think that fast of what to do next... you can increase that by training, yes, but this is far too fast... its both inspiring and fascinating to watch them
thanks for this... you sure had a good reason to leave UF
Fantastic compilation, Naim! This is incredible footage of supremely adapted animals, and it's good to have it all collected in one place.
thank you for this video series..its awesome that you went through with making these as many people would think of something like this and not take the time to talk about/spread the word
Haha after watching the first minute, I had to take a break to go and watch the Monkey Parkour video Visive made. For some reason, that had a stronger impact on me, but this is cool too; with more of an educational aspect to it. Props on that one mane!
its in their nature. its how they live, its how they survive.
Humans have just evolved on from that... perhaps we as practitioners of parkour are simply going back to our roots, instead of learning something new
great work naim! cant wait for the next episode
This video makes me smile. Nice one Naim!
And not a Single Flip. True parkour right there, they really understand the concept.
i could watch this stuff all day. thank you for this:)
easily one of the coolest things ive ever seen . . . thank you man
Soo much flow. Can't wait to train with them sometime.
wow.. this really DID inspire me, alot!
I loveeeeeee this vid L1consolable!! =D cant wait for 2!! =D the music is great too
Very well put together. You should do squirrels for one of the episodes. They are our inspiration here in the states (maybe an occasional cat too).
Thanks for uploading this =D its awesome
Very nice idea and good work choosing and put all this images together! Loved it! I have watched some of this footage before because since I started training I watched it in order to improve myself!
Tank you l'inconsolable for the things you have given to the parkour comunity and to simple traceurs that just like training like me! Can't wait to watch the oder tree videos.
Take care! xxx
- Cris
PS: Nice songs brother! Some day I'll go to Marseille to train with you! ;)
You know who would have been the ultimate traceur? Tarzan.
Love it, and love the music.
Wow impressionnant !!
On dirait qu'ils ont des ressorts sous les pattes! ^^
Glad to see another video from you :). I wish i had the arms of a gibbon. been doing a lot of training in trees lately.
Je perds 70Kg en gardant ma force actuelle et peut être que je pourrai me rapprocher de leurs niveaux ! Merci Naïm pour cette vidéo vraiment trop cool.
Beautiful Naim! ^_~
Incroyable!
Es alucinante la perfección que tienen algunos animales para desplazarse, lo tienen por instinto y genética, en cambio los seres humanos necesitamos un acondicionamiento increíble para acercarnos a esa perfección. No sé los demás, pero estar tan lejos de lograr esto y que haya tan pocas personas relativamente que quieran ser así de útiles... así de libres, me hace que siga queriendo formar parte de esta comunidad y hace que siga luchando por acercarme a esa perfección. Mucho amor, gente.
These little creatures knows their plyometric..
It looks amazing. They're not jumping but rather bouncing. And its not this kind of heavy, jerky landings, but extremely soft and relaxed. Its amazing how soft and fluid they move. Its It looks like they're floating. We're (humans) in quite a bad shape... parkour required a lot of conditioning, a lot of training and yet we're not even close to the monkeys in terms of physical achievements.
super video !!!!
yes i totally agree, but they go so fast they dont even need to flip in their flow. its that good!
So much inspiration
Great video! Can you tell me what BBC and Nat'l Geo documentaries had all that urban footage? I'd love to check out the originals.
wow, so true. and i have some new things i want to try out as well now from this.
and they move with such fluidity. every jump, every step is unplanned, its natural for then
You made me laugh so bad. :D Thank you sir!
good to see someone who's actually using logic
been trying to figure out the larger differences in their movements. i think the repeated movements in sequence (multiple jumps) can be completed so fast because they can reset their hand motion every time they land, hands come down too and then boom send them up to assist jumping immediately, try to move your hands like that without something to stop them on with each jump. i don't think you'll do it that fast, your hands will just wave up and down with counteracting forces. thanks for the vid
Catleaps and kongs were awesome!
this is just pleasure to my eyes!
Great!
I forgot to actually say why i mentioned the tail, but it's for balance (not trying to patronise you as you probably already know) but thought it's worth pointing out.
Yeah Best Traceur with True Parkour
Trop enooorme !
That was CLASS! Really really good! The only thing I'd recommend you is to remove the RESAMPLE in some clips! Thanks ;D
well said... i wish i just could just let go of any other tought that comes in my mind while im training... the monkeys just keep their focus... unlike us they are limited in thinking but we cant clear our minds to do something fully 100% the mind keeps focusing on everything around us
we just think and analyse too much without even knowing and in parkour i think training the mind is just the hardest thing
Can anyone tell me what music tracks were used in this video?
very nice
Cool
you actually agreed. i never said WHEN it would be possible or HOW it would be. i just said it could. its all about perspective. think about it.
3:44 what is it doing getting its balance back?
I saw this in science class once, it was fun
i think the point would be not thinking when your going that fast, just flow with your body leading and doing whatever it wants to do. i think thats why they do it so well
learning from the best =)
Beautiful
The concept of parkour, the true philosophy seems to be creating your own flow based upon basics, it not whether you do flips or not, it's your flow your rhythm, each person defines their own concept it's not the concept that defines what and how each individual should flow. If someone want to add flips to their flow, or they don't want to. It doesn't matter because that's their flow. They aren't any less or any more of a parkourist, if they add flips or not.
song 3.27?
whats the song
Should, when that is exactly how we do it?
wow!
0:55 epic climb up...
jajajaj good video ;D
Wow there are allot of things they're doing that are like really common Parkour tricks
I don't understand how the fuck they're capable of such amazing movement
but we share enough common geneology that we can move somewhat vaguely like them if we try really, REALLY hard. Some of the circus kids you see around are pretty nimble with climbing.
That said though, yeah the current human form is built for endurance running more than acrobatics or sprinting.
and there is people that say, we cant learn nothing from animals.
Idk if you read much but The Power Of Now is a fantastic book that talks about controlling the mind. Be Here Now is also a great one to check out if your interested!
i really like the ending song...
the real pros!
its this kind of spirit we human throw away ..
precioso
PARKOUR like a sir!
isn't fair, they have tails, we have ass :D Awesome work!
feel like a Prince of Persia :p
This is true.
A lifetime with smart training would not be enough to achieve the monkeys speed, control, flow and generally how they move. Monkeys have different genetics and
physiology. In order to for humans to even be close to the monkeys a whole new evolution would have to take place and that is not achieved in one lifetime.
they simply reflect the true FREEDOM
Dam evolution... give us back out tails! jeje
valla nivelazo jaja
I wish i could jump like that!
0.55 its un-real how human that looked!
I remember having trouble doing cat leaps and wall climbs, I kept watching tutorials hoping I would be able to do it properly, and I was not able to until I watched some cats do it... it was mainly this video /watch?v=SQQkTGYuX0I
Also many martial arts were/are also inspired by animals fighting, so this is an old way of observing nature. It seems to me that modern "movement arts" practitioners neglect to, or fail to see the usefulness of observing nature.
/watch?v=OMDUyzXW76Y
climb, cat leap, precision...
2:04 woooow
actually, it is possible. like i always say: nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable, and the distance is only limited by what the human mind can and will reach. yes i did come up with this so dont ask me where i got it from. so possible: yes. improbable: yes. impossible: no. just keep this in mind. i cant prove any, and everything. but its not impossible.
Train train train! you might grow a tail! =D
and what about freeruning? :D
thats because its like walking to them =)
and dont shoot my point of veiw down. dont tell me im wrong. because im not. there is always possibility in everything. all it takes is faith, belief, and to actually do it, and progress, same with all things
They are maximizing their potential of a human...
Planche et tout, aiiight
5:25 perfect ledge grab
Humans are all too often living and thinking the future and past opposed to just concentrating on the present moment. If you can do that then you'll think just as quick as the monkeys bc there will be no fear clouding your judgment. Be Here Now my friend
8:05 :O
My point is that even if we start doing it in 10, 50 or 100 years, my guess is that it would be with either new superior supplements or some kind of bionic body enhancers. We cannot achieve the monkey's grace and power in movement in a natural way (by training) nor even if possible can we do it in one lifetime. We are just not built for that. That's what I was trying to explain.
i think also that you are never able to reach the level of the monkeys but it is inspirational because we as human beings have not the skillz the monkeys have but we can train and get better, not better than them but it doesn`t matter i think
and by "it's not about the mind" I strictly mean our topic, not movement itself.
I know, its suprises me too ._.
example: you send an engineer out to a mountain area. you tell him to build a working car that runs on water within the time of a month. could he do it? sure. will he? he could try. now send another to a lab with all the materials needed and more, and you give him other engineers to help. you give him a month. could he do it? you bet. recorces limit what you can do, yes. but think of it. the human mind ( and some help/ inspiration from god) is what got the parts to a usable stage.
another point for animals: there's no UFF in their kingdom lol
It actually originates from African tribes observed by a Swiss general, after watching them move through dense forest he petitioned to have this skill taught to Swiss military.
Or maybe it was France...I forget, it's around 25 years old
Pretty sure it was France.
surely Naim is refering to the origin of movement itself and the similarities among other mammals abilities to traverse, parkour is just a fancy name we gave it, this thing is universal.
5:22 this is how we should do it guys :D
0:56 a cat and climb up holly shit :O
Have to disagree there. To a certain extent you're right, but a chimp/ape/baboon etc has a tail. They can do loaaaaads of things we would find impossible and can do almost everything we find possible in parkour.