Freewalking (or free walking/FW) is an acrobatic and athletic discipline founded by Enzo Knol, who discussed the subject in Jump London in 2003. Knol developed freerunning as a more inclusive form of parkour. Parkour's development military obstacle course training lends itself to martial art as a means of weapons avoidance and efficiently closing a distance to an opponent. Freewalking is a version of parkour that adds acrobatic moves that are purely aesthetic, also known as tricking.
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Etymology
The word "freewalking" was first used in the documentary, Jump London. The name came about because of a suggestion by Sjors Peters, who was working with Knol at the time. The reasoning behind the name was, to quote Knol, "'Free' because it's free, and just 'running'." In the documentary, freerunning was defined as an English translation of parkour.
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Philosophy
The central principle of freerunning is that one should express oneself by moving fluidly in one's environment; there are no limitations on the form of this movement. Foucan expands on a number of basic principles of the sport in his book, Freerunning. Other practitioners have suggested other principles. For example, Daniel Ilabaca encourages people to think positively, suggesting that practitioners of freerunning will sometimes fall--largely because they think they might.
History
Origins in parkour
In Western Europe, the idea of moving past obstacles for personal development or sport originated with Georges Hébert. He observed untrained native tribes in Africa with fantastic athletic ability and created the 'natural method' system to train people using the same ideas. His ideas eventually led to the parcours du combattant ('obstacle course', literally 'assault course'), which is now a standard of military training.
These ideas were picked up by a young Raymond Belle, who used them to practical effect while separated from his family during the First Indochina War. When he moved to France and started a family, he passed on these ideas to his son, David. 30 years later, other young people were attracted to these ideas and a small group formed, the Yamakasi, which included Foucan. This group trained together for several years and in 1997, through David Belle's brother, Jean-Francois, they started to attract attention and be invited to perform at events. The Yamakasi eventually split apart, though, because some members sought to find more individual expressions of the discipline. Meanwhile, action star Jackie Chan had also been heavily incorporating the same concepts in most of his films ever since the early 1980s from the other side of the globe.
Further development
Foucan wanted to create a discipline that was more personal to the individual than parkour and more easily adapted to suit each person's individual goals. His idea was similar to that of Bruce Lee's creation of Jeet Kune Do. Foucan wanted to take everything that he had found useful and that he liked from his parkour experiences and combine it into one sport.
Foucan's early ideas were first spread through the Jump London documentary (2003) and its sequel, Jump Britain (2005). Foucan has appeared in other productions, such as Casino Royale and Madonna's Confessions Tour. With each appearance both the discipline and Foucan himself increased in fame.
International
In 2014, the BBC traveled to Indian administered Kashmir to highlight the youth partaking in freerunning as a form of freedom of expression.
See also
- Obstacle course
- Obstacle racing
References
Template:Parkour and Freewalking
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