Purist or Freestyle?

ReAnImAtEd · August 19th '05

wot does every1 prefer here...and wot do u guys think of the decision 2 go freestyle?.....is it jus UF goin in the direction of most profit?

Riccardo · August 19th '05

I can't really do any flips or any other major freestyle move, so i think my answer maybe biased
I think i will have to go with pure pk
I believe there just making up all this freestyle none sense so they can make more money and in the process destroying what parkour is ment to be about!

What about you what do you think?

ReAnImAtEd · August 19th '05

i agree with you...its jus another way for UF to exploit the increasin popularity of parkour to make more money...it defeats the idea that in parkour 'there are no useless movements' the idea is flow not tricks.

Mini Monkey · August 28th '05

Pure Parkour. Even though it is always nice to encouperate a few flips handsprings ect as long as it is fluid and fits in sutibaly with the run.

And about the U$F. well basically they dont give a shit about other tracuers there just in for the money, Its all money, money, money.

Oh and is also like to say. Kerbie (john kerr) has left the Uf krew. Not sure why but its probably due to the hate that U$F has created on itself. Thankgod Kerbie wooo hoo

ReAnImAtEd · August 28th '05

yeh i read that about kerbie in the UF forums 2day...hopefully he will aid in the pregression and spreading the true meaning and phylosophy of parkour.

Mini Monkey · August 29th '05

Oh and another thing. Freestlye Parkour was only created so that Turban Flipflops got PAWA off their back. Thats all. Oh and money

Freestlye attracts more attention, more attension = money raar

pk ben · September 7th '05

my reply to a mindless comment, from a topic we discussed on northern parkour, about prist or freestyle

on northernparkour.com, kazuya wrote:
i strongly disagree with people calling flips parkour

on northern parkour, pk ben wrote:
who cares if its not parkour? it doesnt matter!

its not like youre going to go out jamming for the day, doing pk, then suddenly stop, and announce the fact that you are crossing the boundary and are briefly stopping pk to do a completely different sport...

come on...

theres no need for all this! we're just out to jump around and enjoy the way we interact with the environment, it really doesnt matter!

ReAnImAtEd · October 18th '05

its amusing how little u actually know...parkour IS defined!!! (not wot you want it 2 be) end of.

**Shane** · October 18th '05

I agree with you Liam, I am sick of people jsut doing anything to be honest. If I go out this saturday I really want to get something done for a change.

pk ben · October 19th '05

ok so i guees its upto david belle to decide wat pk is, and youre saying we're not allowed to do other stuff? i guess we should ask his approval each time we think about doing a move.
some people say that theyre annoyed when people claim flips are pk, which i guess is ok, but theres no need to tell people wat theyre not allowed to do on jams or put into a video.
flips are cool, they feel good, theyre nice things to be able to do, like every parkour move. im not saying flips are better or you should be able to flip to be a traceur or owt daft like that but i just cant see why everyone has to kick up a fuss over wat other people enjoy doing.
theres lots of completely useless stuff we do on jams that arent struictly pk or trickin' like the bar spinny thing me and you were doing shane lol. we had fun improving the move, felt good about doing it, enjoyed furthering our techniques by watching eachother try it and theres nothing wrong with that.

shane wrote:

If I go out this saturday I really want to get something done for a change.

me and will always get a shit load of parkour done, we go off and train properly, you tend to stick around with the donny lot who do nothing.
you took us to the flats, we did nothing but check it out, and we walked through it and left. you never wana actually train hard in the week either!! you just wana go to crap spots like behind argos lol

pk ben · October 28th '05

just to back my point, david belle:

...need i say more?

**Wibbl** · November 6th '05

freestyle parkour all the way

**ReAnImAtEd** · November 7th '05

u blithering fool ben....in the second pic he says 'this is not parkour' need I say more!!!

**Ben** · November 10th '05

exactly, he makes out the point ive been trying to make

my statement is: "flips are not technically parkour, but they are fun, i don't mind doing them during parkour sessions, i don't mind other people doing them in parkour sessions, i like seeing them in parkour because it adds to the whole different movement thing (even though there is no real benefit in movement, it just looks good) im not saying flips are better than parkour. i don't see why people have a problem with people doing flips in parkour, although i would disagree with someone who said that flips are parkour, however i would also disagree with someone who said you can't do flips in parkour. i enjoy learning flips the way i enjoy doing a new jump or doing a new catleap or whatever, it's not the same but there's no reason for me to not do flips, it widends your opportunities."

or something like that