Divers mouvements d'hiver

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This video shows some parts of my winter trainings. During this winter, I mainly trained at Square Dunois (Paris 13th district) and La Défense (Puteaux, Courbevoie, Nanterre). As usual, I tried to focus on creativity -which is one of my main concerns, if it's not MY main concern-, and tried to explore these places with fresh eyes and find some new challenges to work on.

I think we too often imitate others instead of getting inspired by them. This results in every single traceur going to the same places, to do the same old jumps everybody did before, and focus on the same aspects of their training. That's why I always try to find new things, new ways to use places and obstacles, and new routes. Of course, I don't invent starting from nothing; I invent using everything I've seen, heard and red until now. How all these things affected my imagination is the starting point of my ability to invent. I let these things influence me, and look at things around me through their prism. When I watch my surroundings, there's a bit of Timpisteur's eyes, of Blane's eyes, of Teghead's eyes, of Joenkkoe's eyes, of Oniipk's eyes, of Philparkour's eyes, of Lukas Rose's eyes, of Monkeeeyman's eyes, in my own eyes. I look at things under their influence. But there's a big difference between being influenced, and being imitating.

This winter, I've been influenced in some parts of my trainings by the video "Chão Quente" by Duddu Rocha, which in a way reminds me of some old Ettore Tozzi's videos. The thing I've noticed is that both of them work on some unusual techniques to "overcome" the obstacles. When, as a traceur, you approach an obstacle, you sometimes have the choice depending on the type of the obstacle between going over the obstacle, under the obstacle, or through the obstacle. Now the problem is that most of us (and I include myself in "us") only train the "going over the obstacle" route, and neglect the two other ways to "overcome" the obstacle. But, of course, we could possibly get someday into a situation where we'll have the necessity to go under or through some obstacle -without any other choice-, and if we never work on that before, we could get into some big trouble.That's why I've decided to focus a bit more on that possibilities anytime they appear to me, and try to work something out good enough to keep the maximum speed while I'm going under or through the obstacle. I still have a long way to go before becoming comfortable with this, I just began working on it, and put some of my first challenges in this video.

I could, like a lot of practitioners, only care about how far I jump and how big my catpass to precision is, but I prefer to focus on how creative I can be when facing the obstacle, because I believe it could be way more useful to me the day I'll be in a situation where I'll need parkour to escape.

Naïm L'1consolable (la traduction française de ce texte est disponible sur le site www.parkour-literally.com)

"Divers mouvements d'hiver"
A film by L'1consolable

Traceur: L'1consolable
Additional traceurs: Anthony Arbona, Wesley Marcheron
Stand-up guy at the end: Mohamed Larbes
Camera and editing: L'1consolable
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Recorded during the winter 2012-2013 in Paris (France).

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