For a while now, I've always seen parkour, free-running or any other form of urban movement another pathway of art. From an early age, I was one of those kids constantly climbing tree's or the wooden frame in the local park giving my mum a heart attack each time I leapt from branch to branch.
Then by the time I was about 13, I had discovered the urban sport of Parkour, which I loved. The idea of getting from point A to B in the most quickest and efficient way as possible seemed like an ongoing challenge wherever I walked. From walls to roofs and making the everyday walker stop and stare at what you were doing gave myself huge thrills.
However, by the time my GCSE's had finished I felt like I had other priorities to take on board, slowly but shortly my time spent out in the concrete jungle grew shorter and shorter until I no longer 'trained' anymore. Even now I find
parkour and free-running a huge influence and given half the chance I would get right back out there. Whats stopping me? I have that mental wall each time I'm faced with a new challenge and it takes me longer than it should do to overcome face my "fears" if you will.
To this date, I still see the urban sports as a different take on art. Instead of paint on paper, or layers in photoshop the tool of choice is the human body, and the canvas is right beyond your doorstep. The amount of limits the human body can be pushed through just by on going urban movement's is almost out of this world. I find it almost as if in the mind of a free-runner, that the buildings and structures out there are just waiting to be used in a new project.
This is just one of my favourite Urban Movement video's, by a group called 'Storror Blog'. Not only do the movements make your jaw drop, but along with the video camera work and the sense of danger throughout it, it makes it all that more engaging and artistic.
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