Documentary - People in Motion: Parkour

This is awesome.

Parkour, also called as the "art of displacement",[1] is a training discipline that developed out of military obstacle course training.[2][3][4]

Practitioners aim to move from one place to another, negotiating the obstacles in between. The discipline uses no equipment and is non-competitive. A male practitioner is generally called a "traceur", a female a "traceuse".

Developed by Raymond Belle, David Belle, Sébastien Foucan and other members of the original Yamakasi group, parkour became popular in the 1990s and 2000s through a series of documentaries and films featuring these practitioners and others.

 Enjoy the beauty of bodies in motion.

PEOPLE IN MOTION

Cedric Dahl traveled the US west coast with 5 parkour practitioners who shared a passion for movement. This film documents the experience over 9 months.

• Seattle Time Lapse by Edvard Brun
• San Francisco Time Lapse via WTK Photography
• Burning Man Time Lapse courtesy of James Cole

Original music by Alex Bornstein

Athletes [in order of appearance]

• Paul Whitecotton
• David Agajanian
• Jacob Raul Seil
• Lonnie Tisdale
• Brian Orosco

This was posted on the CBS News website - it's a cool video and the talent of the people in the video is mind-boggling. And somehow, as the article suggests, there is a meditative quality to the ways these people navigate their environment. Beautiful.

Parkour and freerunning gives a moment of meditation

By William Goodman


(CBS News) There are many things in this world that are beautiful and can allow us a moment to take pause and reflect. Yesterday we showed you some examples through the medium of time-lapse video. Today, we take a different direction and give you a moment of meditation through the medium of - wait for it - parkour and freerunning. You're going to have to trust me on this one.

The rather striking and extreme, yet also very calming Vimeo video was directed, edited, filmed by and stars one multi-talented Will Sutton who writes:

My new film of my things, Parkour Free Running and Film Making. I wanted to create a film where it involves my passions together. After a year and a half I created this. There are many more film ideas I have which I am now starting to create now this has finish. Yeya! 

Directed, Filmed, Starred and Edited by Will Sutton

Cinematography by Will Sutton

I directed my friends on how I would like it filmed after I setup the shots. Scenery shots I filmed myself.

Glidecam at the rocks were shot with Giles from Visive and a few clips with Scott Bass.

This is a project I have been working on for about a year and half. Whenever I had free time I would go out and film. I wanted to show how much I love to go out and make films and do Parkour.

Song: Tides From Nebula - Purr

Thanks to everyone on my journeys and who helped make this!

A wonderful piece of work that has earned a major triple-rainbow salute of awesome from all of us here at The Feed. Keep finding ways to follow all of your passions, Will! And if you'd like to check out more work by Will Sutton, you can visit his website by clicking here.