The Start of Motion

Standing on the edge of a 20 foot wall that drops straight down to hard soil. Getting the urge to just jump off, do a trick in midair, land safely at the bottom, and just keep on going like nothing was there. How many people can say they've experienced that sensation?




Free runners, as they're called, are the ones who experience this every day. The reasoning for this is that free running/parkour is a way of life for them. Free running is the art of moving from one point to another in the fastest and shortest way possible.
I have personally done some free running in my life and still continue to this day. I love getting that rush of jumping off or over something and either dropping a few feet, landing, and keep on going or connecting it into another move or trick.

Some say that free running can be a sport and be put into competitions, but most say that free running is more of a way to express themselves and their passion for movement.
I want to spend my time exploring how the life of a free runner is similar or different from any other person and why they do what they do.
I found a video that helps explain why some people became free runners and why they keep doing it. The video is called "Parkour Documentary: People in Motion."

In another video, called "Free Yourself," it is said that parkour is a way to make your own path and break away from the social path that was made for everybody. It forces a person to become an individual and "step outside the box" when there is no box in parkour. It's said that you can never truly know what parkour is like just from somebody telling you about it, you have to go out and experience it yourself.

All in all what I've come to realize so far is that you just have to go out, experience parkour/free running yourself, and just be free and be an individual in a world that has built paths for us already.