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Orignally coined by Channel 4 in the documentary "Jump London", freerunning was intended to be a more easily accepted term for Parkour for English-speaking viewers. Over time, the term freerunning came to stand for the merging of Parkour techniques and acrobatics, where the essential mindset of Parkour is not retained, but many of the visual aspects remain the same. Sebastien came to realize this descrepancy and that it was the cause of much argumentation so on Saturday the 10th of June, 2006 he released this statement on Freerunning: At the beginning the name free running was an idea of a person called Guillaume Pelletier who worked with us at the time of Jump London. Because some people think what I'm doing is not Parkour now I call it "freerunning." Because there is a misunderstanding and people put a definition on what I'm doing! I create freerunning and I'll put my official definition. What is Freerunning?
Everything I'll say it's no more Parkour, it's freerunning!
Freerunning it's a lifestyle and an attitude.
Freerunning is to see your environment differently and being able to
utilize it to develop yourself!
My Parkour lifestyle is Freerunning.
My way has no name.
Freerunning is the name people have given to my way!
"Freerunning is following your own way, and this is my way."
-Sebastien Foucan
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