I dont know if this question have been asked before. But i'd like to know what you people think. I sometimes come across people that consider acrobatics with parkour-like movement outdoors as freerunning, and people who simply consider acrobatics outdoors as freerunning, and other people who consider tricking as the same as freerunning.
Personally speaking, I don't really care about the parkour vs freerunning vs art du déplacement debate to much...It may be intresting to discuss, but nothing else. I think that when people say that freerunning is competetive, freerunning is this and that I generally consider that as opinions and not facts. The way I see it, the people who founded it, e.i the Yamakasi, are the ones who have the facts because they founded it. Thats why I always try to separate MY opinions about it from the facts about it. Not like ''parkour IS like this because I do it like that''. Its rather about what it is for me personally.
The way I see it, especially when I look at the history, it all began with add and parkour and freerunning are just other names for the orginal name art du déplacement. In my opinion, if one want to add acrobatics that doesnt make it to something else. Because acrobatics is as a matter of fact already a dicipline in its own rights and have existed a long time before parkour itself. So the way I see it, parkour mixed with acrobatics is exactly that - parkour mixed with acrobatics. Parkour with karate is parkour with karate.
But regarding the tricking I see a clear diffrence between that and parkour. Not necessary in the physical movement itself but rather in the way. As far as I know there is no real method of training in tricking, no certain values, or regulations, and no certain spirit and philosophy, which have existed and still exist in parkour/add/freerunning.
So, what is your opinion? Thoughts?
