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“RendezVous 2” seminar lead by ParkourGenerations was last week (December, 8th of 2007), in London, a great success. During the event, the Yamakasi (Yann H’nautra, Laurent Piemontesi, Williams Belle and Chau Belle Dinh) took the time to answer questions from Traceurs who were present.

Q&A session with the Yamakasi following the Parkour Generations ‘Rendezvous II’ Seminar in December, 2007. Raw and unedited footage, the founders of the discipline talk about the spirit, the meaning, and the purpose of training.

Julie Angel filmed this kind of interview organised with Stephane Vigroux and Forrest from ParkourGenerations and edited a video splitted in 3 parts. Here they are…

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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That was wonderful, its inspires some very good thoughts for me. The question of why, of why we practice, of why I practice. Thats something that has been very much in my mind lately. At the simplest level I practice because it makes me happy, simply for the joy of the movement, but also because, it gives me a sense of contentment and accomplishment to see my progression and to feel I am training myself in way that can make me more useful, healthier, stronger, more courageous and with a deeper understanding. […]

I liked also what danny ilabaca said about becoming yourself, thats a phrase I have thought about allot in my practice. […]

The last thing that caught my attention was the discussion of Parkour/l’art du deplacement/free running etc. Too often in the past I wasted my time trying to define this thing, trying to find out ever anecdotal fact about it, trying to decide who was right the Yamakasi, David, Sebastian. […]

I think the part about the child mind was the most important part the unifying principle if you would between all the different paths. My path is very much about remembering the way I played as child and relearning how to play my way as an adult.

Faelcind Il Danach on the discussion topic

• JulieAngel.com
• Discussion topic on Parkour.NET : Yamakasi Q&A Rendezvous II
• Download the videos : Yamakasi-answers-RendezVous-2.zip (60,6Mo | .flv | ~ 27min)