Parkour Quotes
- “I don’t like caricature. I don’t like extreme, I don’t like that.” - View Quote Details on “I don’t like caricature. I don’t like extreme, I don’t…
- We are Traceurs, and we will prevail. Parkour is not just a way of life. Parkour is life. - View Quote Details on We are Traceurs, and we will prevail. Parkour is not…
- “No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.” - View Quote Details on “No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.”
- “There’s no real organised body, … so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.” - Chris Hayes-Kossmann - View Quote Details on “There’s no real organised body, … so through the internet…
- “One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people… To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.” - Chris Hayes-Kossmann - View Quote Details on “One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour…
- It’s about what you can do at that particular moment. If someone is stuck in a fire and you say, “Well, two years ago I could have done something that would have saved you” then you are useless. Parkour is not what you could have done for whatever excuse. If you aren’t able to help someone, what use are you? - View Quote Details on It’s about what you can do at that particular moment…
- Parkour belongs to the ones who live it, not the ones who want to live thanks to it - View Quote Details on Parkour belongs to the ones who live it, not the…
- While you rest, others are out training. - View Quote Details on While you rest, others are out training.
- Parkour laughs right in the face of discrimination and violence. - View Quote Details on Parkour laughs right in the face of discrimination and violence.
- The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move quadrupedally, to climb, to walk in balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim. - View Quote Details on The final goal of physical education is to make strong…
- The link below leads to a video of David Belle falling on a saut-de-chat. His arm misses or slips off of the wall. It it important piece to view for all traceurs, his attitude and the way he views this accident should be noted. - View Quote Details on The link below leads to a video of David Belle…
- “Their bodies were splendid, flexible, nimble, skilful, enduring, resistant and yet they had no other tutor in Gymnastics but their lives in Nature” (In reference to the physical movement skills developed naturally by indigenous Africans) - View Quote Details on “Their bodies were splendid, flexible, nimble, skilful, enduring, resistant and…
- “Nobody ever invents anything You’re inspired and sometimes you can improve.” - View Quote Details on “Nobody ever invents anything You’re inspired and sometimes you can…
- If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get passed, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?… No, you would find a new wall. - View Quote Details on If you are in front of a wall that you…
- To succeed the first time is good. To succeed the second time is better. - View Quote Details on To succeed the first time is good. To succeed the…
- I check my site sometimes. I look at the first couple things and try to respond but that’s all I have the time for. People don’t understand that we just don’t have the time! We could come online and talk to each person and make sure they know flips aren’t Parkour (he laughed) but then we would not be in the place we are now. I had two choices, I could sit at home and eat pizza and pepsi infront of the computer all day, or I could train, I chose to train. - View Quote Details on I check my site sometimes. I look at the first…
- “The way of the parkour is to continue, not to stay here.” - View Quote Details on “The way of the parkour is to continue, not to…
- “Without philosophy, action has no meaning.” - View Quote Details on “Without philosophy, action has no meaning.”
- You can find the way by yourself naturally, you just need a guide to tell you to be careful, to not do this to impress people, just follow your instincts. - View Quote Details on You can find the way by yourself naturally, you just…
- “…The best part of falling is getting back up again. If that phrase doesn’t examplify what David showed us all there that day, I don’t know what would ever!” -Pk Danno - View Quote Details on “…The best part of falling is getting back up again…
- “No, big is not important!” - View Quote Details on “No, big is not important!”
- Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Spirit. - View Quote Details on Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Spirit.
- “Imagine someone who wakes up in a cosy home, who eats a good and healthy meal, who goes out to do some jumping around until supper time and then watches tv in his couch for the rest of the evening, eating candy. This could describe most of us, even me, but this is not doing Parkour, this is not being strong. Being strong would be waking up after a short, cold night’s sleep, with nothing to eat, in a remote area, with bruises all over your body, and having to do the biggest saut de bras in your life if you want to survive.” - Thomas-des-bois - View Quote Details on “Imagine someone who wakes up in a cosy home, who…
- Stop talking and Move - View Quote Details on Stop talking and Move
- “Everything was invented when somebody was alone.” - View Quote Details on “Everything was invented when somebody was alone.”
- Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves. - View Quote Details on Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish…
- At the physical end, Parkour is getting over all the obstacles in your path as you would in an emergency situation. You want to move in such a way, with any movement, that will help you gain the most ground on someone/something as if escaping from someone/something or chasing toward someone/something. Also, wherever you go, you must be able to get back. If you go from A to B, you need to be able to get back from B to A. You don’t need to do the same “move,” but just get back. - View Quote Details on At the physical end, Parkour is getting over all the…
- “What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.” - Chris Hayes-Kossmann - View Quote Details on “What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself…
- Down there we know, the streets we know, but up here? Nobody’s been here. - View Quote Details on Down there we know, the streets we know, but up…
- All these people here, they come and they want me to do big things, expect me to do big drops so they can sell pictures, put it on their websites, whatever. But what is my motivation then? I could do this jump once and maybe get hurt, but even if I don’t get hurt what is the point right here, right now? To make these people happy? If my family was over there and needed me, I wouldn’t even hesitate. I would do it for them and that’s who I train and do these things for. I’m not a monkey, I can’t be treated like one. I don’t understand how people want to put themselves into great risk for money. I’ve trained so long and hard for myself, to save people, to protect my family… People get into Parkour now just train in order to do risks for media, I just can’t understand why they would do so. That was never the goal of Parkour. Money changes people, but that money cannot change my goal, my motivation or why I do this. I’m on tour now for you, I’m here talking to you so you can help others and that’s how things work, never think its the other way around. Im doing this for you guys, to inspire you, that’s it. - View Quote Details on All these people here, they come and they want me…
- My thing from the beginning is to have it be useful, and be able to help others. It’s about being efficient and getting there as fast as you can. If people want to do it more artistically or in a freestyle way, I have absolutely no problem with it — that’s the way it’s going to evolve. It’s not my style, but if it’s other people’s [style], that’s perfect. - View Quote Details on My thing from the beginning is to have it be…
- First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you’re a professional. - View Quote Details on First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it…
- “Fear is your greatest enemy, but yet it’s your best friend.” Shaun Andrews - View Quote Details on “Fear is your greatest enemy, but yet it’s your best…
About Parkour
(Le ) Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK) or l’art du déplacement (English: the art of movement) is a physical art of French origin, founded by David Belle, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment — from branches and rocks to rails and concrete walls — so parkour can be practiced in both rural and urban areas. Male parkour practitioners are recognized as traceurs and female as traceuses. .
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