#67Hi, have you met Parkour ?
By Johann Vigroux | posted on 29 November 2009 | 13 comments
One day, Stephane and a friend of mine, Ken, went to train with this man, David Belle. They asked me if I wanted to join them, and without knowing at all what to expect, I said yes. So here we are, in Lisses and I meet this strange man, who I don't know anything about... I stayed very quiet, and listened to everybody.
Then the session starts, we had to follow David's lead. At this time I didn't know anything about this discipline, if it had a name or anything, I was just following a man... We ended up in facing the famous cat leap at the gym staircase. David and some other people jumped. I didn't even think that it was possible for me to get there, so I wasn't scared !! For me it didn't even look like something I could reach one day...
So David helped me getting on the roof by carrying me and then we continued our journey...We finally arrived at a big grass square, after the bridge, next to the swimming pool, for those who know Lisses. It was a grass square, surrounded with rocks and trees. The idea of the game was simple : start on one rock, and finish the lap, keeping our feet off the floor...
I couldn't manage to finish the lap, even if everything looked like I could do it, I felt it was something possible. Then the session finished and I told to myself that I would come back every single day to this spot, until I could finish the lap...
It took me about 3 months to be able to finish ! During this time, I didn't think about what parkour could or couldn't be ! My only goal was to finish this single route because I knew I could do it !
When I started being more confident, I gave a try at the Dame du Lac, where I found my brother, David, and other people who would become my friends... I was the most beginner from all of them that I had my eyes wide opened and tried to learn from all these guys. In this group, there was Sebastien Goudot, Michael Ramdani, Jerome Lebret and others that had my age. So I started practising more and more with Seb and Mike, and we became very close together.In Lisses, there was the group of the elders (David, Romain, Stephane, Cisco, etc..) and the group of the younger (Yo, Seb, Mike, Jeje). We were training apart and sometimes we heard about what one of the other group did, and we had to check it out ! Sometimes the 2 groups met and it was like : hum, let's play !
This is how I started practising parkour, this how I met it and this how I used to live it during 5 years. Every day was a different journey, which only goal was to have an encounter with my environment and share it with my friends, my parkour family.
At this time, there was only this feeling of going out, explore the environment and find ways, paths, obstacles, solutions, joy, tears, pains, falls, friends, love....
I really feel grateful for having met parkour at this period. Parkour awoke all these things I had, sleeping in my heart. Today I want to give it back to parkour, by sharing my experience and art, with any and all who would like to.
Love,
Johann
Labels: discovery, Experiences, Training
About the Author : Johann Vigroux13 Comments:
WOW this is really Great! My experiences with Parkour are much different but I can still relate with you 100%!!!
I really want to be at a trainning with Parkour Generations, maybe in a years I'll be there and trainning with you... I admire your vision! best wishes to all the PkGen team and you from México! :D.
Evan
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Evan, at
10:26 pm, November 30, 2009
I admire you a lot, for your vision and the way that you follow on Parkour...
My best wishes to all the PKGen team and to you from México :D.
Evan
By Evan, at
10:27 pm, November 30, 2009
As it should be. Great post.
By Dan, at
10:55 pm, November 30, 2009
Nice one man, the good old days !
By Thomas, at
9:09 am, December 01, 2009
Strange to say but.. I can imagine you all in Lisses quite well, was like a spark. I'd like to say I was there too but I'm here, others sparks..
Johann, Thomas, Dan see you soon I hope!
By gato, at
5:53 pm, December 01, 2009
Great post Johann!
By James, at
9:08 pm, December 01, 2009
thanks for sharing johann. the simple honesty was beautiful.
By 
, at
2:09 am, December 02, 2009
inspiring thanks Johann for your time writing this shareing this with the community apreciate what you have given out.
thnkas
Zaher :)
I hope i can train with all of you guys again ;) and talk more, after i have recovered from the injury of mine.
Thanks a lot really for all the suport and guidence you have all given me while I have been training with you guys and this has made a huge effect towards my life.
Thanks soo much to all of you...
Zaher
I do parkour too, and the experience I have is so different with yours. But I'm sure that all of the story we've got from parkour are the significant and meaningful moments in our life.
I love this post,
sharing the best moment to everyone is a spectacular thing that we can do through a something written.
Great post!
:)
By , at
8:40 am, December 20, 2009
Salut Johan,
ici c Steve de Suisse. Je ne sais pas si tu te souviens de mois.
Ma premiere experience dans le Parkour il y a environ 10 ans a été très pareille a ce que tu décris dans les premiers 4 paragraphes.
Le saut de bras, le Parkour des pierres, etc. Seulement que c'étais mike, seb, kaz et toi au lieu de Dav et ton frère qui m'ont aidé sur mes premier pas dans le Parkour.
Je voulais te remercier encore une fois pour cette belle journée qui a changé bcp dans ma vie. ;) Et te souhaiter le mieux pour ton parkour et ta vie :)
A bientot
Steve
I want training parkour in Ismailia at may ?
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