matthewleewillis wrote:
Texas Parkour Inc.'s statement toward competition.

Guess that must have come up in that meeting you never held.

Wow, I must be a really bad guy to get heckled like this on the forums. I wonder what I did to deserve the disrespect? When affiliations and official statements are released they are agreed by the majority of the board as set forth by the bylaws.

Iceucold wrote:
I think we all know how we feel about this. I think we also know, that at the end of the day, we're not the first to come up with this idea. I think our best bet is to be proactive about this and do it our way. With this under our control, we can take it and make it work in our favor. As traceurs, we have a certain responsibility to make this happen in a manner that still represents Parkour and traceurs in a positive light. As long as we're the ones doing it, we've got a chance to keep it from getting out of control.

Doubt that we will ever have any real control or say in this...

As traceurs, we have a certain responsibility to make this happen in a manner that still represents Parkour and traceurs in a positive light

Well how do you define Parkour? Many people have very different views on the Parkour. As you can see from Matthew's and Jonathan's little feud. If we are to send Parkour to a global audience we have to agree on which message do we want to send. However who are we to say ones views is better than another's and one opinion is more "positive".

I just feel we should let Parkour, Free-running, L'art du deplacement, or whatever naturally evolve. There is no denying that Parkour and Free-running will grow in a sense that we will no longer need to be asked what we are doing during training sessions. With more global knowledge of the sport or art more practitioners will come but with more practitioners comes even more misconceptions and issues with how Parkour "should be" done.

I believe that the way APK is trying to promote the sport/art is absolutely amazing but I think that our community ( by community I mean everyone that considers themselves a practitioner of Parkour, Free-running, L'art du deplacement. ) is to premature. We have yet to find true understanding of pk, fr, a.d.d. that everyone can agree on. We have too many unawnsered questions and too many disagreements in methods of training etc.

I mean there is no way we can stop the growth of this sport/art but the way apk is planning on promoting it will speed growth greatly. And I feel apk will be displaying their views and not the views of others. The viewer will only get the Parkour that APK thinks is correct.

Unique wrote:

I mean there is no way we can stop the growth of this sport/art but the way apk is planning on promoting it will speed growth greatly. And I feel apk will be displaying their views and not the views of others. The viewer will only get the Parkour that APK thinks is correct.

Unique I completely agree with you on that. Which is why I said what I said earlier, we can use this to our advantage of when someone sees it, and knows what it is, but not much about it... We can spread our belief on the discipline to them and use the opportunity through that to help spread parkour/freerunning/whatever else you want to call it in our own way.