The Nantwich Freerunners

The modern discipline of Parkour has its roots in Parisian suburbs of the 1990s, but the roots of the original concepts that gave rise to practice of parkour, reach back as far as the early 1900s. People who have attempted to compile a history of Parkour, generally agree that parkour draws some of its influences of the earlier 'méthode naturelle' which was conceived by Georges Hébert. Key figures in the later developments of parkour and freerunning are Raymond Belle, David Belle, Sebastien Foucan and the Yamakasi group. Much of the contemporary expression of parkour and freerunning is derived from the activities and philosophies of Sebastien Foucan and David Belle. The discipline later became known by some as freerunning. However, the name has never been as important as the methods and spirit of practise which remain at its core today.