As a teenager in 1989, David invented the sport of Le Parkour or ’free-running’. The idea of Le Parkour is to find new and often dangerous ways to travel across the town. The runners or ’traceurs’ work in groups. They run and jump over walls, roofs and buildings – everything! They try to move like cats. David and his friend Sebastian spent ten years in Lisses practicing their moves and jumps and teaching other people. Last year they were on television for the first time. David says that Le Parkour is an art and a philosophy, not a sport. They are not trying to win medals. They just want to learn new moves and do them well. They like to feel free.
David says: ’We do it because we need to move. We are going to take our art to the world and show people how to move. And we are going to go where no human ever went before.’