CT ZEN Copenhangen project by Laurent Piemontesi

A small summer 2010 project from Laurent Piemontesi and the Streetmovement Crew. ENJOY

ADD Academy experience

A week end to train and be together ! YAMAK SPIRIT !

 

http://www.add-academy.com/

WORKSHOP ADD academy with UMove yamakasi

Friday in Houston last Day before we will start workshop UMove Yamakasi 
This week end 

Lets go Art Du Deplacement Academy 
We start toghether we finish toghether by ADD from Yamakasi

 

With CHAU Belle and ADD Academy professors Tony Thich and Ben Odoyer

YAMAKASI

Esprit fort, corps fort, homme fort…YAMAKASI
Strong spirit, strong body, strong man…YAMAKASI !
強い精神、強い肉体、強い男…YAMAKASI !
강한 정신, 강한 육체, 강한 남자…YAMAKASI !

ADD Academy Italia

Prepariamoci conoscendo meglio uno dei protagonisti, colui che ha fondato l’«art du déplacement»: Laurent Piemontesi.

Come mi spiega subito Laurent, “all’inizio non c’era nome, metodo o forma. Uscivamo per allenarci alla ricerca sopratutto della forza. La visione che avevamo della forza, ad essere onesto, era caricaturale.
Poi il primo nome dato alla disciplina fu «l’Art Du Déplacement». Da lì sono nati Parkour et Free running”.

Cosa ti ha spinto verso «l’Art Du Déplacement»? Com’è nata questa idea?
«L’Art Du Déplacement» ha un alto valore attrattivo legato ai salti, e certamente questo ha spinto me e molti altri ad avvicinarmi ad essa. Ma più di ciò che mi ha spinto sono rilevanti le cose che mi hanno fatto perdurare. La ricerca della forza, la libertà e l’amicizia. L’avventura umana.
E’ difficile dire come sia nata questa idea. E’ cominciato come un gioco, poi i giochi sono diventati più duri e più seri.
Superato però l’aspetto ludico della disciplina, possiamo dire che questa è nata sui dolori. Ognuno di noi aveva il proprio e l’ha affrontato all’interno dell’allenamento, insieme agli altri.

Che sviluppi credi possa avere questa disciplina in futuro?
Spero che si sviluppino maggiormente l’aspetto sportivo, artistico ed educativo senza perdere troppo lo spirito delle origini. Al centro di tutto deve esserci sempre l’essere umano.
Si tratta di un aspetto fondamentale, che spiegha perché questa disciplina abbia un alto valore educativo.
C’è concretezza, non solo teoria. Ragazzi e adulti possono ritrovare i valori che hanno imparato o stanno imparando a scuola e in famiglia.
«L’Art Du Déplacement» è una metafora della vita.

Come immagini possa mutare, sul lungo periodo, il rapporto tra il movimento e gli spazi urbani, grazie anche all’importanza che discipline come il parkour ed il free running stanno assumendo?
Spero che vi sia una crescente armonia, che si traduca anche in un maggiore rispetto per gli altri.
Inoltre, per un buon dialogo con lo spazio urbano non bisogna avere “paura” della città ma amarla. Mi sembra importante sentirsi bene dove viviamo, craare spazi urbani pensati per la gente che vi vive.
Tutto ciò aiutera ognuno a potere esprimere la sua parte creativa e ad avere meno paura dei altri.
Bisogna creare spazi che favoriscano incontri.

Nell’iniziare a fare questo sport, in molti sono bloccati dalla paura di potersi fare male. «L’Art Du Déplacement» però è più che una disciplina fisica. Che consiglio daresti dunque a chi volesse cominciare?
La paura di farsi male è normale: è il segnale che non siamo pazzi ma abbiamo coscienza del pericolo.
Il lavoro si fa sulla paura. Bisogna avanzare per piccoli passi, fare potenziamento per proteggere il corpo e sviluppare le capacità naturali. Allo stesso tempo bisogna occuparsi dell’aspetto tecnico. La parte sconosciuta diventa allora meno importante di quella conosciuta: a quel punto saranno piu le certezze che non lo stress o la paura.

In tutti questi anni, quale è stato per te il momento o l’esperienza più emozionante che hai vissuto con «l’Art Du Déplacement»?
Mi dà e mi ha dato l’opportunità di viaggiare tanto, scoprire culture e persone nuove in modo diretto, senza il filtro della televisione, dei libri etc… E’ un’esperienza che mi piace sempre di più. Si scopre la bellezza dell’anima in tutte le parti del mondo.
Poi penso concretamente che la cosa più bella che mi ha permesso di fare questa disciplina sia stato allenare 5 ragazzi del mio quartiere che ora lavorano come artisti per il Cirque du Soleil a Las Vegas.

Qual è stata la sfida più dura che ha dovuto superare?
Come ciascuno, quella di tutti giorni. La vita.

Puoi dedicare un messaggio alla community di Urbanamente Vitale?
Un saluto speciale a Urbanamente Vitale: ci vediamo presto per parlare di tutto questo! Laurent

Grazie mille!

L’appuntamento con Laurent e gli altri ospiti del workshop è dunque per questo giovedì 20 Gennaio alle 10 al complesso universitario di S. Giovanni in Monte (Aula Prodi) a Bologna.

Non potete mancare!

 

http://www.add-italia.com/

YAMAKASI FONDATION

 

http://www.yamakasi-foundation.org/

Find out more on the YAMAKASI fondation on the website

Words from Laurent Piemontesi Yamakasi

The best is the one who does the best with himself or herself. Not one day in life but for all days during the wole life.
That is the yamak spirit.
Yamak spirit has also the responsability to defend and represent human values like respect, courage, sharing… Tolerance. From the begining we started to teach that discipline we always tried to do it, and we still continue. For what? There are no medals and we don’t want it. I think we just love people and we want the best for them.
Do we wil preserve that?
Yes…
I m a dreamer… And i smile

words from Williams Belle Yamakasi

Words of Wisdom: Williams Belle

“The most important motivation in Art du Déplacement, in my eyes, apart from becoming as strong as San Goku (Dragon Ball) …, is to try and be a good human being in life.”
A long time ago, a rather special group of people came together in France and created something that has dominated my life for the last 8 years. It was the same as what people had been doing for countless generations, and at the same time it was absolutely unique.
I’ve had the privilege of working with a couple of these people over the years and whilst meeting them in person is guaranteed to be an enlightening experience, for the most part, they don’t say a huge amount online. When one of them writes publicly about their history and thoughts on the essence of their motivation over the years, you can be sure that it’s worth reading.
The spirit of what defined the movement is something that has always inspired me, informing not only how I interact with traceurs, but how I try to live my life. On a good day at least.
In the next couple of months, Julie Angel will be publishing her research into the history of everything that is parkour. In-depth interviews with many of the key players in the discipline will undoubtedly reveal more insights into the spirit that lay at the heart of parkour and I can’t wait to read it. For now, I recommend taking a moment to read the piece recently posted by Williams Belle on his Facebook page. I felt inspired; I trust that you will feel the same.
I’m pleased to be meeting up soon with Châu BELLE, Yann HNAUTRA and Laurent PIEMONTESI in Milan for the “ORIGINES” Workshop.
They are the ones with whom I have developed my training methods, the Yamakasi way of thinking, the culture of effort and the aspiration to be fair in life. Who I am today as a YAMAKASI, is partly thanks to them and partly thanks to my mother, my model.
I also have a lot of respect and esteem for David BELLE and Sébastien FOUCAN, the 2 first out-of-norm people I’ve trained with in my childhood.
Then, there’s Charles PERRIERE, Malik DIOUF, Guylain N’GUBA BOYEKE. I’ve shared with them unforgettable moments of happiness that made me who I am. They are now the founders of the ADD movement (Art du Déplacement), Parkour and Freerun and they gave me a new mind opening.
In addition to that, I can never thank enough all my childhood friends who supported us and participated to the fame of YAMAKASI.
At the beginning of the 90s I started training clinging along to my two older brothers Châu and Phung BELLE, my cousin David BELLE, Sébastien FOUCAN and friends, in the forest of Sarcelles. They were exercising to get stronger and were playing at jumping obstacles that would be on their way. It was intense.
We’d then arrive on a children’s game park in which there was a boat-shaped structure children could climb on. There was a distance jump on it, 2,57 meters from the ground (or so I thought, but I was tiny then) that friends were trying to jump. I felt I had to do it too to face my fear. Considering the obstacle, my brothers and my cousin went underneath, to catch me “in case anything would happen”…
It was on that day that I did my first “Yamakasi” jump. I suddenly realised one could overcome his own apprehension and fears. I thus found my first way to answering obstacles in life, I was 9 years old.
At that time, there weren’t any Yamakasi teachers or teaching, not even a name for the practice. So, I’d often train by my own and I’d take example on my mother, my model of generosity, courage, determination and abnegation.
Whenever I had the opportunity of sharing trainings with my family and my friends, I’d listen and I’d watch carefully. I still train this way.
After a couple of years of practicing, in 1996, my friends and my cousin decided to start an association, in order to spread the discipline they called “L’Art du Déplacement” and let people know about it. Without hesitation, I got involved in the creation of this discipline and of the group “Yamakasi” (9 of us) when they asked me to. I was 14 by then, and the only thing I wanted was train all day and eat rice.
When Guylain explained to me that Yamakasi meant “Strong Spirit” in his mother tongue, I thought they had found the perfect word to define the spirit of the discipline.
In 1997, media talk about us (newspaper, tv) and we get to show what we do. Then, for various reasons the group splits up, which puts an end to the association.
I carried on training as usual…
Days would go by and then, together with 7 Yamakasi pioneer members, we decided to get back together to live from our passion and to reorganise the association “l’Art du Déplacement” so we could share our experience.
(oh, spelling mistakes, I should have paid more attention in class. School can be boring but it’s a life time investement).
That’s about it for me.
ADD is one of my techniques for staying in good health, for developing self-confidence and for reconnecting with myself. This enables me to “work on myself” which I think is essential, if not mandatory, to progress in life.
When starting this type of practice, don’t be scared of depression, anxiety, going through failures and tripping because it will happen.
What’s important is to develop patience and determination, to maintain a positive attitude when facing obstacles the best you can.
The most important motivation in ADD, in my eyes, apart from becoming as strong as San Goku (Dragon Ball) …, is to try and be a good human being in life.
Although ADD is an art expressing freedom, some rules exist so it always stays that way.
Respect of yourself and of your surrounding is fundamental.
Don’t be scared of succeeding !

Guylain n’guba boyeke Tapé des mains

Williams Belle performing

Williams Belle from Martin Yeung on Vimeo.