When
you're a kid, your imagination runs wild, and that's what you've go
to really go back to that when you're doing Parkour, because...
society has trained you "This is just a walkway," you know,
you walk down them stairs, and you've got to use your imagination to
create "That's not just a walkway." So without imagination,
you would just be doing everything society tells you, and...
society's not always right.
Imagination's everything.
You've got four limbs! Two arms two legs, feet hands... and what are you using them for? To walk to the train station? To type on a keyboard? What's that?! You've got all this potential! You're not using it! So what we're doing is... we're taking these and saying "Huh... I wonder what I can come up with today, with, with what I've been given." That's it, it's really respecting our bodies more than most people.
Most people I've met in freerunning are some of the more sensible people I know. Y'know, we're not stupid, and I think we've got responsibility to show the upcoming kids that want to do it, that it's not about being reckless or trying the most dangerous thing, it's about, doing it with respect to the environment, respect to people around you, and then... progressing at the right pace.
I can jump... like, nine, ten feet between two walls, on the ground, two curbs maybe. But would I do it ten foot up? An it's that: control of the mind saying "I'm physically able here, in this situation, why can't I do it in this situation?" and it's getting that power, of the mind, to control your body into doing it, into making it the same scenarios on the ground, why is it any different? I've never fall a million times here, so why would I fall... like once, doing it here?
Like for me, it's taught me to accept things more. Rather than be "Aww, this is bad, this is a problem in my life," You okay! That's what I'm given, get on with it, y'know? I've got this wall here, what can I do? It's not got a rail next to it or anything, that I'd want to do this move, but I can't to it, so, I'll come up with something else!
It's just that positive mindset... if you can... have that, in life that... really, it can change everything.
There's a stereotype from... from what the news has given people, and what newspapers and everything is that... we're a reckless, daredevil, stuntmen. That, we're risking, that every jump we do, we're risking ourselves, and that's... just not the truth. Y'know, I wouldn't do something if I thought I was risking myself. I mean... that would be stupid. I don't think I'm stupid, people say "Oh, get down from that wall, you're stupid." I'm not stupid! That might be dangerous to you, it's not dangerous to me!
If I'm looking at a jump, and my heart's racing, I don't enjoy that feeling. I enjoy standing, and looking at that gap and feeling calm! That's when I get right. I'm at a nice level now, I'm looking at this gap, I feel completely calm and within myself that I can make it, and then you do it! And that's when you perform at your best level.
I think the similarities between me and my peers is belief. We've, like I said, we've got to where we're at completely different paths, but we all believe the same thing, we believe... y'know we can do this movement, we can keep moving forward and progressing. I've always thought this was, fun as hell, I want to keep doing it, y'know, and that's what's got me to where I am now, is... is that passion and love, that can get anyone anywhere in life. I think passion and belief are the two things that can get you where you want to be.
-Tim "Livewire" Shieff
Imagination's everything.
You've got four limbs! Two arms two legs, feet hands... and what are you using them for? To walk to the train station? To type on a keyboard? What's that?! You've got all this potential! You're not using it! So what we're doing is... we're taking these and saying "Huh... I wonder what I can come up with today, with, with what I've been given." That's it, it's really respecting our bodies more than most people.
Most people I've met in freerunning are some of the more sensible people I know. Y'know, we're not stupid, and I think we've got responsibility to show the upcoming kids that want to do it, that it's not about being reckless or trying the most dangerous thing, it's about, doing it with respect to the environment, respect to people around you, and then... progressing at the right pace.
I can jump... like, nine, ten feet between two walls, on the ground, two curbs maybe. But would I do it ten foot up? An it's that: control of the mind saying "I'm physically able here, in this situation, why can't I do it in this situation?" and it's getting that power, of the mind, to control your body into doing it, into making it the same scenarios on the ground, why is it any different? I've never fall a million times here, so why would I fall... like once, doing it here?
Like for me, it's taught me to accept things more. Rather than be "Aww, this is bad, this is a problem in my life," You okay! That's what I'm given, get on with it, y'know? I've got this wall here, what can I do? It's not got a rail next to it or anything, that I'd want to do this move, but I can't to it, so, I'll come up with something else!
It's just that positive mindset... if you can... have that, in life that... really, it can change everything.
There's a stereotype from... from what the news has given people, and what newspapers and everything is that... we're a reckless, daredevil, stuntmen. That, we're risking, that every jump we do, we're risking ourselves, and that's... just not the truth. Y'know, I wouldn't do something if I thought I was risking myself. I mean... that would be stupid. I don't think I'm stupid, people say "Oh, get down from that wall, you're stupid." I'm not stupid! That might be dangerous to you, it's not dangerous to me!
If I'm looking at a jump, and my heart's racing, I don't enjoy that feeling. I enjoy standing, and looking at that gap and feeling calm! That's when I get right. I'm at a nice level now, I'm looking at this gap, I feel completely calm and within myself that I can make it, and then you do it! And that's when you perform at your best level.
I think the similarities between me and my peers is belief. We've, like I said, we've got to where we're at completely different paths, but we all believe the same thing, we believe... y'know we can do this movement, we can keep moving forward and progressing. I've always thought this was, fun as hell, I want to keep doing it, y'know, and that's what's got me to where I am now, is... is that passion and love, that can get anyone anywhere in life. I think passion and belief are the two things that can get you where you want to be.
-Tim "Livewire" Shieff
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