Drum Magazine Issue 3 | Page 77

special spiritual person who wants to give? Is he the youngest of several children? “No. I have five brothers and one sister, and me, I am the third. It’s a good question because lots of people all the time ask me about Parkour, Parkour, Parkour – but never about me or my family. My mother and father came to France from Guadeloupe. This is my roots. I have been there twice. I remember the rocks and the waterfalls and feeling like a big cat; a panther or a cheetah.” “I read a lot of books. I’m interested in many things. I’m an artist, I practise oil painting. I don’t know…I remember when I was very young one day a woman telling me, ‘You have a special sensitivity to teach’. When I was younger nobody teach me nothing. All the things I know now I learn by myself. You can learn from your mother your father your brothers, but the moment you appear out in the real world, real life is like a jungle. With my groups in the past, when we begin to split is when business come; when the media come; when show come; when the spectacle come, and you know, I felt very good before all that and now probably I try to get it back.” For more information on Sébastien Foucan and Parkour, visit www.foucan.com From the poster for Les Samouraï s des Temps Moderns, a film by Luc Besson (2 001).