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).