Why don’t you go take a running jump?

It is approaching two years since we made our first video “Sebastien Foucault: The Life of a Freerunner”, the success of which spurred us on to create all our other videos. If you haven’t seen it, it is a short and bafflingly ill-constructed mockumentary on the sport of ‘free-running’ and its creator Sebastien Foucan (changed to “Foucault” to emphasise the faux-philosophical tendencies behind the “sport” which is essentially just running and jumping around everywhere).

Despite being quite technically inept and completely nonsensical, “Seb Fou” (as we have taken to calling it) will always have a special place in our hearts. For better or worse, it has been hawked around the place more than any of our other films and has had the most plays on the internet. We would prefer something like “Look North!” to get the same amount of exposure, but there you go. We have had lots of nice feedback from people on the film, which has been great, but there is one audience who are quite polarised in their opinions of it: Freerunners.

Some freerunners absolutely love it. These articulate, reasonable, handsome people often leave us very nice messages and don’t mind us poking fun. However, mainly the free running community has responded by saying: ‘your all jelous twats’ and ‘watta twat get out and get a life you freaks’. They have even had the temerity to accuse people who like us of being ‘fat people who sit around doing nothing but jacking off to photo's of horses.’ Our negative feedback from freerunners hasn’t been exactly constructive. In fact, it has really only told us two things. These are:

· Freerunners are easily confused, and very easily angered.
· They are fiercely proud and defensive of their “sport”, but have trouble communicating this on account of their borderline literacy skills and inability to proofread.

If any freerunners are reading this, I implore you – please, please do not think we had originally intended to attack what you do in any way. That being said, judging from your messages, most of you do thoroughly deserve an attack of some kind. You could also do with a proofreader, a GCSE in English and less free time.

From ‘stop being a little bitch’ to ‘I hope you die...’ to ‘gay gay gay’, most of the advice was just expressing heartfelt anger at the film. Some however, were of a violent or threatening nature. ‘Gays’ or ‘bitches’ we might be, but we certainly don’t deserve to be physically beaten. What if one were to find me and go through with his wish to: “fuck u up like littal pussies yu r”? Never mind that he used two different spellings of the word ‘you’ in the same sentence, he’s angry. Even verbal abuse would be enough. I keep thinking any minute now a freerunner is going to leap from a tree branch into an upstairs window, vault over a couple chairs, roll into the hallway, slide down the banister and run out the front door shouting: “you disgrace this sport this is the best sport ever how do you dare to call that freerunning you asshole...DON’T FUCK WHT THIS SPORT!!!” As he ran down the street (probably shouting that last part) I would probably be shaking my head and thinking something like: what have I done?

My favourite ‘violent’ threat is one that stops just short of describing what he will actually do by using an ellipsis:

u r asholes sebastien is my favourite freeruner u r gelous beatches do not take the piss out of him again because i will......dont fuck with us

Sorry, you’ll what? Well obviously I’ll....erm....I’ll...look, just don’t fuck with us, okay?
So much more articulate (and fond of emoticons) are the ones that like us. These cheerful and erudite runners expressed their admiration the proper way, with a colon and a ‘D’:

lol im a freerunner but i still find this realy funny :D
he said: "Dimitri, never give your cat chocolate, it make him very sick".
omg hilarious ;D
Funniest shit on youtube! :D

There was also one comment which was quite neutral but did give some constructive feedback:

its some kinda funny but sebastien isn’t white

Thanks for that. We’ll make a note of it for next time.
Chris