Urban freeflow
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Urban Freeflow (often abbreviated to UF or U$F[citation needed]) is a company that was started in 2003. Urban Freeflow is a large, UK based free running group that is involved in media work and promotions, seeking to make money from the work of young team-members.
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[edit] Urban Freeflow International team
The "UF team", known as Seidojin, consists of the following people: Asid, Bam, Blue, Ez, Kerbie, Livewire, Spidey, Neil, Piptrix, Kie and Sticky. These individuals are now largely persona non grata among the serious practising community, reviled for their misportrayal of the discipline on the world media stage. Very few of them practice in any consistent manner, and EZ - Paul Corkery - has not been able to practice for several years due to injuries he has sustained. They also sponsor a number of individuals such as George and Dale[1]
[edit] Criticism
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David Belle,[2] Parkour.NET[3][4] bad or inaccurate portrayals of Parkour through its website[5] and the media,[6][7][8][9][10][11] the introduction and usage of the term Freestyle Parkour, the claim that "flips are or can be part of parkour",[12] the undermining of David Belle,[citation needed] its masquerading as the "official worldwide parkour network" while it is neither multilingual nor affiliated with the founder of parkour,[2] the suppression of free speech in its forum, the feud against Worldwide jam (magazine),[citation needed] among other things. All these have led to severe damaging of Urban Freeflow's credibility among the community, which views the former's members as "black sheep". In 2006 all of the experienced members of UF, including all of its French affiliated members, walked out due to the clear exploitation of the discipline and the team members at the hands of Paul Corkery. Although it was fashionable in the past to badmouth Urban Freeflow members, in 2006 the global Parkour community started to urge its members to simply ignore any events that are related to Urban Freeflow. Some critics have even gone as far as making public demonstrations against urban freeflow[13]
[edit] Jump Britain
Was a Channel 4 (UK) production released in 2005 starring many members from the UrbanFreeflow team and Sebastien Foucan. This followed Jump London which had aired in 2003 (but did not include members of Urban Freeflow).
