Amazing Parcour video

It wouldn't play for me but I could drag the slide over and see tidbits...what I saw was cool.
 
must have silly putty for bones.

If I tried that, I would be in the hospital after the first jump.

Define parcour, please.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
I think Parcour (Or Parkor as I saw it spelled previously) is basically free-style running. Using environments in athletic ways and having fun basically. Instead of taking the stairs like everyone else, just throw yourself up a ledge, do a flip and go buy your morning newspaper. :)
 
Yes, apparently, I mispelled it. The name is normally "Parkour". This is a twist on the French word "parcours" which means path.

I think the "sport" or martial art consists in going as fast as possible from point A to point B in an urban environment, without letting any obstacle stop you. This video goes way overboard, obviously.

Ah, there seems to be a pretty complete article in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour
 
I loved it. Although the anticipation of a failure is spooky. Intense is appropriate!

Coop
 
Parkour is very frightening.

As for the Spiderman quote, IIRC, there was some scuttlebutt about how the new Bond is going to have Daniel Craig go up against a master Parkour in a scene.

-j
 
Whoa...that is wild. I'm curious how much of the routes he planned in advance, and how much he just winged it. A lot of it seemed pretty improvised.
 
Cool video, Joss. Thanks.

It reminds me of camping in Camp 4 (Sunnyside) in Yosemite. I often stay there when I'm doing landscape photography. Camp 4 is the climber's camp. On any given day, you are likely to be camping around folks like the Huber brothers, Royal Robbins, Dean Potter, Ron Kauk, Fred Beckey, and Chongo. The place is crawling with the world's top athletes in extreme sports, and they do this level of freaky stuff all the time, all over the place.

Go camp out there, and you'll see. Or at least watch a copy of the movie Center of the Universe.

Mike
 
There was a short a couple of years ago called free running where some guys ran all over Paris doing stuff like that. Amazing athletes. I wonder how much of this was inspired by all the Jackie Chan movies?
 
Yes, there is a chase scene in casino royale that has, Sebastion Foucard in it. Foucard is a master at parkour hes done some commercials (nike commercial, the one where the guy is being chased by a chicken).

Here's a good site having everything to do with parkour

www.urbanfreeflow.com
 
I was just reading "The Week" magazine and they did a review of District B13, a French movie with David Belle, and Cyril Raffaelli, and it credits these two with "inventing the parkour action technique as stuntmen." The screenplay gets booed, but they still give the movie three stars overall for the action that "makes everything Hollywood has lately done in the action genre look clumsy, dull and stale." A whole movie centered around this technique sounds pretty cool.:cool:

Daniel
 
I just saw the movie. It's horrendous, but yes, the action scenes are great.
 
When I was younger, my friends and I would jump from obscene heights, tractor trailers, one story buildings, overpasses. We were practicing our "ninja" skills (we were dorks).
Wait until those guys get a little older, I'm only 28 and my knees hurt every minute of every day.

They think their spiderman now, but in about 20 years their going to be the Bionic men, after all the hip and knee replacements, hope all that jumping is worth it.
 
One guy David Belle has been doing it for 20 years he seems to be ok. Also, I dont think they jump from very tall hights all the time just every once in a while.
 
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