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Parkour - urban gymnastics

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'david belle, parkour, urban, gymnastics, Banlieue 13, paris' to 'david belle, parkour, urban, gymnastics, Banlieue 13, paris, District B13' - edited by Sarzy

25 Random things about me... (Blog Entry by youdiejoe)

poolcleaner says...

1. I work for a video game company.
2. I'm pretty good at video games, but I don't play fighters.
3. Our "break" room has nothing but fighters: Street Fighter 3, 4 and Marvel Versus Capcom. We have a Wii, but it's always occupied with people playing Smash Bros. Brawl.
4. I once lived on someone's couch and went by the name Guitar Matt, because my name is Matt and all I did was play Guitar Hero.
5. I'll probably work at the same company for the rest of my life.
6. I skate pools.
7. I did not choose my handle because of skateboarding.
8. I just started doing indoor rock climbing, because I'm tired of weight lifting. Ugh.
9. I spend a lot of time with PK Cali (Parkour California) and have met David Belle. On weekends you may see me crawling, climbing and jumping around UCLA, Fullterton college, or various California parks with old walls.
10. My body is always sore.
11. I probably have ADD.
12. Despite probably having ADD, I read a lot of books.
13. I cannot read one book for more than an hour, so I'm usually reading 5 to 10 books at a time.
14. I can't bring myself to study for anything. As such, I'll never finish college.
15. I did a lot of extracurricular activites in high school, despite having a C average -- or maybe that's why I had a C average.
16. Doing drugs has been the only way for me to concentrate. Unfortunatley it does not help me study. (I did not do drugs in high school, nor in college.)
17. I was in academic decathelon in high school because they needed a smart person with a C average. I won a lot of medals.
18. I was in drama and have written, directed and starred in several plays.
19. I was a film major until I realized the reality of filmmaking, namely the spending and aquiring of large sums of money.
20. The man who wrote and directed The Stewardesses, Allan Silliphant, is a family friend. His brother was Sterling Silliphant, who is best known for winning an Academy Award for In the Heat of the Night and being close friends with Bruce Lee.
21. Like my father, I am a jack of all trades and a master of none.
22. My grandfather was in the Navy and worked for General Dynamics during the Cold War, investigating missle silos. He told my father freaky stories about nuclear isotopes and communists hiding in closests. My uncle described my grandfather as being to the right of Archie Bunker. All in the Family was his favortie show, he said nigger a lot, owned a German Shepard and had several guns nearby at all times. He was also an atheist. Oddly enough, it was his atheism that my parents were scared of the most. "Grandpa's going to hell, son." If there's a hell, he'll probably be there, but not for being an atheist.
23. I'm not quite white trash, but I wouldn't be entirely uncomfortable living off the land in a shack full of automatic weapons, distrustful of the government, waiting for the revolution.
24. I'm neither religious nor rascist, nor am I an atheist. I just don't care.
25. I'm writing a book. My screenplays have never sold. One of my professors suggested I write a book, then write the screenplay for the book. Only problem is, I can't concentrate (which is why I wrote screenplays to begin with) so it's taking me forever. Ugh.
26. I have been drawing since conception and have been doing life drawing off and on for 8 years, but I don't see myself pursuing a career in it. It's just for fun -- which pretty much sums up my life.

1930s stuntman -- Parkour is not new!

Parkour compilation: best cityscape flips, jumps and stunts

poolcleaner says...

This is more of a free running video than it is a parkour video.

Parkour was invented by David Belle as a way to fluidly move from A to B; whereas Free Running was invented by Sébastien Foucan, incorporating flips and other flashy ways to show off from A to B.

Parkour - urban gymnastics

Roger Clemens has a problem (Sift Talk Post)

theo47 says...

I didn't get the J.T. Snow reference, either - until I read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.T._Snow#Two_memorable_moments_with_the_Giants

In the 2002 World Series as Snow was scoring in Game 5 off a Kenny Lofton triple, he swooped up by the back of the jacket and carried off the batboy, 3-year-old Darren Baker. The young batboy and son of then Giants’ manager Dusty Baker was at home plate to collect Lofton's bat before the play was completed. This turned into a touching and memorable incident but easily could have resulted in disaster with a small child wandering into the path of Snow and David Bell as they both barreled home to score. Following the incident with Darren Baker, Major League Baseball required batboys and girls to be at least nine years of age.

Cyril Raffaelli - Parkour extreme

Two Brothers doing some Free Running

dotdude says...

This is a David Belle quote from the Wikipedia article on "Parkour":


David Belle and/or PAWA team emphasized the division between parkour and free running by stating:

“ Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour. ”

—David Belle and/or PAWA team


There is subsection on "Free running" that links to a full article.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_running

Insane stuntman sequence

Jump Britain (Parkour/Free Running demo & documentary)

aaronfr says...

i really enjoyed the first half of the documentary, but once they actually set out to do the tour of the uk, it got boring. i agree with westy that it is nice camera work, but it seems like they are to focused on the scenery and not on the action of parkour. it just took itself too seriously.

also, i was always under the impression that david belle had started parkour and was confused for the first 15 minutes. but then when they went to visit sebastian in france, i recognized all of the landmarks that were in the first piece i ever saw about parkour/david belle. i'm guessing that they were both part of the same troupe of guys that started it all. controversy settled

Urban Gymnastics

detlev409 says...

David Belle will be starring as one of the villains in the upcoming Bond flick "Casino Royale." There is a chase scene in which Belle and Bond go tearing across the city and Belle uses Parkour moves throughout the sequence.

Sorry, I'm unable to provide a citation for that, but I'm pretty certain of it. Can anyone back me up?

Urban Gymnastics

skforty says...

The movie District B13 is actually already out, saw it about 2 months ago. Has cyril and david belle. Its a french film, english subs. It was playing in select theaters around here in seattle. It was ok, good action scenes. which is of course why we watch This russian kid is very good. If you wnat to see other amazing feats of athleticism, should really check out more of david belle, the father of the sport, he does some pretty mind blowing stuff. Also, joe eigo is an amazing athelete who mixed capoera and other martial arts with breakdancing and other stuff, he calls it multilevelmoves, check em out, worth the watch.

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Urban Gymnastics

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