Here is another great video from Julie Angel and Parkour Generations. Finding a different route through the city Stephane Vigroux, Forrest, Sébastien Goudot, and Chris Keighley utilize Parkour to reach their final destination; the bank. And most impressive of all they do this while wearing suits and Chris is even carrying a briefcase! In spite of this there is nothing too spectacular here, but it’s a superb and entertaining all around film nonetheless.
We are starting to have so many videos on this site that we aren’t always sure which ones we have already posted and which ones we still need to post! Yesterday’s post from the Parkour Generation’s Rendezvous I workshop reminded us of a few videos we thought we already had on the site but upon further investigation we found out that we did not. A fair amount of these videos are from Julie Angel and Parkour Generations, and as such we have decided to continue for a time posting a series of their work.
Today we present a film called Parkour Generations: Vision which has already been view more than 200,000 times on YouTube alone! And there’s no question as to why it is so popular. Although it has no plot, the video features Stephane Vigroux, Forrest, Kazuma, and is nothing short of inspiring. Its description says this:
A rare insight into parkour vision by some of the originals of the discipline. When some of the best parkour practitioners in the world take their friends of equal skill and experience to a new spot, lines of opportunity appear. Not training, just fun, creative & chilled.
Here is a video from Rendezvous I put on by Parkour Generations. The workshop was conducted in London on the 13th and 14th of May, 2007, and prominent instruction was given by Forrest and Dan Edwardes. You may also recognize other famous Tracers who attended the event including Stephane Vigroux, Sébastien Goudot, Kazuma, Cicso, Thomas, and Yann Hanutra and Laurent Piemontesi from the Yamakasi. We posted three videos from Rendezvous II in our What is Parkour? series that we conducted almost a month ago. Unlike this video which highlights the physical training from Rendezvous I, those videos from Rendezvous II exclusively highlighted a questions and answer time with the Yamakasi. Divided into three parts, you can view the videos from that interview by going to our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th installments of that sequence.
Ok, for the record the Germans are hilarious…in a good way. This is the third German news feature we have found that covered the same Parkour event! And we suspect there are a few more out there! This one was produced by Sat 1: Blitz and features David Belle at the 2006 OSRAM World Meeting in Berlin, Germany.
This broadcast is a little more fun than the last two German news features we uncovered because in addition to having some unique footage of David it also mixes in some clips from David’s Accroches Toi video, and some clips of people falling during the workshop. We are not making fun of people falling in any way because not only has it happened to us countless time, but this can be a serious and dangerous occurrence. Furthermore David himself says, “I fall all the time. I fall like monkeys.” To strictly make fun of someone for falling would be flat out distasteful. Nevertheless, in all honesty these falls made us laugh so it definitely added to the entertainment value of the video. Something else that might make you laugh is the fact that this feature is completely in German and thus, again, we have absolutely no idea what they are saying. But the anchors do interview some of the same Tracers that spoke in the Kabel 1: Abenteuer Leben news feature which we posted yesterday. So if you understood that post than you will probably understand this one as well.
Since we don’t know what these people are saying specifically -although in reality most Parkour news features to date have pretty much all said the same thing which we won’t repeat for the sake of further repetitiveness and lack of originality- you may wonder why we even decided to post this video in the first place. To that we have a very simple answer: it features the greatest Tracer of all time David Belle, a performer who never gets boring no matter how many times we hear him say the same things or watch him do the same moves over, and over, and over again.
We have some exciting new addition planned for MisterParkour.com, including a few new site features and three extensive posting series. One of these series has been in development for some time now and we plan for it to last almost two weeks by itself! Although these addition range in size, they will all further increase the extensive gallery of information on MisterParkour.com and augment the accessibility of our content. We anticipate that these addition will undoubtedly make MisterParkour.com one of the most comprehensive and concise catalogs of the most relevant and influential Parkour information on the web. But before we launch into these endeavors we have a few more posts we’d like to make including this one.
Featured here is the first of two German News features we will be posting. Aired on May 29th, 2006 this is a report from “Kabel 1: Abenteuer Leben” which includes a brief interview with David Belle. Unfortunately this video shows very little Parkour action in comparison to most Parkour news features, and the majority is comprised of German Tracers talking about Parkour. But the broadcast does show some footage from an indoor Parkour event/workshop put on by PAWA and attended by David.
You may recognize the background music used in the beginning and at the end of the feature as that used in the David Belle in Madagascar video. You may also recognize the venue of the Parkour event/workshop because this is the same Parkour event covered by Focus TV in a German news feature we posted more than a month ago. In comparison the Focus TV news feature was much better because it included a lot more Parkour footage in general including more footage of David. Focus TV’s interview with David was more insightful as well. To view that news report please click here. Although we have not been able to translate this entire broadcast, we have obtained a translation of David’s interview, courtesy of Parkour.net, which we have transcribed below.
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Actually it was my father who showed me Parkour, I really started 1988 when I was 15 years old. My father was a successful fire-fighter in Paris. He was an example for many people and I always wanted to be like him. And since I wasn’t really good at school, Parkour was the only thing to show him what I was capable of.
Starting out everyone thinks there are no limits to Parkour, but you have to learn the basics first and then it’s a question of bodily fitness. One makes his own limits. But I would never have thought that it could become such the phenomena that it is today.
We are so pumped about this next video from Airmout! This is a special edit that includes footage from David’s Speed Air Man video, Et Vous?, and his BBC commercial roll which we will be posting soon. No new footage of David, just a cool new version of it all. The following two quotes from the No Obstacles article -written by Alec Wilkinson in April 2007- may help explain some of the motivation behind creating this edit.
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David’s grandfather told him stories about Raymond that revolved around his exploits—“Spider-Man stories and Tarzan stories,” David says—and left him wishing to emulate him. He wanted to be Spider-Man when he grew up.
Last fall, David said, he had discussions with Sam Raimi, the director of “Spider-Man,” about playing the role of Spider-Man’s double, but he decided he wasn’t interested. “That was a childhood dream, to be in a Spider-Man costume,” he said. “Now I’d rather appear on a poster with my own name, not as a character, saying, ‘This is me performing.’ ”
Here is the official copy of David Bell’s famous Speed AirMan video. Although this video edition is longer than the Speed Air Man copy we previously cataloged, for all practical purposes the two are exactly the same. None of the video footage is different, and the extra 11 seconds is due to additional frames at the beginning and end of the video. To view our original Speed Air Man post and to learn how this video is single handedly responsible for Stephane Vigroux’s introduction to Parkour please click here.
We are so excited about this next David Belle video! In all of our searching we only found it posted on the internet in two locations. And by combining the viewing totals from those sites we estimate that as of today this video has been viewed less than 6,300 times! With some videos of David boasting 1,000,000+ views this is a phenomenal find!
David has arrived at the port late. And not only does he only have one minute to reach his final destination, he doesn’t even know exactly where he is supposed to go. Leaping, climbing, jumping, and rolling his way over, past, and through the impending obstacles, David puts on another great performance in this relaxing and yet highly entertaining race against the clock.
This is our third post of an Accroches Toi video. However, different from the last two posts, this version is less than a minute in length and it includes some great new aspects including the uncut (although sped up) tree swinging clip, different music, and original sound effects from the actual action. To see the official and complete version of Accroches Toi please click the link above.
Here is a fun video of David Belle called Ba Parkour. This video is also featured at the end of the interview Parkour de David Belle.
If you have seen David’s videos before then you will recognize a majority of the clips included in this one. As we have continued to add videos of David to this site we have, like many of our loyal visitors, become increasingly aware of the repetitiveness of many of these clips. Certain footage of David, especially that which was originally included in his Speed Air Man and Et Vous? videos are, in fact, used over, and over, and over again, in video after video. But we also realized something else. Even though these moves are incredibly redundant, they never get old or cease to be entertaining. Even if you have seen this video before and/or many of the clips contained within, we know you will still enjoy it immensely. That is the testament to David’s abilities and just one of the things that makes him so incredible.
