A few days ago one of our members in the MisterParkour.com International Forum posted a link to a spectacular video featuring Stephane Vigroux. The video was so good that we have decided to add the video to the MisterParkour.com library which is what we have done in this post.
The short documentary below, by Craig Pentak, features an extensive interview with Stephane Vigroux intermittent with scenes of Parkour training in London. During the interview Stephane talks about the origin and history of Parkour, the Yamakasi, and the word Tracer. He also discusses the mental aspects of Parkour, and his own personal journey finding Parkour and establishing Parkour Generations. In addition, Stephane discusses the obstacles he feels the art of Parkour is currently facing including the push by some to commercialize Parkour and promote Parkour competitions. To this end the documentary is concluded with Stephane discussing his own views, including David Belle’s and Sebastién Foucan’s opinions, of the recent World Freerun Championships.
This video is definitely a must see for everyone in the community; great insight from one of the humblest and most skilled practitioners on the planet.
With the official release of B13 – Ultimatum now complete we have decided to bring our behind the scenes look at the film to an end with this final featurette. This video features David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, and the movie’s director Patrick Alessandrin talking about the film in addition to more previously unseen footage from the making of this exciting motion picture.
If you need a little more insight into B13 – Ultimatum and some of the minor characters in the film this video is sure to give it to you. Providing a behind the scenes look at each of the 5 prominent gangs in the movie, this video goes inside the film like none of our other featurettes have by spending time with each of the gang’s perspective bosses.
Yesterday we posted a David Belle focused behind the scenes look at the recently released blockbuster B13 – Ultimatum. The video below is the compliment to that video; a behind the scenes look at the film focused around David’s co-star Cyril Raffaelli.
More of a fighter than a runner when compared to David, Cyril added a dynamic to the film that made him a perfect co-star to David. The differences between the two actor’s styles are shown incredibly well when this video is contrasted with the previous video. Watch and enjoy, and if you would like to watch that previous behind the scenes look featuring David Belle please click here.
If you are not already excited about yesterday’s theatrical release of B13 – Ultimatum we have a new video for you that is sure to pump you up. This video is a behind the scenes look at the film with none other than David Belle himself! In addition to a personal perspective from David on the film (and on Parkour), this video also has some incredible behind the scenes footage of David that is not displayed in any other of our behind the scenes featurettes.
The most anticipated Parkour featuring film in history, B13 – Ultimatum starring David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli, is being released today in theaters around the world. This is just a reminder to everyone to check your local theater listings and do everything you can to be the first to watch the film. You will not be disappointing by David’s performance we can assure you.
To watch the film’s official trailer click here. To see more incredible behind the scenes looks at the film not posted on MisterParkour.com click here.
For some while now we have been flooded with questions about Parkour. Questions such as, “How do I get started?” “Where can I learn?”“Do you know anyone that does Parkour or teaches Parkour in my area?” “What is the proper way to train?”“What is dynamic tension and how do I attain it?” “I was injured doing this, what did I do wrong and how do I recover from it?” etc. For a while we responded to each and every inquiry we received. But after some time of receiving more and more inquiries and not being able to get back to everyone with in depth responses, we wanted to find a better way to communicate with everyone. After some critical thinking and some work we recently launched the MisterParkour.com International Forum to solve this dilemma.
There are many Parkour based forums out there, so when deciding to launch one for MisterParkour.com we asked ourselves a lot of questions and weighed the pros and cons. What is the purpose of launching a forum? There are already a lot of forums that exist so will launching another one bring Tracers together or will it divide them? Why would we launch one instead of directing people to the ones that already exist? After lots of thought the major reason we decided to go ahead with the launch was because we do not agree with most of the Parkour forums out there. Here are a couple reasons why:
#1. Almost all Parkour forums currently in existence are biased and restricted. Put in other terms, they are run by someone, or a group of people, that have an agenda, and that agenda only supports them and furthering their own ideals, publicity, and financial gain. We disagree with this so we have a launched the MisterParkour.com International Forum based on free speech.
#2. Most forums are geared towards one community of Tracers. Usually this is a geographically based group of Tracers, but sometimes there are other focuses (either purposefully or inadvertently) such as the forum being language specific. We do not like closed off Parkour communities so we have launched this forum so that it reaches out to the international Parkour community without restriction.
#3. Most forums and Parkour sites have advertisements. Simply put, we do not like these at all. All Google ads do is clog up sites and distract people from the purpose of the forum. Besides, if you are really to providing something “for the community” you should make it free and not try to nickel and dime everyone that visits. We wanted our forum to be for the community and by the community so we don’t have advertisements.
#4. Lastly and most importantly, the administration of most Parkour forums (and sites) put forth wasteful, inefficient, and downright erroneous information. We can’t imagine anyone would do this on purpose so we have attributed this flaw primarily to their bias as explained in #1. Regardless of the reason for this flaw however, the problem still exists and it needs to be corrected. There is some fantastic information on many Parkour sites, but the majority of their misguiding information becomes readily apparent when discussions begin that deal with proper Parkour training. The misguided ideals of the sites and their administration also become painfully obvious when the administrators talk about Parkour but do not reference David Belle or demonstrate an understanding of his example, philosophy, and achievements.
With all this in mind we decided to go ahead and launch the MisterParkour.com International Forum. MisterParkour.com is the internet’s most succinct compendium of the world’s best Parkour videos so it kind of makes sense to begin with. Taking into account the reasons mentioned above, the content of our site as our foundation, and the diverse international MisterParkour.com community member as our cornerstone, we firmly believe that this forum is a strong and lasting step in the direction of bringing the international Parkour community together.
This forum will provide, for the first time anywhere, an unbiased community location and resource of free information where people are allowed to put forth their ideas and questions without restriction. The MisterParkour.com video library is not linked to the International Forums though, so please go to MisterParkour.com International Forum or click on the International Forum icon at the top left of the page to register a forum account. And as always, we want MisterParkour.com to be for the community so if you have suggestions, questions, or ideas please let us know!
Ruslan and others have the opportunity to take Parkour to Tokyo and Taipei as shown in this excellent video. Characterized by superb production and film quality, great editing, a perfect music accompaniment, and technical mastery of proper Parkour technique, this video is a must see. This video also features Fall Out Boy.
