German News Report - Kabel 1: Abenteuer Leben

Posted by misterparkour on May 26, 2008

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.

-David Belle

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDjRxkvknw