You're walking alone in a street you're not familiar with. Not a single soul was seen walking in the street you're currently walking on. Moments later you feel like someone is following you. You stop for awhile trying to figure if what you're feeling is true. After a few seconds you start walking again but this time, you look at your surroundings trying to figure out which way leads to a faster escape. While you're thinking of a path you suddenly hear a sound. You stopped and tried listening to it better just to clarify if what you're hearing is true. The footsteps suddenly became louder and faster as you tried listening to it. You start walking faster and faster just like the footsteps you're hearing. As you move faster and faster, the number of steps you hear increases more and more. You looked behind you and to your surprise 5 thugs are trying to chase you! You start running faster, you followed the path where the alley leads you. Unfortunately, you ran into a dead end. You look back and you see 5 men running towards you. You looked around the area to see if there's any way out. 50 feet walls surround you. They're coming closer and closer. You need to find a way to escape.
As they came closer you suddenly remembered what your parkour trainer taught you. You traced a path that would most likely result in you escaping the 5 men trying to chase. You analyze the situation. You realize that there is now way to escape the area unless you get past the five men. You don't have any knowledge in fighting but you knew how to do parkour. As they came near to you, your heart starts beating faster. Your adrenaline increases. You saw a man going near the side of the wall. You ran towards the him. You jumped towards the side of the 50 foot wall and started doing a horizontal wall run. One, two, three long steps at the wall and then you land safely on floor. You saw a fire escape ladder which was hanging 8 feet away from the ground. You ran towards it. You jumped, kicked the side of the wall, and grabbed onto to the ladder. You climbed up and up and up until you reach the rooftop. You looked down and saw the men having trouble getting the ladder down. You spat on them and ran away. Jumping from building tops to building tops, losing them from sight. You runaway safely and unscathed.
I've always wanted to do stuff like that. Jumping from building top to another building top. Precision jumping from rail to another rail. Cat leaping from wall to another wall. Wall running from a wall and then cat leaping to another wall. Stuff that David Belle, Sébastien Foucan, and Jackie Chan does.
For the readers who does not know what parkour is, parkour is moving from point A to point B the quickest way possible using only your body and your sorroundings. The trick of parkour is to use as little wasted movement while going past an obstacle. Just like the video you saw. David Belle moved from one building to another without even going to the first floor. Parkour should not be confused with Freerunning though. Free running includes tricks and flips when moving from point A to point B. Tricking and flipping isn't really necessary. It would most like slow the runner down in someway.
I've always wanted to do stuff like that. Jumping from building top to another building top. Precision jumping from rail to another rail. Cat leaping from wall to another wall. Wall running from a wall and then cat leaping to another wall. Stuff that David Belle, Sébastien Foucan, and Jackie Chan does.
For the readers who does not know what parkour is, parkour is moving from point A to point B the quickest way possible using only your body and your sorroundings. The trick of parkour is to use as little wasted movement while going past an obstacle. Just like the video you saw. David Belle moved from one building to another without even going to the first floor. Parkour should not be confused with Freerunning though. Free running includes tricks and flips when moving from point A to point B. Tricking and flipping isn't really necessary. It would most like slow the runner down in someway.
Freerunning
Parkour
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in watching death defying stunts. I'd even pretend that I'm actually doing them; jumping from one curb to another "like" a boss! One morning, while I was talking about how Jackie leaps from one obstacle to another with style, my friend told me that he what Jackie Chan is doing is called parkour. After that, I searched for it on youtube and found a lot about it. I watched tutorial videos and whatnot, and then I would try doing them. As of now I am able to do cat leaps, horizontal and vertical wall runs, precision jumps, and vaults, but its still wasn't enough. My friend then told me that his brother is actually the founder of Parkour Philippines (PKPH). Unfortunately his brother was too busy to teach the both of us so me and my friend decided on practicing ourselves. Up to now we're still training and we're still noobs at. We're still stuck with cat leaps, precision jumps, wall runs, and vaults. But hey, at least we're active and productive not a couch potato.
Jackie Chan Stunt Compilation
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