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Sep 6, 2003 by Louis

Look out London! A bunch of Free Runners from France, stars of Yamakasi (a film about a group of "Parkouristes" led by David Belle the assumed creator of the sport), are coming to London to do their thing, the urban sport of "Le Parkour", or obstacle-coursing. Their antics will be shown on Channel 4 on Tuesday 9 Sep at 10.00PM. If you don't already know what Free Running involves, its very similar to old school Free Style Walking, except taken to the extreme. Moves include jumping across the rooftops of huge tower blocks, handstands on balconys of towerblocks and just running around like a madman doing insane stuff. Check it out.. Also take a look at the BBC site which explains in detail what they're about, and if you cant be arsed to read it, just look at the photo at the top of their page.
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Sep 6, 2003 mike

There was a french nike a while back with these guys in it running from a chicken...

Sep 6, 2003 mike

nike ad*

Sep 6, 2003 Tanner

For all you trialsiners out there, TRA (Thomas Remvik Aasen) does some AMAZING parkour.

Sep 6, 2003 Benji

Holy crap thats amazing, i wounder if anyone has died from that

Sep 6, 2003 oldgeezer

Thats going to be gifted, i dont know about dying but you know theres got to have been some broken bones involved.
Looks like il be leaving the pub early on tuesday

Sep 7, 2003 dunk

Channel 4 previewed 'Le Parkour' on a show called Passengers over a year ago - way before BBC got in on the act with their overpriced advertising campaign, here's the edit UKFSW had on it...

http://www.hintclothing.com/ukfsw/videos/temp/yamakasi.mov

Sep 7, 2003 anonymous

Channel 4 ran a program a long while back called 'Passengers', and Yamakazi was featured on that. If anything, the BBC are copying C4

Sep 7, 2003 peach

ah yeah actually i think i remember the yamakasi being on that program, my bad


i remember i think they had fabiola da silva on that program once and she did a handrail and that was about it apart from a semi interview

Sep 7, 2003 mike

That pic at the top of the BBC site is one of the most badass pics I have ever seen, the lighting and the buildings and stuff just make it look awesome. Does anyone else think so?

Sep 7, 2003 peach

i think the only reason channel 4 are showing this is because of the recent BBC adverts where it has a man doing all that stuff across london to get home in time to watch his favourite program

Sep 8, 2003 dunk

yeah, I remember that too 'cos she bailed the rail, or something.

Sep 9, 2003 Mart

But... vert sucks ass

Sep 9, 2003 peach

yeah she bailed it and that was like all they showed... they shouldve showed her vert skating because shes better at that

Oct 15, 2003 derek

we've gotten sooo many hits from google searches because of this article, hah.

good work louis!
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