Who Invented Parkour?
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While David Belle is unquestionably known as the original innovator and spiritual figurehead of parkour, the discipline’s origins can be traced directly back to his father, Raymond, and his time as a child in Vietnam. Though details surrounding Raymond’s early life are rather hazy, it’s generally accepted that he was separated from his parents during the First Indochina War and taken in by the French military in the city of Da Lat as an orphan at just age 7 in 1946. According to later interviews with his son, Raymond was routinely abused as a child, which motivated him to become as physically fit and strong as possible so that he could protect himself and escape danger if it ever presented itself.
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Hoping you see this. I've always wondered why they say something has been "doctored" when it's been tampered with. Can you do a video on that
Plastic Surgery!
Joseph Hourany doctors doctored the doctor who doctors doctors
@@Bibibosh well I guess we don't need the video anymore...
One note of import: Parkour existed before Parkour existed. In other words, people were - at various times - utilizing many of the techniques showcased in Parkour. For example, Chinese stuntmen were often tasked with running up walls, climbing them quickly, running along ledges, jumping from great heights, and even running along walls - all with a smoothness that belied the actual difficulty involved. These stuntmen were often attempting to recreate the tales from their own culture - tales we've seen in other ancient cultures as well.
The idea of someone traversing their environment in the most direct, efficient manner while exhibiting total mastery of their body? Not new at all. Parkour simply codified these things into a single art and then popularized them through exhibition and film.
Anyone who wants a fast, fun, pulp action film with a ton of parkour I'd recommend District 13 (Or in its original French, Banlieue 13 - iirc the English dubbing might not be great, so subtitles might be preferred!), which stars David Belle. It's no award winner or anything, but it is pretty satisfying to watch after a couple of drinks - essentially just a series of shots of a crazy French guy throwing himself between buildings as random henchmen try to take him out.
I watched that some years ago, and believe it or not, it was my first introduction to parkour. I was blown away by what they did in the movie, but you're right, its story isn't an award winner by any stretch. A very fun watch though.
I'd recommend Casino. Just because everyone needs to give their balls a tug.
Remember Yamakazi? That ish was dope!!
you know that crazy french guy is david bell the guy he is talking about in this video there is also an american remake with paul walker that also has david bell in it but is not very good.
Its not a crazy french guy throwing himself between gaps thats David Belle...the guy talked about in the video. The man deemed the founder of Free running Seb Foucan is the villain Bond chases in Casino Royale. Both movies have incredible chase scenes. I give the winner to David because his character got away and there was no cables or pads all legit. Seb used cables for when they were on the cranes for safety obviously but it was still a crazy feat the jump was real.
Wow! This almost completely covers the less known history of parkour in a very short amount of time. I do wish that David Belle's history with the Yamakasi group was discussed though.
Best line I've heard this week "something in rench, that I can't pronounce, but in English is translated to..." . I actually laughed out loud at this.
Assassin's Creed intensifies.
WHERE'S CHARLES LEEEEEEEEHHHH AAAAAHHHH
I was gonna comment that the Assassins invented it, but somebody already beat me to the punch
A war orphan, abused in the military, secretly training at night with obstacle courses of his own design...It is almost like a super hero origin story. I guess firefighters are like real life heroes already, but please tell me there was a time this man used his skills to run down a thief or rescue hostages who were being held up, that would make it even cooler.
although I appreciate the depth that you go into on these subjects, I think for certain ones like this, having video clips might be a good addition. some, I've had to go search elsewhere to get a more graphic view (like the tumbling pigeons)
I really want this too but often they don't do it because they are afraid of copyright laws and other stuff and not because they don't want to
Leave it to the French to develop the most efficient way to run away. xD
That being said, I absolutely adore parkour.
Fucking brilliant 😂
because french people are GAY, thus running away xD
Oof
Excellent!
@@anjoLas WTF
Interesting thing is that the person who named it parkour also had a trick named after him: the "Kong"
I can totally agree the point at 2:30 - I've a lot of friends whos parents immigrated from Sicily, Crete, and mountainous regions of Greece - as a kid in scouts it was both interesting and frustrating watching my friends dads and often 60+ year old granddads almost "flow" up rock scrambles leaping and hopping like mountain goats while we kids struggled and our city born dads gave up in a "bugger that for a game of soldiers" way
Pugalism: The English art of boxing
Kung Fo: The Chinese art of fighting
Parkour: The French art of running away
I said this too!!! French love running away. It's what they do well. Better than cooking actually. ;)
French art of fighting is called savate
@@Dr_Do-Little hahaha the infamous chancla
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Zelliana Ehhh? no? French and Spanish are both latin langages but La chancla is not French... Funny tho.
I always assumed the Parkour Brothers invented Parkour. It would seem, "Today I Found Out" that was not the case.
They did however make Monoupolyie!
All of I can think of is that episode of The Office when andy fell thru the box doing parkour 😂😂😂
andy jumps15 feet into a box* "parkor!"
416 finn yea you are right it was Andy my apologies
hardcore parkour!
Probably some Soviets claiming the park was theirs. Park-Our
IbN, If we were drinking together right now, I would tell you that just for that joke you're skipping the next round, and then I'd proceed to do a shot by myself. So there.
@@jbtechcon7434 feel u, just happened to be a bit drunk rn haha
In Soviet Russia, you belong to park! (State owns park, state owns you, therefore, park owns you.)
Lol. "Hold my beer." ~ Raymond Belle
Jumps out window while completing a double 360 forward flip and twist lands in 3 point hero pose.
Bill Schlafly ive only seen glimpses of the man but yeah....David said himself he could never be as good as him.
I thought it was from the 1989 Prince of Persia computer game.
Prince of persia was first character who use Parkour
Aladdin invented parkour when he was running away from stealing the loaf of bread
*lol*
Your a worthless sack of crap aren’t you
@@bigtuss7482 nope just a riffraff , street rat ! Lmfao
Nice love this video, I absolutely love parkour, I always wondered about its origins 😉👍🍻
David is still a Legend regardless, he did popularize Le Parkour as a practiced sport. Check out his french film of B-13
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DAMN I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
It's not yet 3 AM but, i think it's time to watch parkour vids!
Just turned three am for me.
HARDCORE PARKOUR
thank you for this! I knew it came from some french militant but that's about it, cool to know a bit more of the story behind it.
And perhaps this was something that assassins creed was based on though.
It's so great that something that's used for fun and mostly sport now has it's roots in something very Noble. The betterment of oneself to serve the greater good and help those in need is a mentality that is waning in Today's times.
Jackie Chan is the Legend of Parkour.
100% true
Every time When Parkour makes it good for my Prefrontal Cortex on my resilient mindset to improve All Confidence and becoming a Super Genius Smart and have Omniscience in me. Parkour is the best Omniscient Moves and Stunts while hard sprinting every time I go out to a community fantasizing myself doing it out of my emulated form.
That was cool to found out today. I like finding out new things every day. I like parkour and I want to learn parkour. It would be a good way for me to lose some weight. I need to exercise more. I think it'd be fun too. It looks fun. I like it.
I speak French as a third language and Spanish as a second language, English is my native language. So that motto in French that Simon couldn't pronounce, I probably could have. I'm pretty good at speaking French.
be strong to be useful == être fort pour être utile
Great video, keep up the good work. God bless!
Have a nice day/night.
now I'm off to watch Parkour videos
Of course the French invented parkour...
it's the art of running away
Pyroranger (deafening silence)
🤣
What about "combat parkour?"
Or the art if pursuit
Which is exactly what the British are doing now.
3:21 Well, at least Mr. Belle doesn't have to worry about doing _that_ again...
It's also because he's dead, but, you know.
FINALLY! Something I've never heard of!
Thank you!
Routinely mispronounces popular culture words, yet takes inordinate amount of time to make sure the French names are flawless. This is why we love this channel. Inconsistencies that have no reason right in the middle of our education. :)
Its nice to see a video from you that your not peddleing some random sponser ty for that its a rare thing
When I was a kid we just called it running and playing.
Everything well explained and correct, is nice for a practitioner of the discipline like me to see good information about parkour.
Thank You
Today, I found out, according to my wife, I’m an idiot. Not sure where that came from, but top that parkour!
Parkour?
PARKOUR PARKOUR!
Awesome,Thanks Simon. :)
I thought it was developed by Spider-Man; you know, Peter Parkour.
I never knew a bear could be so interested in those sorts of things.
Looking at the "cover shot" image of this video, can no one else hear Simon going "...and we line the back of the cow up like so..."
I don't know much about the French language at all but it all sounds good when Simon reads it. I mispronounc French all too often.
His accent is actually pretty bad, wouldn't have understood if it wasn't for the subtitles... No need to make it sound stereotypical :)
You should do William Haskell from the klondike gold rush
Awesome video 👍
Parkour! Parkour!
Great video!
Ha! A French soldier would be the one to turn running away into a sport.
Thanks karl
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𝙏𝙄𝙇: 𝙂𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙤𝙪𝙧
As a professional parkour practitioner oh, thank you. Hope to see more of my favorite list and top 10 channels talk about the history and cultre of parkour to educate ignorant ppl who think its just assassins creed or the fucking office. PS helpful tidbit if you see someone training Parkour or freeruning in public please do not ask them to do a backflip or scream hardcore parkour at them; it's not cute or funny and is rather annoying to constantly hear
Ah yes, Parkour, the sport where we run off of stairs sideways and bounce off a buildings and think we are accomplishing something in life.
before assassins creed i didnt even know parkour existed now i know the origins thanks for sharing.
I thought Jackie Chan learned it during his Beijing Opera training in Hong Kong.;)
This is awesome. I had no idea
There is no topic this man hasn't covered😏😏
The Assassins. Duuuhhhhh.
Whistley boi!
Simon, you are a Master Orator. I bow before you.
@Philip Robinson 😂
Parkour videos on YT are always funny, people usually do face plants and other stupid things. i'm 58 and value what's left of my health and won't jump farther than a mud puddle, and i won't do flips doing that!
Watch the two district 13 films
(ignore the remake)
And the prequel; District 9.
i enjoyed this more than id enjoy watching parkour.
i never saw the appeal myself..
I always thought it was a French guy called Parker
Peter Parker.
Beginning to make sense now, isn't it?
I thought it was Assassins creed......... you still get my credit Altaïr.....
prince of persia u fucking dip shit kid
Ninjitsu would make these guys even more super human. It would be easy peezy for them to learn it.
tawon1984 but if they knew hiw to fight they’d have no reason to run away 😂
SerDerpish Half of Ninjitsu is the art of stealth and being nimble.
Why is this video so short , it's my passion that and fighting. Simon you let me down. Thanks for the video though.
Ubisoft invented it, duh! kidding.
My last name is Hebert, it's nice to hear someone say it properly.
Ok, AirBear
@@iz723 ...nice
You guys should do Parkour on Call Of Duty
Do a video on when did the saying "across the pond" start being used and become popular. I've always been curious how that got started.
Hardcore parkour
Today i found out he's NOT Binging with babish
HARDCORE PARKOUR!
Notch obviously
From Parkour to American Ninja.
Cats have been doing this for centuries.
I thought the assassin brotherhood invented parkour
Cool
The backyard swing set. Kids invented parkour long before this bs but you will never hear people accredit kids with inventing anything!
From. District-13
Actually it is not just be strong to be useful. It is : "Être fort pour être utile, être fort pour se sauver soi-même ou porter secours à son prochain." Or : "Be strong to be useful, be strong to save yourself, and rescue your neighbor".
Parkouring otherwise known as burgeling
Only on the off days.
Yeah yeah, interesting, but I now really want to know: 1:56 , 4:48 , wtf, were those men training in their underwear?
Tolerance for harsh weather. In case you were captured lost your clothes and broke free to get away. Just a guess though.
How odd that the art of running away is made by france
😂😂😂
Être fort pour être utile
Hello
Please post a blog on your personal channel 👍🏼❤️
Found out where the words "Assassin" come from
Assassins, obviously.
You look like Michael from Vsauce
Sorry, this is an insult to Jackie Chan😅🤣😂 Belle was a baby while Jackie was showing the world what parkour was🤫🤫
More importantly: Why?
To improve mental and physical health in a natural way. To attempt achieving maximum athleticism. To be more confident and learn how to traverse an environment in the quickest and most efficient way possible. So that if you ever need to, you have the ability to do so. "Why not?" would be the better question.
More important why not?
Who invented parkour? Easy, the Assassins
Assains: am I a joke to you
Christian Bale could play Raymond.
My guess, a thief trying to get away? 🤔
Totally came here to say this.
Well people have been using this to get away from the cops for years now
03:20 ...Uh, no, he did not remove "a Vietnamese flag"; he removed a Commie rag.
If there had been a swastika flag flown from the Notre Dame that had been removed, would you be saying that he removed "a German flag"? ....Somehow I doubt that's how you would have described it. (Your description of this incident is devoid of the reason as to why it was put there, in the first place, and why the French state took extraordinary measures to get it down speedily. It would make no sense to risk a man like they did to haul it down if it had been a Republic of Vietnam flag; they would have done it in a less risky but more time consuming way in that case.)
Freerunning developed from this,