Stuff You Should Know - How Parkour Works

Episode Date: May 3, 2011

The art of parkour is an astonishing combination of agility and physical strength pursued across the world -- but how does it work? Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the philosophy, history and pursuit of this unique form of artistic expression. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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They just have way better names for what they call, like what we would call a jackmove or being robbed. They call civil acid. Be sure to listen to the war on drugs on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you by the reinvented 2012 Camry. It's ready, are you? Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HowStuffWorks.com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always is Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and we are going to sit still for this episode of Stuff You Should Know.

Not me, buddy. Yes, you are. I'm going to do some kong vaulting. Hey, Chuck, you watch The Office, right? Yeah. Okay. Love it. In season six, which I guess was last year, second episode, starts out very funny, with Michael, Andy, and Dwight all engaged in a little something called parkour, and they shout parkour like every couple of seconds. And then what struck me is funny, especially after we decided to do this episode, is that Jim explains what parkour is for anybody who doesn't know, and he cites it as the internet sensation of 2004. So it took, you know, Michael six years to finally catch on to it. What's up? Taking us seven to finally

start podcasting on it. Yes. We've been had calls for this one since we started the show. People have written in and said, what about parkour, dude? I love it. Parkour. And we know it's old. Yeah. So we're not, we've not just discovered this. It's in this article clearly has been on the site since about 2006 or seven. Yeah. Because there's actually a date cited in it as like 2006. And from the extra research that we did on this, it seems like this community has strengthened, expanded, and gotten more legitimate. Whereas, you know, I'm sure with a lot of the rest of the world, it's like the awe and amazement of it, or the newness is worn off. But I was I was heartened to see that the people who do parkour are like, well, we don't really care if you like it or not.

We're going to keep doing this. And they've grown and gotten better. Yeah. I think most people that I know have the same reaction. Then when they see the parkour videos for the first time, which is this is pretty cool. Oh, it's very cool. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm not saying like anybody's like this sucks. It's like the newness is worn off for the general public. Yeah. But people are generally knocked out and then bored. Right. Right. So Chuck, I think we should begin the begin. Right. Great song. In 1902, on a little island in the Caribbean, known as Martinique. You ever been there? No. Yeah, me too. Don't you think I would tell you every couple of days like, oh, I've been to Martinique? Yeah, you probably would. Yeah, it's got a pretty interesting history. In some

trace, the birth of parkour back to then, a French naval officer named Lieutenant George Herbert. I don't think that's how you say his name. What would you say, Frank? George Ebert. George Ebert. He, what happened was the volcano blew up in 1902 there and he- In Martinique? Yeah, in Martinique. He coordinated the rescue of locals and Europeans there and had a chance to watch people fleeing this and saw a decided difference. I take it between some of his European comrades and the local Caribbean's. Well, people are like trying to get around obstacles like, you know, chunks of flying rock that had landed right in front of them and running for their lives. Something about that scene struck Ebert like, wow, this is really amazing.

Well, he saw a great deal of athleticism going on around him and he said, you know what? You combine that with some courage and what you have is what we're going to call in America to be strong and useful. How would you say that in French, Josh? Strong and useful. That's what I'm saying. And that's the basis of the natural method, right? Yeah, the natural method which in French would be what? Method naturel. Sure. And that inspired French military training. That became the basis for French military training. Apparently, they were the first people to use obstacle courses or or what? The path of the warrior parkour, the combat town. Yeah. So you hear that word parkour with the C. I heard it. That's where it

came from. Yeah. So basically, this guy is like this French physical fitness guru that you've never heard of, but really has inspired a lot of the probably cleaner cut quarters of France, right? Yes. So that formed the part of the basis for the philosophy of what came to be known as parkour because it inspired this kid named David Bell, right? Well, first it was his father Raymond Bell was a soldier in French Special Forces. Okay. He learned all this stuff, passed it on to a son David and said, it's pretty cool. You might want to learn this. Yeah. And we left out a very important point. The natural method is basically like physical fitness is all you need is what you find in nature. So you want to do some chin ups, you can find a tree branch, jerk. You want to

like work out your upper body, push a huge rock up a hill or isometric and push against a wall. Right. And then the point of that, this is the other big point. The point of being physically fit is like you said, so you can be useful to society. Yeah. In case of an emergency, in case an old lady needs help, like you can pick her up and carry her across the street with one hand, that kind of thing. There's something beside for that. Okay. So David Bell is 15 years old. It's 1988. He lives in Lise, France, which is a suburb of Paris. And his dad's been like, check this dude out. And he is just inspired. Yeah. But not only Ebert, but also again in Bruce Lee. That's right. Bruce Lee's fluid movements, not as rigid as a

lot of martial artists were before him. No. It's about adaptability, adapting to the situation. Yeah, sure. Somewhere in that, in David Bell's brain, he put that together. He put Bruce Lee, George Ebert, and a mailbox in front of him, all together and decided to leap over it with his hands rather than walk around it. Boom, parkour. That's parkour. He chained, he added a K instead of a C. Got together with his best buddy, Sebastian Foucault, and they established a group. They were called themselves Tressures. Which Tressure means to leave a trail in French. Oh, okay. Tressure is slang in Paris for hurry. Oh, there you have it. Yeah. Hurry up and make a trail. Yeah, that's what you're doing. So they organized a group. The first group of parkour

enthusiasts basically called the Yamakaze, not to be confused with Yamazaki, which is Santori time. It's Japanese single malt whiskey. Yeah, it's good stuff. So anyway. I had it in an Okonomiyaki station. Chances are if you type in Yamakaze on the internet, it'll bring up the other Yamazaki and you'll be buying liquor before you know it. Right. And then you can watch some cool parkour videos while you imbibe. That's right. The war on drugs impacts everyone, whether or not you take drugs. America's public enemy number one is drug abuse. This podcast is going to show you the truth behind the war on drugs. They told me that I would be charged for conspiracy to distribute 2200 pounds of marijuana. Yeah, and they can do that without any drugs on the table.

The war on drugs is the excuse our government uses to get away with absolutely insane stuff. Stuff that'll piss you off. The property is guilty. Exactly. And it starts as guilty. It starts as guilty. The cops, are they just like looting? Are they just like pillaging? They just have way better names for what they call like what we would call a jack move or being robbed. They call civil acid. Be sure to listen to the war on drugs on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Ready, set, slay. Squirrel Friends, the official RuPaul's Drag Race podcast is taking you behind the scenes of RuPaul's Drag Race season 15 on MTV with me, Alec Moppa, and my co-host, Lonnie Love. Alec and I will recap the latest episode, The Best and Worst Looks,

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awareness about what Parkour was. Right, and prior to that he included it in his film Taxi 2. Oh yeah? Yeah, so that was the first time Parkour was introduced to the general public in mass media and because Luke Besan apparently was a huge devotee very early on. So in two different movies and two successive years he made Parkour part of the theme. Yeah, and if you recognize Bell's buddy's name, Sebastian Foucault, he was the dude who was chased in Casino Royale, the opening awesome Parkour chase that Daniel Craig chases this dude. So it starts to kind of percolate into the public consciousness in the early 2000s. The late 90s, we should say, by the late 90s there was already a rift in the Parkour community. Yeah, the communities

like this always like to battle. Like there's always purists it seemed like and then people who want to change it and take it into what they feel like is the next level. Right. Like skateboarding same thing happened back in the 70s. So with Parkour, the point is if you're a purist with Parkour, you don't you never move backwards. Everything is for utility and you get from point A to point B as efficiently as possible, which often includes jumping over a mailbox. Yeah, the main rule and this is what's cool in Parkour is that obstacles are used to increase your efficiency. Yeah, it's not like this something got to go around. It's let me use this to vault forward faster and possibly gain some momentum. Maybe trade a little little kinetic energy for

a little potential energy. Yeah. And then turn that into more kinetic energy and the few Red Bulls. Well, Red Bull actually sponsored one of the what was it called the Red Bull Art of Motion tournament. It's competition. Yeah. And we'll get into that in a minute because the purists don't like the competition aspect. But the motto of the WFPF, which is the World Freerunning in Parkour Federation, I think that was established in 07. It is no obstacle, no freedom, K and OW for both. Get it? I do now. I didn't tell you you told me about the K. You know your freedom. So that's so Parkour A to B using obstacles, never going backwards, freerunning huge, huge difference. You can go backwards. Now going backwards. Does that mean

like you I get the idea from Parkour is that you you're running toward the wall and you don't stop and go. All right, let me see. I should probably go like here here. You just attack the wall, don't you? I think that's the case with both of them. But really honestly, one of the main differences is like freerunning allows for movement backward to continue going forward, where Parkour is like, no, you have to keep going forward all the time. And freerunning also allows for movements that are purely aesthetic and enter right and not necessarily just the efficiency of moving forward. Those are the two differences between freerunning and Parkour. Also known as flair. If you think that's stupid, well, the the reason behind it is that there

was a rift or separation and ideals between David Bell and his as the the F. P. Wait, what is it? W. F. P. W. F. P. F. Yeah, yeah. As the W. F. P. F puts it, his then best friend, Sebastian Foucault. Yeah, they know they fell out, I guess. I think they're still buddies. But basically, Foucault's like, no, you can move backwards and Bell's like, no, you can't. And they were like, well, it looks like we have a problem here. And that's where freerunning came from. It split off from Parkour. I bet you there was a little bit of, well, I founded it in New York, Casino Royale. Well, that came after. So that split was in the late 90s. So that really cemented it then. Yeah. And then a lot of people are like, you know, Foucault is a big sellout. He's in ads. He's

all flash and everything. And that apparently, that argument doesn't hold much water, because David Bell has done quite a bit to bring Parkour into the public consciousness. Specifically, he introduced it to Britain in 2002, I believe, right? With a BBC short. Yeah, Rush Hour. Did you see it? It's pretty awesome. It's very much like an ad. He's sitting in his apartment and his clothes. And then he gets up, you know, it takes his shirt off, of course, and strips down to the, like the running pants and then just climbs out his window and takes off. And there's, you know, traffic going below and he's zipping all over the place like a, you know, Parkour expert that he is. Right. And then he eventually gets back in his apartment

and sits back down the couch and is like, yeah, I'm done. And so they show that on BBC One and everybody was like, what was that? That was awesome. And then they found out, well, wait a minute, that people actually do this. This guy is real. And that was the birth of Parkour. I think a year later, urban free flow, which is like the de facto British wing of Parkour and free, free running, free running. Yeah. And for some reason, my brain just glitched. And I was like, that's not right. Well, and almost immediately kids started getting hurt because they didn't, I don't know if they didn't realize, but Bell had a decade of training of learning this craft. Or creating it. Creating it. And then teenagers saw Rush Hour and like, let me go out and like,

let me try to scale a wall. And there were a couple of deaths. Yeah. There was one recently, actually in California, right? In Sacramento in 2009, the kid was into Parkour and he died from falling off of an eight story parking deck. Yeah. And this is, we should have front loaded this, but this is where we say Parkour is very, can be very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. I think it can be very dangerous even if you do know what you're doing. Yeah. It requires a high degree of skill with like gymnastics, possibly martial arts. Yeah. Yeah. If you look at Sebastian Foucault and the dude is ripped. Yeah. Like he's probably going to be able to hang on to a ledge with one hand if he really needs to. I can't. The average 12 year old doesn't have

that kind of upper body strength. Exactly. But average 12 year olds, the one who's like really fascinated with this. Yeah. And if you are fascinated and there are a lot more, it's been legitimized to the extent that there are a lot more training facilities, indoor padded things where you can practice this kind of thing. So you don't just go out and hit the streets and start jumping off of buildings. That's right. We would not advise that. No. All right. So Chuck, there's a, I think in the public imagination, there's a lot of comparisons with skateboarding, right? Others kids, like they're right there in front of the courthouse. So, and they're skateboarding and they're not using a skateboard, but they like to be doing the same

thing. Apparently, especially parkour purists find this very offensive. That's not offensive. I don't think it's offensive either. Using buildings, you know, same deal. They're basically like, no, skateboarders are bad kids. We're good kids. We're doing this so we can be useful to society when the time comes. Skateboarders are great kids. Agreed. And Josh, like skateboarding in the 70s, once the popularity increased, it started to be thrown or prostituted, if you will, on to like ads and TV shows and corporate events. They listed that. I did not know corporate events hired parkour people. Corporate event. If you got enough money, you do everything. Okay. There's this great show of Bruce Hornsby playing for the Fujitsu corporations like Christmas party.

And it's awesome. It's like an hour and a half long Bruce Hornsby show and he gets increasingly drunker to where like he does a little ditty and improv ditty about his scotch. Really? Yeah. It's really great. It's really great. If you can ever get your hands on that bootleg, it's worth it. Well, and up in the air, which I know you didn't care for, but the, when they had hired young MC for that one corporate event to perform, that was pretty funny. Bust a move. The war on drugs impacts everyone, whether or not you take drugs. America's public enemy, number one, is drug abuse. This podcast is going to show you the truth behind the war on drugs. They told me that I would be charged for conspiracy to distribute 2,200 pounds of marijuana.

Yeah. And they can do that without any drugs on the table. Without any drugs, of course, yes, they can do that. And I'm the prime example of that. The war on drugs is the excuse our government uses to get away with absolutely insane stuff. Stuff that'll piss you off. The property is guilty. Exactly. And it starts as guilty. It starts as guilty. The cops, are they just like looting? Are they just like pillaging? They just have way better names for what they call like what we would call a jackmove or being robbed. They call civil acid for it. Be sure to listen to the war on drugs on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Ready, set, slay. Squirrel friends, the official RuPaul's Drag Race podcast is taking you behind

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podcast on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. Yes, like skateboard. Also, like skateboarding. Once competition started to be mentioned, purists said, no, no, no, no. It's not about competition. We compete all the time against each other on the streets, man. But we don't need no metal. We don't need no judge. But, you know, like anything. Red Bull was like, oh, you know, what about this stack of money? Red Bull and Barclay, World Freerunning Championships, MTV has a show now, of course, called Ultimate Parkour Challenge. The purists still aren't too happy about most of that, to be honest. There's a lot of complaining going on on parkour boards.

And here we are, representing both coasts, east and west. That's right. Let's talk about the moves. Let's do it. You want to talk about the cat leap first? Yeah, there's a few standard moves. So the cat leap is basically like say you're close your eyes, unless you're driving right now. Say you are on a, the edge of one, five foot parking deck. Okay. All right. It's five feet off the ground. And then there's another, there's a gap, a five foot gap in between it and the edge of another parking deck, which is seven feet off the ground. Yeah, there's a wall in front of you. So let's say you are, you're like, well, I think a cat leap would be best for this.

What you do is you run off of the first parking deck, jump the gap, grab the ledge of the first, of the second parking deck and hit it with your feet. You just plant it right there on the wall. And basically you're just hanging off the side for a nanosecond before you, you use the momentum to pull yourself up with your arms and jump the rest of the way onto the next parking. Yeah, very cat-like. It's used to get onto a higher object than you're currently on and it's good way. That's much, much better play. The roll, very common. You've seen stunt guys do this forever. They jump off a building onto a lower building and they always, you know, to absorb the shock on their legs. They tuck and roll. They absorb it in their shoulder instead.

Exactly. Tuck and roll, cover the head, pop back up and keep going because it's all about forward movement with parkour. Yeah. Whereas I would jump off, I would land, probably break my ankle, vomit, and then like lay there until somebody found me. That's what Chuck would do. My favorite, as you know, is the con vault. Well, the con vault is the coolest. It's the coolest. It looks like what apes do in the jungle. You run up on, let's say, a wall and you leap forward and you push yourself off with your hands. Plant with your hands. And don't let your legs touch it all and just follow on through. And there's double con rolls where you tap twice. There's triples. There's even, we saw a quadruple in a gym. So basically when your hand is touching that wall,

your body is laid out behind you. It's like you're diving toward it almost. Exactly. But you have like your two hands about just a little ahead of your shoulders. And then right when your hands touch, you bring your legs up basically through your chest and the wall. And then you just found away. You vault away. Hence the name con vault. Looks very animal like. And one of the early practitioners said that he noticed that it's like witnessing an animal in the jungle. Very aggressive. That's one of the goals of parkour is that you can basically move as quickly and fluidly as an animal. And then instinctually too is what I understand. I will never know that sensation. No, no. But it's what I understand is the goal. You got the precision jump, which is

pretty easy. It's basically like a standing broad jump. You just jump from one place to another. Yeah. But that's if like, I want to jump on that little two foot section of wall, like you don't have the benefit of a roll because there's nothing else there. Yeah. And then the speed wall. Yeah, that's easy. That's basically like how any kid has ever jumped like a chain link fence. You just put one hand down and throw your, throw your feet the opposite side over. And I guess with parkour, the difference is that you're doing this much more quickly. Yes. And you keep running. And those are just a handful of moves or many, many more Jim Cotta like moves that you can do like side wall runs and sliding and people now are doing

those little half flips, adding a little flair to it. I guess the free runners are pretty cool. So Chuck, let's say that you are listening to this. You're like, I have tons of upper body strength. I'm 18 or older and no regard for my wellbeing. Right. And I'm really interested in this. Where would one go to find out more about parkour or to learn parkour? You'd go to a jam. Well, that's one place. It's when they get together and hit the streets. But if you want to learn, like I said, you can go to the, there's gyms all over the country now. There are. There's academies where you can sure you can pay. If you go to parkour.com slash groups, you can look up basically people who are doing it in your area. And that's probably one of the

most recommended ones, especially if you don't have any cash to shell out, because you're going to learn in the context of other people who know parkour no more than you do. And so you'll learn safety as well, but you'll be challenged too. And then yes, there's academies as well. There's videos everywhere, everywhere. YouTube has at least six different channels according to parkour.com of just parkour videos. And basically you want to wear a helmet at all times. You want to wear knee pads and one of those big sumo guy suits. I don't see parkour people wearing any of that stuff. No, well, I'm. Beginner. Okay. See, oh, yeah, beginners. You should always do that. Oh, also, I should have probably mentioned at the beginning of this that by downloading this episode

in pressing play, you immediately forfeited any rights to sue us or any of our parent companies. You'd be careful out there. Yeah. I want to, I'm going to, you know, my goal in life should be, I want to do a successful con leap. It's not going to happen. I want to do that, dude. I will watch you try. I'm fast. I will watch you try anytime. I'm a lot faster than you would think. Let's go right now. I get these little legs pumping and I can, I get my upper body leaning in the right direction. Okay. And it's, it's pretty funny. I will watch you. Only remarks about my, my cat like speed for a guy with a few extra pounds on him. Okay. I want to see this. I'm going to learn this. Okay. No, I want to practice too. I don't want to see the final result. I'm going to perfect

it. I want to see everything leading up to that. Now you're not going to do, I'm going to learn it in secret. And then next time we're in New York, I'm just going to bust it out one day. You're going to be like holy crap. I've chugged you to the con leap. That would be very surprising. I, I look forward to that day. All right. You too. If you want to learn more about parkour, type in P-A-R-K-O-U-R. Now at the C because then it wouldn't be down at the street into the search bar at howstuffworks.com. And I said search bar. I didn't say handy. Either way, it still brings up listener mail. That's right, Josh. We're going to call this and the winner is, because you and I have to decide. Did you get this from Matt from England? He and his wife,

the twisted couple. It's okay. I know you read it. Hey guys, flipping great podcast. I love it. I'm a watch commander in the fire service here in Leeds, England. And my wife is an A and E nurse. I think that's emergency room in England, maybe. I'm guessing because she sees some weird stuff. Right now, we have always tried to tirelessly one up one another at the end of each shift, which with the worst story of the day, because they both see odd things, generally we tie on things like car wrecks, fires, burn victims, suicides. And by the way, I'm acutely aware of how sick this is, but it's the spice that keeps our particular chili going. That's what he says. Well, the only ones he's talking shop at about work. Sure, basically. The

ones we really compete with are the extra disgusting ones. So here's a conundrum. On the last tour, I was sure I had a winner. We had to assist a morbidly obese gentleman from his house onto an ambulance gurney. Upon moving his portly frame, I felt something land on my leg. I couldn't initially, Jerry's getting grossed out already. I couldn't initially see what it was, because my hands and face were pressed firmly into the mushy flesh at the time, but I could hear the intakes of breath and gipping noises from the firefighters on my shift. I don't even know what a gipping noise is. On inspection, it turned out that nine inches of this man's intestines were draped over my wet legs. Stuck for what to do in such an instance,

should I push it back in, carry it with me, tuck it into his pocket? I opted to shuffle with him to the ambulance and then gently peel it free from my leg and set it beside him, making sure to break with the awkward silence with, here you go mate, you better take this with you. Regardless of this incident, I was sure I had my wife beat, and then she hits me with this. A guy walked into her triage department, pulled his pants down, and had the tail of a fish sticking out of his rear end. Evidently, it had been frozen and then thawed out. I get the feeling this was one of those dockets, it was a million to one chance type of things. And when it thawed out, the bones splayed out and it became stuck inside of his butt. So boys, I need your help.

Which one wins? Which is worse? Chuck, this is much like comparing apples to oranges. In some ways they're similar, they're both roundish, they're both fruits, but then they have many distinctions, the apple skin is smooth, the oranges is speckled, the orange is orange colored, the apple is generally red, although it can be yellowish or green, you never see an orange apple, I guess is my point. I'm going to say that while they're both extremely interesting, both entirely gruesome, the fish story is far too comical to win this one in my opinion. I think the man's intestines coming out and having to be put back in by hand with a gentle, here you go mate, is by far the winner. I agree, I feel like

Judge John Hodgeman all of a sudden, we render our verdict and we're going with you, Matt. You are the winner, Matt in Leeds, England, congratulations for enduring the intestine on your leg. Yes, definitely. And he said anytime, if we want to, if we're ever in Leeds, he will let us ride on the fire truck. Awesome, I would take him up on that. I would too. Yeah, so we really should have put that one after the Decapitation podcast, if you ask me. Yeah, it would have been fitting. Either way, if you ever accidentally stumbled upon something, say, in your attic or at a yard sale that turned out to be extremely valuable, we love those stories and want to hear them, send them to us. You can post them on Facebook, facebook.com,

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