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Parkour on ABC's iCaught PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 26 August 2007
 

UPDATE: The segment will now air tomorrow night at 9:00.

ABC interviewed and filmed David Belle in France, as well as some of the US guys for a story on Parkour for their new show iCaught. Bill Weir came to Primal Fitness for a day with Skynative, Demon, Jesse, Will, Skipper, Leon, Amanda and I (Kipup joined us for a little jam). We'll have some pics up shortly. ABC has an article about the show here, and some photos here. Read more for my opinion of the article ...

I think it's a good article with one small exception, they say that I "concede" that products won't make you better at parkour, when I have never said or insinuated that products were necessary in any way or would make you better. Interestingly enough, the APK online store has had this note as the terms of every sale since it's inception: "These products will not make you any better at Parkour." I will concede that minor inaccuracies are not uncommon in the media :)


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1. 08-26-2007 21:09

Aw it ok Mark, you dont have to explain that to us! 
 
And they really got some killer pictures up on that site...... lol 
 
Cant wait for it though, Should be cool!!!
Skipper

2. 08-27-2007 07:44

Cool stuff, and I appreciate the credit, but I didn't have anything to do with the day at Primal, you guys handled it well-enough without me ;)
gearsighted

3. 08-27-2007 07:49

neither the gym nor this website exist without you, so fair enough.
M2.

4. 08-27-2007 07:54

I saw an ad for this yestereday. They didn't make it look like it was going to be too good...I hope I'm wrong! And by the looks of who it's on, I think I will be
Skinny

5. 08-28-2007 19:41

i just watched it very cool, u guys did a great job describing it to the public :-)
Flashblastx

6. 08-29-2007 06:35

The segment wasn't bad at all - but seriously: 
 
"From District B-12" 
 
awww man....c'mon?
Sherpa

7. 08-29-2007 08:33

It was alright. There was definately a lot of small details that were wrong. It's great to see Belle talk, but I wish they had subbed so his voice could be heard.null
BaoUnit

8. 08-29-2007 13:02

I missed the show! Did anyone record it?
Phytolith

9. 08-29-2007 14:51

It would be awesome to get hold of that sign with the "No parkour like exercise"... 
 
Seeing those shots with the kid messing up that flip from roof to roof had my stomach turn :x
DanThePARKOURMan

10. 08-31-2007 08:38

If you are referring to the one gap roof jump, I watched it on youtube and the man was also using a spring board, because it can be heard in the microphone and if you watch the body motion, it is not akin to how one moves off of their own momemtum
blessed6386

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