Take Flight

Ok, for the record the Germans are hilarious…in a good way. This is the third German news feature we have found that covered the same Parkour event! And we suspect there are a few more out there! This one was produced by Sat 1: Blitz and features David Belle at the 2006 OSRAM World Meeting in Berlin, Germany.

This broadcast is a little more fun than the last two German news features we uncovered because in addition to having some unique footage of David it also mixes in some clips from David’s Accroches Toi video, and some clips of people falling during the workshop. We are not making fun of people falling in any way because not only has it happened to us countless time, but this can be a serious and dangerous occurrence. Furthermore David himself says, “I fall all the time. I fall like monkeys.” To strictly make fun of someone for falling would be flat out distasteful. Nevertheless, in all honesty these falls made us laugh so it definitely added to the entertainment value of the video. Something else that might make you laugh is the fact that this feature is completely in German and thus, again, we have absolutely no idea what they are saying. But the anchors do interview some of the same Tracers that spoke in the Kabel 1: Abenteuer Leben news feature which we posted yesterday. So if you understood that post than you will probably understand this one as well.

Since we don’t know what these people are saying specifically -although in reality most Parkour news features to date have pretty much all said the same thing which we won’t repeat for the sake of further repetitiveness and lack of originality- you may wonder why we even decided to post this video in the first place. To that we have a very simple answer: it features the greatest Tracer of all time David Belle, a performer who never gets boring no matter how many times we hear him say the same things or watch him do the same moves over, and over, and over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1R2dpDOOs