# Insane parkour, or 'shopped? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 29, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428 "2010-07-29T05:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/1 "2010-07-29T05:46:28Z")
[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0R1_ue4oY). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/2 "2010-07-29T06:35:08Z")
I dont know but it is blatant product advertisement for an energy drink. And if it isn’t shopped, those guys are fucking insane! ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/3 "2010-07-29T06:43:05Z")
You can be sure there was some kind of safety system in place. The production insurance for doing that kind of stunt as it appears would be unfathomable. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/4 "2010-07-29T06:45:41Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I dont know but it is blatant product advertisement for an energy drink. If it is a commercial, does Pete Seeger know about it? ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/5 "2010-07-29T12:18:07Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > You can be sure there was some kind of safety system in place. The production insurance for doing that kind of stunt as it appears would be unfathomable. What, even if they just give them cameras to record it and then edit the results? ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/6 "2010-07-29T12:28:25Z")
I only see a couple of spots where they’re doing any really seriously dangerous stuff that might require safety precautions - I’d bet it’s real, though there might be some post production done to edit out safety lines, etc. I think that they could probably sign waivers to avoid insurance issues. And I think that it ws professionally shot, not done by the parkour guys themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/7 "2010-07-29T14:21:45Z")
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zpmvi1v1Vs&feature=related) video seems to contain some of the same scenes as the advert. You can clearly see safety lines in some spots of the video (albeit, they try to hide them by blurring, or only showing the scene very quickly). ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/8 "2010-07-29T17:53:52Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > > [@Rigamarole](#): > > > > You can be sure there was some kind of safety system in place. The production insurance for doing that kind of stunt as it appears would be unfathomable. > > What, even if they just give them cameras to record it and then edit the results? It’s a professionally produced video; you don’t just “give some guys a camera” to get those kinds of results. It is a production, ergo there is a production crew, ergo filming permits and production insurance are a must. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/9 "2010-07-29T22:54:35Z")
Yes it’s a professionally-produced advertisment for a sports drink. An earlier add in the series had a guy on a jet pack putting a road cone on Auckland’s 300 metre high Sky Tower. ([video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_KqHmtGiFQ)) Obviously that one was fake. So my guess is this video has been ‘dramatised’ as well in parts. However, I’m not so sure about the need for expensive insurance. In New Zealand we have the [ACC scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_Compensation_Corporation) - comprehensive no-fault coverage for all injuries caused by accidents. So the producers might not have bothered with injury insurance at all… ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/10 "2010-07-30T03:45:36Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > An earlier add in the series had a guy on a jet pack putting a road cone on Auckland’s 300 metre high Sky Tower. ([video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_KqHmtGiFQ)) Obviously that one was fake. Only in that would take much longer than 30 seconds to make it to the top of the tower and back, 30 seconds being the general time limit for a jet pack of this type (H2O2 decomposition reaction). ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insane-parkour-or-shopped/548428/11 "2010-07-30T21:41:00Z")
Yes, [safety lines](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AA2HnArL-E) were used and edited out.