I had never heard of Pakour before, but was looking at some youtube videos. Lots of the things done were believable, having just watched the summer olympics. All the things shown were amazing to me, but some seemed impossible. Specifically, some leaps between buildings seemed too far to do, and some jumps seemed way too high. Are the videos generally done in camera, or is a lot of cgi used?
Except for the drop to the dumpster, I’m pretty sure all the rest is real. There’s didn’t look to be any fake stuff going on there. Those guys are pretty amazing.
Agreed. My 17yr son trains at parkour with a few friends and he could do most of those moves albeit not as smoothly. And with numerous scrapes and bruises lol. Good fun.
I just watched David Belle on youtube. The big secret seems to be that when he jumps from building to building they cart up sand so he lands on something soft. The fact that he jumps impossibly far, or lands without killing himself is plenty amazing. Who cares if he uses sand?
Near the end is a link to this behind the scenes video. I didn’t watch it all but skimmed through some of it and happened to catch the film maker at 6:40 saying his videos are all real but they had to do one special effect for the opening shot.