Is Jackie Chan the REAL Founder of Parkour?

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Jackie Chan has long been revered for his impressive stunt work and a style that is truly unique to him. However people often don't give Jackie Chan enough credit for his role in creating the foundations for the sport of Parkour & Freerunning. In today's video we explore the connection between Parkour, Jackie Chan & Martial Arts.
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[@laksjdfhghfhdkskdjfh]

Was that Benj on the television?

[@furrybproductions]

When I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s in NYC, that's how we played tag on the jungle gym because we loved martial arts movies like that of Jackie Chan and Brandon Lee.

[@jozefkozon4520]

So, Parkour is wu xia dyscypline.

[@owenteamtraceur]

Boooooo! Only available in US

[@heiselblock]

its too bad he wants too join the communist's party

[@chrism45]

What Jackie does in his movies is definitely parkour

[@AntonAdelson]

Since Jackie was before parkour one could say that parkour definitely does Jackie Chan :))

[@jashardwallington]

Literally every movie in Kung Fu there's a skill called light body skill its literally Chinese parkour

[@white_boy_billy6201]

More free running than parkour but ya

[@nithazra]

Parkour is more than just the movement - no-one who trains parkour can claim just the movements as their own. What Jackie does is move in a wonderful and inspirational way.

[@Habsnska]

Do you mean pure* Parkour?

[@RazorEdge2006]

Contrary to popular belief, Jackie Chan's style of action-comedy was actually NOT inspired by Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd. In a recent interview, Chan said that he didn't even know who they were up until around the mid-to-late 80s, when he started noticing that Western critics are comparing him to Keaton and Lloyd. Chan was trying to break into Hollywood at the time, so he went along with it and cited them as influences, thinking that might be a good way to promote himself in the West. But he never actually watched their movies until they became available on VHS in the late '80s. The real roots of Jackie Chan's style of action-comedy is actually the Peking Opera School, where he spent much of his childhood, along with Sammo Hung and Yuen Baio, together known as the "Three Dragons". Along with Jackie, Sammo and Yuen were also developing a similar style of action-comedy, e.g. Sammo's Enter the Fat Dragon (1978), which came out the same year as Jackie's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master. So what Jackie was really doing is building on the comic acrobatic antics of Chinese opera, while modernizing it and taking it to a whole new level.

[@jeddy681]

Can I have a source for that? Doing a project about Jackie Chan!

[@RazorEdge2006]

@@jeddy681 "Jackie Chan on Project A, the martial arts film that set a creative template for his decades of show business success" (South China Morning Post, 2020)

[@RazorEdge2006]

I also found out the roots of Jackie Chan's "parkour" style: qing gong. That's a Chinese martial arts training discipline, and has a striking resemblance to parkour. So Chan was actually doing qing gong, but modernizing it in an urban setting. Which then led to parkour.

[@felixdom9693]

@@RazorEdge2006 they call it body light mean chinese parkour

[@felixdom9693]

JACKIE CHANS IS A LEGEND A MASTER OF HIS GAME AND HE HAVE HIS OWN UNIQUE AND DO PARKOUR PERFRCTLY

[@hannahscholtzz7355]

I've always thought Jackie Chan was the godfather of parkour

[@burningknuckle26]

same

[@Vahn-xc1gc]

Parkour can be trace back before many time from China till Japanese Ninja skill.

[@Nazoto]

When I first saw parkour l immediately thought they're doing Jackie Chan moves

[@you_tube6733]

100%

[@sketchbookbros635]

Bro true

[@davidsimpson3885]

When we First started doing "parkour" we used to call it freestyle running as the term Parkour hadnt been coined yet, doing gaps and then trying to implement skate varials like flatspins etc then adding in grabs and all, we used to grind handrails when they were wet in trainers (aslong as they hadnt already been waxed for skating). Even when landing for weird precissions we would Land it in a skate style stall and spin out of it implement grabs and the like. Doing Arm flips with a 360 spin and then reverting 180 as youre landing. We were all Jackie Chan fans, we even had a jackie chan lunch time club where we watched his films in our lunch breaks. He is who got is into the idea of freedom of movement, where any sport we did we were more interested in doing some cool shit rather than winning the game, from Basketball and Rugby to even Hockey.

[@JimmyTheGiant]

That's awesome man, thanks for sharing! Parkour is so innate in us as humans, all we do as practitioners is rediscover it

[@MrMakingwavesmedia]

No that is not the case you are wrong.

[@user-wv1in4pz2w]

When we first started doing parkour, we weren't calling it anything, çause we were monkeys

[@ems7623]

Wrong. Parkours originated way before "freerunning" came around. The techniques originate about 100 years ago described in a book by a Frenchman who used the word "Parkours."

[@zwenkwiel816]

Well didn't everyone used to do this as kids? Like we climbed grinded or jumped of everything we could find. Also loved to hang out on roof tops and shit but I wouldn't really call anything we did parkour. I mean finding fun in movement and wanting to be faster or jump higher than your friends is just natural.

[@fighttips]

Jackie Chan is probably the coolest human being of all time.

[@internetexplorer7143]

I agree

[@williamtillier4246]

Wtf Shane i did not expect to see you here

[@RinkatsiTV]

Nah. Its either jack from titanic or captain america

[@atl773]

@@RinkatsiTV gtfo

[@quentinkelly8773]

Jackie Chan and Keanu Reeves** Fight me 🤣🤣

[@cimmeriabastardsword]

Parkour or not Jackie’s stunts are legendary. He’s had put his life in the line more than once just for entertain us. You got to respect the man. Great video btw!👍

[@jp3813]

According to Akira Toriyama, he would have never come up w/ Dragon Ball if he hadn't seen Drunken Master. It's about time that Jackie's contributions to the creation of parkour be widely recognized the same way that Bruce Lee is often credited for paving the way for MMA alongside the Gracie family.

[@DanteAlighieri612]

Bruh, actually goku was actually a copied from superman. Krypton = planet vegeta We though they are both the last survivor of their respective races Superman fight Zod = Goku Fight Vegeta both same race. Faora = Raditz Other brute kryptonian = Nappa Goku who is real name Kakarot Clark kent's real name is Kal El both had K on it's initial Their both parents send them to earth with POD. Hmmm.

[@jp3813]

@@DanteAlighieri612 You're talking about DBZ. None of that alien backstory was in the original Dragon Ball, which is more based on Journey to the West. Hence, Son Goku is a monkey boy who wields a magic staff and rides on a cloud just like Sun Wukong. Again, Toriyama says that he wouldn't have come up w/ Dragon Ball if he hadn't seen Drunken Master. Thus, Master Roshi even uses the alias "Jackie Chun" and knows drunken boxing. Goku is also revealed to be afraid of needles just like Jackie in real life. Bruh, are you really gonna argue w/ the author himself?

[@shiranuiaensland1442]

@@DanteAlighieri612 That is what is called a retcon. Another example would be Quicksilver's and Scarlet Witch's parentage changing over and over. Going from mutants to human experiments in the comic books. Or the original version of Superman not being able to fly, and Batman using a handgun.

[@VegitoBlueYT]

@@DanteAlighieri612 yeah thats good and all but um all this happened in uhh *DBZ* which was released like 4 years after Dragon ball

[@guyverjay1289]

@@DanteAlighieri612 - dude never correct someone unless you know what you are talking about

[@RazorEdge2006]

I also found out the roots of Jackie Chan's "parkour" style: qing gong. That's a Chinese martial arts training discipline, and has a striking resemblance to parkour. So Chan was actually doing qing gong, but modernizing it in an urban setting. Which then led to parkour.

[@LokeKS]

You are right

[@haifengwu3423]

Haha but he didn’t know qinghong. In fact I don’t think it’s quite a valid martial art in China, the Qinggong

[@jono601]

Their only striking resemblance is that they’re both useless and over stylized crap that seems cool to children.

[@GuinessOriginal]

@@haifengwu3423 yeah he learnt it when he was doing acrobatics in operas in the 70s

[@dwlonewolf2273]

@@jono601 Parkour is actually far from useless.

[@ThompterSHunson]

When I first saw Parkour in my life I was like _"Jackie Chan did these things 30 years ago"_

[@nathanielberger1595]

Jackie Chan is definately what got me into parkour. Mr Bell was pretty good in District 13 but ultimately i grew up with Jackie and wanted to move the same way. Im sure cavemen invented parkour but no one turned it into a monetizable sport.

[@coreykrochmal3465]

Parkour has always been around and will always be around, but at this point in time it just has a definition and is an organized idea. To say somebody "founded" parkour movement seems almost irrelevant, but maybe the question is more directed towards who popularized and developed further

[@jashardwallington]

Yea Basically

[@user-qg8fe9hw6h]

a lot of parkour movements i think are quite natural human movements. if you watch the storror video where they teach the favela kids, a lot of them are already good even though they’ve never done it before. that’s why jackie chan looks like he’s doing parkour, because both jackie and david belle based it from those natural movements.

[@burntgrass8066]

Well idk, what they did was train it as a sport or martial art. Sure people had been doing parkour movements forever, but I think it’s the idea of having that philosophy and training it how they did, making it it’s own thing I guess

[@white_boy_billy6201]

@@burntgrass8066 facts

[@evanalesawe2766]

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[@sowts5157]

Jakie chan's "who am I" is still one of the best films i've ever seen Anyone who hasn't seen it needs too

[@izzyplusplusplus1004]

Fully agree, one of his best.

[@oomz1975]

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[@chewwa1700]

The first time I ever saw parkour (way back when David Belle was big) the first thing I thought was this is Jackie Chan in movies but in the form of a sport. Honestly I don’t see how anybody can say what Jackie does in movies isn’t parkour.

[@jashardwallington]

Faxx

[@tab5e53]

typical Western cultural appropriation. by labelling things in western languages, they then say they invented and discovered everything. in a 100 years time. People in France will say jackie chan stole parkour from the French.

[@crossdagostino5778]

Same, like the first thing comes into mind was his stunts, amazingly done ofc

[@zwenkwiel816]

@@tab5e53 how is it appropriation when he's literally crediting Jackie chan as the founder, you moron?!

[@comdrive3865]

only gatekeepers would say jackie isn't parkour

[@ktowntraceur]

I've watched the clip at 16:38 of David bouncing that massive height drop so many times over the years and it still blows my mind.

[@tanmayshekhawat]

Me too, man. I don't think even Dom Tomato has done something massive like that without roll and that springiness. Crazy

[@troyg1723]

Best pair of shocks I've ever seen 🥵

[@tyrellchibvongodze3566]

Noticed that. Awesome skillz!

[@jordvn.exe_]

"They were Goku"... as Jimmy shows a video of Gohan xD xD xD xD

[@md.nasimbhuiyan1731]

🤣🤣🤣

[@JimmyTheGiant]

FML, i aint a Dragon ball guy but i tried hahah

[@jordvn.exe_]

@@JimmyTheGiant haha it's the thought that counts

[@Benijermin]

As soon as I saw that part, I knew someone would point it out. Possibly the thing about the video that bothered me the most! Haha :P

[@isetmysoulonfire]

Beat me to the comment 😂😩

[@raysthelord2767]

Perhaps in a future video, you could talk about qinggong, the set of Chinese techniques found in many martial arts that cover "natural movement" like taking drops, climbing walls, precisions, etc.? It's the basis of Jackie Chan's acrobatics skills that he learned in the Opera, so I'm surprised this wasn't covered!

[@Yarblocosifilitico]

very interesting thanks, I hope he does a video about it

[@JimmyTheGiant]

Travis, whom helped with the video, spoke to me about quinggong, but I couldn't find anything concrete to say it predated parkour in a form that is convincingly parkour if you know what I mean. If you have any good research on it, that'd be muchly appreciated!

[@jashardwallington]

@@JimmyTheGiant its called light body skill its literally Chinese parkour

[@jashardwallington]

If you do enough research you'll see parkour has Been around much longer then we think

[@raysthelord2767]

@@JimmyTheGiant I see what you mean. I was taught that qinggong has existed for at least a thousand years, especially used by the Wudang schools; as I said, it's the style of acrobatics used in Hong Kong films and television (augmented with wire fu for some genres like Wuxia). From the basic training I've received in it, it's got the same basic mechanics as parkour, but with less conscious knowledge of the actual motion, it's more "listen to your body and will yourself into the motion", as well as the fundamental knowledge of things like breakfalls and bails we do in parkour. There's definitely a spiritual component to it as well. Therefore, while it's very reminiscent of parkour and covers the same topic of "advanced natural movement", it's hard to call it a direct predecessor to parkour in its current form as far as methodology and philosophy. Awesome video man, thanks for the discussion!

[@TKstorytw]

This video is super high quality

[@nonchablunt]

yes and at the same time just average for jimmytheGIANT.

[@fyfiidleo5486]

你们的也是

[@parkouryan8204]

My dad used to work with Jackie, he hold me when i was a baby, and took a picture, he signed at the back of the photo, i still got that pic now, 23 years later hahahaha, love the dude, he is one of the greatest person I've ever met

[@UrbanFluidityFreerun]

I have been waiting for this video forever. Jacki Chan and AMerican ninja worrier. Both not try parkour but they both inspired me to look up parkour and I saw storm volume 1. Those were my inspirations

[@philipstd]

american ninja worrier. that made me chuckle

[@UrbanFluidityFreerun]

@@philipstd lol

[@SnailHatan]

@@philipstd It made me nervous.

[@Pherenikei]

_Thank you, J. Chan is my best character ever. I am older than you. Chan is ma childhood. a lot of motivation comes from him for example, to learn English._

[@SuperHeroPeanut1]

16:42 what the hell was that drop? U good David

[@woody4431]

Another belter Jimmy. Slowly establishing yourself as the go-to resource for parkour fact, history and analysis. Great to see you in the WCT bails video as well, the perfect environment for JTG.

[@Sceadusawol]

So glad that Buster Keaton was mentioned in this. An underrated legend. Also, the philosophy of parkour needs much more exposure.

[@qwertyki9367]

But all these competitions fucks it up sometimes

[@Sceadusawol]

@@qwertyki9367 I must admit, I'm not really a fan of the competitions.

[@SnailHatan]

@@Sceadusawol I must admit, RB Art of Motion has some absolutely insane moments every single competition and has been huge for freerunning.

[@helperboy5020]

jackie has mentioned his name very often as his main influence from a long time.

[@RazorEdge2006]

@@helperboy5020 Jackie Chan has actually denied this in a recent interview from last year. He said he didn't know who Buster Keaton was until about the mid-to-late '80s when Western critics compared him to Keaton. That's when he found out about Keaton for the first time, and started watching his movies when they became available on VHS in the late '80s. So Chan's movies in the '80s weren't influenced by Keaton, but were actually influenced by "qing gong" (an ancient Chinese martial arts training discipline similar to parkour). Nevertheless, after Chan did find out about Keaton, you can start seeing some of his influence on Chan's work from the late '80s onwards.

[@profwaffel]

There were unnamed Yamakazi groups all over the world in the 80s and 90s, all inspired by Jackie Chan and martial arts and Hollywood stuntmen. Tricking which has now blended with parkour and free running developed from martial arts katas. I would argue that what is called parkour today is closer to what Jackie Chans movements than the martial arts and even military-inspired philosophy of the Belles. The end credit blooper reel in Jackie’s movies are like any parkour youtube video today. For many practitioners training often involves redoing «takes» until a challenge is overcome. Nobody is trying to escape from anybody, except in some rare situations with security, and in the new chase tag sport, which is probably not quite what Belle had in mind.

[@pikachus5m166]

Jackie Chan didn't invent parkour but he certainly inspired it more than anyone else. His combination of martial arts and acrobatic stunts made his action movies unique.

[@Wanderersea]

Jackie Chan was doing Parkour before there were such thing as Parkour.

[@zwenkwiel816]

@@Wanderersea yeah and that French army dude was doing it way before him. And I bet there were other people doing similar stuff as well. It's not like climbing on shit is such a revolutionary idea... Took some French dudes to make all that into the sport we know as parkour though...

[@lyricofwise6894]

​@Zwenk Wiel Jackie's appeal was a huge influence in popularization on Parkour like activity no doubt, lol ya ofc jumping and acrobatics have been around since caveman days

[@alexcant2310]

Day 3 of asking JimmytheGiant to make more training vlogs

[@UrbanFluidityFreerun]

lol

[@JimmyTheGiant]

next weeks vid SHOULD be that, fingers crossed - experimenting with a vlog/ story telling format

[@alexcant2310]

@@JimmyTheGiant HELL YEAH BROTHER

[@laksjdfhghfhdkskdjfh]

@@JimmyTheGiant sounds cool!

[@evanalesawe2766]

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[@ElunearaStarsong]

I love this connection you make of parkour to martial arts. It rings true. An in depth video on the subject would be fantastic. And man, great video! Thank you.

[@GarrettWilliamsKGD]

Amazing! Really interesting to hear the historic links with parkour and martial arts. Would love to see more content like this!

[@Gma.parkour]

Absolutely amazing video man. It's been a long time since I've heard anyone talk about the discipline side of parkour. It's cool that you're able to take popular clickbait-type topics and create content that works to preserve our history and culture.

[@mainr7142]

Absolutely knocked it out of the park with this vid Jimmy. Thorough, interesting, and the bit at the end totally exemplifies my attitude to parkour and movement. We are born to move.

[@rodrigopalma6466]

just imagine jackie chan writing a coment on this video... xD

[@fazilakakar8839]

Lol

[@w1nt494]

"coment"

[@SnailHatan]

@C O Oh, yeah, such a prick to point out a spelling mistake. Boy, I’m so glad that we can just spell anything however we want and be able to communicate effectively with people all over the world, regardless of whatever language they speak. Oh, wait, we can’t.

[@RazorEdge2006]

"Comment" is a dumb spelling to begin with, like most English spellings. We pronounce it "coment" when we speak, yet it's written as "comment" for no good reason at all. Whoever created the English language were a bunch of idiots. The way words are written doesn't even match how the words are actually pronounced.

[@rodrigopalma6466]

@@RazorEdge2006 thats why i sometimes have a hard time trying to write english words.

[@rayantraceur]

Well done Jimmy. I'm going to watch every Jackie Chan movie, I used to love them when I was a kid !

[@onemealmonster]

I had the opportunity to train with Chau Belle during my Adapt cert in Singapore. The guy is a machine! I thought I was good at conditioning, etc. But he was on another level all together! What an experience! Everyone who practices Parkour needs to experience training like that, it's life changing.

[@josueamorimantunes409]

Oh my God... This for me was the best video in this documentary style you've ever done! Thanl you, and please keep doing them

[@theparkourlady894]

Thanks so much for this video. I absolutely enjoyed every part of it. Great stuff man. Gonna subscribe.

[@nonchablunt]

Lee Jun Fan (Bruce) cannot be replaced. But Datuk Fang Shilong (Jackie) delivered great consolation with his own acrobatic, hilarious, creative, entertaining style. Living Legend.

[@c4r7s0n]

I have watched almost all of his movies (With my family) on netflix and we are almost always laughing hard So knowing that he might be the actual founder of one of my favourite things to do is really great

[@jacksimian3176]

Thank you Jimmy! Been dying for someone to make these points, thank you🙏

[@mohammadaminrajabi1828]

wow, such a video man. you are the best jimmy. I can't admire you more for the effort you put into making these videos. I wish you were my history teacher. loved it and learned so much from a single youtube video.

[@dynamitewithalaserbeam4021]

finally,i've been waiting for this

[@Benijermin]

As a big Parkour history nerd, this video is pretty good and I really loved it! I appreciate you bringing to light some of the lesser known aspects of Parkour's history and the founders' inspirations!

[@ashtonjonespk8623]

hey bro this was a sick video as always. so good to see you putting out historical content like this it really shows how much parkour means to all of us. you dont see many people doing this with other sports so its such a good representation of our passion towards the sport. big love as always keep it up

[@asarta703]

Can't wait to see Part 2 'Is Parkour a Matrial Art' video, great stuff man this had a lot of cool insights

[@kyle8442]

My friends and I used "Jackie Chan" as a verb before parkour had a name

[@funkworthrollin4959]

Exactly. That fool JACKIE CHANED HIS ASS OFF THAT. LoL.

[@Ge.no.va13]

“We Do The Jackie Chan As A Hobby.”

[@Joseopher_T]

HE USED HIS KNEES TO CLIMB!!!! (lmao)

[@rsoe9158]

Still better than you tho.

[@olivierlaborde7887]

No knees!!

[@olivierlaborde7887]

Knot the knees!!

[@Jason.budd.]

I’ve been training 10+ years and I’m learning new things historically about this amazing thing we call parkour every day.

[@healholywhole]

Great video, man! Multlayered connection between comedy, martial arts and other sports. Very clever & inspirational. 👍

[@AntonAdelson]

I was keenly aware of the link between parkour and martial arts/self defense when I first started: 11 years ago. I can talk hoouurs on this subject! For example, parkour is the most pacifist martial art because it teaches us personal protection without needing to hurt anyone. Now that I think about it, it makes sense for Chan to specialise in parkour because he's such a nice gentle sweetheart! He'd never want to hurt anyone. I also started training regular martial arts recently and had maaaany discussions with fighters about utility of parkour. Outside of myself I, unfortunately, don't know anyone who is as serious on these two topics as myself so I'd looove to compare my experiences of combining the two disciplines with someone!

[@Yarblocosifilitico]

I'm just starting with both so I can't really help, but I see the link too. Aparently the oldest martial art is kalari and they seem to do a lot of jumping. Qinggong has been mentioned in the comments and it ressembles parkour even more. I imagine ancient warriors would want to know how to fall from a horse as safely as possible, or how to run away as quickly as possible no matter what obstacles they had. The greeks had gymnastics which is similar to parkour too.

[@AntonAdelson]

@@Yarblocosifilitico Ninjitsu is supposed to have parkour in it but all the practitioners I know never learned it as part of their training. Some dabble (at their free time) but not seriously

[@jashardwallington]

You kno I've thought about this

[@jashardwallington]

@@AntonAdelson yea back in ancient times shinobi had parkour like movements

[@shmuckling]

Well, all aspects of combat have positioning and movement tied into them. Boxing has tons of footwork and where you are in the ring is very important. Wrestling more or less actually concerns itself exclusively with movement and positioning. Submission grappling disciplines use a lot of the same movement and positioning as wrestling, but the philosophy and reasoning around some of the positions and transitions is slightly different from that in wrestling. On a side note, in striking arts it's a lot harder to physically force you or your opponent into a disadvantageous position than it is in grappling arts.

[@lucassoyez6078]

I trained with the Yamakasi's for 6 years, especially Chau (they have a school in france called ADD wich translates to Art of motion) it is the first time in all my life that I have seen someone be so accurate about their mentality, they trained us in the discipline but most importantly, they taught us what being a good, respectable and strong man is. They focused a lot on building a familly like bond between the student's, we had to take care of the younger ones, and we had to give our all during training to lighten the burden we put on the older ones that were looking after us. Even as a child, i could see the passion they had for the sport and teaching. Those were the best years of my life and to this day, when i go through hardships, i remember what they taught me and it stil helps me better myself and overcome obstacles in my life, just as it did with obstacles in the street. Thank you for putting a light on this.

[@liamclancy8695]

Man this is one of the most informative videos I’ve ever watched! You really did your research man! Well done!

[@thevillagedrunk9704]

Thanks for the time and effort you put into these Jimmy 🙏

[@tasrayam4127]

Jackie Chan said: "Become dragon? Nah." "*Become Monkey.*"

[@jp3813]

Surprising that he never did a live action movie where he extensively used monkey kung fu like his classmates Sammo Hung & Yuen Biao.

[@eloileost5045]

Man, this video is perfect, you said everything. And I still can't imagine the amount of work you put in your videos. Big up from France

[@realtalk6195]

His basic premise started off faulty. It was British Hong Kong at the time, nothing to do with China's economy opening up. Hong Kong was handed over to PRC by Britain in 1997. This video is either poorly researched or he's been instructed to narrate it this way. Embarrassing.

[@MrJm323]

@@realtalk6195 00:13 .."...in China, in the 1970s" Yep, that is embarrassing. The sad thing is, Jackie Chan probably wouldn't mind it being narrated this way since he has sold out Hong Kong to the CCP.

[@harryrichards8458]

This is the best video I've seen on any of the subjects mentioned. Thank you for this

[@Northandlights]

Thanks for the video! Top content as usual. Keep up the good work mate

[@word_warrior]

This one was extremely interesting.

[@nevonodds]

The Great Bamboo Bambino himself Chan The Man!!

[@kurstone04]

what a Great video.. had me connected start to finish. Well done.. much love from Aotearoa/New Zealand

[@fabiani21]

Thank you for this video man! You nailed it...keep up the good work!

[@profwaffel]

Another interesting aspect is how parkour started out as a form of peaceful rebellion - a way for the youth to reclaim the city and its arcitecture, using it in way that was never intended by the establishment. There was more than a little situationism and adbusting to it. But the establishment has since tried hard to control parkour by attempting to move it from the streets and rooftops to gyms and parkour parks, and by creating organized sportsevents and selling commercial products such as parkour clothes and videogames, etc. I’d love to see you diving into that theme @jimmythegiant

[@FireVisor]

This has always been a relevant topic to me, as a trainer and practitioner. The only kind of competition of parkour that has intrigued my is World Chase Tag. It is sort of analogues to MMA in martial arts, it sort of distills the skill down to the pure basics. It's all about what works.

[@SnailHatan]

What establishment? There is no higher entity trying to control the freerunning youth. It’s just capitalism trying to make money. And gyms are often built by people with deep love and respect for pk/fr who don’t want stupid kids to jump off buildings and die. Gyms are a safe space to get a decent start, gain confidence and consistency in practice. Sure, gym practice and street are different and gyms will never be as fulfilling or freeing, but don’t be an idiot in saying that parkour parks and gyms are some evil manipulation by “the establishment”. It’s just absurd and ignorant.

[@profwaffel]

Pollochino Chickenese By ‘the establishment’, I am talking about commercial interests from within and outside the parkour scenes (gym owners, clothes companies, game designers, film producers, KZbinrs, etc.), as well as landlords and security guards, legislators, city planners, public servants (e.g. parkour training for troubled youth), etc... I am not suggesting that parkour was qualitatively better before, but addressing the fact that parkour has changed dramatically as a social phenomenon in a few decades. I find it interesting.

[@kurniadi9829]

Great video. Thank you for acknowledging the contribution and influence of Jackie Chan. But, there are some inaccuracies in your clip. 1. Bruce Lee was not from Shaw Brothers. Bruce Lee and later Jackie Chan were from Golden Harvest, competitor to Shaw Bros. Shaw Bros were the king of martial art movies at that time (with movie like Five Venoms that was shown in your clip) until Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Somebody has once said that GH would have been in bankruptcy if not for Bruce and Jackie. 2. Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee were from Hongkong though Bruce was born in San Francisco. And at that time, Hongkong (despite belonged to China) was not considered as China. At that time, both places were so different. China was very poor and isolated from outside while Hongkong, being governed by the British, was rich, modern and developed. Hongkong was returned by the British to China in 1997. 3. In your clip 07:31, you mentioned that China is getting more modern so that Jackie focused less on rural set up and more to urban set up. As mentioned above, Hongkong has been a very modern city at that time. The film you shown in your clip happened to be "Project A" (1983), it just happened that the set up was at the time of ancient China. It has nothing to do with the progress of China. China has not become more developed not until the 90's.

[@travishendo9983]

This video blew me away great job! Absolutely amazing!

[@dd0669]

Keep up the work, Jimmy. Like seriously- these vids are great.

[@thccatzzpj]

what, i thought parkour was way older than that. hasn't parkour been around in one form or another ever since humans have needed to traverse rough terrain while avoiding obstacles?

[@olivierlaborde7887]

Yes but it wasnt its own sport/discipline as we know sports today. It was more of a way of life back then, and then it became unnecessary for life cuz agricultural revolution. But Jackie Chan may have been the start of parkour as we know it today.

[@jashardwallington]

It has been France china Japan Africans an many more had there own version china version is called light body skill an parkour originally started out as excerises for the French military after this guy seen how some of the African moved through the jungle then evolved an given a name by David belle

[@objectjon9015]

Okay so Jackie Chan had the Legacy of Bruce Lee and the pressure of an entire country on his back... no wonder he doesn’t talk much. Pretty damn humble

[@austinparkour4378]

So good. Been waiting on these details from you. Great to teach to newer generations..

[@malmtb]

I'm never going to take up Pakour - but I am loving the intro to the sport your videos are providing. Nice work Jimmy.

[@chefar]

Bruce lee: "You have to express yourself honestly, and that my friend is very hard to do" Internet generation: That's where you are wrong!

[@kimeli]

that's where you got it wrong, internet generations can't do it personally only online.

[@jjprempeh2508]

We need to see Charlie Chaplin Vs Jackie Chan in world chase tag

[@GGShinobi77]

Excellent!! I love it! This goes to my "Inspiration" Playlist...

[@MotionAcademy]

Thank you for work. This was a necessary video, only we didn't know until you made it!

[@jameswatson4429]

The next logical step is to merge pro wrestling with parkour Ok, that's in ring style sorted

[@muska667]

Jackie Chan is such a legend

[@nougatbitz]

Such a well put together and narrated video - excellent job 👏👏👏

[@dher39]

impressed with the consistency of content release. Making one video a week at this pace and quality must be a goddamn mission. If you can keep it up, you'll definitely see those subs continue to increase.

[@woden__]

I would say David Belle is the founder, while Chan was the creator. What Jackie Chan did was top level and dangerous, as well as in the setting of a movie. People who watched his stunts thought, "Thats cool, but i could never do that.". But then David Belle came along, and started posting videos of him and his friends doing parkour, suddenly the people who thought "I can't do that, Im not Jackie Chan/in a movie" now thought, "David Belle is exactly like me, maybe i can do parkour too"

[@woden__]

@mr Han Man well yeah, im talking when it came into the mainstream. Medieval knights actually did crossfit style workouts with parkour mixed in

[@caturion5453]

There is an art called 毯子功, literally means "Kung-fu (practiced) on mat", it existed in China for hundreds years, and it is very similar to modern parkour. This art is very oftenly performed in Chinese operas, and Jackie has been trained in Peking(Beijing) Opera for years.

[@tobinbh3940]

This is a really good break down and piece of history comparison...really well researched and backed with some cool footage..tops

[@beakbeak1682]

best vid yet man, awesome job. thank you!

[@jhxmr5020]

Early Gang!!! Let's goooo!

[@uhuhuuh1486]

so you guys think the real founder of parkour are human but y'all ignoring monkeys and chimpanzees, cats spiders the real founders ........... life is really unfair

[@kassih.musica]

Your chanel is so important man! Congrast for great work! People will still watch your chanel in 50 year, maybe forever!

[@arthurwright9007]

really enjoyed this more indepth documentary style video! top stuff, all the old guys did wonder for filmed movement and vigour

[@Jonixx95]

I started because of him Not even joking

[@lindersi]

Okay, hot take. Jackie Chan, in his prime, could have taken an art of motion maybe three or two years before today.

[@lucasbegin9290]

Probably not, I don’t think he’s ever come close to being at the level of doing didi’s or titarenko’s winning runs

[@adammeadows8888]

This is a video that anyone who wants to know what parkour is should watch. Since starting parkour in 2010 I studied and spread this history to anyone who was interested. I always saw parkour as a martial art and I feel like that has gotten lost lately. But people are free to use parkour how ever it suits them best. This was a great video thanks jimmythegiant.

[@DEAD-DROP]

So many interesting connections I never new of... :o Really great work on this one Jimmy!

[@noitallmanaz]

Parkour is simply a name for something that has been done for hundreds of years, if not more. All of those silent movies were the first recordings. then you moved into a different age of filming and you got Chan, and then the guys 'created' something that was already being done. They just named it something and recorded it in a style that caught people's attention. Everything grows and develops from something else. Jackie Chan is parkour, stuntman, and fricken genius. Jackie Chan > Bruce Lee.

[@kamonart]

I cringed a little every time you said China instead of Hong Kong

[@alexwong7324]

RIght? He spoke about "China opening up their market to the rest of the world", but those were movies from Hong Kong. Totall seperate from the mainland.

[@djaydeved]

@@alexwong7324 to be fair jimmy is probably not from Asia (probably) and probably dose not know the geography and all of that of china......

[@realtalk6195]

@@alexwong7324 It was legally British Hong Kong. Nothing to do with China's economy or politics whatsoever at the time. Hong Kong was handed over to PRC (Mainland China) in 1997. This video is either poorly researched or he's been instructed to narrate it this way. Embarrassing.

[@oityler]

Loved this one! Good work man!

[@user-qg8fe9hw6h]

the reason i started parkour was because i did martial arts but was more fascinated by the flipping/tricking aspect of it. pretty interested to hear that’s how a lot of other people started out too. thanks for the video

[@razielthedamn4301]

If you really want to know who "founded" parkour, than you simply have no idea what parkour is. Even in your video, no individual thought about naming his style because you never do things that way. Actions are not defined by names. You show how many people literaly do parkour way back in the past. For comedy, or for action or just to make themseles better. In the end, it doesnt matter if the action has a definition or not. I would be surprised if any of those people care if they were the "first" or not. You gave yourself an answer who founded parkour in this video, but for some reason you seem not to give it a go. In my opinion - nobody invented parkour, since people were doing it for fun and challenge probably way before those you show us. When i was little, we tend to climb walls, walk on rails, jump trees, roll over things all the time. Was that parkour ? We just had fun, make challanges and just played that way. We lacked that definition, maybe now someone would say we were doing parkour. Adults just told us that we are playing stupid a risk hurting ourselves, that was definition we used those days. But today its called differently. But who cares ? Founder should be someone who invented the style, not someone who named the style.

[@davi6531]

Wow, good video man, in the end everything connects and your mind explode

[@matty832]

I have no idea how I came across your channel or videos but I'm hooked on learning about parkour even though I've never done it before, such an interesting sport which somehow flies under peoples radar. Even my 8 year old son said to me can we watch some JimmyTheGiant videos haha

[@fabpicture_com]

Super work as always, a lot of documentation, always a pleasure to listen to your stories ! From france ! I was 17 and see Yamakasi movie in theater back in the days :p

[@fabpicture_com]

And to had to your reflexion, the movie was Yamakasi : Samourai of moder era ;) @JimmyTheGiant

[@nicodiabolo4life]

Really enjoyed your work man, thank you.

[@scottydog771]

Jimmy as I have said before and will probably say with a ton of uploads after this. Your level of research and your ability to expression your passion for parkour makes it the best on KZbin. I did parkour when I was a teen and before I found your channel last March I hadn't thought about it in years. Since then I have gone around my town and tried to do parkour tricks again. I won't ever be very good but your passion for parkour has made me reinvigorate with a hobby I used to love and I hope you know that makes one freerunner super proud. Keep up the good work, I pray for nothing but success and I'm still waiting for that under appreciated freerunners video

[@JimmyTheGiant]

Damn thank you man for real

[@sandahamwinston]

THANK YOU for sharing this with us..

[@nickdachemusic]

I’ve always loved parkour culture, it always was the most healthy and inspiring group to be in, and I think this video kinda answers why