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David Belle - Rush Hour Le Parkour

Top Gear is always a good watch for a Sunday evening and today's episode was no different. Amongst other things1, today's show featured James May racing a Peugeot 207 against 2 Traceur (Parkour practitioners). If you haven't seen Parkour (or it's sister art, Free Running) in action, it really is a sight to behold. A few years back, BBC featured David Belle, Parkour founder and probably it's most famous practioner, in a wonderful advert entitled Rush Hour.

Rush Hour

Eye-catching, exciting and a joy to watch, having Sway Quien Será playing in the background helped to cap off one of BBC's more memorable sequences.


  1. One of the other features on the show was Clarkson and co attempting to build a car in 8 hours. The slightly amusing aside for me was that my boss has just done the very same thing, that is build a Caterham, that they had done, albeit in 2 weeks rather than 1 day. [back]

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3 Responses to “David Belle - Rush Hour Le Parkour”

  1. Gravatar Daniel Nicolas July 23rd, 2006 11:31 pm

    Rush Hour was a fun little taste of what happened in B13.

    Thanks for reminding me about Belle again. I’d had told myself to remember to find b13 on dvd, but had since forgotten.

  2. Gravatar levon July 31st, 2006 8:00 pm

    if you like this you’ll also like http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929

    by the way thanks for your Simpla. i looked around for a while and found out that the simpla the better. ;)

  3. Gravatar Tomm3H T3h NWUK TC March 29th, 2007 7:27 am

    damn i love parkour, i’ve been training for… *counts on fingers* a good 6 months now

    everyone seems to hate me on www.urbanfreeflow.com but it doesn’t get in the way of my training or cheadle freerunner’s training

    (my groups involving me(tom lloyd AKA Tomm3H), james churchill AKA Titch3h titch or joe callaghan AKA Hoz3y