Parkour Expert Rates 9 Parkour Stunts In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Thank you so much for having me, INSIDER! 😭🙌🏽 And thank you the feedback everyone! I just wanna add a few things: - please excuse that dash clip when I said kong! 😂 the editor did an AMAZING job with this video and that’s an easy mixup to make. I am actually SO impressed with how the editor was able to find clips of mine to show other moves that I referred to throughout the video! 😱 - “Step vaults” and “safety’s / safety vaults” are interchangeable terms. Lots of parkour moves have different names depending on where you are in the world (eg cats/ arm jumps, kong/ catpass/ monkey, et al) - a bit was cut out when I said that Jackie Chan was actually a big inspiration to the Yamakasi (from my understanding), which to me, solidifies his legitimacy as at least The Godfather of parkour! haha I just think that’s so cool - in my full explanation of parkour/freerunning, I state that freerunning was originally intended to simply be the English translation for the French word parkour, but over the years, the community began using freerunning to describe creative and non-efficient movement instead. We still tend to use the terms interchangeably, but we generally have an understanding of the distinction between the two I’m so happy with how this video turned out! Thanks again!

As someone that has been training parkour for 17 years, I fully appreciate how knowledgeable you were about proper technique throughout this video. So many parkour experts react videos online and they talk about flipping and tricking more than anything else. Thank you, seriously. I'm going to be sharing this video with the kids that I teach parkour to.

The Bond sequence was also really character driven. The guy Bond is chasing is nimble and agile and barely affects his surroundings. Bond is blasting through things and crashing around like the blunt instrument that M accuses him of being.

I love the Casino Royale scene where Sebastien uses the underbar above a narrow window to jump through, and then Craig just sprints through the drywall and leaves a man-sized hole

Love the fact that Lorena described the difference between Freerunning and Parkour. I also truly love the adoration she has for Jackie Chan. "Is it parkour? It's Jackie MF Chan!"

Seeing The Office parkour scene actually had me laughing out loud. Didn't expect that at all. Brilliant.

You can really tell that Lorena absolutely loves her game. Fabulous reactions. But, did Insider really get copyright muted here and there?

I like the part about JAckie Chan. "It's a 10/10 because it's Jackie Chan!" She didn't specifically mention this, but Chan never used stunt doubles (with one or two exceptions at the very end of his career) and did everything himself. It'd be a 10/10 by default because it's all real.

I love that she distinguished between parkour and freerunning in a respectful fashion.

The funny thing is that Luc Besson discovered the Yamakasi while he was making Taxi 2. They were just hired as generic ninja goons on this set, but Besson was so impressed by their moves that he decided to hire them and train full time for his next film, a standalone Yamakasi movie.

She looks so happy analysing the scenes! This is what happens when passion turns into profession.

A LOTTA love for Lorena in these comments... & deservedly so. Shown herself to be knowledgable, eloquent, confident & patient in her breakdown & teaching of the technicalities, particularly of things like the difference between Parkour & Freerunning. Would happily watch WAY more content with her. 🙌

I know next to nothing about parkour but am no stranger to dangerous sports and the laws of physics and so I can appreciate how much she emphasized the details of proper and safe technique when doing these moves - she is clearly a teacher. And what a lovely character she is while explaining things! Where can I sign up for any type of class? 😄

I can tell Lorena would make an excellent teacher. She's able to communicate the most important fundamental points married with an explanation of the mechanics into concise and easy to understand instructions that even an idiot like me can understand. That's a special skill which most people don't have, no matter how high their skill level. Lots of people are like, "um, just do it like this." *performs superhuman maneuver. Being an effective teacher/coach is huge.

the real scary part with Jackie Chan is the fact that in the old movies he rarely even had safetywires, there is times where he was genuinely real close to death, in Project A for example he fell 6 floor no wires, thru 2 awnings intended to slow him down but they turned him around making him land on his head from roughly the second floor, injuring his spine, in Police Story he slid down a metal pole for about 4-5 floors, the lights heated up the pole enough that it burned the skin of his hands, he went thru fake glass and dislocated his pelvis and damaged 2 vertebraes, Armor of God, he jumped to a tree but they misjudged the distance and the branch broke, he feel like 2-3 floors onto rocks cracking his skull open, lodging a piece of bone in his brain, he has a metal plate in his head to this day, Armor of God 2, he was climbing some chains and lost his grip, falling roughly 2-3 floors dislocating his sternum, Crime Story, his legs got pinched between two cars, he got lucky this time with no injuries, Police Story 3, while hanging on a pipe over a railroad he was hit by a helicopter being transported on a train that he was supposed to narrowly avoid, he craced his cheek bone and damaged his shoulder muscles, in drunken master he fell and crawled on burning coal twice with minimal protection because the first time did not have the right "feel", in Who amd i? he slid down the side of a 24 floor building without safety wires, he hurt his ankle and almost fell over the edge down on to the unprotected sidewalk about 3-4 floor below after his slide, dont remember name of the movie bute there is also one where he rolls over a turned on table saw with his guts no more then a few centimeters away from the blade while others is attacking him, he once broke his ankle, he could not wear a shoe properly so they painted one on and he kept going. he is a legend and he is a madman.

Invite her again she was awesome! I liked the way she explained parkour and the details shown in the clips 😊 also she seems cool too

I love when masters of craft like this take a satiric portrayal (The Office) in the light it's meant. Yes, I get that they would get extremely tired of the same comment/joke about it, but she doesn't hold that against the source material. She's awesome.

Just when I was thinking "How can they end this video without mentioning District B13?", she calls it out as her favorite ☺️

I was expecting Banlieue 13 to be one of the 9 movies and had just gotten a bit bummed on realizing it was, in fact, not going to be one of the 9 movies, when Lorena brought it up as a favorite! Really loved Lorena's focus on good technique and what NOT to do

This has to be one of the most interesting videos I have watched. This expert really knows her stuff and her enthusiasm is infectious.