A big big jump (amazing drop !!!)
Wow, a really big jump ! I usually don’t like to promote such big jumps(it needs so much training before being able to do that), but this time I made an exception. This jump is amazing ! The guy took few steps to run, and then jumped from a roof to another, lower. It seems to have been done for Life News(probably for a parkour TV advert), and I don’t have any more info. Do you ? Contact me »
Edit: thanks to Dmitry who contacted me to give me more details !
“It was 18th november (2009) in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). Traceur is Erik Muhametshin, he is all right.”
Here is another video (report) in Russian :
November 18th, S-Petersburg, Erik Muhametshin and Eugeniy Obuhov took a leap from the eight-storey house’s roof to the roof of five-storey house, between wiеch were 7 meters. There were 2 reasons of this action.These activities were seeked to: …attrect public’s attention to the parkour. 2. attrect public’s attention to the problem of specialised parkour gym shortage.
More about parkour in Russia on “Traceur.RU – Parkour Magazine” traceur.ru
Report of St.Petersburg 5th TV Channel: http://www.5-tv.ru/news/24283/
(!) Editors of Traceur RU magazine DO NOT support this idea or action…
[...] know what he was doing, it was incredibly dangerous. But the group featured in the video say that they were trying to raise awareness of the sport and point out the problem of a lack of safe, sanctioned places to practice [...]
They obviously weren’t ready to do it. Didn’t you see the “roll” of each, and the planting of the shoulder (which probably broke his collarbone) into the mat? I believe the first one also hit his head a bit.
I agree with you Cody.
Landings show no control.
But the jump was way too big !
Damn, imho whatever they say, it was just some showoff.. The 2nd guy jumped just coz the cameras were there.. Have they ever heard of ‘ure not sure – u dont do!’ ??
Damn I’m Russian myself but this vid doesn’t make me proud of what some of russian tracers do.
On one hand U have ‘out of time’ which is just amazing, and on the other – these, pardon me, fools, who dare call themselves tracers..
Sorry for all the emotions.
I don’t believe what I am reading in the description of the video: “This jump is AMAZING”… Well, not in my opinion, or maybe only by its stupidity. These guys were NOT strong enough, do NOT have a proper roll technic for this kind of jump (if there is any appropriate to such high..), and I am really disappointed that you put their video in there, where there used to be videos trying to show a good example of how parkour should be showed.