Cyril Raffaelli is one of the best martial arts talents to hail from France. An expert in shotokan karate and wushu, Raffaelli has been a regular in films with Luc Besson and David Belle (see Banlieue 13 aka District B13), a friend of his.
ACE (from PkCali.com) posted the video on Parkour.NET’s forum :
“As many of you know and have read, David and Cyril were recently in the U.S. to promote B-13. One of their stops in L.A. allowed them some time to hang out and do some light hearted training. While attempting to do a fairly routine (for David anyway) Saut De Chat to Saut De Bras, something went wrong and David took a rather nasty fall, which was captured on 3 seperate cameras. This is the video David asked for us (those of us that were there during that day) produce and release. Pk Danno (pkto.ca), who was present, did a fantastic write up on his experience on the trip with David and Cyril and it contains words straight from the two of them, a few of which were quoted in this video, as well as more details on the fall itself, that David would like released.”
District (Banlieue) 13 - Trailer US
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop (Cyril Raffaelli as “Damien” playing a kickboxing supercop) and ex-thug (David Belle as “Leito” playing an acrobatic urban avenger) try to infiltrate a gang in an infamous ghetto in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
“Nature” with David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli is a video with a lot of acrobatics and tricks and a bit of Parkour movements. Really impressive !
Some tricks and parkour from David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli, “On avance toujours, et vous ?” is one of the most famous parkour/free running video of the world. A lot of Traceurs started parkour after viewing this great video, which does not contain only parkour movements, but also acrobatics & tricks.
