Arnim Dahl "Early Parkour" (A clip from the film Gizmo)

[Lugotraceur]

But even so David Belle is the inventor of parkour as a discipline since this did not invent this as a discipline.

[netwiz2]

he is John Ciampa known as "Brooklyn Tarzan"....amazing man :-)

[TheR88R]

makes assassins creed look a lot less fictional.

[cremafps]

Whit shoes? that man was crazy :O!

[MillCityPersons]

Ok, we all know parkour has been done since the first humans broke free from our technologically advanced masters and creators.

[yerk3]

This makes me want to eat more spaghetti.

[0kermit0the0frog0]

умиляет его рубашка и брюки

[sisunit07]

That was JOHN CIAMPA aka 'The Human Fly' climbing the tree all the way to when he takes the boy on his back. The rest is Arnim Dahl

[jincostal]

et bin ^^

[tommylodz2004]

this is some proper stylish parkour!

[sc583501]

i bet he was an aquarius

[roy20050]

first form of free running?

[xtraa]

This is no joke, I once met this guy, when I was a little child and he already was an old guy.

He lived at my hometown in Germany, suburb of Hamburg. He was such a nice personality, very straightfoward and a friendly man.

He also did the stunt and balanced between the Empire State Building and another building on a steel-wire.

[SrNutritivo]

1:25 Early Jackass, lol

[michaelziegler26]

but no flip tricks?

[edgeparkour1]

@michaelziegler26 Parkour has no flips, freerunning has flips

[nacil3]

Beautiful images!!

[EPR89]

I think the man in the first half of the video (climbing up the tree and the house) is John Ciampa, the stunts (train etc.) are performed by Arnim Dahl.

[eoanthropus]

I think that's actually John Ciampa, not Arnim Dahl

[eoanthropus]

I think that's axctually John Ciampa, not Arnim Dahl

[YoussefS]

some spagetti company should use this footage for their next campaign. Just cut it up a bit so it's not so long, and perhaps show the guy eating his spagetti at the end?

[becundo]

esto ni cagando me lo creo

[rocks2climbify]

Anyone know what this song is?

[lifemurmansk]

В те времена Coca-Cola еще с кокаином выпускалась.

[dlemanczyk]

dude is sick! This is a great movie too!

[ufmm]

@dlemanczyk

no more, he is dead now!

died in 1998 from cancer! after hundred of accidents!

[ufmm]

@dlemanczyk

no more, he is dead now!

died in 1998 from cancer! after hundreds of accidents!

[MrManimal420]

2 cool!

[than217]

What's the song from this vid called?

[ZenWolfDances]

From the start to 0:53, that's Italian-American amateur stuntman John Ciampa. The footage is from a Paramount newsreel shot in 1942, when Ciampa was 21 years old. Ciampa's childhood heroes were Tarzan, Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks, Snr. and Ciampa became known as the "Brooklyn Tarzan". He worked in construction but occasionally made extra money doing publicity stunts.

[greatbrownbear]

wow classic free running, whoever said this was a new thing?

[Krsnik87]

Anyone know the name of the track?

[jaystyles007]

@Krsnik87 "Pieces Of Dreams" Written by Joe DiSabato

[kilogvozdey]

@Krsnik87 Nicholas Hollander – The Stunt Runner

[StopLookAndLearn]

sick!

[makrell81]

Love when he jumps out of the window :D

[pumpla123]

WHATS THE SONG?? SOMEONE!??

[outdooring1]

@pumpla123 I'm also keen to know - did you find out?

[pumpla123]

@outdooring1 no not yet :(

[outdooring1]

@pumpla123 I'm also keen to know - did you find out?

[outdooring1]

did you find out the name of it?

[timthehippie]

Wowzers!

Timothy

:o)

[redcomet2010]

man I wanna hang out with his guy, he is a free spirit

[ParkourAssassin08]

It was like a tradition. David Belle Grandpa, and his dad was firefighters, and they used this art for training. If I'm not lyin I think his Grandpa was in the war too, and they used this special training. If you want to know more about the founder...Look him up. Wiki tells a lot. God Bless you all, and train safe. : )

[ParkourAssassin08]

We know that this art has been around for so long, but we never knew that it actually was an art. The founder David Belle found the name for it. His Grandpa was really big in Firefighting, and Gymnastics. David Belle picked up after him. Firefighting ran through the men side of the family.

[johnneTEE]

And here we thought this generation had created something new... hahaha

[TKainZero]

This movie is amazing.

Im hooked

[TheWordOfBod]

and all these kids thinking they started something new. people have been doing this for centuries...

[MyBlessedCurse]

This is the natural method, which is where parkour originated. And as long as man has hunted and ran for his life, parkour has been there.

[irishnllmk]

w-o-w

[lackadaisicaal]

I keep on coming back to this clip. The song just sticks with you. Anyone have an mp3 of it, or an artist's name?

[Winningpk3]

parkour has always been here

[windowmaker525]

So david belle wasn't really the founder of parkour. Hmm...

[nameless12345]

@windowmaker525 i dont remember him ever saying he was

[windowmaker525]

But it has generally been attributed to him

[NoirEsprit]

If I see somedoby running and vaulting over an obstacle, he is probably not doing parkour unless he can explain why and how he did it. You know that you do parkour because there are names, a training method and a philosophy linked to the name.

The guy in the video has incredible skills but he didn't develop an activity with tens of thousands practitioners in the world that know what parkour means.

That's why DB is the founder of parkour even if people ran and jumped before him.

[windowmaker525]

Oh. Thank you for that clarification. I didn't realize that there was a philosophy behind it as well

[yranaivo]

@windowmaker525 no, he is the founder of parkour, the term itself and the exercises that are related to it. however, our ability to parkour-like exercises has always been there. that's what this video is telling us. However, back then, nobody had any parkour teams or marketed it like they do now.

[faiz434]

@windowmaker525 he is the founder of parkour. he create a name and common moves for it. but people already began doing this long b4

[jkorpp]

@windowmaker525 well all stunt men go through a phase of this.. like jackie chan for example he just climbed around his town when he was young and got extremely skilled at it until one day he got noticed and got in the film industrie... i guess Belle just gave it a name.

[dragondude47]

@windowmaker525 There is no real "founder" of Parkour. It has always been within us. It just now has a name to it other than instincts. With our advances in technology tho, we have lost much of our natural instincts. All of us use to know Parkour but have forgotten over the centuries.

[AerialDreamz]

@windowmaker525 I believe he accepts the name as "founder" meaning he created a more technical system for it, giving it a name and a foundation of practice. This does not mean he created the practice itself, It was CREATED by us, humans. Probably as a means of travel, survival, hunting, and play even I'm sure.

[Knowwon249]

@windowmaker525 No of course not! People always claim they invented something. The trick is to know when they are lying.

[RedRiverChannel]

@windowmaker525

this is not parkour. its stunts.

[LateNightFistFight]

Olde Timey Pk

[JIBBERJABBERJONES]

this is the complete song, I figured out it was on the gizmo soundtrack since this clip is from that movie. I was hoping the song was longer myself.

[pkgrip]

Absolutely Ridiculous

[pkgrip]

if somebody eve figures out where to get the song, reply to me plz

[aqworldsrocks]

o david belle eh melhor

[Stratorulez]

achou engraçado o que tu flw? achou é? achou?

[Rising90zg]

LEGEND =D

[IvanMA1212]

Pretty cool song.

[cristianofiu]

fake kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk eh onda =P

[rafaknoll]

vão dizer que é fake também?????

[waiteka]

este si que es un capo!!!

[torreseric]

Arnim Dahl. 1930.

[romdevie]

he is the real founder

[1234sasunaru]

anybody know what year that is?

[pkgrip]

does anybody know where i can get the song from?

[armotron]

lol 1:34

[burnmaker01]

thats what they did back then when they didnt have no internet lol

[Aprilshowersss]

@burnmaker01 only... there are people who do this still, and make youtube vids of them doing it.

[widowedeight]

first videotaped freerunners?

[n0k1parkour]

is he George Herbert?!

i suppose he is...ain't he?

[DeadBirdCitizen]

completely bad ass.

[meedow99]

Yea, seriously, if anyone can find out the name of this song that would be great. I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[ieodksnw787]

i'd like to know too!

[doc77777777]

I searched Gizmo on IMDB. There, I found a soundtrack listing from the 1977 movie. I can't be sure which of the titles in the list are this song, but I'm absolutely sure that it's one of them because I could Identify most of the others from the movie. My guess is that the song is

"Pieces of Dreams"

Written by Joe DiSabato

or

"The Stunt Runner"

Written & Sung by Nicholas Hollander

Arranged by Diana B (as Diane Bulgarelli).

[Havik191]

00:10-00:12 WTF LMAO!

[ieodksnw787]

great music

[rickfisch]

kranke scheisse alder heFTGg!!! :DD

der hats druff ^^

[Terence1939]

Ohne Worte !!! Absoluter Wahnsinn !!! Aber cool, daß das mal ein Deutscher ist :-)

[freerunRobinson]

I need to see this Film. amazing! the guy was sent back from the future or something!

[rhd1958]

This is not Fairbanks. Fairbanks never made a movie with this title, either.

[ItsJFingaz]

this is fairbanks....Gizmo is a compliation of many film sequences n they happen to put in a clip of him

[rhd1958]

Well, its NOT Fairbanks in this clip. This fellow looks nothing like Fairbanks. I wrote a book on Fairbanks, so I know what I am talking about.

[kargiobass]

lolos

[BillyMambo]

somebody please give me a download link for the movie?? thank you

[snerdson]

Damn I'm getting tired of posting this...

This ain't douglas Fairbanks and the footage is not from the 1930's. It's german stuntman Arnim Dahl and the footage is from the 50's. Most of the stuff was shot in Hamburg. In the background of the shot where he rolls down the slope in that wheel, you can clearly read "Ostseebad Scharbeutz". I doubt very much that Douglas Fairbanks ever has been to or has even heard of Scharbeutz. Give the guy some credit for what he did for gods sake!!!

[LongBeach2SanDiego]

whoever he is, @ 1:17 when he climbed out of the water that nigga wasn't wet.

[ousnede]

wilhelmshaven, it's a double

[snerdson]

It's more likely they filmed him climbing out of the water before he jumped. He managed to brake several vertebras in his back doing this stunt and had to spend a year (!) in hospital. I don't know, but there must be easier ways to make some money.

[MarkkDawgg]

how was he not wet nigga?

HE CLIMBED OUT OF WATER FOO

smh lmao

[LongBeach2SanDiego]

man, he's like mac 10 on "foe life":

"fool i'm a vet, you can bet,

that i can dance underwater, and not get wet"

[MarkkDawgg]

lol

[jhonyl89]

that song is great what is the name

[ottoass]

someone knows the name of song?

[Woodstok666]

ma da qui hanno preso spunto sia i Jackass k i Yamakasi!!!!

[munichpictures]

do not reduce parkour to the case of emergency.

Parkour wants you to get the ability to move efficient and safe in every situation... if carry 2 heavy bags and want to get the last bus, if you walk on slippery stairs and so on ....

[TheT4xid3rmist]

Let me get this straight, the point of parkour is to act as you would, if you were trying to escape in an emergency. So really, the French actually created an entire spectacle dedicated to finding the most efficient method to run away.

[BlacksVideos]

I'm getting crazy!

I wan't to know who that is! DAMN :(

[thrussianboy]

douglass fairbanks....old school stunt man...u should watch a clip from zoro AMAZING man

[munichpictures]

I looked for him in wikipedia, it says there are two of them, jr or senior. Do you who it is?

[thrussianboy]

iam pretty sure senior was the one in this video and the one i was talking about because junior wasnt even born during the zorro movie...

[rhd1958]

Wrong. As I said before, this is NOT Fairbanks in this clip. They may have used a clip of him somewhere else in the movie but not here. And Doug Sr. filmed Zorro in 1920. Doug Jr. was born in 1909. So that is also incorrect. Senior filmed the sequel to Zorro, "Don Q, Son of Zorro in 1925. Doug Jr was already making movies -- his first film was "Stephen Steps Out" in 1923. I knew him, having met him a number of times when I worked on my book on both Fairbankses.

[thrussianboy]

ohhh ok...thx for the info :P

[rhd1958]

You're welcome. I apologize for being rude. I think there are some clips on YouTube of Fairbanks in The Taming of the Shrew or Reaching for the Moon where you can see him without a mask. Once you look at those, you will see what I mean when I say that this fellow doesn't look like him at all.

[snerdson]

Hab' mir gerade den "Mark of Zorro"-Clip angesehen und kann jetzt auch verstehen, wieso Du dachtest, dass es Fairbanks sein könnte. Totaler Wahnsinn. Ist aber trotzdem Arnim Dahl in diesem Clip. Hast Du von dem noch nie 'was gehört? War doch in Deutschland so etwas wie 'ne Berühmtheit. In dem Clip sieht man doch auch den Hamburger Hafen, die Speicherstadt und die U-3 Linie von der er in den Hafen springt, ganz abgesehen von dem Scharbeutz Schild. Nichts für ungut.

[ZenWolfDances]

Definitely NOT George Hebert; he was born in 1875, so would have been in his fifties when this footage was shot.

AFAIK, no-one knows who this guy was.

[munichpictures]

as far as I know there are no or almost no videos showing Georges Hébert.

[jcubman]

I think it is George Herbert- one of Raymond Belle's (David Belle's father) collegues...

[jjwmaddux]

it must have been crazy in that tire!

[maked12345]

nice...

[leroyscapeowner]

awesomeness...

[SergShin]

Could it be Georges Herbert or not?? And if not who definitely is him??

[munichpictures]

it sould be an american guy. Perhaps somewhere you can find information about the people who are shown in the film "GIZMO"

[ufmm]

@munichpictures

It's not always an American, doing stuff like this.

Most scenes in this clip have been taken in Germany with a man by the name  "Arnim Dahl" (1922 - 1998) performing these stunts. He was one of the first german stuntmen.

[ufmm]

@munichpictures

[gpj]

anyone have any idea who is this guy?

[hilariofreire]

woh is the performer?? he´s nuts

[BeaverOwl]

he so krazi

[BeaverOwl]

he so krazi

[carcass454]

damn this is nice!!

[munichpictures]

well the complete film "GIZMO" can be found on google video. the film contains scenes from the 20s until the 50s, I also think that it's filmed in the 30s. (this scene starts at about min 43)

[Panoramio]

this is amazing! When is it filmed? Mid Thirties? Love the song also

[Dugan21]

kool