2003 Parkour History: Andreas Kalteis Bregenz Run "Autriche"

In 2003, the Parkour community outside france has just started growing, the french kept knowledge to themselfs and the non-french had little knowledge about techniques, training and parkour spirit. Due to the lovely help of my friends from team Adrenaline (paris) and the guys from le-parkour.com (back in the days that was the official parkour website) I got informations about the french training and techniques and the spirit. All "Parkour" Videos of the non-french community consisted mainly of single tricks or at MOST a combination of like 2 techniques, runs were in no way comon and nobody really took them as important. Parkour to them was just tricks and jumps. When my french friends enlightened me about how to really train for parkour and what parkour should be like, I started training that way and tried to spread that mentality (to combine techniques and to conquer longer distances and more obstacles in a row, do combinations and runs) throughout the community. With the help of my lovely girlfriend at that time, Bianca Reich, who also practised Parkour a little herself, I managed to film a run from the top of the inner city of Bregenz (Austria) to the 'bottom', at the Promenade of the lake of constance, the Bodensee. This video opened a lot of eyes and helped a lot of people in the old community change their training and understand a little better what parkour was about. The guys from le-parkour.com uploaded it to the page as the first non-french video that was featured there. Also the video showed the "no elbow" climbup technique, that wasnt really known at that time, and made people work on that too.

A lot of what people see as most basic today, was worked hard on and brought out of france by us guys from the early non-french community. I want to thank all the lovely guys that helped me grow and understand back in the days, Raimundo, Stephane, Daniel and Cyril from Adrenaline, Bruno from le-parkour.com and Chris Alexander and of course lovely Bianca for being the most untypical girlfriend ever, making it possible for me to even grow my love for parkour instead of trying to distract me from it.

Much love to all the guys out there from the old days. Remember, guys, we changed the world :D

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[xxDJxx57]

shit ! schöne arbeit mann ! hehe da war sogar noch die alte HypoBank xD

[austrianbeatboxchamp]

Good old times! <3

[chattrick93]

@ChipPk1 Les sein Buch, dann wirst du ihn auch ein wenig mehr verstehen ;)

Nicht nur guter Traceur sondern auch guter Autor - Kompliment...!

[ChipPk1]

Ich finde den text zum Video wirklich motivierend jetzt versteh ich auch langsam warum du so in Forum schreibst bei Neulingen=/

[niklaswiesbaden]

schöne zeitlupenaufnahme ;)

ne, im ernst.. gefällt mir gut!

[JeremeSanders]

I dug it a lot man! Can't believe I've never seen this before!

[drcastro01]

pretenciosa descripción, pero buen video...

[traceurelements]

Yes andi!