Comments on: Free Running http://montaraventures.com/blog/2007/10/19/free-running/ Mike Harding's Blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:43:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kevin http://montaraventures.com/blog/2007/10/19/free-running/#comment-32432 Kevin Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:33:39 +0000 http://montaraventures.com/blog/2007/10/19/free-running/#comment-32432 There's a great parkour chase scene at the beginning of the latest James Bond movie (Casino Royale) with one of the "inventors" of the sport. Everything in the chase is real with no CGI. I say "invented" because the real inventor was Jackie Chan and the rest of the Hong Kong action movie stuntmen. And he did it all without special shoes. :) Of course, all of it is just an extreme version of the kids' game "the floor is lava." There’s a great parkour chase scene at the beginning of the latest James Bond movie (Casino Royale) with one of the “inventors” of the sport. Everything in the chase is real with no CGI.

I say “invented” because the real inventor was Jackie Chan and the rest of the Hong Kong action movie stuntmen. And he did it all without special shoes. :)

Of course, all of it is just an extreme version of the kids’ game “the floor is lava.”

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