Us On BBC Inside Out
It all started with an email from Jamie Coulson. He asked if I could set something up to film parkour for his programme, Inside Out, for the BBC. I told him about the (then upcoming) Trace Gathering and he was very interested, so I negociated some details with Jason Matten, the organiser, and arranged for Jamie and a cameraman to come along for one day of the event.
We met him at Grindleford station and walked up to Padley Gorge where he filmed a warm-up led by Jason, and as the day went on the two BBC guys followed the groups around the peaks and filmed bits here and there.
A couple of weeks later we arranged a filming session in Sheffield City Centre to capture parkour in the urban environment as well as rural. We did some stuff around the Crucible and Hallam University mainly. They also filmed some interviews on both filming days which were an integral part of the programme. Dave Sedgely talked about working towards parkour being taught safely by qualified coaches, Daniel Ilabaca talked about what he understands parkour to be about, and there were other good talks from Blake (Saiyans) and Jason Matten.
The video, as was shown on BBC One Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, can be seen on the You Tube:
We met him at Grindleford station and walked up to Padley Gorge where he filmed a warm-up led by Jason, and as the day went on the two BBC guys followed the groups around the peaks and filmed bits here and there.
A couple of weeks later we arranged a filming session in Sheffield City Centre to capture parkour in the urban environment as well as rural. We did some stuff around the Crucible and Hallam University mainly. They also filmed some interviews on both filming days which were an integral part of the programme. Dave Sedgely talked about working towards parkour being taught safely by qualified coaches, Daniel Ilabaca talked about what he understands parkour to be about, and there were other good talks from Blake (Saiyans) and Jason Matten.
The video, as was shown on BBC One Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, can be seen on the You Tube:
Here's Paul's Trace Gathering video, he's only just got round to editing it but it's well worth the wait:
My apologies for the video overload but this one can't be missed. It should be compulsory viewing for anyone who does parkour. It's Jin's new Naijing Parkour Sampler, his first parkour video while he's been in China. Parkour at its absolute best:
That's all for now. More coming soon. Meanwhile, check out my photos on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/bennuttall
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Hey Ben! An interesting watch. I think it's funny as i imagine that before the BBC approached the subject, the council official guy would have done nothing but detest idea of lunatics jumping around everywhere, using every effort to ban it. However now its on the BBC and promoted, he loves it (nothing to do with that its on tv and might attract some form of tourism or shameless plug for sheffield ;) )
Anyway congratulations
Speak soon, Tom
Haha good point.
Cheers for the comment. Have you checked out the 3 newer posts?
Ben
Not yet! I have to admit I usually go straight for the pictures and videos like a child! I will read further later this week when I get some free time. Also might look into the whole Google Whack! concept!
Keep up the blog!
Tom
Yeh cool. I'll lend you the Dave Gorman DVD. We ought to meet up and catch up some time soon. Maybe go for a drink?