Some Parkour pros were in the city recently and while they didn’t fling through the Richmond District, they were in our neighboring Presidio where they made full use of the old architecture (and the House of Air). The reboot of the James Bond movieverse with Casino Royale kicks in with a thrilling parkour pursuit at a construction site in Madagascar. In other words, people jumping off things. It had been four years since Pierce Brosnan s last Bond film, Die Another Day, hit theaters and audiences weren. Parkour can be practiced anywhere, but areas dense with obstacles are preferable, and it is most commonly practiced in urban areas. stunt coordinator breaks down that unforgettable opening chase.

Skills such as jumping, climbing, vaulting, rolling, swinging and wall scaling are employed. The man that Bond chases in the sequence is played by Sbastien Foucan, who definitely brought a certain expertise to the scene as he was actually one of. …a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, using only their bodies. The opening parkour chase is one of Casino Royale’s most spectacular set pieces one of the most exciting in the entire franchise, in fact and it took a whopping six weeks to shoot. There was a great opening chase scene where he pursued bad guys as they flew around a construction site. I first encountered Parkour while watching “Casino Royale” starring Daniel Craig.

Parkour scene in casino royale