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Ever Wonder What Parkour Looked Like In 1930? Wonder No More (Video)

Have you ever watched a video of Parkour – that practice of getting from point A to B in an urban environment whilst using Jackie Chan-esque acrobatics – and wondered, gee, what would this look like in the 1930s?

Well, thank God for YouTube, because your curiously era-specific hypothetical has been answered.

Among the cool things our protagonist, who only needs a bowl of spaghetti to turn into the main character from Assassin’s Creed, does in this video:

- Shimmies up a wall with a little kid on his back.

- Climbs up the back of a moving train and jumps off, while the train is crossing a bridge, into the body of water 100 feet below. Did I mention he somersaulted into the water?

- Rolls, in a giant wheel… down a hill… into the ocean. Watch the video below:

[Parkour from 1930] Buzzfeed