After Oleg Krasnianskiy’s trip to France in 2003 to train with parkour founder David Belle, the most popular programme of that time in Russia, “Namedni” on NTV, spoke about parkour to an audience of 10 million people.
This tv show started the development of parkour in Russia.
Stills from “Namedni” tv show
Left: journalist Boris Korchevnikov;
In the centre – climbing the House of People’s Friendship on Arbat in Moscow;
Right – our interview on the roof of a house on Tverskaya Street.
TV spot about first Russian parkour festival
Our first Russian parkour festival (Moscow, Luzhniki, 2007)
Channel One compared special forces and parkour training
Channel One tested who is faster at the army obstacle course: a professional parkour athlete or a special forces fighter – the absolute champion in passing the course among special forces of all branches of the army.