Video: Parkour Flashback to the 1930s

ByMary Anne Potts

Published December 17, 2008

Though the sport of parkour as we know it was just named in 1998 (read about the founder David Belle in a

New Yorker

profile), the act of bounding between rooftops, climbing up urban alley "slot canyons," and other gravity-defying endeavors goes way back. Check out this footage from the 1930s.