Bound By Movement (2019) Movie Script

Day one.

Oh my God.

This is gonna be an adventure.

Let's go!

Shakazuka!

I think when I first started to imagine

what this tour could be,

I honestly would have

to say it was this idea

of promoting this pro-signature model shoe

that we were releasing and

the idea originally was like,

all right, let's just travel around

with hundreds of shoes in the bus

and just try to build

the culture of getting

these athletes around the

world to buy the shoe.

Unfortunately, but kind of

fortunately, we had a setback

and we weren't happy with the product

that we were making and

we kept wear testing

and it pushed us so far

that we didn't have shoes

ready for the tour.

With that being said, I had already set up

17 events around the USA

and I wanted to continue

to keep that momentum.

I didn't want to push it back,

I didn't want to cancel anything.

So, the next best thing and

actually the real best thing

was just using it,

using it as a way to build a community

and connect with people that maybe

I never really had a chance

to connect with before.

Right now we are picking up Marcus Zyrken!

Marcus, always filming,

you're always filming.

And Doctor Richard Ferreday.

I thought you guys said

you were getting water.

It's day one of the Lace Up Tour,

we're heading to the tour bus right now,

we've got all our stuff packed.

And we're about to get

on the road for 63 days.

Let's go.

Oh my God!

- Oh my God!

- It's Sydney Olson!

- Whooh, hi!

My name is Sydney Olson.

I'm originally from Seattle, Washington,

but I live in Los Angeles.

I'm 25 years old, and I'm

a professional free runner.

You ready for this?

Yes!

That did not sound very confident.

There he is!

My name is Jeff Garrido.

I'm 23 years old,

from Folsom, California,

which is like Sacramento.

That's it, baby.

Two more people joining us,

Robert Kirkland, our physio.

Hey!

- Hey!

You ready to do this?

No.

- Let's do it.

- No.

George!

What's up, man?

Thanks dude.

Welcome back.

Almost ready to hit the road, baby.

We now had two goals for the tour,

post events that bring

communities together

and make a really dope film.

But it was almost like

the film and the tour

were two different things,

and one of the goals of

the film was to shoot

in unique locations all around the U.S.

no matter how hard they were to get to.

Right now, we're trying to head to a

abandoned ghost town

from the Gold Rush era.

But the road is a little rough.

Woo!

I really don't

know what I expected to see

when I came to Bodie.

Just a lot of old houses, I suppose.

Well, Bodie had 'em.

Some were standing, but leaning.

Some were leaning a little bit more.

The caretakers had the planters,

and their bosses got on very

well, all things considered.

That was one of the last automobiles

that had any call for it.

It kind of gives you an idea.

Like all mining towns, Bodie

has had a lot of fires.

That's the machine they

used to fight the fire.

And that's like my favorite

part about going out to these

different locations, is that

this obstacle is nothing

that any of us has ever

been able to try to train on.

So it lends itself to, like,

a little bit more of a creative process.

It's still

shiny and new looking.

Maybe that's because

of the work out it got.

They didn't have any

mining disasters in Bodie,

no cave-ins or anything like that.

No, I really can't say

what I expected to find

in a ghost town.

But certainly not people.

Yo, we got a park ranger.

What just happened?

We just got a citation for

filming without a permit.

Kind of cool, I don't know how

much it's gonna cost, $1,000?

500, 5, 50, 500?

Who knows?

Let's get the out of here.

What was that?

Literally, where are we?

- Apple's Lake?

There's a big old lake right there,

and a bunch of mountains.

There's snow around us.

S'no way.

What's crazy to me is

that I've been working

on this for a year and a half.

Dream of having a full tour

bus, bunk beds and everything

and like seeing it in

locations like this one

is, like, sort of surreal.

And every time I look

back as we're walking away

from the bus, it's like this moment of,

It feels good, so

I'm gonna take a picture.

One of the ways in which we decided

to keep the tour stress-free

was just to go with the flow.

So, that night we all

decided to get tattoos.

We did it!

- Good stuff.

- I'm freaking out.

- It's just a tattoo.

- I'm now freaking out.

- It's your first tattoo,

it's fine.

It might not come out good.

It doesn't matter.

It's not like it's almost midnight.

Got his first tattoo.

After a late night getting tattoos

we all enjoyed an incredible meal

prepared by Jeff's family before heading

to our next location,

Woodward, Tahoe.

Hi.

- Hi.

My name's Jesse La Flair,

we're here with the Lace Up

Tour for the Parkour Week.

Okay perfect.

Let's see what happens, three, two, one.

Yokohamas!

Have taken us to Woodward, Tahoe.

Woodward, the largest action

sports camp in the world

invited us out to go train and shoot

at each one of their

locations while on tour.

And we couldn't pass up this opportunity.

This is also where our

pro roster began to grow.

Erik's here!

My name's Erik Mukhametshin.

Originally I was born in Uzbekistan,

and then I moved Russia

and I lived there for about

10 years or something.

Just to have fun, be

with all my friends.

- Hey!

- Oh, I'm so glad, man.

- Poor guy.

- I finally made it.

Nothin' like sitting at

airport for three hours waiting.

All right, this is my first

time here at Woodward, Tahoe.

And there are so many cool features.

Like, look at this.

What is going on?

They just put in new rails.

This bar set up is so sick.

What?

Dude, I am really excited about this.

This is the type of spot that

inspires me to try to, like,

explore some really interesting

lines and use the space

in a way that I couldn't

do somewhere else.

Oh!

You know.

So far, the training has been amazing.

Training with the guys has been great.

I'm definitely pushing

myself, while being pushed

by everybody else, and that's

just a great combination

in my book.

- You're not allowed

to do anything else, unless

you get this move right.

- Oh!

- That's what I was afraid of.

I think I can make it, though.

I think you can make it, dude.

Yeah!

- Yep.

- No!

- That was close.

- That was so much better,

I couldn't land it!

I thought I was going to

'cause I was really high

in the air.

- Yep.

- Oh!

No!

Dude, I got so freaked out!

I kicked the tree a lot that time.

Did you see that, just, this twist?

Yeah, that was, you were, oh!

That was like a uh-oh-twist.

- Good?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

Yeah, man.

Are we doing something else?

That's what's so great about it, is that

we're here together, and

we're pushing each other.

So, when I get people like

Erik Mukhametshin in here,

teaching me new moves, it's quite a,

it's actually kind of a scary

feeling for me.

I have to learn to work past it, but

just the idea that someone

believes in me that much,

it makes me want to work harder.

'Cause he'll tell me

to do something, and I,

I'm like, ah, I don't

know if I can do that.

But then I work on it and I try it,

and eventually I'll get it.

- Never worn a thong?

- No!

You don't

have to only wear that,

you can still wear your pants.

Yeah, you get to

wear pants over it.

- For how long?

- Four hours.

Four hours?

Um, I really don't want to do it,

one and 10.

- Ready?

- No, I'm ready, all right.

Here we go,

- Three, two, one,

- three, two, one...

While playing the odds,

if you guess the same number

as someone who just odds'd you,

you have to do that dare.

- Eight.

- 10.

Oh!

I'm only

telling you this because

odds are, you're going

to see us play a lot

throughout this film.

So last night got a little crazy.

None of it got filmed.

Oh my gosh!

But it's okay, it's better that way.

We're doing a hot-swap.

No stopping.

All right.

Don't bump the wheel, whatever you do.

Yeah.

We are in an RV park.

I guess tomorrow morning

we going to wake up

in front of a beautiful lake.

We passed a bridge that we

think we saw a rope swing on,

so you guys can...

I think some of my

favorite moments of the tour

were just the adventures that would unfold

from the openness of, like,

pulling over, or just not

having such a solid plan

that we blocked something magical.

All right, so we found a bridge

right as the sun was going down yesterday,

as we drove into this place.

And someone thought they saw a rope.

So we're going to go see

if we can rope-swing it.

Otherwise we'll shoot some

video on the bridge itself,

because it looked pretty cool.

Sick.

Whee!

You nailed

that one, bro.

This worked out, huh?

"Hey, let's try to sleep over by the dam."

No, that didn't work.

"Oh, let's drive 20 more minutes, there,

"it looks like there might be an RV park."

Well, that didn't exist.

"Hey, let's park here for the night.

"Oh, look at that bridge!"

That's, like,

the journey we're on,

randomly getting cool shit to

happen while we're doin' this.

My two standouts has gotta

be Erik and Sydney, I think.

Erik's someone who always

comes off as this kind of cocky

bastard.

But he can always back up

what he's being cocky about.

He'll say, "I'm going to do this,"

and he literally always does it.

Next shot, we're going

to drive the tour bus

over that bridge,

and Erik's gonna jump while it's moving

off the top and into the water.

- Yeah, let's go.

- Here we go!

- Oh my God, he wiped out!

- What?

- Yo!

- Yo, get him!

Help, help, help!

- Ooh!

- Come in.

Sounds like a solid head hit.

Little, little

concussion, probably.

- Whooh!

- Oh yeah.

At that point, we were

only 12 days into the tour

out of 63, so,

for something to happen

that early on was kinda,

was kind of crazy, but if

anyone could've taken that hit

and walked away from it

essentially, it was definitely Erik.

Don't remember anything,

that's so annoying.

This was the first

time on tour where we realized,

when things go wrong, it

happens extremely fast

and with no warning.

But we had to get back on the road,

we had a whole tour ahead of us.

Geez!

My name is Nate Weston.

I am 21 years old.

I am from Seattle, Washington,

and I've been training parkour

for just under six years.

What initially attracted

me to the sport is

how free it is, and how you

can really express yourself

through movement, and there's

no real boundaries at all,

there's nothing you need to

do, or need to buy or anything,

and you can just train whenever you want,

and I think that's just

the most amazing part

about training, is being able

to do it whenever you want.

Dude, you've outdone

yourself, this is so nice!

He's so excited for odds, right now,

that he just...

- No!

- Ask Jeff all about it.

- Let's just say, Nate,

I did not have a good

week, man.

I've been seeing some

gnarly stuff goin' down.

Welcome to tour!

Look!

It's Joey!

- Whaddup!

- Joey, you're our first VIP!

- Oh my God!

My name's Joey Adrian.

I've been training for about nine years,

maybe a little less, maybe a little more,

and I'm from Portland, Oregon.

The thing that really

brought me into parkour

and, like, solidified that

this is what I wanted to do,

is this was the first

thing where I felt that

I can get good at whatever I

want, if I just practice it.

And that was the first thing

that I realized that for,

so I just, like, ran with it.

It's pretty lit!

- Are you going with them

on tour?

- You wanna have me on

for a little bit?

- You want to just jump on...

- Dude!

- Are you coming with us?

Yeah!

- That's how it happens!

- That's how it goes, man.

- Where are we at?

- We

are at the zoo in Portland,

and we just parked the

tour bus, and apparently,

it's so big that I need

to pay for five spots.

But the machine's not working.

Stoked, man!

It's also just exciting to

have everybody, you know,

in Portland, at the spot...

- at the spot

where you're training.

- Yeah, exactly.

- That's cool

- 'Cause that doesn't ever,

Woo hoo!

Thank you.

- Oh!

- Whooh!

I can definitely do that.

At some point I thought

I'm not going to rotate enough,

I was like, "I'm screwed."

- Oh my God!

That was disgusting.

Yeah!

That's a wrap on Portland, baby!

- Odd'ed to 5.

- Ready?

Three, two, one,

- One,

Four!

- Four!

My God!

Oh my God!

Maybe there's some more.

- Mm mm, mm mm.

Let's go, let's go, I think

I'm going to throw up.

I mean, there's very

few people out there that

can get a tour bus and

tour around the country,

for all summer, that's pretty insane.

And he had a very powerful voice as well.

And I'm really, really

thankful for what he's doing

with this whole tour,

because it's just showing

that there's so much more

you can do with movement,

and there's so many lives

you can affect through this

simple sport, and I think

it's super empowering.

I didn't know, basically, anything

about how this tour was

getting set up or anything.

And then, talking with Jesse, knowing that

he's basically fronting

all the money for this,

realizing that our first gas stop,

it was like 200-and-some

dollars to fill it up.

And I was just like, wait,

what?

You're paying 200 plus dollars

every time we stop for gas,

just so that you can

spread these good vibes

and bring these high-level

athletes to these communities.

Because the movement's one

thing, but that only goes so far.

We already have insane athletes,

but we don't have a lot of

people that are going out

and actually making opportunities happen.

So, seeing Jesse do that has

been massively inspiring to me.

None of us had ever seen

Mount Rushmore in person before.

So we all decided it would be a dope place

to go and get some cool shots.

Starting route to

Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

We could feel that we were

causing too much attention,

and decided it was time to leave.

But right when we thought it was safe,

the cops pulled me aside.

Not just one , but

two tickets later,

meant it was time to leave.

More about, like,

the interpersonal dynamic

between you three.

You became kind of like the

Three Musketeers, in a way.

I know, it's crazy.

Have you grown

as friends, do you think?

Oh yeah, for sure, I've known Joey for

just about as long as I've been training,

because he lives in Portland

and I live in Seattle.

When I first started

training, he was literally

one of the first famous or

professional parkour athletes

that I knew at the time,

I'm like, "Oh, that's Joey!"

and when I met him, it was

just such a crazy thing,

because he just was a regular dude,

and I was just this kid

kinda looking up to him.

And to be able to be

training with him now,

as well as with Erik,

to be able to be training with them,

and at a similar level, and

just having a good old time,

and being friends, has

been really, really fun.

And I definitely got to know

Erik a lot more this trip,

which has been really a blessing as well,

because he was one of the first people

I really watched and studied.

Three, two, one, one!

- Two, one, one!

Nate has to take a

picture of the waitress,

but with the flash on,

and it takes forever.

- Whoa!

- Sorry.

Thank you very much.

Get that for ya.

- Whaddup!

- What's up!

I'm Mich Todorovic.

I'm from Montreal, Canada,

and I've been doing parkour for 14 years.

Todorovik's ready now, too, so

it doesn't matter, right?

Hey bro.

- How's it going, man?

I mean, I was always a super active kid,

when I was young, and basically,

I couldn't afford to

play all the team sport.

I kind of sacrificed school for parkour.

At some point, I was like, you know what?

I have no idea why I want

to keep going to school,

if I don't know what I want to do.

And I knew that parkour was my main focus.

So I said, you know what?

I'm gonna drop school.

I'm going to do parkour is much as I can.

With Mich now on

board, we drove off to a spot

that we'd all been waiting for.

Where do you want to start?

This park's insane.

It's almost, like, too much to do.

I don't know, what do

you want to start with?

There's a hella

glass on this ground, so...

Yeah, I know, there was

hell a glass over there too.

Today's shoot location

is called Grand Fountain

here in Flint, Michigan.

It's easily one of the best

spots not only in the USA,

but in the entire world.

I guarantee you that today

it goes down.

- Okay?

- Yeah.

He's chillin'.

Sit down.

Be gimbal!

That was so, how did you do it?

Let's go!

Mich can do magical things.

After that pretty intense film day,

we all decided that some

relaxation was in order.

So we drove off to

Caesar Creek Lake in Ohio

to spend the night.

Oh yeah.

Turn around.

- Ooh!

- Oh!

- Aw, that smells so bad!

- Ready?

- Three, two, one.

Oh my God!

One and five.

Who's going to go first?

Loser has to take some of that mud,

and stick it in their mouth.

You first, right?

- Mmm, no.

Three, two, one,

two!

- Two!

- Ya done!

- Yes, Jesse!

- Yes!

- Oh my,

- There it is.

- Yes, show us.

Git it, git it!

- Oh!

- What are you doing?

Oh my God, put

your mouth in the water!

It's still on

your tongue, we can see it!

Oh my God!

So I love free-running

more than anything

in the entire world.

It's brought me to places

that I never would've expected

that I'd get to go.

And I've gotten to travel

to so many different places in the world,

and I've met so many

amazing people through this.

Being on tour has been

the most fun I've ever had

in my entire life.

And it's not necessarily

just the training.

It's the friendship, and it's

the going out in the water

and throwing mud at each other,

constantly playing the

odds game with each other,

and doing some really

dumb stuff because of it.

It really has been such

an amazing adventure.

Rob lost the odds and

he has to shave his head.

Here we go.

All right, I

think we're good!

On the outskirts of Chicago,

we found there was this

abandoned mill or something.

Got graffiti all over it, we

did see some security in there,

and signs that say no trespassing.

But at this point, we

are going to try to go in

and scout it, and see what happens.

So, fingers crossed.

Let's check it out.

Hoping to get off some shots

before we get kicked out.

Ready.

- Rolling?

- Rolling!

Yes!

I actually got a pretty

bad nail stuck in my bone,

I couldn't get it out of

there, it was so stuck,

so I just,

how did I not see it?

- Ah!

Oh, there's security, we gotta go.

He told us to leave, I don't

think he called the cops.

But I'm not going to celebrate,

until we get back to the bus!

Fingers crossed.

I'm gonna scare Sydney right now.

- Snake!

- Oh watch, Sydney!

What was that?

Something weird, it's

really hard to explain,

it should be something really different

to all the things that I've already done.

It's hard to explain, I don't know.

Let's say there are two

walls next to each other,

with a good distance, but I could

cut 180 to a front flip

or something like that,

like some weird stuff.

It's just hard, like, most of the time,

I'm just finding something really weird,

and I'm like, "Whoa, I

wonder if that will work?"

And I'll just spend, like,

a couple of hours trying it.

- Oh my God!

Yo, that bar is jello.

- Oh!

- Oh my God!

- Yep!

- Come on!

I am Corbin Reinhardt

and I'm from Los Angeles, California.

I started off as a student

and now I'm a pro free runner.

Well, the reason I wanted

to come on this tour

is because, obviously,

it's parkour free running,

which is, like, one of

my favorite things to do.

But also, all the stops

that you're going to

are places that I've wanted to

do before I even did parkour,

like Woodward, I've seen

that since I was a kid,

so it's kind of been on this pedestal,

I never thought that I would

ever actually be there,

but now the idea of coming as a pro

is a really cool thing to me.

Dude!

Jesse's one of the sickest

cameramen I've ever seen.

The first time I saw

Jesse bust out the Red

and film one of my lines,

I was just expecting to be like, "Oh look,

"I can see the line, it's

on a nice camera, cool."

But no, he gets every

single angle perfect!

He's in the exact right spot

so that he's not in my way.

He's filming the exact thing

that you need to see in the movement.

And that's not something

that it's easy to do.

And then seeing him film,

like, Erik do a line,

or Nate do a line, or Sydney do a line,

Jesse somehow has this super tight view,

but doesn't miss anything

in the whole picture.

And it's been incredible.

I knew there was something

because I saw George filming.

Oh!

I believe it's in my DNA.

I love to challenge myself, I love to,

to be the best me I can.

And I was like that in soccer,

I was like that when I

used to play basketball,

when I used to skate or whatever.

Whatever I did, I always wanted

to kind of improve myself

as much as I could.

Whoosh!

Being with Erik and Joey all the time

has been pretty crazy, they're

both kinda nuts.

They always, they're wanting

to train all the time.

I'm more of a person that likes to

kind of take some rest days in between.

But they're always just kinda go, go, go.

And it definitely showed me on

this tour, it showed me that

you can train every day as long as

you're really doing rehab and stuff.

But, yeah, the combination of them,

going to these new spots and

seeing these new communities,

and training with all of these new people,

just kinda brings this

fire in them, and I see it,

and then it gets me all excited,

and I just want to train as well,

so it just kinda happens.

- Oh my God!

- Dude, you made that look...

- So easy!

- So simple!

After some much-needed rest

and a couple of card games later,

we got back on the road.

But not before picking

up the rock star himself.

He's playing at the

playground.

Oh my God!

- Bart Van Der Linden!

- What's up, guys.

- So sweaty!

- Come here!

One of my favorite things

about the parkour community

is getting to have friends from literally

all around the world,

and how, as pro's, we get to

hang out and train together

in different countries

throughout the year.

But every time we see each other,

it's like seeing family again.

So.

- Whaddup.

- Oh, it's chill in here.

- Hey, dude.

We finally

made it to New York City

but we only had four hours to go

before we had to get back on the bus.

So we jumped on a train got right into it.

Goin' to Times Square, baby!

You gotta love this place.

New York City!

Rock 'n roll.

Wow!

He's not very good at this.

Three, two, one!

While on the road,

we had a group of

athletes reach out nearby.

So we posted up on social media,

saying that we'd stop in,

have an impromptu jam.

New pair of shoes.

New pair of feet.

That's how I feel right now.

We are in West Hartford.

Got my bodyguard with me, big Mich.

We're doing a meet and greet.

We going to say hi to some locals,

and see if anyone's out here.

Hi, you met me before, actually.

How are you?

Oh, good.

- I am

really nervous right now.

The police are here!

I don't know what we're gonna do.

Right as things got going,

a bunch of cops showed up.

Luckily for us, the West

Hartford parkour community

has a great relationship

with their local authority,

and they actually allowed

us to continue to train.

That was dope, though, good job!

How'd it come out?

- What did you just get?

- Got some books, you know.

- Oh, nice.

- Wait, where'd you go?

- The library.

- Like, "Where did Mich go?"

Oh, he's just buying some books.

Oh, Barnes & Noble.

Wow, you're so attractive,

in so many ways.

Jesse

La Flaire

Jesse

Oh yeah!

Yo, yo,

we're on the Lace Up Tour, you never knew,

we're going to a city near you!

I'm comin', gonna go through!

Today's stop was one

of the most unique locations

of the tour.

Sidney and I's Team Yokohama

teammate, Travis Pastrana,

allowed us to stop by

the famed Pastranaland

to do whatever we wanted.

And for some of us,

this was even a bigger dream

come true than for others.

You just put in the code?

Ha ha ha!

Check that out.

Oh My God!

Being at Pastranaland was

huge for me, it was massive.

Whenever anybody asks a parkour guy,

"How did you get into parkour,

did you see a YouTube video

"or something like that?"

For me, it was Pastranaland.

I used to watch videos on

that since I was five to 10,

and it actually made me get up and go

to do what I wanted to do.

Especially at that time, as

motocross, I just wanted to

go out and I wanted to explore,

I wanted to really find things.

Dude.

this is insane.

I've spent so much time,

just watching this foam pit

in my life.

It was also Travis Pastrana's house.

And I thought to myself, that

would be the coolest place

to really go, to be at, to get better at.

And I never thought I would be there.

But then, when you told me

that this was going to be on the tour,

I really, it really

amped me up, I would say.

Because it was one of those things

that I kind of put in the past,

saying that it wasn't going to happen,

and now it's happening.

And so that was really, really cool to me.

Whooh, Team Yokohama,

baby, we're at Pastranaland,

let's go!

It was nice to jump around,

I found some descents and stuff.

But really, when I got there, all I saw

was the things that were iconic,

like the foam pit, all

the ramps and everything,

it was kind of like tingling

in the back of my head,

I needed to get on a bike,

and I needed to just find

something to do a back flip on.

'Cause that was one of the main things

I've ever wanted to do.

This dude's been riding

motocross bikes since before I was born

and winning prizes at it.

He's better at riding a

motorbike than I am at walking.

That's the dream right there.

X Games, baby.

- Are you filming?

- Yeah.

Okay, so we got Lindsey

Pastrana's bike right here,

and I'm going to be sending

some back flips into this.

Bart's about to go for his

first back flip right now.

Go, Bart!

Missed the pedal!

- What just happened?

- Whooh!

Well, that was the scariest

thing that can happen, so,

- Yeah!

- Oh my God!

What?

When we went on the

inside, it was really cool

to actually see that little foam pit,

because I've always seen that,

and you have everything around you,

which is pretty cool,

but it's kind of small.

So doing that back flip

was really awesome.

The real deal was the outside.

That was the big foam pit,

that was the one that I

have laid my childhood on.

So I really wanted to hit a

double back flip out there.

All right ladies and gentlemen,

anybody who knows Travis

Pastrana's house knows

that all of the stuff

goes down right here.

I really wanted to hit that

double back flip first try.

All right, so that first try

did not go so well.

The second one was much better.

- Where we at?

- We're at Pastranaland, baby.

Insane in the membrane, baby, oh my God!

So, the bottom line of Pastranaland was

we did not have long enough.

That place was so,

I would even say historical, for me,

that I just needed to be there,

and I needed to really feel it,

and we got a lot of that done that day.

But in terms of just being

there and being in that place,

it felt like what a kid

feels for Disneyland,

if they saw it for, you know, years

and then they went there.

That was the kind of feeling

that I had a my stomach.

Oh!

Yeah!

- It's so good.

Corbin's a legend.

Every day of the Lace Up

Tour was ridiculously fun.

But a 63-day adventure doesn't come

without some bumps and bruises.

Oh!

Dude, I hit the tree branch!

Oh!

Ow!

Oh my favorite pink shorts.

Oh!

- 14.

- Oh!

Oh, my, don't!

Oh, I knew I was gonna die.

Uh!

You know what?

I do love get injured once in a while.

Because it just brings you back, and

you can sit and kind of re-focus

and rearrange your system.

And every time I get injured, I feel like

I take care of myself even more.

I want to get in the

game as fast as I can,

so I'm like, I need to be super efficient.

So, I kinda enjoy getting injured

once in a while.

Watch out.

Nate, I just got

kicked out, but roll the Red cam.

I got one more thing that

I want to do before I go.

Miami might've been the perfect location

for some training at the beach.

But unfortunately, at

our next stop, Orlando,

the tour was going to

take a turn for the worse.

It's this inevitable truth.

It's like, every day we go

out and we do gnarly stuff,

and we push the limits

of what the human body

is physically capable of.

We are playing the game of odds.

Eventually, something

is going to happen, and

when we get comfortable

is when it gets dangerous.

I was back in another corner

of the gym, shooting Mich.

And just before I stopped

recording on the camera,

that's when I heard the slam.

And just based on the overall

reaction that everyone gave,

I just knew it probably wasn't good.

- Oh!

Get Rob!

Lay him out flat!

- Can someone call 911?

- His neck, his neck.

He went straight in, his neck,

- Call 911.

- Let him breathe.

- Seeing Corbin on the ground

like that was, uh, a bit

of a struggle for me.

You know, on one hand,

you want to help someone

who's clearly not okay.

And on the other hand, you

kinda have this job to do.

- Corbin, you breathing?

- Corbin.

- As long as he's breathing,

- Yeah.

- Check his

- No, Corbin, stay down.

I need you to stay down, Corbin.

- Okay, okay, okay.

- There you go.

No, no, no, no, Corbin, stay down.

Stay down, Corbin.

Was there any loss of consciousness?

Watching Corbin go down in Orlando was,

was a shock to the

entire crew and the tour

and all the athletes.

I think seeing how

fragile our bodies can be

and how a head injury can, like,

put a huge hold on your life,

having to sit in front of him at the ER,

you know, just passed out,

and now dealing with him

trying to learn to speak again

is like this thing that

pauses me to reflect

in a way that I've never had to

look at myself in a way before.

I felt a personal

responsibility with this tour

being created by me

and the guilt of Corbin getting injured.

I didn't know what to do,

it didn't feel right leaving him, but

we had to keep moving.

After Corbin's injury,

it just so happened that

some of the other athletes

were scheduled to leave tour.

So, it was just down to Sydney and I,

and we had one more city to hit

before we started to head home.

This tour taught me a lot.

I learned never to take life for granted,

and that it will always

throw obstacles in your way.

But it's how you react and

overcome those challenges

that dictate your future.

And the way Corbin handled his injury

will forever inspire all of us.

I don't know, I guess

it's kind of a blank space.

You know, it's weird having

that black, black dark space

where I just don't know what happened,

because I know it's

there, I've seen footage,

and it's just not there,

it's not there in my head.

I felt like I was normal,

I felt like I was talking,

I could talk to people,

but then I found out

a long time afterward,

it was probably months after,

that what I was saying wasn't correct.

What I was saying wasn't

even close to correct.

Everything I was doing was gibberish.

But yeah, I took speech

therapy for two months.

After that I had physical therapy,

and so I had to get my legs back.

Anytime I tried to lift my

foot, it would be very hard

to go from my brain to my foot.

So I would try to do this

but it just wouldn't happen.

And I was just looking at

my legs, like, "Come on.

"We can do this."

And, uh, yeah, it didn't

happen for a long time.

I think it's something

that needed to happen,

I think it's something that had to happen,

and now I'm kinda better because of it.

- Oh!

- Yeah!

We can travel

and explore foreign lands.

We can start teams and build

brands to fund our endeavors.

We can create competitions

and host our own events

to support the sport

from the inside out.

We can pack a giant purple

tour bus full of pro athletes

and tour an entire country for two months.

We can do whatever we want.

But none of it is why we come together.

In the end, when we're

training, together or alone,

none of that stuff matters.

Only the essence,

the moment,

the movement,

and the memories.

I don't know,

the tour's amazing, man,

who wouldn't want this life?

It's the best life, and it's,

it's doing good things.

Simple as that.

It's kind of strange to be

in this place where I've

completely met my life goal, where

I could make a career out of this

and just focus on this and nothing else.

And it's brought so much

happiness to my life

that I never could've

gotten from anything else.

To be on this tour, it's,

it's first of all, that friendship.

It's sharing those moments

with the people I love,

that's it.

- It's tour life,

- Tour life!

- Oh God!

- Ah!

I'm so grateful

for this opportunity

to be able to travel around America,

wake up in a new city, see new people,

see new spots, and train.

It's been a dream of mine for

as long as I've been training.

It's so sick.

Yeah, and liberating.

I'm very grateful for it.

Every single person on the bus is

ingrained in parkour,

so we all train together, we

all move in a similar way.

Styles might be different, but

the movement's still there,

and some might focus more on this aspect,

some might focus more on this aspect,

but the movement's still the same.

That's what I love

about what I'm doing in my life

just because I can travel

and meet new people,

and those people becoming

not even just your friends,

they're like, more like a family.

And I feel like I can go

anywhere pretty much in the world

and just stay with

someone, or find friends

and just message someone and just meet up

and do some cool and fun stuff, you know?

So yeah, I guess our sport isn't terrible.

The one

thing that's really nice

about especially the tour itself,

is the idea that wherever we are,

I still kinda come back to my own,

I still kinda come back to normal,

and I'm gonna do free running,

we're all gonna do free running.

We're all going to have that

one thing that connects us,

together.

And it's basically movement, you know?

We're not just going there to sight-see.

It's not a tourist-y trip.

It's about doing what we love

in places that we've never been.

And I really like that idea.

I'm crying.

Travel isn't always pretty,

comfortable, or painless.

It changes you.

It should change you.

It leaves marks on your memory,

reshapes your heart,

and scars your body.

It binds you to those

you experience it with.

You take something with you.

And hopefully,

you leave something good behind.

Yeah!

Oh my God!

The next best thing, and

actually the real best thing

was just using it, using it as

a way to build the community

and connect with people that maybe

I never really had a chance

to connect with before.

And I have to say that

I think it was the best case scenario.

What's next?

Yeah.

I see where you're going

with this.

We have this thing that we love so much,

and we can share that passion together.

So I guess, basically,

we're bound by movement.

I don't actually have to say it?

Oh, thank God.

Um, okay.

Bound By Movement (2019) - full transcript