"Rush Hour" craze hits the South West!

Sorry, perhaps I should've phrased that better. I don't think it contributed to the popularity of the sport at the time, but to show it as part of the report on the issue was perhaps careless now as it does help to glamourise it.

I have never wanted to play-fight on top of a skyscraper as a result of the BBC ONE ident. In fact that one used to make my stomach churn too! As you may have guessed, I don't have a head for heights these days!

Even cheaper that way!

It would seem Le Parkour isn't just something you can just go outside and start doing instantly; it is a skill that has to be learned, a discipline, like martial arts - and you do have to make sure you're reasonably fit and flexible.

The Rush Hour promo was never the sole reason for people getting interested - that wasn't what the film intended.

What it was, was a captivating way of promoting the channel [with the full version clocking in at 1' 30'', it had to be, didn't it?] and doubled as a sort of pseudo-promo for the Rhythm & Movement identity concept, nothing more.

If people who haven't trained just go out there and randomly start attempting it, they are probably asking to get hurt, aren't they!

That's perhaps why by body aches if I run directly into a wall after leaving the pub on a Saturday night. I need more le Parkour instruction. Obviously, I should be able to leap over it or walk round it - although those options are normally the intention at the time

Tonight's Spotlight report was actually a re-edited repeat of the version shown on Points Worst last Friday.

The report was mainly from the "overlap" area of Somerset and this sort of thing often happens with stories from that area.

The fact that the story was put together in Bristol will, probably, have something to do with the quality.