David Belle

David Belle (born 29 April 1973 in Fécamp, France) is a French actor and is considered the founder of the art of movement known as Parkour.

David Belle learned as a child by his father Raymond Belle, a former Vietnam soldiers in the forests of northern France, the Méthode Naturelle, an art of movement through the landscape with its natural obstacles in harmony with nature and the environment. End of the 80s he was playing this method on the urban landscape of the Paris suburb Lisses. From the playful chases the children down stairs, table tennis tables, rubbish bins and small streams the friends developed as young people by involving of increasingly more difficult obstacles such as walls, fences, scaffolding, and later building facades and high-rise buildings to Parkour.

Belle studied acting and played in several smaller French television productions. He played beyond most of the time in commercials for Nike, the BBC, Nissan and Canon, but also worked as a stuntman and actor in major film productions such as The Crimson Rivers 2 - Angels of the Apocalypse, "Prince of Persia" and The Transporter. He had his biggest role in Pierre Morel's film Ghettogangz - Hell before Paris as a leading actor on the side of Cyril Raffaelli, what role he continued in the Ghettogangz 2 - continued ultimatum of 2009.

He took about three years to the group Yamakasi, which consisted of training colleagues and peers. The group broke up due to differences regarding the future direction of Parkour. Some members are as traceurs in the film Yamakasi - to see The Samurai of modernity by director Ariel Zeitoun.

2005 was a co-founder of Belle Parkour Worldwide Association ( PAWA ), but this 2006 withdrew his support.

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