STORROR Try famous Czech tower jumps 🇨🇿

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I wonder when they did this? When did it come about?
The first time people were doing this was before parkour was invented.
Probably. Similar to Fontainebleau, people were running and jumping in that place before parkour
had its name. Do you know when people maybe did the first jumps here?
Maybe in the beginning of the century.
It just goes to show that humans have been doing parkour way before it had its name.
These are actual tower blocks. These jumps are like they're really exposed big towers.
You jump between two of them.
Just because the rocks don't have like doors and windows, it doesn't mean
it's not just like doing a roof gap. It's just as scary.
Yeah, just as scary. Just as much consequence on some of these ones as a five-story roof gap.
But we're just doing it out in the nature, so it just feels very different.
You're not trespassing. We're allowed to be here.
And we do have a climbing professional with harnesses and stuff just in case.
So this is safe.
Safety team have checked this before as well. So yeah, just saying that safety team, big up.
Big up safety team. Big up Honza, showing us around for the day.
This is a location. Oh my goodness.
The way it's just opened up, suddenly it's like infinite rock.
I haven't really seen that many videos or photos of this here. Oh my goodness.
We're suddenly in the kingdom of ultimate opportunities.
Yeah, yeah.
Look at that in the background.
This honestly reminds me of like back in like Yosemite.
What the hell?
Whoa.
Oh, there's a little bucket.
What the hell?
Whoa, what is going on?
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It's the jump you're supposed to do.
Oh, this jump?
Yeah.
Nice.
Yes, baby.
That's what you want to be around here.
Max, have a look at these.
Can you see that?
Might be able to get down and try that one.
Right, I just spotted a jump down the valley.
This could be a cool new set.
Probably not, considering they've been doing it here in the 60s before cameras and that.
Oh, okay.
This place is amazing.
Yes.
It's not a terrain that we're too familiar with.
Oh, yeah, that's nice.
Yeah.
What do you reckon we'd grade this one then, Max?
This one looks like quite big for like parkour legs.
So it means like climbers potentially don't really...
They're doing the droppy ones.
The other one we saw was so easy, but just heavy.
This one requires power and technique.
The only thing is the climbers back in the day probably wouldn't have the hops that we do,
I guess.
Yeah, I reckon.
That makes it kind of easy.
I'd probably grade this similar, actually.
Maybe a three.
Like if I was going on the climbing ones, the last two I've seen.
Yeah, it's chill.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's chill.
Yo.
Yeah, yo.
Let's go.
Yes.
First of the day is always scary.
Now let's get down.
Oh, my God.
Three to four.
Grade three to four, right.
Interesting.
Harness.
Look at that.
It's like a nappy.
This is going to be a little bit heavy, this one.
Oh, nice and lit up into the sun.
OK, here we are.
Here we are.
Yeah, it's calm.
So I'm going to aim like there.
So my forward momentum goes slightly that way.
Obviously, if you jump there and overdo it.
Do you reckon anyone's done this without rope?
Maybe.
There's a chance, but.
That's cool.
Why would you when rope is so, like, normalised in your life as a climb?
In your sport, it's so normalised.
Let's have a look.
White T-shirt would be nice.
Yeah.
You weren't about to go, were you?
No.
This is a three point five out of seven.
Oh, yeah.
Getting halfway along the scale.
Out of five, actually, you think?
Three point five out of five.
Seventy five percent.
Nah, it's just chill, to be fair.
There's not, like, too much
skill in the actual jump.
Like you can you can be not very good at jumping and still make this jump.
Yeah, I mean, the skill is in how well you take the landing.
Yeah, yeah.
And in the bottom that you've got to do, because we're high up right now.
You can see overdoing it is a solid like six stories.
Underdoing it's three, maybe four.
So, yeah.
It's a mossy, rocky crevasse.
There's actually no way I fall off that.
No, no, no, no, no.
I think I break my ankle before I fall off.
I reckon you could probably land on it, knock yourself out.
And there's still a chance you stay on the rock.
Right, are we rolling?
Yeah.
OK.
Yeah.
Nice one.
Enjoy.
Come on, punk.
Not too bad.
Yeah, Ben.
Nice.
Yeah, Ben.
Nice.
Yeah.
No pain as well.
It was a bit more airtime than I expected, actually, from here.
Yeah, like probably eight to nine foot.
You know what I hate?
Just chilling there.
Just a little slope.
Chilling on that little slope.
It's good texture on this thing.
It really is really grippy.
Still.
Don't chill there, then.
Just jump.
Yeah, don't chill.
You got such a nice pass into that corner.
That's what I meant by preying into this way.
If I hit that pass, good night, son.
But yeah.
Now, believe it or not, all the climbers are going to be laughing.
That's the easy bit out the way.
Now the hard bit.
Oh, the hard bit.
Now the unfamiliar bit.
It's not hard, it's just unfamiliar.
Yeah, true.
It's not hard.
It's just unfamiliar.
Can you pass me that jumper as well?
Is this so heavy, this thing?
No, I'll just go to the floor in front of you.
Would I clip this in now?
Could do, yeah.
You could sit down and clip that onto that.
Oh, thank you, boy.
All right, yeah?
Okay, so I clip this one to this one.
Yeah, now you're going to clip that little one to you.
Yeah, and yeah, let that rope go now.
This is the awkward bit, yeah, like getting down into it.
But remember, you're on tether, so.
This is all right.
Yeah, that's good.
A lot of people figure this out in the first place.
Have you screwed up your screw gate on your waist there?
Screw that up.
You're good, you're safe, mate.
It would have been fine.
Because you're on the tether,
you can hold that brake rope out of safety anyway, if you want.
Keep that on, but you want to get onto the tether now.
So get onto the blue, get onto the blue thing.
Wait, wait, have you tightened your groggins and scrockets?
Kevin, don't freak him out like that.
Well, that timing was perfect.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, you're safe, mate.
You're actually attached two ways.
Yeah, yeah.
Careful of your fingers when you get onto that orange carabiner.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Oh, my God.
Reload that beaner, get that beaner in a good...
Yeah, yeah, like that.
Jesus Christ.
Can I just take that off and go?
Yeah, I'll just do that.
Nice and low.
That's it, mate.
Go on, lad.
You're abseiling.
Is that what it's called?
That was so confusing.
Yes, mate.
Oh, thanks for the help, lad.
Yeah.
That was a V9 abseil.
V9 abseil.
Yeah, makes sense.
That was a little bit of a sticky bit in the middle,
where I didn't really know what to do with the rope.
And the first jink off the carabiner scared me a little bit,
but that's a nice jump.
Got a 3.5 ticked off.
Oh, God.
We're at the next spot, finally.
Long, long walk.
Oh, my goodness.
That is exposed.
Is that the jump over there?
Cool.
Looks well nice.
So basically, the jump that we saw from the ground is not this one.
It's the one on from this.
So we have to either jump from here to there
or climb up the tree to the top and then look at the jump.
But I think, is it again, like once you do the jump,
you have to abseil down or you might be able to jump back.
We'll go back here, down there.
As in, like, the jump is...
The next one.
Yeah.
The next one's the actual jump.
So it's not this one to jump.
The next one to jump.
How do we get into that tree?
Yeah, down there.
Try that.
Oh, my God, dog.
I thought that was someone, like...
Oh, the dog did that so good.
Yeah.
Is there an easy way?
Wait, that's grim.
The rock from the top of the tree.
I can't really see from there.
Yeah.
I don't think the tree's going anywhere.
The way that there's multiple branches pressing against the rock.
Do you know what I mean?
If it was, like, all on one branch, it would be different.
But the way that the branches all, like, kind of branch out.
It's not...
I'm a fraction of the way off, whatever this is.
Yeah.
It's just this.
It's scary.
Yeah, I think when you're climbing, just try not to make the tree move.
Huh?
Yeah.
It's blending in.
Oh, there's a nest, like, against the wall in the tree with an egg in it.
How is it?
It's all right.
I just wish it was taller and, like, square into the wall and not at this angle.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
This is rough.
This is rough to watch.
Look at this tree.
I'm going to come up.
Right.
Yeah, it's all right.
Just go real slow because...
Yeah.
I don't know if anyone's climbed that before.
Yeah.
Nothing was great.
Huh?
Nothing was great.
Yeah.
We did it, guys.
F**k me, that was scary.
It's weird, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's like you're...
It's like you're climbing up paper.
Paper?
Yeah, it's paper.
The whole way up is paper.
I can say it now, but I couldn't stop imagining the tree sliding down the rock.
Yeah, I appreciate you not saying that before.
I was thinking it, but I was trying not to think it.
Callum very successfully chucked the rope over.
This is our exit strategy, this rope.
Yeah, you're solid.
Make sure you're solid.
Good try, Cal.
You're not.
Nice.
That's fine.
That is disappointing.
We've dropped a bag chuck.
They're rare moments, you know.
I could have lunged, but it's not the place for a lunge.
Not the place.
I think it was a wise decision.
All right.
I think it's good, Bob.
Yeah, everyone ready?
Yeah.
This angle here is not flat.
Probably like 10 degrees off.
What's that, my first level four?
Get in there.
Oh, come on, Harry.
That was scary in the end.
I was like, this is fine, this is fine, until I'm right there.
Oh, yeah.
It's this.
It's the overdue, the slanting overdue, taking you just here.
Where you took off was even more there.
I put the brakes on a bit more than I wanted to, in terms of the right direction.
My right foot dug in here.
You almost landed with all fours, though, which is helpful.
You were very much like, even if it did slip, you got brakes.
Quick brakes with your hands.
Let's go, Bob.
All right, now we've got to get down.
Christ.
Yeah, let's take him over.
Where are we?
Yes.
No way that's 1964.
No way.
1987.
You have got to be joking me.
Unless these are like the routes when they were established.
What are the dates here?
80, yeah, 88, 88, 89.
It looks like old school writing as well.
Obviously, it's different language, but you know the way that it's kind of.
This is so mad.
People went climbing up these rocks and doing these jumps before.
So we've got to do our entry.
We've got to do our entry.
I'm looking for, look at this.
We've got doodles.
We've got nice permission.
Right, OK.
No one's done that before.
I bet you that's an NBD, Bob.
I bet you what we've just done today is an NBD.
No one's come down there, up that tree and jumped over there.
All without ropes.
Look at that.
Probably some really detailed sort of description on the routes and everything.
Into the annals of history we go.
Or a rock up.
Trade climber and jump.
Yes.
Coming down.
Concentrate.
Yes, on the floor.
Oh, my God, that's scary, man.
Oh, my God.
Getting off the edge is so scary.
Like when you have to, like, I'm fine going down into arm jump.
It's letting go off of arm jump into the sit.
And then getting used to that sitting.
Sitting is safe.
How casual is that?
Nice.
Are you all right, mate?
I need it.
