Tree Missions with 50 YEAR OLD Parkour Master

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He's been doing it for 30 years and is now 50 years old.
That's insane!
And started the sport.
Let's go.
Hampstead Heath, North London today for a very special little rural adventure with the lads.
Very, very special guests. He's just arriving actually.
Arguably the specialist of all guests, really.
Casino royalty.
The punks!
Hello, how are you?
Nice to see you.
The man who needs no introduction.
Long time no see.
How are you? I know.
Good, good.
Welcome to my garden.
Sebastian Foucan, everyone.
Round of applause in the comments.
So do you want to talk us through what the plan is?
If you haven't seen the trees, I will show you the trees you've already seen.
So you can have fun like you had.
And then after I show you all the stuff.
Tree parkour with Sebastian Foucan.
What more do you need to know, really?
So I guess you could say this is tree number one.
Tree number one.
Yeah, we've got to give the video some sort of structure, haven't we?
Exactly, yeah.
Tree one.
Tree number one.
Oh!
Toby's out already.
Are you out actually?
How's your ankle?
This stuff should be nice.
Yeah, yeah.
A surgery, booking that little one, but it'll just hopefully change the game.
Same thing Sasha had, but he's waiting on another one.
Same thing Verky had.
I've only heard good things.
Hopefully, we jump in properly again.
Pray for Toby emojis in the comments, please.
Oh yeah, go on.
Do you reckon you do more parkour in trees and like rural stuff these days?
I don't think I do parkour anymore.
Really?
I don't believe it.
I don't know how to explain.
You're breaking my heart, Seb.
You're breaking my heart.
No, sorry.
I don't know how to explain.
I do.
If you see me moving, you say that's parkour.
Yeah.
But for me, there is like, I call it parkour challenge.
You know when people find some things, I need to do this, you know.
I'm not doing this anymore.
I'm moving.
Yeah.
So yes, I do parkour, but I don't know how to explain.
No, that makes sense.
I see what I mean.
You still do parkour though.
Yeah.
You don't challenge yourself, but you still do movement.
But that's it.
I will never stop like climbing, jumping, cat pass, like all the basics.
I will always do that until I die.
And I guess it's a challenge just to keep up that movement for that long time.
Well, yeah, for the viewers, how old are you, Seb?
If you don't mind me asking.
25!
Okay, you're going to guess.
You see me moving and you decide how old I am.
That's what is important!
That's all!
Guess in the comments how old Seb is.
We're actually never going to reveal it.
He's just a timeless character.
I'm 50 years old, guys.
I'm 50.
If you committed to saying you're 25, I think people would believe you.
In my head, I believe I'm 25.
Yes, mate.
That's the key.
All I can say is I hope when I'm 50, I'm moving like Seb is.
Aim of the game, inspirational character.
Let's get to it.
You call it follow the leader.
You know when you call it follow the leader?
This is what I was expecting.
Shall we go? Who's behind me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're all in.
Whoop!
Go on, Swag.
Go on.
I thought we were playing.
Yeah, me too.
Do you feel warm, Seb?
I think so.
It's gone past the stage of warm.
Yep, there we go.
Brilliant.
Stretches your everything out.
My wrist.
A little twist there.
Come on, Cal.
Oh, he's gone back.
Oh, what a way.
It's good, guys.
Think back to the day when you were doing parkour.
Yeah.
How much of it was trees compared to, like, street?
Did you train in trees a lot?
We had trees in Leeds.
You know, like, have you been to Leeds?
Yeah, yeah.
It's like a tree area.
There's trees and grass and there is rock.
It's not as concrete as now.
There is people like a lot of concrete.
It's a lot of green land.
I would say probably more than that.
40 trees in the rest of Leeds is fine.
Yeah.
That's quite a lot.
Yeah, yeah.
More than we would do.
Yeah, yeah.
Before I did parkour, I was climbing trees a lot.
So it just almost stems from that.
Sometimes it's almost like I've become a bit spiritual and stuff like that,
but this is a life.
Yeah, yeah.
This is like a real thing.
Earth day.
Oh, Callum's up high.
Oh, dear.
He's found his inner chimp.
Can we just say, Benj claims, Benj isn't here today
and Benj claims this is the first Monday he's missed for five years.
Can we get some nerd in the subreddit to verify whether that's true or not?
I reckon it's right.
I reckon it's true as well.
Yeah.
I think when he got to the one year mark, he thought,
I'm going to make sure I keep track of this.
Keep track of this.
Absolute MVP.
Yeah, shout out.
Benj being on the grind for five years, hasn't missed a video.
Sadly missed today.
It's not going to be a long time.
Absence, don't worry.
MVP.
That's unreal.
How many have we missed, Callum?
More than none.
Quite a few more than none.
Unreal effort.
That's fine.
It didn't wobble as much as I thought it would.
What about the end one?
Major wob.
Oh, that was sick.
Oh.
Oh, it's a 10.
We all know why that happened.
Yeah, this one, I love it.
It's a good one for the next one.
Can you?
For five minutes.
Stop bickering, you two.
I nearly fell 200 stories there.
Out of the way.
Some random in the way of Callum's jump.
Excuse me, mate.
Can you?
Get out of the way.
I know you started all this parkour stuff, but...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Keep the tempo.
Less talking.
This is the boss.
Oh.
Why didn't I think about that?
He kind of like dived to the hands first, then feet.
I know.
It's quite a big branch as well.
Yes.
What the hell, that looked kind of sick, actually.
Well, this truth is fun, man.
Something that just feels like so natural to play in a tree, you know?
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It's pretty nuts.
This guy climbs...
trees.
See that?
Keelan, mate.
Keelan, can we get a little replay on that airform off the back?
Yeah, come on.
It's classic.
Jump London classic, that is.
You saw it.
Yeah, sitting a 50-year-old moving like that,
that's something I've never really quite...
clocked before.
A lot of mucking about in those landings as well.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
He's taking that sh...
He's fully hitting it hard.
Crumble me, I'm half his age.
There you go.
Almost a stick, so...
This one.
Next spot.
I think we're on to the next tree now.
That was tree number one.
Oh, steady on.
We've got a jog on.
Oh, OK.
I just love how different it is from usual Stora sessions
where we all kind of spend two hours getting a f... coffee
and sitting about having a chat.
Now we're f... running between trees.
Oh, we're here.
Yeah, so annoying.
Oh, come on, that was lovely.
Now look at this.
Already moving on.
Typically in any Stora session,
it'd be at least two hours
of trying to convince other people to move spots.
When you get the walk to the next spot,
your feet soaking wet.
Seb just books it into the tree
in his little slippers, soaking wet.
Look at this.
Mate, unreal.
These trees are so cool.
What the hell?
Hampstead Heath.
Anybody who lives in London
and you want to climb in trees,
Hampstead Heath is...
is lit.
Yeah.
I'm so out of breath.
Like, I never just continuously move for like...
30 seconds.
Yeah.
So sick.
Nice, man.
Where'd you go from?
Right here?
A little bit lower.
Yeah.
Oh, the seaguar.
He's prowling.
Lovely.
It's really hard to see Callum right now,
but he's there.
I'll kind of track him for you.
Oh, yes.
All yours.
I think...
Right.
Controversial opinion.
Sticks don't matter in trees.
Could just be some not very good stick and stuff.
Not sure.
Over.
Over, over.
Get the f*** back up there right now.
Nice.
F*** yes.
All day long.
He's not sure.
Yes, mate.
This is pure commitment.
Will you follow me if I do it?
Yes.
Yeah?
I'll follow you if you do it.
Yeah.
On track to this.
Oh, shit.
Oh, I see what you mean.
He's here.
Okay, it's okay.
Yes.
Easy.
Easy for you.
Nice, man.
Tree rating.
This tree is the best so far.
I'm going to give this...
Hard, because we haven't seen all trees.
But 7.5.
I think the parkour community has a bone to pick with you.
Is what?
About freerunning.
Explain yourself, man.
Oh, my God.
Freerunning.
I don't know.
Freerunning is whatever you want.
But I have no...
Nothing to do with it.
Okay, there you go.
Heard it here first.
There was a mistake.
You know I was young.
It's not a problem.
Parkour, freerunning, same shit.
If you want to call it freerunning, it's their problem.
Call it whatever you want, basically.
You heard it from the man himself.
I'm the founder of freerunning.
Parkour is good.
It's common language.
It's like I do jogging.
I go for parkour.
Too many words now.
Free jumping.
Yeah, base jumping.
But we call it parkour.
You do all that free jumping, don't you?
Okay.
Okay, we good, Tim?
We just got a 7K jog to the next tree.
And a three-mile swim.
Just walking behind me.
Oh, for God's sake.
Just in case you wonder what the hell we're doing right now.
He doesn't want to stop at these trees,
but he wants to at least touch them.
This is so funny.
What the f***?
Seb, you should join us on a straight line challenge, mate.
Leave us a comment if you want to see
Stora's hardest mile feat, Sebastian Tuchel.
So good.
Okay, here we go.
Love it.
Love this so much.
Who's behind you?
He's picked up a scent.
He's just tasting some rabbit droppings.
Easy for you.
Shit.
Only Seb could get us doing this.
I feel like anybody else we'd just take the piss, probably.
Nah, man.
We owe him.
We owe him our lives.
Jump Britain and jump London.
Those original documentaries.
And that scene in Casino Royale.
It's like, where would parkour be without those?
That's so true.
Hard to imagine, really.
And he gets really shy when you say like,
How do you feel, like, that all this wouldn't be here without you?
Like, oh, stop, stop.
Very humble guy.
Very sweet.
Parkour gives you humbleness, I feel like.
When you keep exposing yourself to hard and scary shit,
it's hard to have an ego.
Although some people do manage to hold on to it, actually.
Yeah, that's true.
Desperately.
Like me.
Like this guy.
I've got no f***ing ego, man.
I'm the most modest guy out here.
What are you saying?
Subscribe.
This one is the most intertwined tree you can ever find here.
It's just crazy.
This one is pure climbing.
We're just going to go for climbing.
Then after we go down, you're going to love it.
Like, 100% you're going to love it.
Wow.
You should be a salesman for these trees, man.
Okay, we're entering the denser forest now.
We're really out here.
I think this is tree number four.
Apparently, it's just a climb.
So, I guess we're just going up.
Look at that.
I'm punching on that, because if I go over there...
Honestly, if you don't feel it's dark, it's maybe...
Oh, yeah, you see it.
It's just...
Okay, we're approaching the dark tree.
You can feel it.
Oh, it's just a silhouette.
Look at these beauties.
Look at that.
Oh, yeah.
It's crazy.
To be fair, I know exactly what you mean.
And it's the only one like it.
I've seen all the trees.
This one has got...
I don't know.
It's special.
It's like...
I'm here.
I respect you.
I love you.
I don't know why you're like this.
This tree looks evil.
I respect you all the same.
Don't hurt me.
Dark tree.
Dark tree of nightmares.
There he goes again.
Vandalizing nature.
This guy.
He saw you, that tree.
Whoa, bro.
This is quite mad.
Oh, let's go.
Trust me.
Get your camera.
This is...
This is Avatar stuff.
Okay.
Let's go.
Avatar tree.
When we came up here,
it's like this tree has dark energy.
It's the dark tree.
Does it get light when you go to the top?
No.
No?
Okay.
No, a little bit lighter up.
So tree number four is the dark tree.
Let's get ready for a dark climb.
How do you feel about that?
It feels like fucking Harry's pot of spiders
is going to come out or something.
Okay, they're up.
I'm going to go alternate route.
Even more alternate route.
This could be cool.
Look at that tree, man.
What the...
Wow.
Oh my God.
It's an actual ladder.
It looks like you're right on the floor.
I know.
I feel so safe up here,
but I'm so high up.
It's like so high.
It's crazy.
Wow.
It's so high up already.
This is one of those trees
where it's like scary yoga.
The amount of positions you have to put your body into
to get your foot up high.
Scary yoga.
Or danger yoga.
Yeah, so true.
Boys.
It's like a false sense of security
because it looks like the floor is right here.
This is sick, look.
Toby's over there.
Max is down there.
Seb's down there.
Callum's there.
This is fucking sick.
If we go up to the next bit,
am I just going to get to a place
where I really can't get down from?
Yeah.
You sometimes just get up intuitively
and don't think of how sketchy it is
that you're going to be getting down.
I feel like that's every tree climb I ever do.
It's just getting carried away,
going, oh, this is fun,
and then you get to the top
and it's like, how the fuck am I getting down from it?
It looks like there is a next bit to go,
but it's just...
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking,
but it's just really exposed, that bit.
Loving it, mate.
So sick, Seb.
We're stuck, actually.
I think I might be stuck, but...
You guys crack on,
but I think I might have to stay here.
Of course, Toby's managed to breach the canopy.
Canopy?
Canopy.
It's unreal.
Toby's breached.
I want to breach the canopy.
Wow, this tree.
I wonder what does this.
I found out the other day
watching some survival YouTube thing
that rabbits eat bark off of trees
when it's snowing.
I don't think a rabbit's coming up here.
Oh, over there as well.
All of these branches.
Interesting.
Someone in the comments tell me about that.
Look, this whole branch.
Maybe it's just dying.
Maybe I shouldn't be on this bit.
Wow.
Max is up.
Oh, my God.
What do you think this...
Look at the bark here,
and behind you.
Is that some animal or something?
Yeah.
Weird, isn't it?
The comments will be out in a minute.
Yeah.
Have you got one over there?
Oh, shit, that one's stripped.
That one's totally stripped.
Maybe squirrels.
Shout.
But are they going to...
They're probably using it.
Are they going to eat it?
Well, I found out the other day
that rabbits do it when it's snowing.
They eat bark,
but I don't think rabbits are coming up here.
Maybe it's something for their teeth.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe we should try it.
I guess you could breach that.
How the f*** do you get to where you are?
This is horrible.
What am I doing?
What's the plan now?
Callum's breaching.
I'm not going to lie.
I don't want to breach the canopy anymore.
It looks really scary.
You're essentially balancing.
Pretty cool, right?
Risk to reward.
It's kind of worth it.
What would this video be
without a bit of risk?
What would Storror be
without a bit of risk?
What would parkour itself be
without risk?
There you go.
There it is.
Breached the canopy.
Now I'm getting down.
Yeah, I'm getting f***ing down.
If we go down,
Seb's probably itching
to take us to the next spot.
Wow, that tree
was amazing.
Can you get to that branch over there, Seb?
That one there.
Dangle it down to this branch here.
Because it's leaning that way.
Oh yeah, like climb up there
and dangle it to that one.
Is that possible?
I don't know.
There you go.
Yeah, it looks like it will
lean a lot.
If you heard a crack,
you just jump.
It's getting there.
That's good.
You've been watching Leo,
haven't you?
F***ing hell.
Steady on.
One more.
One more hug.
Oh my God.
That's scary.
Leo, wait a minute.
It looks like you've climbed up
a few poles in your time, mate.
Now make it straight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the fun now, right there.
It's very easy.
F***ing hell.
Oh my God,
that looks terrifying.
Yeah, true.
It's a T-Rex.
What the hell?
It's a T-Rex.
So no matter what,
don't move.
That's a dino.
Callum just literally
put his foot right on that.
What is wrong with you?
Go Callum, you f***ing c***.
Are we running?
Are we meant to be running?
We're frubaling.
I'm sorry.
This is actually insane
that we're in London.
What the hell?
This is like
one of the best forests
I've been to in a long time.
It's nuts there's a f***ing
tube stop here.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm just walking.
And you're not too far away
from a bougie flat white either.
That's the most important bit
of that forest for me.
Guys,
this is alive.
I can feel it's alive.
It's really alive.
I can't breathe so much.
I can't get my hand on it.
This whole video is a ruse
just for Callum to touch Seb basically.
No, you know what we should do?
We should recreate you
patting him on the head.
Yeah, I know.
Put the clip in.
Didn't want to mention that really.
I apologise Seb.
I'm honestly too embarrassed
to say it to you directly
but you'll watch this video
and you'll see that
I'm a changed person now.
I was very young.
I don't know how old I was
but I regret that.
How do you call like
you know like the
Toad?
Octopus, you know what
their arm
how do you call the arm?
Yeah, tentacles.
It is, they are more
More like snail eyes.
You know when you
when you poke them.
Oh, of course.
Snail eyes, yeah, yeah.
Okay, there we go.
It's called the snail eyes.
Snail eyes are the best.
Oh, no, no.
I was about to say
he's filming.
I'm going to stop right there.
Man, that's going to get
quite bogey, isn't it?
Nice.
We go to the vagina tree.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah, let's go
to the vagina tree.
Oh, damn, son.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, man.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what you think, mate.
They can read the lips.
Oh, OK.
Oh, that actually
well scared me.
Forest floor is a lot
softer than concrete is,
but it's weird how you
just kind of feel so
at ease in the trees.
Our ancestors
are more used to this
environment.
I reckon it's in our DNA
to feel more comfortable
with wood.
For sure.
There's something about it
that just feels like
it fits like your body.
You know what I mean?
There's always handholds.
There's always places
to stand.
Skin just has friction
on bark, I suppose.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't really need chalk
or anything.
It's so true.
It's built for that.
Oh, that's what all the
fans wanted to see,
your abs.
This guy's very strong.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Adrenochrome, dude.
So despite Seb saying
he doesn't challenge
himself in parkour anymore,
he's got a challenge
for himself in parkour.
That's not a challenge.
It's just a wakey.
We got him.
It's just a wake up stuff.
Okay.
You've done it.
It's not,
this is not,
it's not like
that complicated.
Yeah, but at 50,
it might be different.
Nah.
Just look at my face.
What are you talking about?
Butter number, he says.
What are you talking about?
32.
I'm 32, he's 50.
Respect.
Come on, Seb.
Mate, that was so nice.
Mate, that was class.
You see his concentration tongue
come out on three.
Yeah.
Nice.
I'm going to get a shit in his butt.
Which one's next,
Seb?
That one.
Let's go.
Yeah.
Yes.
Sick.
So good.
Bang it.
That was sick.
Good, good.
50 years old.
Been doing parkour for 30 years.
Started the sport.
He's been doing it for 30 years
and he's now 50 years old.
That's insane.
He can still pull out
and stuff like that.
Goals.
Yeah, you could do that too.
It's 20 years I've seen you.
That's mad.
Still got a lot left in the tank, mate.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't even stick that pre yet.
Do you know what I mean?
Fingers crossed for us as well.
I still want to be training
for the rest of my life.
And showing that it's possible.
I think granddad flow is coming up soon.
Yeah.
That's so good.
So sick.
Yeah.
Engineering as usual.
That's it.
I think it's done.
Yes.
Wow, you were close to some...
Like up here you were...
Sick though.
Nice.
Can I go?
Yeah, yeah.
Let's switch over.
Right in the f***ing pothole.
Wow, we did say it.
One foot.
F***ing hell.
Toby saved your ankles.
That was sick actually.
Love a good tree roll.
Overcook it.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Cor, that noise.
Right, let's have it.
Whee, whee, whee.
Nice.
I'll take that.
Sick, man.
Yeah, upload it.
Cut it, cut it.
Oh.
Yes, bro.
Nice.
That was lovely, yeah.
This is a great pre-tree.
All the other ones are good for climbing and flowing.
This one's got some nice chunky pre's in.
Shout out Orlando for the crazy barefoot plier.
Callum, you did a plier but with your shoes on, right?
Yeah.
Still insert my clip.
Come on.
Yeah, definitely.
Come on.
No.
Keelan don't include his clip.
Yeah.
That's on.
And not just you and David.
Yeah.
But it's interesting.
If you go deeper, you can see it like...
Come on, Max.
If you go deeper, you can see it like...
So sick.
It's so good.
It did feel weird when I started hanging.
It's quite high.
I didn't want to climb back up.
Yeah.
I'll have a look at it, but...
Nah.
Okay.
Oh, no, mate.
That's grim.
Fair enough.
Max made it look easy, but I bet it's horrible.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
I'll have a look.
I'll have a look, yeah.
Oh, mate.
It's an impact for me.
Yeah.
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's spooky.
Everything's spookier than what it looks at the floor.
You're like...
Looking down there, I was like, oh, that's what I was looking at.
When you're up here, it's completely different.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm just so much further away here than when you're actually swinging.
Yeah, right.
True, from there it looks okay.
You're kind of underbarred.
Yeah.
I, like, piped it and then just lifted my legs up.
Where that...
Yeah.
Yes, Bob.
You're so small down there.
Was it a bit impacty?
No, it's fine, isn't it?
Yeah.
It makes you wonder what's fucking possible, because that's chilling.
Maroon 5, baby.
