The Beijing Extreme Sports Association issued an obituary on June 15: Comrade Zhang Lei, the veteran of Chinese parkour, passed away.
Comrade Zhang Lei, Vice President of the Beijing Extreme Sports Association, Chairman of the Parkour Committee of the Beijing Extreme Sports Association, founder of Extreme Dream Parkour, and an important promoter of the Chinese parkour movement, at 11:00 a.m. on June 12, 2024, Due to ineffective treatment for heart disease, he died in Beijing at the age of 39.
In the 18 years from when parkour entered China in 2007 to June 12, 2024, Comrade Zhang Lei has been committed to the training and promotion of parkour and the exploration of new models: initiating many important domestic parkour events, passing the "October Excellent film and television works such as "Fortress Besieged" and "Jingwu Chen Zhen" have allowed parkour to bloom on the big screen. In 2023, a team will be organized to complete the formulation of the first domestic parkour project group standards. Comrade Zhang Lei used his short and condensed life to draw a rich and colorful mark in the history of Chinese parkour.
A pure parkour person;
A person who is willing and truly dedicates his life to the cause of parkour;
The world has added a touch of brilliance because of your presence, go well!
Zhang Lei is one of the earliest veterans of the extreme sport of parkour in China. He has more than ten years of experience in parkour practice and film and television action shooting. Since the founding of the Extreme Dream Parkour Club in 2008, it has taught more than 2,000 students and trained outstanding students in various fields across the country.
Public information shows that Zhang Lei practiced parkour in 2006 and won the 2010 "Blue Fashion Cup" national parkour competition championship; in 2010, he served as a special parkour coach at Sammo Hung International Film and Television Training Base; in 2012, he founded the Beijing Extreme Dream Parkour Club , developed parkour fitness, children's physical parkour, parkour somersaults, parkour stunts and other special parkour courses, and began to teach the public; in 2016, based on the four dimensions of accidents, public health incidents, social security, and natural disasters, launched The public welfare activity "Children's Safety and Self-Rescue" with parkour as the core is promoted to social organizations.
has collaborated with international kung fu superstar Donnie Yen to produce several film and television works "October Siege", "Fist of Fury - Chen Zhen", "Martial Arts", "3D Uprising", "The Frozen Gate of Rebirth", "Special Identity" ; Cooperated with "Charterer" Yuan Hua in many film and television works such as the TV series "Legend of Shaolin Temple 3".
Zhang Lei has shared clips of himself as a stunt double in many movies on his personal social media:
In the 2020 Spring Festival Gala, the topic of Zhang Yixing learning to do a backflip in three days became a hot topic, and his coach was Zhang Lei.
Parkour, which originated in France in the 1980s, is an extreme sport that combines climbing, jumping, rolling and other action elements. It emphasizes traveling through the known environment in the fastest and most efficient way and pursuing the harmony between the body and the environment. Parkour has attracted many young people to participate because of its free, flexible and challenging characteristics.
Parkour was originally initiated by French soldiers during the Vietnam War. It became popular in the UK in 2002, and was later promoted by French David Bell. The French movie "The Street" showcases the parkour street culture, and the protagonist David Bell is one of the founders of the parkour movement. David Bell once said that the action in Jackie Chan movies inspired his parkour.
A professional parkour trainer can correctly control danger and minimize it. When caught in dangers such as fire, earthquake, attack, car accident, emergency, etc., his chance of escape will be 20 times higher than that of ordinary people. More than times.
netizen comments:
baoyutianxiadiyi: This exercise may be too taxing on the heart, right? He left so young
Miimi Mimi: It’s a pity that he is still so young. farewell.
Look at the clouds and sea and wait for the wind to come: Really die young
Discover the world of Middle-earth: What a pity, I have also watched his video on Douyin. Have a good journey
Read a hundred books and travel thousands of miles: Movement to the end Is it good for health? Excessive exercise is likely to be detrimental to health.
