Jason Paul - Germany
Hey! I'm Jason and was born in Germany, I wear Lederhosen, drink beer for breakfast and design cars for a living. Actually, none of the above, but don't question my german-ness!
How did you get into Freerunning and did you do any other sports before that?
Up until 14 I tried all kinds of sports, from fencing over football to capoeira. None of them truly excited me or lasted longer than a week and that showed, I was the most average athlete.
I really was looking for something those sports couldn’t give me, so I turned to computer games where I spent most of my day in front of the screen playing Prince of Persia.
Seeing a video of grown-ups jumping around Paris in a weird way gave me permission to do the same.
What does your life look like?
At the moment I’m officially a homeless person. I’m constantly traveling and never spend more than a few months in the same country. I canceled my apartment, threw everything away that didn't fit into my suitcase and have been on the road since.
Usually I spend the beginning of the year in the USA, summer is best in Europe and when it gets too cold I head to Asia for winter, but most years I’ll be bouncing around in between as the video-ideas or work pops up.
Work means anything from shooting a Freerunning-Video, judging a competition or designing our Farang Clothing Line.
What does Freerunning mean to you and why does it excite you?
Such a hard question, because it’s kind of everything. I think above all it’s taught me a million things about life and gave me some amazing friends and adventures. That’s also why it will always be exciting.
How did you join Team Farang?
My first trip to Bangkok was back in 2010. Back then Anan's apartment would turn int a mad-house every July. Up to 20 people would crash his place and just live a crazy life full of freerunning, travel, exploring and party for a month.
Naturally that attracted me and even though I never met Anan, I made my way to Thailand, introduced myself to him at his doorstep and he let me stay with him. Since then they haven’t been able to get rid of me.
Naturally that attracted me and even though I never met Anan, I made my way to Thailand, introduced myself to him at his doorstep and he let me stay with him. Since then they haven’t been able to get rid of me.
Favorite Food?
Ice-Cream!
Biggest obsession outside of Freerunning?
Books and Photography. Favourite books of all time would be Gary Jennings - The Journeyer, Dale Carnegie - Meet friends and influence people and Robert Greene's Mastery.
You could swap lives with somebody for a day, who and why?
I would definitely wanna be a hot girl! I would touch my boobs all day and find out what female orgasms feel like. If it ever happens, I just really hope I’m not on my period.
Where will you be when you’re 50?
Shooting photos of naked girls for Vogue or something like that. Helmut Newton Style. To be honest I don't really know and I think it's better that way.
What are your favorite Freerunning shoes?
I swap around all the time, but usually go for a flatter sole than most people like. Style definitely counts as well.
Some good ones I would recommend are Supra Owen Mid’s, Adidas Essential Star 2.0 and Puma Future R689.
What’s your vision for freerunning’s future?
A community of creative badasses spread out all across the world and I get to crash at everybody’s place, then they show me their city and take me on random adventures.
What does your playlist look like?
Frank Sinatra, Drake, Ludovico Einaudi, Childish Gambino, J Cole, Jay-Z and for german rap it’s Kool Savas, Fler and Bushido. I also love checking out different Soundtracks! Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop and the Tarantino Movies are some of my favorites!
Comments
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Sonam Thinley - June 22 2019
Hi Jason,
I am your fan and have been watching your vedio on YouTube…
My first parkour tutorial my your vedio that cover most of the parkour moves. I liked that vedio and learned parkour in a stylish way from there. As I am a great fan of you so I would like you to post more vedios on YouTube I like them. If you are free then I would be pleased to see you doing freerunning in Bhutan….
joesss - March 23 2019
I am super fascinated with you.
and your clothing is really so cool.
is there a megacity that I can take pictures for your clothes and get something small in return?
from joesss
instagram: @gwn_joes
thank you!
Angus - October 29 2018
Hey Jason
You’ll probably not see this, but anyway.
I was wondering where exactly do you buy your shoes? The Adidas Element Refine Trico. I would love to buy a pair, but i cant find the same ones you have. Not even through the link in the “What parkour Shoe” video.
Any help would be massively appreciated
Redwan Ahmed Fahim - September 14 2018
Dear Jason,
I’m 16 years old….and I love parkour… I y
I’m a big big huge fan of you guys ….
Love u so much guys….
I’m just teen aged boy from Bangladesh… I wish you did hear about Bangladesh before…..
I wanna meet u guys… please visit Bangladesh….u guys are my inspiration…I love parkour very much… I wanna grow up doing parkour…I need support…so please try to meet me and my country…😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
Enchanted Little World - August 19 2018
Dear Paul,
We just wanted to reach out to let you know we featured your incredible jaw-dropping free running video “Last call for Mr. Paul” on our blog Enchanted Little World. Enchanted Little World was created in hopes of bringing smiles to all ages and highlighting talented artists and athletes like yourself to inspire imagination and wonder. We call it a “Daily High Five Of Happiness” as we post five positive things daily.Thank you for creating something that made us smile so much we wanted to share it! We hope you keep if you have anything else you would like us to feature or please send it our way!
https://www.enchantedlittleworld.com/enchanted-little-world-blog/2018/8/31/fast-runner
Kind Wishes On Your Adventures!
Sincerely,
The Enchanted Little World Fairies
P.S.) It must be hard to get friends to play tag with you:)
吴瑶 - June 13 2018
你好，很高兴能见到你，我今年15岁，我是你少有的China粉丝！哈哈！（不要打我）
我是在China的一个视频网站bilibili认识你以及farang团队的。
谢谢让我知道什么是跑酷以及让我对跑酷有很大兴趣。
如果你能来China我一定很欢迎。
非常感谢你！
（What I have described above is that Chinese forgives me bad English.）
[translate：Hello, nice to meet you. I am 15 years old. I am your rare China fan! Ha-ha！ (don’t beat me)
I know you and farang team at BiliBili, a video website of China.
Thank you for letting me know what Parkour and my interest in parkour are.
I must be very welcome if you can come to China.
Thank you very much!]
谢谢！
francesca M&M MEDIASERVCES Rome - May 30 2018
Hi, Jason
my name is Francesca Pacchiano and I work for M&M Mediaservices, a company based in Rome which works in the field of coordination and fixing productions for Japanese television.
I have request for filming with you from NTV Nippon television in Japan.
https://www.ntv.co.jp/english/ .
Here is some more information on the production;
The programme in question is for NTV Japan who broadcasts the programme “ITTEQ – Let’s challenge the world!" http://www.ntv.co.jp/q/
ITTEQ has been the most popular variety travel show in Japan for 13 years running, reaching a viewing audience of 20.000.000 people, with a share of about 18-20%, making it currently the most widely viewed programme in the country.
They broadcast weekly on Sunday evenings on a primetime slot from 20:00-21:00pm.
The concept of the programme is that a group of Japanese celebrities travel the world to take part and report on various challenges and experiences.
For this particular episode, one of the male and most famous presenters, Mr. Nakaoka Soichi is travelling to Europe to make new challenges and greet special people.
So, we would like to film ms Jason Paul as a stunning athlete.
In details, we are interested in this performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_X_h8cCKcA
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/jason-paul-s-running-illusions-bizarre-freerunning-clip
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/jason-paul-s-running-illusions-bizarre-freerunning-clip
For this project, I kindly ask you to send me as soon as possible a reply about following infos:
1. would you be available for this shooting?
It will be one day between June 13th and 18th.
2. Where are you located (country and town) ?
3. How much it will be the fee for a half day shooting?
The crew will be composed of 7 people (Director, 2 cameramen, assistant, producer. talent and coordinator/interpreter)
Looking forward to receiving your kind reply.
Thank you in advance for your kind collaboration.
My warmest regards
Francesca Pacchiano / Coordinator
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Finn - May 29 2018
I love you sooooooo mutch and i macke also YouTube but german under Freerunner Finn
Kaung Khant Htwe - May 14 2018
Hey Jason Paul,
I’m from Myanmar,a samll country in south east asia.
I don’t know parkour until I saw your video in youtube.
It’s so crazzzzzy.
And I really love it.
Now I’m learning how to parkour and freerunning by watching your video.
I hope you will visit here.
Waiting for you……
And please post more video for learning.
Sorry for my bad Grammer skill.
Good Luck Mr.Paul
Finn - March 27 2018
Hey can u come to Nz ?
I’m nine I love parkour
Raven Webster - January 11 2018
Hey Jason!
Love the work man I aspire to be somewhere close to your level in a year or two. I also have been looking to plan a trip to go explore the world and i was wondering if you knew a way to fund it doing what I love. other than that i just wanted to say congrats to making it big man! your inspirational and your journey only fuels my drive to do something similar, not the same because we all have our unique way of doing things.