BEACH IS BETTER! Santa Monica Beach in sunny LA is an iconic spot for bodybuilders and athletes around the world. The last years Freerunners have put their mark on this location.
The crew - Alfred Scott, Jason Paul and Dom Di Tommaso - gave it a good session!
Music:
JAY0117 - Light up Set
Tre Capital - City Going Crazy
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One week in Japan Farang-Style! This means rooftops, jam with the locals, penis-festival, karaoke and ALL THE JUMPS!
Tokyo is one of our favourite cities and we hope this shows why!
Music:
A Lifeplanner Cosmos - Måns Billner
Beat Them Up 4 - Jan Chmelar
Brooklyn Flava 3 - Mattias Andreasson
Art Electronica 16 - Magnus Ringblom
Short Life 1 - Niklas Gustavsson
Cribs 64 - Levente Maneas
Shlow Motion 3 - Niklas Ahlström
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Dom knows Sydney's spots like the back of his hand and gives us a tour of his favourite lines and highlights. Of course, sprinkled with some randomness.
Music:
Hayzee - doomfood
FS green - HeMawfuckinMan
Shot by Jesse Jaco
Magic by Ghetto Shaman
Click here for Dom's story, playlist and why he wants to be Vin Diesel.
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The team got full access to a brand new mad house and this is the result. Shout out to BOUNCE for letting us do what we want, we know it was a scary decision :P
]]>What would you do if you had free reign to do whatever you pleased in a department store? Well this is exactly what we did.
Music
move yourself - emily kopp
It's not every day we can get the squad together back where it all started, so we done it BIG!
]]>An ambitious playground-project and accidental dream-spot. Located right by the beach in between palm-trees we love the tranquil vibe you feel when sessioning this area. The red walls and odd angles offer thousands of interesting lines and combinations.
]]>Jason got kicked out of the country, because his VISA ran out so he made the best of it. This is his weekend in Malaysia!
Special Thanks to!
ediphotoeye for doing all the filming
Abudi and Aliff for being amazing hosts
Red Bull Malaysia for your support
A midst the impressive skyline that towers above the little street stalls and busy streets of Bangkok you will find one that stands out.
This 50-storey skyscraper has been abandoned mid-construction since the economic crash in the 90s and has been dubbed by the locals as Ghost Tower. Jason and Shaun spent the day exploring the epic tower, and filming it from a Freerunners perspective. Enjoy
]]>Sheva show us why shes one of the baddest ladies in the game. She throws down harder then the best of us. A few days shooting around the US and finding some seriously original moves.
]]>Jason Paul gets mad animated in Tokyo, with some cool flip, amazing lights and more than suspicious characters.
]]>If you can make it here you can make it anywhere. As a Freerunner your experience of a city is as different as it can be to a regular tourist. Accepting that anything could happen and heading out without a plan you are open to what you see on your way.
Pasha had one day in legendary New York, Jay-Z wanted to hang out with him, but instead he decided to just go out and experience the city.
Music:
Arca - &&&&&
Sean Leon - Narcissus
Doley Bernays - Bad Guy
Russ - Comin Thru
2 girls 1 Jap. In LA. Awesome Freerunners come from all corners of the globe who can throw down anywhere, anytime... That's what Syukafly means... or we just made it up.
Athletes:
Alaxandra "Sheva" Shevchenko - @sasha_sheva_
Zen Shimada - @160000000z
Luci "Steel" Romberg - @luciromberg
Bonjourno Bologna! The crew visits Italy for one of the biggest jams of the year!
]]>To coincide with the release of the Razer Adaro Lifestyle Series we decided to get back to the Team Farang lifestyle of travel and exploration.
This time we decided to discover beautiful Istanbul... and we were not prepared.
]]>We fucking suck at Skateboarding, so we were thinking: "Do we even need a board to throw down at the park?"
There's only one way to find out, which means we headed over to the closest park and did what we do best.
Music: Ratatat - Falcon Jab
Nobody's perfect, except Team Farang!!
]]>Pasha aka The Boss is now part of Team Farang, but you can't be part of Farang without coming to Bangkok!
So we got this badass a flight and went shooting for a week straight, as soon as he arrived.
This is what we ended up with :)
It's hard to believe what has happen in just 2 short years. Originally this video was chopped together as a pitch for a TV series. Now we think this video should be dedicated to everyone who has helped us get where we are today and enabled us to chase our dream lifestyle. Thank YOU. We would't be here without you guys.
As for everyone who day dreams of this kind of freedom in their own lives, keep pushing hard, it's never as impossible as you think.
Song by 360 - Run Alone
http://www.facebook.com/3ree6ixty
Every city has it's own charm and character. Bangkok is a mad bustling city full of life, with a million sights to see, and a million ways to see it. This is our way. With light and movement.
Light Emitting Dudes takes a team of freerunners, geared up from head to toe with LED lights, and sets them loose on the streets of Bangkok at night. With we carved up the already buzzing night life spots while adding our own flair and colour to the mix.
Jason Paul, Shaun Wood, and Anan Anwar are a team of freerunners who's homes are already quite far apart, coming from Frankfurt, Sydney, and Bangkok respectively. With director Frank Sauer and Costume Designer Christina Zahra also having to fly in from Germany, getting a everyone together to shoot this video was a challenge in itself. With no definite locations, pre-planned stunts, or even a working LED suit prototype, making the decision to fly to Thailand was a real leap of faith. Frank had worked with Jason before in 2011 to create Dream World, which documented Jason's journey to London to compete in the Art of Motion Freerunning competition. Since then they have been looking for another project to collaborate on together and get the rest Jason's team involved. Frank wanted to cover freerunning in a way that hadn't been done before. Freerunning at night was something that hadn't really been touch upon in any ground breaking way and came up with the idea of incorporating LED's into the concept.
For two weeks we were out every night collecting shots and enjoying the confused look on peoples faces when we walked by. Oddly enough the cool factor of looking like a general bad ass never wore off. I think a lot big kids dream of dressing up like a superheroes and leaping about the city. That's one thing we can cross off our bucket list. We had an great time and came away with something we could be proud of. In the end, it's always worth it to try and create something new and unique the way only YOU can.
CREDITS
WRITTEN & DIRECTED Frank Sauer (frank-sauer.com)
IN COOPERATION WITH Team Farang (farang-mag.com/)
EDITING Frank Sauer & Sebastian Linda
COSTUME DESIGN Christina Zahra
SOUND DESIGN Jens Fischer
TITLES Stephan Baumann
MUSIC Metric - Artificial Nocturne (Love Thy Brother Remix)
TECH-SPECS
CAMERA: GH2 (Hack: EOSHD Vanilla)
LENSES: Lenses: Voigtlander f/0.95 25mm, SLR Magic Hyperprime 12mm f/1.6, Panasonic f/4 7-14mm, Canon FD f/1.4 50mm, Canon FD f/2 85mm
Jason Paul travels to India, where he discovers the beauty of Mumbai and finds every Freerunners wet dream.
Akshay Kumar, Bollywoods biggest Action-Star, built a massive 3-storey Freerunning gym into his apartment.
Music by:
Fuzz Me
http://www.facebook.com/FuzzMe
http://soundcloud.com/fuzz-me
Thank you to:
http://www.camp-ramps.com
This summer Fastbreak gave us the opportunity to travel through Europe for an entire month and we just left the camera rolling as much as possible.
We travelled through Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, England, Netherlands and Sweden with an oldschool VW van.
We believe that travelling is not just important for Freerunning, but also for life. The friends and experiences we made are priceless, no video could showcase the feeling of this journey.
The only way to get this feeling is by leaving the house and going out of what you are used to.
Enough philosophy for today, these are the awesome people that helped us out with their music, give them some love:
BARNZY (http://www.facebook.com/vsbarnzy)
JAYCALO (http://www.facebook.com/jaycalo1)
DANDEE (http://www.facebook.com/whoisdandee)
Tracklist (in order of appearance):
Barnzy - Sufjan
Dandee - Winner
Barnzy - Fleet Foxes
JayCalo - Bambino
Barnzy - Dirty Projectors
Barnzy - Sean Carey
Farang: the bastardization of the English word "Foreign"; the generic thai word for Westerner.
The World Freerunners take the second leg of the tour from Thailand to the heart of Cambodia, to explore the ruins of Angkor.
Music by:
Fuzz Me
http://www.facebook.com/FuzzMe
http://soundcloud.com/fuzz-me
Barnzy
http://www.facebook.com/vsbarnzy
If you're a Freerunner we don't have to tell you that you probably know your city better than anybody else and see it in a different perspective.
This video shows what happened when Pasha The Boss visited Jason Paul in Germany and they spend a month training and exploring Frankfurt (and a little bit of other cities).
We show you around the secret and unique spots we found, like a long forgotten skatepark or an abandoned factory.
This video is about living the mentality of every day is a saturday, because that's what all of us want. Just get up in the morning and go out training, all day every day.
Music by:
Fuzz Me
http://www.facebook.com/FuzzMe
http://soundcloud.com/fuzz-me
Farang: the bastardization of the English word "Foreign"; the generic thai word for Westerner.
Every year World Freerunners gather together in Thailand to explore the unique cities and breath taking country sides. Seeking out new challenges and adventures, and having a ridiculously good time in the process.