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Amazing parkour skills takes athlete down side of multi-storey car park

By Martin Booth  Monday Aug 24, 2020

It’s certainly a different way of exiting Rupert Street car park.

Freerunning his way down it, one level at a time, Joe Scandrett makes the descent in seconds, much to the astonishment of people in a passing car.

“Oh my god,” one of the occupants of the car on Lewins Mead can be heard saying in a video that Scandrett posted on his Instagram account.

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Among some screaming, they say: “How does he do that? He just fell… No, he’s there!”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHspe5Hrh_/

Responding to the video, he wrote: “I’ve always wondered what it would be like to see a fat descent as a pedestrian ???? @Chlohayward @abivernonx managed to get a good angle whilst driving around the other day ???????? I love the reactions.”

This is a different view of 25-year-old Scandrett’s descent:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9NHnTH-jF/

Dropping from six storeys, he ends up on the roof of Evans Cycles before back-flipping to the floor, bowing and jogging over Lewins Mead.

It’s not the first time that the professional parkour athlete from Basingstoke has showcased his skills in Bristol.

In this video, he is going up rather than going down, climbing to the top of Vauxhall Bridge off Cumberland Road on Spike Island:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEADiu8Hg0_/

And here he is back at two different car parks, this time the Galleries and Queen Charlotte Street, as well as some more parkour on Queen Square:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ISpQRnRZQ/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3w1mwKHP3L/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KtfB-HONQ/

Main photo: Joe Scandrett / Instagram

Read more: Bristol is UK’s least safe city to park your car

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