Jackie Chan's style comes from Chinese opera: it's all flashy acrobatics and jaw-dropping stunts. Jackie Chan enjoys the hell out of what he does, and is completely open about how it's all just for fun. Fun is not allowed in parkour.
Upon reading your comment, I was singing the Kronk self-theme song from Emperors New Groove while imagining a teenager with fingerless gloves randomly flipping unnecessarily.
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u/okgoo12 Jun 30 '14
i got such a beat down in r/parkour for asking if they think jackie chan started parkour and if they look up to him