World-famous parkour athlete shares impressions of his Baku visit
By Sabina Idayatova
His journey around the world opens a new page as the world's best
known parkour athlete Ryan Doyle pursues his adventurous dream in
mesmerizing Baku, one of the world's fastest emerging cities,
Redbull official page on one of the video hosting platforms
reports.
Doyle visited Azerbaijan on April 3-8 and added the capital city of
Baku to his "Parkour Around The Globe" project.
"After Ryan Doyle, the 28-year-old freerunner and parkour athlete
from Britain, traveled across the globe in a quest to discover his
own seven wonders of the world, he chose Baku, Azerbaijan as a
place where he could make a totally different - spiritual journey
and expand his freerunning horizons in a completely different way,"
the report says.
"Baku is known as City of Contrasts. Ryan decided to use that and create together with the production crew a special unique video, which would be a contrast to all other parkour videos - something quite surreal with different feel and different look - full of life philosophy and access to his private area and even his dreams," it says.
Ryan said about his freerunning experience, "When you are a freerunner, it does not have to be all about destination and going from point A to point B, at the end of the day I am not trying to get anywhere and nobody is chasing me. I realized that it was time for me to do something really different - an artistic and poetic video where nothing really makes sense, nothing really connects to each other and I can just dance and play with the environment."
Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid - a major new venue and landmark building for Baku, Shirvanshahs' Palace in the Inner City of Baku, oil fields, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Public Library, towers of Philharmonic Hall, rooftops of old Baku were those remarkable buildings and places Ryan was "dancing" with during his journey in the city.