• Fan of parkour, Jean-Marie Gallée climbed an 80 m high antenna in Rennes, to shoot the images of his first clip.

  • A pioneer in the discipline, he spotted this work during an improbable tour of the bypass on foot carried out during confinement.

  • The images filmed by a drone make you dizzy.

    A feat carried out by a professional and especially not to be reproduced.

Some will feel dizzy just looking at the pictures. Fan of parkour since the release of the legendary film Yamakasi in 2001, Jean-Marie Gallée was one of the pioneers in making the discipline known in Rennes. A devouring passion that drove him to set up the Ouest Parkour association, then to make it his profession ten years ago as a street sports educator. From the top of his 33 years, the man almost acts as a retiree in this urban discipline which still attracts many young people. By climbing an 80-meter-high antenna with his bare hands, Jean-Marie Gallée silenced bad tongues. And offered himself a crazy landscape for his very first clip called "The Flight".

It was a cold February morning.

Most of the people of Rennes were still at breakfast when he got to the top.

With the strength of his arms and legs, Jean-Marie Gallée climbed a relay antenna about 80 m high, offering himself a breathtaking view of the Breton capital.

Captured by a drone, the images are cold in the back.

“I've been doing parkour in Rennes for over fifteen years and I thought I knew all the spots.

But I had never noticed that antenna ”.

A walk around the ring road

He discovered it during an unlikely challenge launched by his cousin. Barred by the 10 km limit imposed during confinement, the two men began a tour of the Rennes ring road on foot. Seeing the red and white antenna enthroned above Cesson-Sévigné, his tightrope walker soul made only one turn. “She was not very protected. I came to climb it one night for the first time, just to see if it sucks. And I quickly wanted to come back there to shoot my clip ”.

The aerial images fit well with the electro music of his musical project.

Called Neotyj, it was imagined during confinement on an old dusted synth in his parents' house.

Before taking shape at the top of a relay antenna.

Access to the site was of course forbidden to him.

But Jean-Marie Gallée denies having put his life in danger.

“Fear is the safeguard.

This antenna, I would not have climbed it a few years ago.

But I am experienced, I have climbed buildings of La Défense or the roof of the Louvre several times.

We are all afraid sometimes, but the important thing is to stay focused ”.

Before specifying: “My goal is not to encourage young people to go there.

You have to be trained ”.

"It was swaying a little"

From the bottom to the top of his antenna, Jean-Marie Gallée climbed the steps of the vertical ladder one by one.

Hands frozen with cold but eyes riveted on the summit.

“When I was at the top, there was a little oscillation because of the wind, it was swaying a bit”.

For the purposes of his clip, he even climbed the narrowest part of the antenna four times.

Serene.

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