• Born in a parkour association in Rennes, the Wizzy Gang offers videos of its explorations on YouTube and Instagram.

  • The ten members mix different disciplines such as urban parkour, climbing and cliff diving (diving).

  • A photo exhibition started a few days ago in Rennes to present the most beautiful shots of the group of friends.

A small idea of ​​freedom.

In Rennes, the huge glass facade of 4Bis has been hosting a dreamy photographic exhibition for the past few days.

In the fifteen shots, we see young men leaping from the top of cliffs, climbing buildings with their bare hands, climbing the uprights of a huge bridge or jumping between two buildings above a void that the we imagine abysmal.

Very aesthetic, the images above all show the love of a group of friends for escape and height.

Appearing at the end of 2019 on social networks, the Wizzy Gang has made its way into the parkour community in a few short years to become one of its ambassadors.

Their YouTube channel already has more than 90,000 subscribers and their Instagram account flirts with 50,000 fans.

For the first time since its creation, the Rennais gang is exhibiting its photos outside the Web.

An exhibition that he financed himself, with a helping hand from the Rennes Youth Initiative Fund (FRIJ).

“We tried to show a bit of everything we do.

Cliff diving, parkour, urban exploration.

With us, everyone has their own specialty,” explains Félix Orain.

He is the team's photographer.

He's not the best athlete in the bunch but loves getting high by scaling buildings.

Access to this content has been blocked to respect your choice of consent

By clicking on "

I ACCEPT

", you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners

I ACCEPT

And to better remunerate 20 Minutes, do not hesitate to accept all cookies, even for one day only, via our "I accept for today" button in the banner below.

More information on the Cookie Management Policy page.

“You have to be well prepared physically and mentally”

Last year, he climbed the 137 meters of the Marseillaise with his bare hands and without security to snap mind-blowing images of Marseille seen from above.

“The climbing was not complicated for us.

We had no risk of falling.

You just had to stay focused.

Passionate about parkour for almost ten years, the 23-year-old kid loves exploring the heights of the city or the mountains.

“You have to prepare well physically and mentally, stop thinking.

I like this moment when there is nothing more that comes to disturb you.

It's rare in our society not to be distracted, ”says the Rennais.

With his friend Florian Fradin, he is one of the only Wizzys to be in France, for lack of a valid passport.

The rest of the gang traveled to Brighton, England to meet the local parkour community.

As with every trip, the group of friends film themselves and send their exploits to their networks.

“We have guys who are world class.

So of course, there are always better people than us, but with us, everyone has their own speciality,” explains Florian Fradin.

He had to stop after a rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the knee which also scuttled his menisci when he badly received a jump however quite banal.

Two years and three operations later, he continues to follow his friends to the four corners of Europe to film their adventures.

“We all met in a parkour association in Rennes (Ouest Parkour) in 2015.

It's a discipline where everyone films themselves.

To show but also to see each other, to progress”.

“We do what we love, we are free”

After a 15-day long career in Staps, Florian decided to drop everything to devote himself 100% to the Wizzy Gang, inspired by the exploits of the British from Storror, the world references in parkour.

Gradually, the entire Rennes tribe dropped out of school or work to live their passion to the full.

“Finally, what do we survive?

We don't pay ourselves a salary, just enough to pay for the trips.

But at least we do what we love, we are free, ”explains the 21-year-old from Rennes.

He discovered parkour on YouTube, learning to do somersaults on the trampoline installed in his parents' garden.

Seven years later, he finds himself filming the huge jumps of his friends from the Pont du Gard or from the top of the cliffs in Spain.

Committed, the gang also likes to climb to turn off the lights of shops that remain on at night, which has earned them great media coverage in France and abroad.

An advertisement that allowed him to make himself known and gain notoriety.

Despite the restrictions linked to the pandemic, the Wizzy team traveled quite a bit in Europe aboard their van, pitching their tents in the evening, sometimes even directly on the roofs they had climbed.

The objective is always the same: explore, climb, jump, climb and have fun.

Dream what.

Exhibition to see for free until July 5 4Bis.

Sport

Mountaineering: At 17, he chains two of the highest peaks in the world in nine days

Company

Why could the future of the mountain guide profession be called into question?

A rally in Rennes on June 26

Before embarking on a grand tour of France this summer, the Wizzy Gang is preparing a public event which will take place on June 26 in Pedro Flores Square, in the north-west of Rennes.

  • reindeer

  • Brittany

  • Sport

  • Escalation

  • Youtube

  • instagram

  • Adventure

  • Travel