Name: I Beat Fear Through Parkour
Uploaded: 2018-11-28T10:40:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 13 s
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Fear, to me, means absolutely nothing anymore.

Fear played such a big piece of my life, and it controlled me to not do what was best for me.

So, fear to me now is nothing but an imagination.

I'm a Hollywood stuntman, and on "American Ninja Warrior."

In the ages of 9 to 15, I was sexually abused by my father.

I got into parkour and freerunning when I was at the age of 19.

Parkour and freerunning are two different definitions that are very similar.

Parkour is just straightforward: vaulting, jumping over walls, over any obstacle in your way.

Freerunning is your own style, your own flipping, flow of it;

make it nice and pretty as possible, and you take your time.

When I first got started, I had never been upside down.

So my body's like, wait, whoa, we don't do that.

So, it's like, let's stop and think about this.

Fear is what stopped me from trying to stop my sexual abuse.

Parkour and freerunning has been a stepping stone for me to heal and be okay with my sexual abuse.

Because fear is a big part of parkour and freerunning.

So, every day I trained, I was always encountering a new fear.

I started in "American Ninja Warrior" Season 3.

Using momentum from each jump to get to the next one!

And then on Season 7, I actually explained my story.

After my interview came out, I've had kids write to me.

Turns out that the daughter and the son were being sexually abused by a family friend.

The child just started breaking down crying.

She was like, " What Flip is talking about is also happening to me. "

The gentleman got convicted of that, and that right there blew my mind away.

Because not only did I heal myself, but I also saved somebody from further abuse.

I like to give back to the community with using my story.

I'm not teaching them just about parkour and freerunning.

You guys just saw, he kind of fell a little bit.

OK, I don't give up, and I'm gonna try this right now again because Flippy taught us to never give up.

So if I can teach these kids, from a young age, to separate fear from danger, that is a life tool.

My negative piece of my life. I can now turn it around and put a spotlight on it in the sense of this is who I am.

This is what happened to me, and look at me, I'm still shining.

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I Beat Fear Through Parkour

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