Video: Iranian man ‘honours father’ by becoming daredevil parkour master

By soaring over rooftops in Tehran 16 floors up, backflipping between buildings and ‘suicide kissing’ a woman while hanging upside down off the side of massive structures, Alireza Japalaghy said he was able to channel his negative emotions.

Japalaghy started free-running when his father – an ex policeman – went missing during his retirement and never came home.

He said: ‘What better way for me to get rid of all my emotions than by channelling them through my career, doing all of this parkour?.

‘Free-running stunts and doing things that no one can even dream of lets me channel all of my misery.

‘We started a file in court. The search and inspections began but nobody could tell us what happened to him even a minute after he was gone. He has faded from existence.

‘You can’t even imagine the aftermath and mental pressure me and my family went through due to my father’s disappearance.’

The 27-year-old is also seen in the compilation video backflipping on to the top of a multi storey car park before putting his trust into a colleague, using his arm as a pivot to swing himself onto solid ground from a massive height.

Among several other stunts, Japalaghy can be seen exercising on the precipice of several buildings.

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