{"id":37712,"date":"2023-11-17T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=37712"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:05:08","slug":"bristols-parkour-legend-joe-scandrett-out-for-up-to-a-year-after-major-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2023\/11\/17\/bristols-parkour-legend-joe-scandrett-out-for-up-to-a-year-after-major-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol&#8217;s parkour legend Joe Scandrett out for up to a year after major injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/joe-parkour.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of Bristol\u2019s major parkour athletes Joe Scandrett tore his achillies tendon leaving him out of work and training for a year. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With 1.9 million followers on Instagram, Scandrett relies on sponsorship deals and Instagram engagement for his income and this&nbsp;accident is a well-known nightmare among the Bristol and international parkour community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While on a shoot for Bristol based athletics company Chosen Few in the town centre, Scandrett says as jumping over a gate and stepping off a pallet his ankle hyperextended and tore his achillies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy main income is through posting online and posting my parkour parkour stunts through social media, I can\u2019t go out and film new content for brands, so I am not going to have any financial income\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome to most cases of a torn achillies is surgery to repair it however this means a longer recovery period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeing optimistic it will be at least 6 to twelve months before I can do sports of any type of low level now.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Scandrett is known for his high impact and shock value videos so for this injury to occur&nbsp;on something considerably less high risk is incredibly unique.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1834\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image-255x400.jpg 255w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image-768x1204.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image-980x1536.jpg 980w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image-268x420.jpg 268w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image-640x1003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Featured-image-681x1067.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It\u2019s a pretty disappointing that there isn\u2019t even anything I can really learn from the injury. I didn\u2019t physically do anything wrong it was just a freak accident. But I suppose that\u2019s what can be expected when you\u2019re pushing yourself physically and mental during any sport at any level.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The parkour scene will continue to push forward I assume. Also I don\u2019t plan on actively removing myself from it during my recovery. I will still be out with everyone while their training and shooting projects. I will just have to take a step back and enjoy living vicariously through everyone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bristol will continue to see the parkour scene challenging themselves and shocking the public with Scandrett there supporting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Bristol\u2019s major parkour athletes Joe Scandrett tore his achillies tendon leaving him out of work and training for a year. \u00a0 With 1.9 million followers on Instagram, Scandrett relies on sponsorship deals and Instagram engagement for his income and this&nbsp;accident is a well-known nightmare among the Bristol and international parkour community.&nbsp; While on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":37783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37806,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37712\/revisions\/37806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}