'How hard is it to leap over a fence like Bachelor Colton Underwood?': A Washington Post investigation
By Hannah Jewell Hannah Jewell Pop culture host for Washington Post Video Email Bio Follow March 4 at 1:35 PM For months now, millions of brave Americans who watch ABC’s “The Bachelor” have been tantalized every week by a promotional teaser in which Colton Underwood, this season’s virginal bachelor, hurls himself over a gate under cover of darkness. It’s an apparent bid to escape the show and his romantic entanglements therein.
I decided to visit the Bolt Parkour and Freerunning Academy in Bethesda, Md., to find out. I brought my colleague Dave Jorgenson along, whose body more closely resembles a professional football player’s. There we met instructor Diego Peñate, who had reviewed the footage of Colton’s great leap many times over and determined that his form leaves much to be desired.
To improve your lower-body technique in hopping high walls, Diego says, you must direct your body’s momentum upward, ensuring that your feet push up the wall, rather than out.It turns out it is one thing to run up a wall, and another thing entirely to hoist yourself over it. When the task was to smack a wall as high as possible, I could reach 8 feet after only a few tries.
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