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"Old man" surprises Cubans on a popular corner in Havana

Osvaldo Roque de Arana, a parkour practitioner, created the character of Repentino, a hunchbacked old man with a cane who surprises people on the street with his extraordinary agility and skill.


A Cuban characterized as an old man stunned people who were on a popular corner in Havana with his skill and physical agility.

Osvaldo Roque de Arana, a practitioner of parkour 57 years old, he usually dresses and walks down the street like an old man, hunchbacked and with a cane, a character named Sudden, which surprises those who expect to see a man with his diminished faculties and find an out-of-the-ordinary one.

On this occasion, Sudden He walked around the corner of 23rd and L, in El Vedado, where a group of young people were left with their mouths open when they saw what he is capable of doing.

"Pranks in the streets," he said on his Instagram account.

In the video, the veteran is seen arriving and dropping his cane on the sidewalk, but before picking it up, he puts his hands on the ground and does a professional jump. Then he bends over to pick up the cane, feigning pain in his back. He starts to walk, but the spectators ask him to repeat his demonstration so they can record it, and he agrees and does two more jumps, before leaving amid laughter and applause from the audience.

More than 1,000 Internet users have congratulated Supentino, less than 24 hours after the video was published.

Last week, he did another of his own at the first stop of the P 11 bus, also in El Vedado, where he spent a few seconds with his entire body in the air, only holding on to a fence with his hands, to the astonishment of those waiting. the bus.

At almost 60 years old, Osvaldo is a tenacious defender of parkour, a unique physical activity that integrates urban furniture and whose objective is to move from one point to another overcoming all types of obstacles.

He has more than 33 thousand followers on Instagram, and in his publications he proudly displays his physical attributes and encourages others to follow his path.

It is part of the Team Faster, a group of sports practitioners in Cuba who seek to expand their horizons and promote the practice of this extreme sport in the country.

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