Parkour

Parkour and Free Running
Can you go with the urban flow?
Parkour, also known as "Le Parkour" or "free running" is an international sport that originated in France.  The idea that underpins the sport of parkour is that the traceur (the runner) moves through an urban landscape, navigating whatever obstacles they encounter as directly and fluidly as possible. An apt description is that parkour can look a lot like urban skateboarding, just minus the skateboard part. Running, jumping, climbing and rolling in a fluid sequence, the traceur strives for gra...

Parkour Tricks
How to do Parkour Tricks
Looking for some new Parkour tricks to do? If you are brand new to the sport the first example will get you started in this exciting and fun sport. If you are more experienced check out the the next section Parkour Tricking or CLICK HERE for an awesome guide full of ways to enhance your Parkour training and learn some moves. Parkour tricks can vary from acrobatics to simple gymnastic moves and as long as you are choosing the most efficient way to move around an obstacle you can't go wrong wi...

Parkour Youtube
Parkour Youtube Collection
This collection of Parkour youtube videos shows a variety of the phenomenon that is Parkour. Parkour is a physical discipline started in France in which a person, or traceur, attempts to pass static obstacles in the fastest most direct way possible. Jumping, vaulting and climbing and many other skills are used in order to do so. The obstacles can be anything, such as buildings, walls, railings etc... Check out the collection of Parkour youtube videos below and see why this sport is becoming ...

Parkour or Free Running...What's that?
Free Running
In a sense it is flying without the help of helicoptors or airplanes. It is where your own speed carries you high above the ground for a period of time. The key to maintaning this is to not stop moving. When people first see it they think of gymnastics or even think they can do it. The big difference of Parkour and gymnastics is that gymnastics you perform one time with one area and stop, Parkour you keep on moving and doing as much as you can until you feel you need to stop. Trying to do thi...