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Why don’t you see more female free runners?

Former gymnast Hayley Brice-Nicolson from New Zealand, now training in Sweden, sends us some interesting links.

A good starting point is GirlParkour.com.

As the name suggests, it’s about girls and it’s about parkour…
it’s about girls that practise parkour… nothing more… nothing less… simple.

Click PLAY or watch traceur Ann Grjukach on YouTube.

Micah Marino, currently at Mismo Gymnastics, posted a tightly edited montage including a number of “stupid human tricks” I’d never seen before.

There are enough comedic touches and “crash” outtakes to keep you going.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(Hopefully the Mismo owner, Kelley, will never see this video. Better she not know who’s jumping off the roof.)

Some gymnastics “Floor Exercises” I’d never seen before. This is the kind of creativity no longer rewarded in Artistic gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Comment on that post from explodingp:

… Next video Floorgy?

Greg Townley (U.K.) is a young power tumbler coached by the great Damien Walters.

(If you’ve not seen Damien’s videos, you don’t use YouTube.)

Damien posted this highlights reel of his student.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

A long (10min 25sec) highlights reel from many disciplines, including contortion. Some new (to me) footage of Junior.

bboy, power move, acro, punisher, the end, cico, guillaume, demon, dahma n, kheiro, junior, tricks and combo, brazil, breakdance, gymnas tics, sport, thomas, flare, air flare, vrille, marcio, superphazers, morgan hamm

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks bboysistou.

Madison sends us this tragic story from California.

… Kenneth Ta is dead.

Sacramento police said the 15-year-old fell from an eight-story parking structure at 28th and N streets last Thursday evening.

… We’re just trying to determine if it was an accidental fall or something else,” said Officer Laura Peck, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento Police Department.

Friends and family members told KCRA 3 they believe parkour, an urban sport popularized on the Internet, might be to blame. …

read the story – Parkour Investigated In Teen’s Death

Our sincere condolences to Kenneth’s family.

Street acrobat Alexandre Sayhi from France had retired, I thought.

But at age-24, he’s still training despite many injuries.

I post this video from 2009 as it’s a far better edit, and far more insightful, than the usual Parkour / Free Running YouTube montages.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Exclusive highlights from this year’s Barclaycard Freerunning World Championships in Trafalgar Square, London.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

Gymnastics Videos on Gymnastike

Of all the acrobatic activities that should not be “competitions”, Parkour is top of my list.

The running is “Free” … except that you are being evaluated.

World Freerun Association

Pro-jump (UK) and Poweriser (USA) are two brands of spring-loaded stilts used for the extreme sport of Powerbocking. (Alexander Böck from Germany first patented the idea in 1999.)

You might also see them called Kangaroo Boots.

Click PLAY or watch Pro-jump action on YouTube.

There are a number of other brands, of course.

They’ve been used in circus performances. Yet I feel there’s much potential left in this invention.

Perhaps Poweriser basketball.

Thanks Sally. … Check out her The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Leotards blog.

This guy’s got skillz, as a rock climber or free runner.

Jumping from one rock to the other, scaling walls or any man-made height without any aid, Jyoti Raju truly lives up to his nick name ‘monkey king’. He entertains visitors at the Chitradurga Fort in southern India by his monkey-like acrobatics.

Click PLAY or watch him scramble on YouTube.

Search YouTube for “Koti Raj – Chitradurga” to see more.

When you see free running / parkour highlight videos on YouTube, it often looks like the sequence is done ad-lib.

Fact is, to survive, free runners must train. Carefully.

Increasingly the training resembles gymnastics training. Here bigboobspecial practices on the frame of his trampoline.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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From Québec.

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Introducing free running basics to school girls.

Girls do Parkour: Girls Empowerment Day

ParkourGenerations put together a great session for girls to get to learn the basics of parkour in London. Needless to say, the girls loved it. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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