Entries Tagged 'parkour (free running)' ↓

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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. …

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The best free running scene in a movie I’ve seen is Sébastien Foucan in James Bond – Casino Royale.

But check out the “King of Hollywood” back in the early days:

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in “The Mark of Zorro“. (1920) Fairbanks was the original action star, performing all of his own stunts. (He was an accomplished gymnast) His films (”Zorro”, “Robin Hood”, “The Three Musketeers”, “The Thief of Bagdad”) are still being remade. Fairbanks’ Zorro was also the inspiration for the character Batman. Set to the music of Tchaikovsky.

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Thanks Coach S.

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(via Dark Roasted Blend)

If you’ve spent any time at all on YouTube, you’ve likely seen the amazing parkour / tumbler / trampolinist from the U.K.

He’s one of the best anywhere.

Click PLAY or watch Damian on YouTube: showreel 07

I like the gainer double back off high bar.

Damian posted a new video just days ago – Derby City Gym Lads 08

It’s not as high level. But still interesting.

He’s a tumbling coach. See some of his athletes here.

More great Christmas pics linked from Dark Roasted Blend.