Click here to visit our ‘Parkour Primer’. It has everything you need to know if you’re new to Parkour or just want to learn more about the discipline.
Parkour Primer Sections
- Defining Parkour and Freerunning
- The Origins of Parkour
- The Spread of Parkour
- Parkour Benefits
- Watching Parkour
- “Competitive Parkour”
- Parkour Practitioners
- Injury in Parkour
- Is Parkour Illegal?
- Why People Practice Parkour
- Finding Others to Train With
- Finding Videos of Parkour
Parkour Weblinks
Safety
It is often said that if it isn’t safe, it isn’t Parkour. There is a risk to everything we do in life, and in Parkour, any perceived risk is calculated and taken against our experience and knowledge. What you see and read from here on are guides only. While great advice is given in each area, you must use common sense when following them and keep yourself safe. Train your self and your body properly and the return will be much greater than if you rush into things. Don’t be foolish and don’t hurt yourself!
Parkour 101
Introductions to Parkour and Freerunning.
Training
General lessons in improving your training and developing your body.
- Warm Up -- by Sebastien Foucan
- Breathing
- Parkour and Freerunning Terms and Movements
- Clothes To Wear
- Shoes To Wear
Unconventional Training Grounds featured on American Parkour
- UTG1 : Suburban
- UTG2 : Parking Lot
- UTG3 : Sports Field
- UTG4 : House
- UTG5 : Bleachers
- UTG6 : Picnic Table
- UTG7 : Railing
Movements
Tutorial videos for specific movements.
- The Roll -- By Ryan Doyle
- Two-Handed Vault -- By Hawaii PK
- Tutorials on bodyweight exercises at Beast Skills
Further Reading
These are links that will satisfy the experienced practitioner. Usually these are quite in depth and give across a meaningful message. Take the time out to open our mind and view things from new perspectives.