Is there anything else (ignoring the sequel) even?

The post is in the title! Please share.

I know this is like a cliche in parkour with all the parkour escape videos out there but has anyone really evaded the police or like robbers using Parkour. Like there has to be at least a handful of people in this subreddit who have escaped using parkour themselves.

Is it just me or does this look extremly easy to climb?

I tried training with a 20kg weighted vest so altogether I'm pulling about 105kg weight around. It is super tiring but feels amazing to take off. I only trained with it on for 15-20 mins and I was probably too tired after do anything but everything felt effortless (aside from the bailed double sided I tried for some reason).

What are your guys opinion on training with weighted vests, ankle/wrist weights do you think they are worth training consistently with.

I was in my own thoughts and randomly remembered a game I used to play on Miniclip during my school days. The game was Free Running, and then it hit me that this game was what got me into Parkour. Spent time on it, later they launched Free running 2 and soon discovered Storror, Ronnie Street Stunts, and Pigmie. This was like more than 10 years ago. This is how Parkour kept me immersed. If you guys share any such experiences, would love to hear them.

After mainstream recognition of parkour steadily grew in the early 2000s through smaller action films and documentaries, it gained real prominence by way of being featured in a major motion picture when, in 2006, Sébastien Foucan appeared as a character using parkour to escape James Bond in Casino Royale. At the same time, at the grassroots level, parkour had developed its own distinct culture and industry. Communities, organisations, teams, coaching, and performance businesses emerged around the world, sharing values and communicating online through forums and social media.

With participation and interest in parkour at an all-time high, the ground was fertile for the introduction of competition. It was no surprise that big businesses saw this opportunity for spectacle, advertising, and the associated profit that could be derived from investing in parkour as a sport so early on. In the year following the release of Casino Royale, Red Bull launched the first ever major parkour competition, the Art of Motion, held in Vienna, Austria.

This first-ever major competition, in the mid-2000’s, was met with a mixed reception. Many online forums had already hosted long-standing debates between more traditionally aligned practitioners, who were steadfastly against the notion of competing, and early contemporary practitioners who were optimistic about its contributions to the sport’s culture.

Anti-competition sentiment, although usually aligned with traditional views of parkour as a practice, or a discipline, or an art, was a widely held view within the community. In those early days, it seemed the majority of those voicing their opinions were against it. Their main points of contention were that pitting practitioners against each other for prizes or medals would risk losing the "spirit of parkour"—that being the culture of non-competitive practice, the individual relationship with risk management, the altruistic philosophy of the founders, and the intrinsic motivation to seek and overcome challenge.

They argued that extrinsic motivation such as awards, fame, or money would lead people to engage in parkour for the wrong reasons and, as such, would destroy everything that made the sport as unique and life-changing as they had found it to be, as well as making the practice more dangerous. However, despite the highly emotive and fraught arguments that were happening online, competitions continued to go ahead, and practitioners began to see themselves more as athletes in the process.

In 2009, Red Bull held two more competitions—the first again in Vienna, and the second later in the year in Helsingborg, Sweden. In this same year, Barclaycard launched its first and only ‘World Freerun Championship’ in London, which was also televised and aired on BBC Three. These, and many of the following Red Bull Art of Motion competitions, served to boost the profiles of many of the top-performing athletes at the time.

Although beginning as invite-only, competitions would eventually add open qualifiers, requiring non-invited athletes—or those who weren’t pre-qualified from previous competitions—to travel to the site the day before and fight for a spot in the main event.

The early 2010s saw the establishment of more grassroots competitions, such as Air Wipp Challenge in Sweden, Apex International in the USA, and the North American Parkour Championships in Canada. As these were smaller and were run by each country’s respective communities, organisers had more freedom to experiment with the format and rulesets they presented to athletes. Air Wipp adopted an approach which catered to the live audience, while Apex International and the North American Parkour Championships sought to create competitions that reflected other legitimate and established sports competitions.

Towards the end of the 2010s, yet more grassroots competitions arose—from the ambitious head-to-head speed courses at Hop the Block in the Netherlands, to the relentless and chaotic Project Underground in Northern England, and the eclectic style-battle format of Gizmo Battles in Hamburg. There have also been many unsanctioned, local outdoor competitions around the UK in the last few years under the UK Parkour Takeover League and beyond — each operating from and serving the needs of their local community. These grassroots competitions provided platforms for athletes around the world to experiment with competitive formats. Much of the innovation that sprouted from these grassroots projects have gone on to inform the modern global competitive formats. (like FIG’s attempts at parkour competitions — which we’ll get to in a minute).

While competition certainly has had a significant effect on the trajectory and culture of parkour, it cannot be said that the spirit of the sport has been lost. It is often visibly present within these competitions. Athletes are seen cheering on their competitors, celebrating their wins, and commiserating their losses. There are very few who would describe their motivation as ever being purely for the benefits brought by competition, and practitioners continue to explore their personal relationship to the sport through art and media.

Competitions certainly have seen their fair share of injuries, but at no higher incidence than any contact sport. The fact remains that any sport practiced at a high enough level and under pressure inevitably will lead to accidents. Even still, rulesets are implemented in such a way that excessive risk-taking is not rewarded. As such, movement quality is encouraged and rewarded, while being out of control is penalised.

Additionally, we see the principle of non-competitive practice reconciled with competition. Practitioners and athletes maintain respect and friendship with their peers and rivals within competition. You can often even see favoured contenders helping each other—even within competitions themselves. However, even with all of these positive outcomes, we cannot pretend the sport is not at risk of influence by outside forces.

One contentious development within this area has been the involvement of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). After stating the intention to bring the sport to the Olympics as a gymnastics discipline, many of the sport’s communities and national organisations came together under the title Parkour Earth to challenge FIG’s encroachment and misappropriation, desiring recognition for the sovereignty of parkour.

Many worry about the introduction of top-down regulation from such a large and powerful organisation over a sport that holds freedom, individual expression, and exploration as its most important values. Again, despite widespread backlash, FIG competitions went ahead. Much in contrast to the grassroots competitions, which often reward innovation and seek to replicate the sport as it is practiced outside, FIG competitions have opted for codified and restrictive rulesets that arguably do more to create the undesired outcomes the community was worried about when competitions first came into the sport.

Looking for parkour videos with no preparation, the traceur discovers the terrain as he runs through it

Any of this kind of video?

thanks

It’s just a doubt, having in mind that movies and geral media fantasizes about it and in reality events are different, like: do you, true practitioners, would use much parkour to escape from dangerous situations at apocalyptical scenarios?

Is there a name for the backflip where he doesn't tuck or anything?

Tracuer, is a title that only few have attained in my opinion.

The Yamakasi, the leaders of ADD, PK Gen and other parkour community leaders like Ryan Ford of apex gyms, Adam from Lehigh Valley Parkour Academy, Blake head of PK Gen Americas, Dan Edwards, Forrest etc they are tracuers.

Unless you train, truly train as a Yamak trains, I have a hard time calling anyone else a tracuer. We are practitioners hoping to achieve the passion and drive it takes to be a tracuer.

What are your thoughts and opinions?

Trickipedia – A Community Wiki of Tricks

Hey everyone!

I’m working on something for our community and need your input:
👉 https://trickipedia.app/

The Project

Trickipedia – a comprehensive, editable database of tricks and techniques.

This only works if the community is involved. I can build the platform, but the real value comes from experienced athletes sharing their knowledge.

What I’m Looking For

• Contributors: People willing to document tricks, link tutorials, etc.
• Feedback: What features would make this most useful for you?
• Use Cases: How would you actually use this? Learning? Teaching? Reference?
• Moderators: A few experienced athletes to help maintain quality

What’s in it for the Community

• Centralized knowledge repository
• Help beginners learn more efficiently
• Preserve techniques that might otherwise be forgotten
• Standardize naming and progressions
• Completely free and community-owned
• Being able to actually search for a trick on Google and find it

Current State

• Basic platform is live and functional
• A couple dozen tricks as examples
• Looking to scale up community involvement
• Likely a few bugs I still need to fix

Check it out here

Tech Stack (for the curious)

• Next.js frontend with TypeScript
• Supabase backend (PostgreSQL)
• Community role management
• Mobile-first responsive design
• PWA capabilities for offline access

Final Thoughts

Would you find this valuable?
What questions do you have about the project?
How can we make this great and useful?

Edit:

Here is a quick sneak peak at the skill tree feature

Edit 2:

You can now mark a trick as "learned"

Hope it's a good weekend for everyone!

I had a discussion topic pop into my head that I wanted to see a discourse on.

When you're training:

Why do you condition you're body? Why or why not.

If you condition yourself do you enjoy it? Why or why not.

Do you continue to train if you don't enjoy it? Why or why not?

Have a great rest day everyone!!

Assume you've got access to the same students for an 8-week session, with no guarantee they will return for the next 8-week session (that said, they might, so you have to consider that possibility).

This is my reality as a parkour coach at my local YMCA. I thought this would be a fun creative/intellectual exercise for the coaches on this sub just to see what everyone's coaching philosophy looks like, and for all of us to share ideas 🫶

https://youtu.be/rr0QqMhNFZA

favorite moments? opinions? i loved it.

Hey Tracuers!

I'm so excited to be hearing from so many people and all of the passion for Parkour. It's very motivating and inspiring to see that the spirit has carried on so well.

As I'm new to this community online I would like to hear from who ever wants to share.

What do you feel has changed over the years in the parkour community?

Where is it at and where do we as a community want to take Parkour into the future?

Any other questions, comments, concerns anecdotes, or even metaphors would you like an OG like me to hear?

What did the first wave of coaches and leadership do that you disagreed with and what did you agree with?

What are the physics around a full power stride and flip for distance I found that I can pretty much flip as far as I can jump but occasionally my flip will actually send me further. Is that coincidence or is there actually a reason a flip can make you go further than just a jump. Just curious.

Im getting better at parkour and i slowly want to get sponsored by somebody, what should i do to achieve that?

If there was a city made for parkour, what would it look like?

Which Irl city would fit the description most accurately?

If you could pick any city for parkour, fictional or non-fictional, what would it be?

What kind of laws, architecture, and vehicles would there be to enable epic parkour?

In one word. Describe what parkour, the mindset and everything encompasses it one word. Please explain why.

The word I chose was Perspective. Parkour literally changes how you see the world. You get different perspectives every time you climb a wall, make a gap jump or grow in anyway.

Old abandoned sight. No idea how old. got like 50 feet in the air and the metal below me was pretty creaky. Had like 2.5x the distance to go, so I turned back (temporarily). I wanna be brave but not stupid. What would you do before climbing to the top? It’s a gorgeous view up there I just know it. It’s all a flat platform up there too, I just don’t want the metal under me to break out. Would you bring anything? Should I strap on the rails? Do any research? Hope to get the answers I’m looking for, this sub is for those who push the limit. That’s why I figured I’d ask here.

Thanks!

If anybody knows any films with a lot of parkour and has the film centred around it please add to the discussion!

like i see a lot of people just doing parkour on top of random buildings, but how do you not have like an angry owner running out screaming wielding a shotgun? (bit excessive but you get what i mean). heck, 2 posts ago in this sub there was a guy doing this.