How To Lose Weight For Parkour
This is a guest post by Chris. Chris is no parkour expert but writes about healthy ways to lose weight. In one of his latest articles: how to lose weight in 2 weeks you can find out how to accelerate your weight loss process using natural and safe methods. Parkour is classified as an extreme sport. This implies that you [...]
Repetition – Getting That Move “Down Pat”
Repetition is one of the single most important factors in getting a new move or technique added to your arsenal successfully. You need to practice new moves over and over again until they are almost instinct. For example, when you first learn a frontflip, you will not be landing it perfectly. After much practice, you start landing them on your [...]
How to Backflip
Backflipping is one of the most sought-after skills in Free Running (not officially considered parkour, though I interchange the terms). It involves jumping up, tucking, and rotating backwards 360 degrees. There are multiple types of backflips including; Gainer, Cheat Gainer, And all the backflips with spin. A Gainer is not to be confused with a Flash Kick. In this tutorial, [...]
The 15 Day Guide to Getting Into Parkour
Getting into Parkour is not hard to do, but in this guide I will outline how you can learn Parkour in your first month. Each day you will do something different that will help with Parkour and starting it. Day 1 Well, if this is your first day ever with Parkour, you will want to learn how to roll first. [...]
Finding other Free Runners (Traceurs)
There are a surprisingly larger number of Free Runners then you’d think. If you are looking for people to run with in your city, it shouldn’t be hard to find someone. There are a variety of options available to you, and I will list them all below. Local Parkour Gym If you live in a larger city, Parkour gyms are [...]
Getting injured can be prevented. There’s no secret to the fact. Parkour is something that requires you to stay dedicated and to know your limits. Pushing your limits is good, but going way beyond is like playing roulette. You never know what the outcome will be. I’ve been injured a couple times from sports, but only once doing parkour (and [...]
99% of barriers in Parkour and Freerunning are mental. I can’t do a backflip. I can’t make that jump. Flips are impossible for me. I’m not the right body type. This isn’t true, at all. You can do, if you put your mind to it. Work in small increments, and learn how to break down your mental barriers. A good [...]
{EAV_BLOG_VER:0d428354a584f1eb} “You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far you’ve been.” – Anonymous Sometimes we fall behind, and think that no matter how much effort we put in, no progress is being made. Parkour isn’t all about the progress that you can see on the outside, but it also revolves around [...]
Getting injured doing Parkour is no fun at all, is it? I’ve been injured, and I’m sure many others have been as well, and not necessarily doing something dangerous. Not that it matters, but the first time I got injured I was trying to B-Twist. It didn’t go so well for a couple of reasons: 1) Unprepared I’d watched one [...]
[image credits: snowy aibetsu] Well, now that winter is fast approaching in this part of the world, I think we could actually take this event, and use it to learn something all Free Runners want to learn. Flips. Snow is soft, and what’s better then something like that for learning flips? I know that I for a fact will be [...]
As the person turns the corner, I hit the wall, and flip off of it. No longer am I running for myself. I’m running to show-off. To make others amazed at what I can do. I’ve lost the true meaning of Parkour beneath my urge to show-off and impress others. Free Running is not about showing others what you can [...]
There’s pushing yourself to your limit, and then there is being crazy. Every time you attempt something new – a new flip, twist, anything that you’ve never done before, you are pushing your limits. If you attempt it with the right steps, and know the technique in some way, you are doing it without being crazy. If you are new [...]
Cross Training is an important part of any sport. It can also make a huge difference in Parkour. If there is too much snow to actually run, then you need to come up with another training method. In the winter, I am a freestyle skier, so that is how I cross train. In freestyle skiing we practice many of the [...]
