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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When you first decide to get into Parkour and Free Running, you probably have these amazing visions of jumping off 20 foot ledges, doing gainers and fronflips off everything, and just being an all around ninja. Yes, those flips and such can be achieved, but it takes few months. I know I was doing Parkour for 3 months before I [...]

If you do attend a Parkour academy or gym, you will notice that your skill level in the gym against outside is quite different. There will be things that you will do in a gym, and wont feel ready or comfortable enough to do outside. It may take trying one of these things inside a few times, or for a [...]

When we first see Parkour, we see these amazing jumps, flips, and other moves. Because of this, all we want to do is what we see. But to get to that point, we need to start of slow, and take things easy. We can’t just jump in. You need to develop proper technique, skill, and you need to practice. If [...]

If you are on a small building, and for some off reason, you need to jump down, but can’t roll, you need to make sure you are able to make that jump. If you don’t do the jump properly, you can overload the joints in your foot, twist or sprain an ankle. If you ever do have something that starts [...]

You need to start slowly, and get the basics down before diving into the hardcore aspects of Parkour. You need the basics such as the roll, and how to land. Without these, you will injure yourself, and injury isn’t fun. They say that before jumping off of buildings, you should have been doing Parkour for at least one full year. [...]

Mind, Body And Control. Whether your new to the sport or not, parkour and free running is known for its high cityscape videos. Although it does look cool and grabs a lot of attention, parkour isn’t all about the thrills of flipping from one building to the next. Its all about mind, body and control. Mind You don’t need to [...]