How to Make a Parkour Line
November 9, 2021
As a new athlete it can be a real challenge putting together a parkour flow lines. You don't have a ton of skills or have high proficiency yet, but you can still be creative and make your own movement. Take a look below for a tutorial on how a parkour athlete creates a flow line.
What the world looks like for a Tracuer
August 4th, 2021
Most often when you see parkour it is done from a 3rd person angle generally a follow shot. This video is to give you an awesome 1st person point of view perspective to see how us parkour athletes see the world as we are traversing through an area from point A to b.
How to Train Roofgaps
July 11, 2021
Parkour has many different training styles and techniques. Whether that be old school pure efficiency, or the new school freerunning , being super creative or my most favorite, training at height. Follow the link below for a detailed breakdown of a how a professional parkour athlete finds, preps, and completes roofgaps.
Solo training for beginners
March 23, 2021
For most parkour beginners training outside of class is always a little nerve racking and sometimes awkward. Especially when you are out by yourself and have random people watching you. We've all been there at some point. A fellow parkour athlete Justin Balczak made a great video to help you get started click the link below
How to pick a good pair of parkour shoes
December 12, 2020
Picking a good pair of shoes for parkour can be a challenge. You need something bendable yet maintains stability, thin soles but still absorb impact, grippy but durable, low cost but high quality. Andrew Foster, founder of Akron Movement family gives a great run down of the top shoes used in Parkour.
Using Physics to better understand Parkour
December 12, 2020
Parkour and physics go hand in hand. In the art of parkour, the athlete is pushing their body beyond normal human limitations on the daily. The video in the link below really shows how applying a few principles of physics to your movements can greatly increase power, control, and distance.