Parkour lovers love a challenge. Setting new goals, improving their skills, and exploring the limits of their bodies is a must. Also, the creative side of each person doing parkour needs to be strong and needs to have the opportunity to shine. This is exactly why every parkour lover should try out different locations for their training and practices. Since … Read More
How Parkour Training Can Save Your Life
Parkour is a fast-growing practice in this century; however, for something growing this fast, very little information is known about Parkour. You can describe Parkour as a logical and creative movement through a typically urban setup from point A to B as quickly as possible. Involved is the overcoming of physical barriers on any route while creating practical and inventive … Read More
Parkour World Records
As Parkour has become more and more recognised, the demand and popularity for Parkour World Records to be broken has increased. In this week’s article we take a look back at footage of some of the most impressive Parkour World Records being broken throughout the last decade: *Highest-Wall Assisted Backflip: (published on YouTube 11th November 2016) In this video aired … Read More
Follow your passion for Parkour!
Why there is no better time than now to follow your passion for Parkour? The year is 1980. You have a passion for an unnamed acrobatic movement that is starting to be labelled as Parkour/Freerunning. You dream of traveling the world, inspiring others through movement. But the path to sharing that passion with the world is tricky. Finding people that … Read More
Life after Parkour for the Parkour Athlete
Life after Parkour for the Parkour Athlete. A sustainable career option? A question that many a Parkour athletes will have encountered on a frequent basis is questions surrounding the longevity of the decision to pursue a career in the industry. Criticisms can include that it’s only a suitable career choice for a very short time frame because of the limitations … Read More
Parkour in the Movies
Parkour In The Social Media World. Nowadays young aspiring Parkour athletes are just an Instagram scroll away from getting their newest dose of movement inspiration from the latest viral video. However, this method of sparking attention for the sport has a popular predecessor to which the foundations of the Parkour movement owes a lot to. Prior to the height of … Read More
Easy & Effective Implementation of Parkour classes in your gym.
Adding Parkour / Ninja classes to your gym has never been easier. Tools such as the WFPF Parkour Academy, provide start to finish steps to have your Parkour classes setup and optimized with immediate effect. 1) Equipment – If you have a pre existing gym, you will be amazed how much of the equipment can be safely re purposed for … Read More
WFPF Parkour Academy Testimonials
“Our Youth program took off and now we are bringing in more teens and adults too. In our first year we have approximately 800 students and have had almost 3500 visitors through our doors. We have experienced 9-15% growth month on month since we opened our doors.” “Having the Lesson Plans each week has been hugely beneficial and we still … Read More
REGIONAL QUALIFIERS – USA PARKOUR CUP
We are excited to announce, the WFPF USA Parkour Cup Regional Qualifiers for 2019 are coming!
Athlete Spotlight: Bailey Harter
My name is Bailey Harter. https://www.instagram.com/thebaileyharter/ I started Parkour around August of 2013, so roughly 6 1/2 years ago. The reason I started Parkour is because I somehow found Ryan Doyle’s travel story’s on YouTube and immediately wanted to try and learn some flips. I was a pretty athletic kid and I new the basic concept of a front-flip so I … Read More