{A note from WFPF: Please note this is an updated article about the top Parkour movies that every enthusiast must see. WFPF felt that it needed to be updated to include “The Fall Guy” which was released in the spring of 2024. The movie is full of Parkour and honors all those people behind the scenes that help to make … Read More
Why You Should Sign Your Kids up to Parkour
Parkour involves using one’s body to engage in physical or mental activities through repetition and diverse skills like jumping, swinging and rolling. Regular exercise and movement is an important aspect of a child’s upbringing. Through parkour sport, your child’s physical literacy is guaranteed and this encourages and unlocks the child’s potential. The child can develop and grow as a fit, … Read More
Start a Parkour Gym
Image Source: Pexels How to Start Your Own Parkour Gym {A note from WFPF: Below is a comprehensive article written by Jori Hamilton about how to start your own parkour gym. WFPF offers many things which can help you in your journey to start and maintain your own Parkour gym including consulting, WFPF teacher certifications, parkour gym/program insurance (currently … Read More
How Parkour Can Help Troubled Youth
{A note from WFPF: We are thrilled to share the article below with you because parkour can indeed help troubled youth around the world. We want to take this moment to also give a special acknowledgement to the work that 501c3 Non-profit organization, the International Parkour Federation, IPF, is doing globally to help with its “Peace Through Parkour” Global Education … Read More
Ways to Prevent and Treat Parkour Injuries
Image Source: Unsplash Ways to Prevent and Treat Parkour Injuries [A note from WFPF: A great way to help prevent injuries to to become certified as a Parkour teacher by WFPF! For more info go to: https://wfpf.com/in-person-events/ and https://wfpf.com/services/coachingjudging/ or both, for in-person (since 2012) and online (since 2020) Parkour instructor certifications because… Safety first!!} Over the years, parkour has … Read More
Tips for teaching Parkour to kids
Image Source: Pexels Tips for Teaching Parkour to Kids If you’ve ever watched a child playing, it’s usually not hard to see the similarities between what they naturally want to do and some basic parkour moves. Take a kid to a playground, and they will have no problem running, jumping, climbing, and testing their balance and … Read More
Freerun Force- Benghazi, LIBYA
Freerun Force is a four member free-running team based in Benghazi-Libya. It was formed in 2014 by a group of friends united by the love of the sport and the desire to introduce Parkour to a country, whose a majority of it’s citizens are unaware of it’s existence. A few months after the team was formed, a war broke out … Read More
Divyansh Saxena- INDIA
Hi my name is Divyansh Saxena. I am a 21 year old, young professional parkour/freerunning athlete from India. My hometown is Rampur UP. I have been training for 7 years now. When I was a kid I used to play cricket and do some dance moves and I didn’t even know about parkour, but when I first saw some traceurs … Read More
Joe Zgheib- Beirut, Lebanon
Hi, I’m Jo Zgheib. I was born in Lebanon in 1989. Growing up, I did wushu Kung Fu and was so inspired and affected by the legendary Jackie Chan that I started imitating his stunt moves. Then I started to see Parkour in the movies and in videos and it took all my attention and time! Downloading tutorials and training for … Read More
WFPF Parkour Academy! Start or Grow Your Parkour Program!
WFPF Parkour Academy and you… whether you are brand new or have a thriving Parkour program! “I believe Parkour is the next big sport and I wanted to get in early and grow with the sport. I did a lot of investigating and joined the WFPF Parkour Academy. Their curriculum is sound and progressive by levels like we are used … Read More
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