Hello I am Fabio Araya, I have been training parkour for 10 years, I started when I was 14 years old when I saw a doccumentary on tv about some local guys jumping in the city, in that moment I decided that I wanted to try it and learned the basics with youtube tutorials and an old matress in … Read More
TV Adverts and Parkour
Awareness of Parkour is commonplace in the modern day. However, Parkour did not always enjoy the same level of exposure and awareness that it now has. Often the wider public has misunderstood Parkour to be acts such as trespassing and as mentioned in a previous article, Parkour sequences in movies played a major role in bringing legitimacy and recognition towards … 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 Speaks with GUP (Galizian Urban Project) athlete Sergio about VIGO STREET STUNTS coming up July 8-10, 2016 in Vigo, Spain!!
WFPF Speaks about VIGO STREET STUNTS coming up July 8-10, 2016 in Vigo, Spain!! Feature Interview with Sergio Cora Campos of GUP (Galizian Urban Project) http://vigostreetstunts.com/patrocinios-sponsor/ https://www.facebook.com/vigostreetstunts/ http://vigostreetstunts.com/ Every time one turns around there are new and exciting things happening in the world of Parkour! One of those is a festival of movement which had its inaugural year in 2015 … Read More
WFPF Parkour Pro-Am Championship- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas- April 1-3, 2016
WFPF Parkour Pro-Am Championship- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas- April 1-3, 2016 Announcing the WFPF Parkour Pro-Am- Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay in cooperation with the All Star Games, USA Parkour, USA Sports Productions, and sponsored by Know Obstacles, Adventure Combat Ops Las Vegas, HKPK Las Vegas, DGS-Deary Gymnastics Supply. SPECTATORS SPECTATOR TICKETS HERE : https://theallstargames.com/wfpf-tickets/ (scroll down to see competition schedule) … Read More
The Wrap-up & Results for the first WFPF sanctioned Collegiate Parkour Competition & Jam at University Wisconsin- Platteville
-Several weeks ago, the WFPF announced some big news… the first ever WFPF sanctioned collegiate competition, to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Here is the announcement that was the preview to the historic event that has changed the world of Parkour in universities in the United States forever! https://www.wfpf.com/world-freerunning-parkour-federation-wfpf-sanctions-usap-college-parkour-competition-university-wisconsin-platteville/ When the WFPF first announced our “College WFPF” (which … Read More