/r/Parkour
Parkour is a discipline with a worldwide community focusing on training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements and body to the environment. In this subreddit, we discuss training, discipline, and the community of parkour, as well as share inspiration in pictures, videos, and community challenges. Freerunning and related disciplines welcome!
What's the Difference? Some argue they're the same. Some argue that they're different. It all depends on your viewpoint! It is the argument that has been ongoing since the BBC Documentary, Jump London, where Sébastien Foucan invented the term "freerunning" for english-speaking viewers.
Semantically, they're different because modern use declares them to be different. Parkour being about efficiency and practicality. Freerunning being about freedom and creativity.
Historically, they come from the same people and the same practice. A name that Sébastien Foucan also invented, L'Art du Déplacement (Art of Movement). The differences stemming only from the separate reasons the earliest practitioners had for training.
It's our goal to host high-quality content about parkour and freerunning!
A short form guide with a few useful tutorial resources, a macro and microscale look at training, and an elevator pitch of parkour philosophy.
A print and go guide to your first session that you can do alone or with a buddy.
Have fun, train because you want to, and think to the future.
A short guide to dealing with common injuries encountered in training.
What keeps women from going to their first session?
Guides, advice, and example "legal" documents that you might find useful if you're looking to start an -insert your desired organization- sanctioned parkour group.
Videos that have had a lasting impact on Parkour and Freerunning through the years.
Some pointers on getting the most out of your winter months.
A short guide to the different kinds of beginner flips and how you can start learning them safely with or without access to a gym.
Parkour can put a lot of stress on your knees. Understanding the functions of your knees can help you prepare for a lifetime of training, and avoid/overcome some simple problems you may run into.
If you want to request an AMA create a text post with [AMA Request] in the title. Or if you know someone in the parkour community who would make a great AMA, message the mods!
Use our handy announcement post to find locals each month.
Find a community near you through APK's poorly updated resource. Best for US traceurs.
Find a community or solo traceur near you via Parkour Exchange.
/r/Parkour
Couldn’t smash it all the way from the top, the set up is actually AIDS You’re blinded facing the wall until you commit to the swing backwards
Just started practicing parkour again after a while and I’m working on my progression for the front flip. I tried the “lion” roll (we call liked that) and I think it was a good attempt. Could you give me advice and how to improve and how to keep working on my front flip.
last time we did a new move, this time we are pulling under(and over) bars
Hello, I mostly train calisthenics and climbing and yesterday tried parkour for the first time. The idea was to get a more well-rounded foundation of movement, but I fell in love.
I managed to get a climb up, a few vertical wall runs and some simple vaults. My problem is, I would only have one or two hours per week to dedicate to parkour.
Considering this limitation, do you think there is a way to make meaningful progress? And which elements should I prioritize?
I realized my precision is horrible, and that the mental factor seems to be 80% of the game (especially on kongs for now). Should I spend a lot of time repping out precision jumps and practicing safe but scary jumps?
Thank you for the help!
I want to train to frontflip it but don’t know the size and height of the gap. Does anyone have the dimensions?
Been wanting to do this since I first saw Capstone SWARM
So i dont have a video right now but i can cork almost everyone except flat ground i train in a parkour gym i can cork mostly on air track the landing in inconsistent i either land on my feet and fall to my hands or i land completly strait up i know how to land strait up by just kicking strait i spin very fast also i can land corks off legdes but all the pros are telling me to do it on the flat ground because its easier then it seems i done about 4 on flat ground but i have a trouble eith commiting also i landed on my knees every time im scared ill neck the cork but i really dont know how bad of a cork id have to mess up in order to neck it i can backflip on gainer on ground im doing a j step cork Just want some adivce
If anyone can share what skills they would reccomend a coach can do on tumbling floor or in general that be great also your experiences becuase i dont want to be a coach that is underskilled Also if anyone knows any other helpful tips that be great
So been trying to get into parkour, and now got to the point where I want to try the Kong vault, it's one of the coolest looking vaults in my opinion, but I'm seriously to scared of jumping over the obstacle, any tips would be appreciated.
Any tips on how I can reach further? I can run up on to the wall and grab it but holding on to it is so hard, so I fall back down. Anything I can do to reach higher?
I know this seems “easy to answer” but there is no guide or anything. What’s it called when you need to turn a sharp corner like that? I KNOW there is a perfect form to do that, so I want to know what it is
No it isn’t just “slow down and do it”.
What’s the perfect form to take a sharp 90 degree turn? What about a 180* into running back where you came from?
I think I'm doing it right. Nothing hurts after the roll so maybe I am. (If yout think that's my head hitting the floor, it's not. It's my hood.
I wanna do a frontflip on flat ground so bad, i can stick them from standing on tramp and vault at gymnastics easily, and I'm confident I could do it on flat ground. I also do front handsprings all the time, so you'd think it'd be easy to send one. What's the best way to grow a pair and do something scary on flat? (I don't have a mat or air track, this is my only option to satisfy my adrenaline addiction)
I can do a front flip just fine 1 meter off the ground but when I do it on flat ground I cannot get enough height with the jump and can't really spin fast during the middle of the flip when I tuck my legs in.
Fun getting comfortable with plyos at hight.
In true Richmond BC fashion, I was kicked off by a security guard literally wielding a large dummy wooden sword. He turned out to be a super chill guy he just wasn't sure who we were and was super understanding after we explained we were doing parkour. He gave us a time frame to come back when they wouldn't be there. Lol
First wall up after a long injury.