Hi beginner here, I live in upstate New York in the capital region and I'm seriously struggling to find good outdoor urban training spots. Using stuff like parkour spotmaps I've found plenty (on maps) for NYC and Rochester, but the ONLY place that has been even subtly mentioned up here is the Empire Plaza. I want to find parkour spots (and groups) up here so bad, but no one around here seems to be into it.

Any recommendations or suggestions are highly appreciated.

I recently went to a Parkour gym and they were teaching me how to do a side flip by flipping over "boxes".

And I was doing great! Every time they raised the boxes I would raise my jump and barely touch them if at all and have a good landing.

But as soon as they took away the boxes, it's like I can't convince myself that I need to jump higher, my jump is stuck at its minimum and I can barely get back onto my feet and I often just land on the mat on my side.

I think it's just a mental block, but how would y'all suggest fixing this? Should I practice with the boxes more to make it muscle memory, or practice with them less to get rid of the mental block faster?

Is it possible for there to be high-speed movement devices to assist in parkour. Similar to the ODM gear from attack on titan, but less extreme?

So whenever I am in trampolines I see a lot of people doing a backflip. I want to do that too. But I am too scared. What if I do it wrongly and break my neck? And how about on ground? Can I please have some advice?

I have a weird question but I’ve always kind of wondered the logistics of it. I don’t do parkour, never really had any interest. I mean it’s cool don’t get me wrong but just was never really too into it. I’ve always wanted to backflip and I have a couple of parkour training centers around where I’m at. Can I just walk in and pay to learn how to backflip? I could probably do it at home but I have a hard time committing and feel like a professional would help get rid of that feeling. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks!

So im a new guy trying to improve in parkour and those guides always talk about one of the most important thing you must have is a grippy pair of shoes to prevent injuries and help u learn faster and basically I’m trying to find some recommendations for shoes to buy and came across storror (i knew them when i first do parkour but didn’t know they have a website for accessories) and found out that big YouTubers have those storror shoes that’s made for parkour and shit but i can’t find it anymore. Why did they stopped selling their shoes? Also pls gimme some recommendations on what to choose i don’t want to end up having a broken neck trying to do a kong precision

Hi! So my main sports are strength training and climbing. However, both require significant rest in order to not mess up your body.

However, sometimes I am just desperate to do something movement related, even when I am supposed to be resting. Because of that recently I started messing around in my local calisthenics park, trying to figure out how to do all sorts of wacky parkour-like sequences of them (balancing with my feet on p-bars, figuring the weirdest ways I can traverse the monkey bars, etc.).

I try to focus on moves that have a low strength component, either using momentum or moves that require more of balance, less power, etc. However, I am still not sure if it won't mess with my recovery for my activites. Did anyone here have success using parkour as active recovery?

Oh, and of course I pay close attention to not bother nor endanger other people working out at the park.