We’ve all seen at least one commercial or music video where people are running and jumping from building to building, climbing up walls, and flipping all over the place and I can bet we have all said, “no way, that can’t be real”. But it is, it’s called FreeRunning and has gained quite a bit of popularity.
It’s origin is Parkour, a French movement where the persons goal is to get from A to B only using their skills of jumping, climbing and specific Parkour movements to negotiate the obstacles around them.
FreeRunning has evolved from that, there is no end goal and it is much for "free" so to speak and more about aesthics and being visually pleasing.
American Parkour, according to americanparkour.com is the leading parkour and freerunning community in the world. Mark Toorock is the founder and also the founder of The Tribe, one of the most talented Parkour perormance teams.
On the website you can find a ton of information about how to get started in parkour, the best places to practice, special diets etc.
If you dont think flying off buildings is for you though, just go and check out some of the awesome videos they have of the half human/ half monkeys that do it. http://www.americanparkour.com/
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