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  • Parkour videos collection

    11th March 2007

    Do you know what is parkour? If not - this videos collection will tell you :)

    (But, in short, the philosophy is: “100% efficiency in urban movement”.)

    All the videos (except for two) are embedded from the Parkour series at ExpertVillage. As a side note: ExpertVillage shows ads before the video from time to time.

    To start with, you may want to know the short history of parkour. Here is a movie from one of the parkour-evangelists:

    Next, here’s a short sample of parkour from YouTube:

    …and another one, much more impressive:

    If you decide to try, you need to watch at least two more videos - about the equipment and safety measures.
    First - equipment:

    Safety should be self-understood, but in addition to that common-sense, here are some advices on how to behave while performing the most common parkour elements:

    Next, there is a whole set of videos under the common title “training”. Here they are:

    (I used to practice the one above at school… it was known as “goat jumping”)

    From the featured videos at texasparkour you can get more videos on parkour training.

    And, of course, some video-hosting services like youtube will give you a variety of parkour-keyworded videos.

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