{A note from WFPF: Please note this is an updated article about the top Parkour movies that every enthusiast must see. WFPF felt that it needed to be updated to include “The Fall Guy” which was released in the spring of 2024. The movie is full of Parkour and honors all those people behind the scenes that help to make … Read More
How Parkour Can Help Troubled Youth
{A note from WFPF: We are thrilled to share the article below with you because parkour can indeed help troubled youth around the world. We want to take this moment to also give a special acknowledgement to the work that 501c3 Non-profit organization, the International Parkour Federation, IPF, is doing globally to help with its “Peace Through Parkour” Global Education … Read More
Ways to Prevent and Treat Parkour Injuries
Image Source: Unsplash Ways to Prevent and Treat Parkour Injuries [A note from WFPF: A great way to help prevent injuries to to become certified as a Parkour teacher by WFPF! For more info go to: https://wfpf.com/in-person-events/ and https://wfpf.com/services/coachingjudging/ or both, for in-person (since 2012) and online (since 2020) Parkour instructor certifications because… Safety first!!} Over the years, parkour has … Read More
Fabio Araya- COSTA RICA
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
Athlete Spotlight – Chase Armitage
In this week’s ‘Athlete Spotlight’ blog article, we take a look at the journey, lifestyle and career of UK Free Running pioneer, Chase Armitage. Based in Basingstoke, Chase founded the world-renowned Parkour team 3Run. Now paved in the history of the UK Parkour scene, 3Run would go onto inspire and bolster the profile of Free Running and Parkour within the … Read More
Jump London
Jump London In September 2003, Channel 4 broadcasted the now famous documentary, Jump London that helped ignite the Parkour and Free Running movement in the UK. The documentary directed by Mike Christie, showed the journey of three French Free Runners, as they swapped their typical training environment for some of the most famous landmarks in London such as Royal Albert … Read More
Nikita Teterev
Hi My name is Nikita Teterev. I’m an artist, actor, stuntman, dancer, vegetarian, and of course, a Parkour athlete. In 2009, at age 16, l began my world of Parkour-Freerunning in a local gym in my hometown of Yaroslavl (Russia) learning tricks. By chance a well known professional stunt man spotted me training from across the gym and invited me … Read More
NAREK AVOYAN- North Hollywood, California, USA and ARMENIA
BEGINNINGS- Narek Avoyan was born in Armenia, in Yerevan City. Growing up he would always get into trouble for jumping off of his bed and jumping off of the stairs! Narek was as young as 10 years old when he first started jumping off of the garage roof and climbing up the building walls. He didn’t know anything about parkour … 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
UAE Parkour- Parkour DUBAI- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
UAE PARKOUR!!! PARKOUR DUBAI!!! UAE Parkour is the UAE’s official Parkour community catering in Parkour, Freerunning, Tricking and stunt work. We have performed in a variety of media including TV advertisements, web reports, newspaper articles and even live-action theatre. We also run classes for those wanting to learn Parkour/Freerunning. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQinDsavws Website: http://www.uaeparkour.com UAE Team Members: Sultan … Read More