Athlete Spotlight – Chase Armitage

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

UP Movement- Kenitra, MOROCCO

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UP Movement is from Kenitra, Morocco and is the first WFPF Sponsored parkour team from Morocco!  UP Movement was formed in 2015 when Hellala Parkour, WFPF’s first affiliate team from Morocco, merged with Kenitra Traceurs to form one beautiful parkour family! #WFPFMorocco #WFPFMaroc #UPMovement And this one in Arabic:   Follow us on Instagram! @upmovement — is Sahli Bilal, Mourad Disha, Ahmed … Read More

Divyansh Saxena- INDIA

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Hi my name is Divyansh Saxena. I am a 21 year old, young professional parkour/freerunning athlete from India. My hometown is Rampur UP. I have been training for 7 years now. When I was a kid I used to play cricket and do some dance moves and I didn’t even know about parkour, but when I first saw some traceurs … Read More

Joe Zgheib- Beirut, Lebanon

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Hi, I’m Jo Zgheib. I was born in Lebanon in 1989. Growing up, I did wushu Kung Fu and was so inspired and affected by the legendary Jackie Chan that I started imitating his stunt moves. Then I started to see Parkour in the movies and in videos and it took all my attention and time! Downloading tutorials and training for … Read More