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    Parkour for Obstacle Racers
    Learn why obstacle course racers should be learning parkour now!
    July 25, 2019
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    Parkour: Resilience in Motio...
    You need to move in such a way that every sense is engaged, every muscle is being tested, your heart and lungs are...
    February 19, 2019
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    Parkour Coaching Qualificati...
    The global parkour coaching qualifications, ADAPT, have soared higher than ever this year and are set to explode in 2019. The year...
    November 28, 2018
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    A Philosophy of Coaching
    One of the topics we focus on in our education programme, ADAPT, is the importance of analysing and developing your own philosophy of coaching....
    April 16, 2018
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    Winterval Parkour Day: Janua...
    Get outside and get moving this winter! Kick-start your new year of movement, training and fitness at our Winterval Training Day in the...
    October 30, 2017
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    The Value of Injury
    If you’re naive enough to believe you can get the best out of your body (and, therefore, your life) without the risk...
    October 26, 2017
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    Italy Sees Massive ADAPT Coa...
    This past weekend the global parkour coaching certifications, ADAPT Qualifications, saw a packed Level 2 Coach Assessment happen with great success in...
    September 19, 2017
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    The Evolution of Parkour
    Parkour sheds light on the evolution of large ape behaviour and tells us that moving efficiently between two points is a twenty-million-year-old...
    June 23, 2017
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    New ADAPT Parkour Qualificat...
    ADAPT Qualifications has a brand new online booking system to make it much easier for coaches to access the entire range of...
    May 26, 2017
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    Nature's Athletes: Adapt or ...
    Here’s a truth I want everyone who doubts their physical and mental potential to keep at the forefront of their mind: beneath...
    May 8, 2017
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    Blue Peter Parkour Ahoy!
    Back in March, we hosted the High Vaultage event which set a new record for the most amount of vaults undertaken in...
    May 3, 2017
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    Cue-Jutsu! Six Vital Pointer...
    The very best coaches understand this simple truth: what you say and how you say it matters. A lot. Good cueing can...
    April 15, 2017
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    Parkour: Primitive Sophistic...
      Parkour – that explosive visual spectacle of superhuman movement feats you now see in every Hollywood action movie and TV commercial around...
    April 14, 2017
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    Practical Movement Over Func...
    Parkour is an art of movement, a method of training the body and mind through mastering adaptive, practical movement. It’s been seen...
    April 14, 2017
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    Parkour's Road to Recognitio...
    Today sees one of the most significant, if not the most significant, announcements in the short history of our discipline of parkour. For...
    January 19, 2017
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    Women's Parkour Course: Marc...
    Have you ever wanted to try parkour, but weren’t quite sure where to start? Starting 25th March 2017, SheCanTRACE...
    January 17, 2017
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    ADAPT: Earning the Right to ...
    Occasionally we get asked why the ADAPT Qualifications are so physically demanding, when in principle they are only coaching qualifications?
    January 17, 2017
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    Parkour Philosophy: The Spli...
    Being French and learning my Parkour in Lisses with David Belle (beginning in 1998) I have been lucky to be part of the...
    January 17, 2017
  • Feedback Morzine Blane
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    On Coaching Parkour: The Fee...
    Coaching is a hard thing to do well. That’s something we’ve learned over the last decade or so of passing on the principles,...
    January 17, 2017
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    Parkour Camp 2013 - Blane's ...
    It’s hard to believe that we’ve been going to Morzine for the Parkour Generations training camp for six years now.
    January 17, 2017
  • Blane Norfolk Coast Rock
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    Parkour Philosophy: A Call t...
    When did a 30 metre traverse with a kid hanging off your back become less important than some 18ft jump between two sheds...
    January 17, 2017
  • Chris Sasa Rope Woods
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    Are You Fit for Purpose?
    What’s the point of being fit? Have you ever asked yourself this simple question?
    January 17, 2017
  • Pete Elephant Castle Fear
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    Breaking the Jump: The Heart...
    For the last few years one of the workshops I’ve delivered at events and seminars around the world has been entitled Breaking the...
    January 17, 2017
  • Parkour RoyalOak LEAP
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    Found Spaces: The Essence of...
    It looks like parkour, sounds like parkour, is called parkour… it must be parkour, right?
    January 17, 2017
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    Parkour: A Beginners Guide
    I’ve spent some time recently figuring out a suggested plan of action for those just starting Parkour or considering beginning. This is what...
    January 17, 2017
  • Leon Temple Thailand
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    Managing Risk in Parkour
    Whenever I speak of my chosen discipline, Parkour, I instantly get common responses of, ā€œisn’t that dangerousā€, ā€œthat’s a risky sportā€, ā€œhow many...
    January 17, 2017
  • Kevin Senate House
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    Parkour: Functional Fitness ...
    Le Parkour, though crystallised into its current guise by a group of young Frenchmen known as the Yamakasi sometime in the 1980s, is...
    January 17, 2017
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    Parkour & Running: Tackl...
    The everyday runner has to put up with all kinds of obstacles. Whether it be torrential rain, heavy winds, angry dogs or even...
    January 17, 2017
  • Morzine Blane Shirley
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    Parkour Camp 2008: A Student...
    After arriving in Geneva, I met up with Forrest, Thomas, Simon, Dan and Naki from Loaded magazine, and Mark, another unsuspecting ā€˜guest’ at...
    January 17, 2017
  • Barefoot Rendezvous
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    Barefoot Running
    Flat feet; narrow feet; pronation; supination; high arch; low arch; etc… If you’re in the market for shoes you’ll probably hear some...
    January 17, 2017
  • Dom Jump Royal Oak
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    Parkour: The Space Between
    Parkour, stripped down, is the use of space. It’s how we fill space, how we move through it. It’s a process.
    January 17, 2017
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    Parkour as Penetration Testi...
    Penetration testing isn’t, as the name might suggest, an Anne Summers rep hurling a dildo at a giant rubber vagina as a quality...
    January 17, 2017