History

Parkour feels like a thoroughly modern discipline – it grew up on the internet, after all – but its roots go back…

Most sports evolved gradually, their origins lost to argument. Parkour is unusual: it has a founder, with a name, a home town…

Before Instagram, before YouTube even, UK parkour lived in one place: an internet forum. If you trained in the mid-2000s, you almost…

Every UK practitioner of a certain age can tell you exactly where they were the first time they saw parkour on television.…