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A Short History of Parkour: From Georges Hébert to David Belle
Parkour feels like a thoroughly modern discipline – it grew up on the internet, after all – but its roots go back more than a century,…
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David Belle: The Man Who Founded Parkour
Most sports evolved gradually, their origins lost to argument. Parkour is unusual: it has a founder, with a name, a home town and a story. Everything…
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Urban Freeflow and the Birth of the UK Parkour Scene
Before Instagram, before YouTube even, UK parkour lived in one place: an internet forum. If you trained in the mid-2000s, you almost certainly had an Urban…
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Jump London and Jump Britain: The Films That Started UK Parkour
Every UK practitioner of a certain age can tell you exactly where they were the first time they saw parkour on television. Maybe it was a…