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Training diaries, jam reports and parkour stories from Sheffield, written by the community since 2005.
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What to Wear for Parkour (and What You Really Don’t Need)
One of parkour’s best features is its kit list. After twenty years of outdoor training in Sheffield weather, here’s our complete, unabridged guide to what you…
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Why Sheffield Is One of the Best UK Cities for Parkour
Sheffield calls itself The Outdoor City – a third of it sits inside the Peak District, and the branding rightly celebrates the climbers, runners and mountain…
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Your First Parkour Session: What to Expect
Thinking about coming to your first parkour session but not sure what you’re walking into? Fair enough – turning up to anything new is the hardest…
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Parkour for Kids and Teenagers in Sheffield: A Parent’s Guide
If your child has started vaulting the garden wall and watching movement videos on repeat, welcome: you’re the parent of a would-be traceur. Here’s what parkour…
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Is Parkour Dangerous? An Honest Look at Risk and Safety
It’s the first question every parent asks, and it deserves a straight answer rather than marketing. So: is parkour dangerous? Honestly – it carries risk, like…
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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…
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Parkour vs Freerunning: What’s the Difference?
Ask ten people the difference between parkour and freerunning and you’ll get eleven answers. The two words get used interchangeably these days – including by us…