Explore the thrilling world of movement and agility. Discover inspiring stories, breathtaking feats, and the artistry of urban exploration. Learn about training, techniques, and the vibrant community.
This archive dives deep into the world of freerunning, showcasing the athleticism, creativity, and urban exploration inherent in this exciting discipline. Discover profiles of inspiring traceurs, explore the history of freerunning’s evolution from parkour, and examine the diverse ways it interacts with the urban environment. Find out about the risks and rewards, the training regimes, and the passionate global community that fuels this constantly evolving movement. Learn about the innovative techniques used to navigate and conquer the urban landscape, from rooftops to stairwells. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a curious onlooker, this collection offers a wealth of fascinating articles about freerunning.
Urban Design & Architecture Film Festival
UR{BNE} Films is an urban design and architecture film festival, coming up in Brisbane this May and in London this June! The main intention behind this very interesting project is to showcase films that inform and inspire about urban design, architecture, public spaces and collaborative design process, where communities and city design can be the subject, the background, the actor and lead role in the wide mixture of feature films, documentary and shorts…
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Burning Freerunners in a Concrete Circus
Freerunning is a form of urban acrobatics - we all know that. Nevertheless I was totally flashed after watching the Storm Origins freerunning short film which was shot for a Channel 4 documentary called Concrete Circus!
The film shows in action packed scenes the three frerunners Phil Doyle, Paul Joseph and Mathieu Ledoux running, jumping, flying and inline skating through an urban concrete landscape. Of course, the fire action is somehow exaggerated but the DIY SuperSoaker fake flamethrower seems to be good fun!
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My Playground - Urban Space Movement
I already wrote one or two times about nice parkour and freerunning videos, but this time I will show you the great trailer of a grandiose film about these two kinds of movement in urban space.
My Playground is the title of that documentary film, by Kaspar Astrup Schröder. It’s not one of these regular action-videos, but it has a deeper theoretically background…
The film explores the way Parkour and Freerunning is changing the perception of urban space and how the space is changing the traceurs and freerunners. Mainly set in Copenhagen the film follows the making of the first dedicated parkour park in the world. Designed by the danish team, Team JiYo. The film also travels around the world to Japan, United States, United Kingdom, and China to explore the common understanding of exploring the urban space seen from a traceur and freerunners perspective.
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Largest Parkour Jam on Earth
Even if it’s some days ago, I can’t ignore the largest free running jam on earth!
On September 26, 2009, over 3,500 traceurs in 37 countries teamed up and called for a world with clean power. In over 217 cities around the globe, professional and amateur traceurs jumped, ran and climbed through the urban landscape and set a new Guinness world record!
This great urban acrobatics event, called “One Giant Leap” was organized by environmental action group Sandbag together with pro traceurs from Parkour Generations and the international parkour community.
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Urban Top Shots #1
As I told you, I will feature the top three shots of the Urban Artcore Flickr group every week! I do that, because I think that there are many good, but mostly unknown photos on Flickr and so I have some interesting visual content, you’ll see new shots with urban character and the photographers and/ or artists will maybe become some fame.
Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too - Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos!
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Urban Idiots: “Parkour is an Urban Sport”
For some years, the urban sports Parkour and Freerunning, founded by the the French David Bell and Sebastien Foucan, are more and more trendy sports in the cities around the world.
In serveral métropoles an increasingly number of enthusiastics join existing Parkour- and Freerunning-Groups or create their own to train with each other.
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