Urban sports transform cities into playgrounds—skateboarding, parkour, freestyle BMX, and other action sports that use the built environment for creative movement. Discover how athletes turn architecture into opportunity, combining skill, creativity, and community.
This collection captures the energy of urban sports culture, from street skating to parkour exploration. Explore how these movements create communities, influence urban design, and represent alternative ways of engaging with public space through physical creativity and collective practice.
“Into The Void” by “The Shadow Conspiracy” is a great BMX documentary with a lot of violent street action.
Well-known riders like Owain Clegg, Alistair Whitton, Dropsy, Bjoern Elvering, Niki Kroft and Johnny Devlin are shown by different camera angles while riding through urban landscapes and having a lot of fun.
My friend from bigot.net recently found a powerful video clip about BMX action by Johnny Devlin.
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They jump, they climb, they get freaky - Since yesterday, there’s an other amazing urban extreme sports video clip, called “Out of Time”, on the web.
Some guys from Russia filmed their Parkour-inspired playground action and made a respectable fifteen minutes video out of it. Their main focus is on some big monkey bars, but they’re also jumping from roof to roof or into the water…
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There are a lot of skateboarding competitions out there, but this one I like really much, ’cause it combines the urban sport with design and creative ideas!
“The Legend Of Boxton Square” by skateboard crew Etnies is the winner of this years “Skate & Create” skateboarding contest by Transworld.
The video is really nice although I haven’t seen all contest clips yet. If you’re interested in getting to know the people a little bit closer, take a look at the interview with two of the crew member, Kyle Leeper and Mike Taylor!
At the beginning of the year I wrote an little article for the German Bigod blog about a very interesting project from the US, called “Empire Begins”. Today I will bring this article up to you!
Not in the mountains, not in the country and certainly not to relax! Bicycle in the city - In the urban agglomerations, where the traffic is so dense that any overtaking is an adventure. Where one gets momentum by holding on a car. Where only reflexes and skills play a role. Where every mistake can be deadly. There are these boys and girls at home, on the streets of New York!
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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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