Articles - American Parkour

Être Fort Pour Être Utile

March 3, 2014

Usefulness. Everyone wants to be useful don’t they? A fairer statement may be that no one wants to be useless. What is useful? Different people have different definitions of the word useful. A traceur should have one definition, helpful in any situation that requires physical stamina, strength, balance, or agility. Our whole discipline evolved from a desire: Etre fort pour etre utile. “Be strong to be useful.” In parkour we train to overcome obstacles. We train to make the 10…

Martial Arts Vs. Parkour

January 31, 2014

Chad Zwadlo

Articles, News

Parkour is often considered a discipline and compared to martial arts in it’s training. I have my own personal thoughts on this…and I figured I’d share. My Background in Martial Arts As a young kid, I tried a bunch of traditional American sports. I was in a softball league, I was on a basketball team, I did wrestling for like a week, I went to about four track practices, and I was even on a bowling league. None of this…

American Parkour Warm-ups

January 9, 2014

Travis Graves

Articles, Workouts

A thorough warm-up is essential for both effective strength-training and efficient intraday recovery. Light exercise is the best tool for improved recovery in-between hard workouts. Light jogging, hiking, swimming, or easy Parkour followed by a thorough stretching session is perfect.

The Importance of Goals

January 1, 2014

Patrick Witbrod

Articles

Setting goals can be difficult. Setting parkour specific goals can even harder. Where do you begin? What should you measure? What are good goals? Does it even matter? We hope to help you answer those questions with this article. Does goal-setting matter? Goals are very important. You’ve probably heard this your whole life. That’s because it’s true. Having goals and writing them down has been shown to increase the likelihood of success and make people happier and in general people…

The tales of Christmas parkour stories

December 23, 2013

Chris Kaufhold

Articles, News

Not every Christmas Parkour video has a story like Santa Parkour, but they all share an important message: we have one of the greatest communities on Earth, a giant family full of love and support, and we should all be very thankful that Parkour has brought us all together. We wanted to stroll through a few Christmas parkour videos that have warmed our hearts throughout the years, starting with recent videos and ending with the one that started it all.…