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News: Roxy the Parkour Dog

We've seen lots of great parkour in the past - we learned how to front flip, we watched David Belle outrun bullets and bad guys, our jaws dropped at Cyril Rafaelli's amazing skills.

News: Gravity Defying Stuntman Cyril Raffaelli

Considered one of the best stuntmen of the 20th century, Cyril Raffaelli has been in many films, including Luc Besson's The Transporter and John Frankenheimer's Ronin.

This is a quick and easy tutorial on how to perform a sideflip. When doing a sideflip, it's important to practice on a gym mat to avoid injury. Sideflips are a great skill to have if you decide to do parkour. Imagine being able to run around and do a sideways flip!

How To: Perform a front flip

Are you into parkour? This video will show you how to do one of the many tricks that are used by athletes - the front flip. Demonstrated via stick figure drawings, you are shown how to get speed and rotate properly. This type of trick can be used with freerunning, but be sure to perform a PK roll after landing to mitigate the force of your landing.

How To: Perform a frontflip

Want to learn how to frontflip? Well, you've come to the right place. This video tutorial will show you how to accurately perform a frontflip for any of your needs: gymnastics, parkour, freerunning, or just plain old fashioned fun. It's easy to front flip, it just takes practice... and guts.

How To: Kick the Moon in freerunning or parkour

This is a step by step guide on how to do a kick the moon in parkour or freerunning. This is an inverted move similar to a backflip with a twist.

How To: Wall run in parkour or freerunning

Don't just step onto the wall to begin the wall run. It is called wall "running" for a good reason! Plus, if you just step onto the wall from the ground, you won't have enough force to drive you up and along. You need to jump onto the wall if you can.

How To: Do muscle ups in parkour

Starts with your hand placement on the wall edge. Get your palms on top. You need the right leverage to push you up. Torso and mid area should be tense.

How To: Backflip off walls

This is a parkour or basic gymnastics tutorial on pulling back layouts off walls.

How To: Practice an advanced parkour roll

Adam gives a detailed explanation of all the parts of the Parkour roll that give traceurs problems. This is an excellent and important move that everyone should master. Be David Belle, today!

How To: Do a Webster in parkour or freerunning

Epic from TRICkset breaks down how HE DOES A WEBSTER!! This is a basic Webster for parkour traceurs. This is for learning and not for perfection.

How To: Do a cheat gainer in parkour

Epic from TRICKset breaking down how HE does a Cheat Gainer. Learn the cheat gainer for parkour or freerunning. This is a beginner's lesson in doing the move that is like a backflip going forward.

How To: Do a Raiz in parkour

Epic from TRICKset breaking down how he does a RAIZ in HIS WORDS! This is a beginner's move in parkour.

How To: Wall flip in parkour or freerunning

Epic from TRICKset breaks down how HE DOES A WALLFLIP. This is a basic move in parkour or freerunning where you run up off a wall and rotate off the vertical surface.

How To: Practice parkour basics

Team RKTR showing the basics of parkour. A how-to for the basic moves of parkour. A more intermediate video will follow.

How To: Do a precision jump in parkour or freerunning

This is a 3run parkour step by step guide on how to do an essential parkour/freerunning move: the precision jump. This is a must for beginners. The precision is the first thing you should learn as a traceur.

How To: Speed vault in parkour or freerunning

This is a step by step guide on how to do a Freerunning vault known as the speed vault.

News: Outrun bullets & bad guys with the prowess of a cat

French film Banlieue 13 introduced David Belle and the art of parkour to the the world. Haven't seen it? How about James Bond's Casino Royale? Belle choreographed the opening chase that garnered the film much of its praise and laurels.

How To: Perform the cartwheel Arabian trick

A 3RUN tutorial for the Cartwheel Arabian move. This trick tutorial is performed by Chase Armitage and produced by 3RUN Media. You need to be able to do a roundoff backflip. This is a roundoff backflip with a 90 degree turn. This is a parkour, freerunning or gymnastics technique. It is in slow motion for extra help.

How To: Learn flips, kip ups, handsprings & roll kips

Learn how to do the kip up, no handed kip up, front handspring and roll kip. This is a montage of different parkour and gymnastics tricks.

How To: Kip up no handed for breakdancing & Capoeira

This is a tutorial of the No Handed Kick (Kip) Up Trick. It is integral to breakdancing, capoeira, parkour and gymnastics. Get to your feet without hands. Some people do hand kip ups that have them roll on their neck and push up overhanded. That's lame. This no-handed version is rad.

How To: Kip up for breakdancing, parkour or gymnastics

Learn how to do the kip up to get to your feet easily under you. It is a move from gymnastics, parkour, and breakdancing that artists use to leap gracefully to their feet.

How To: Do a Macaco parkour, Capoeira or freerunning trick

Epic from TRICKset breaks down how to do a Macaco... Portuguese for monkey, this was made famous in Capoeira! This is a super cool trick for flat land gymnastics. He talks about the preparation you need to undertake before trying it out. He shows the step by step from the squat to the hand position and the Macaco execution. Capoeira is a form of martial arts and dance that originated in Brasil.

How To: Pull a butterfly twist or B Twist in parkour

Epic from TRICKset breaking down how he pulls the parkour / freerunning trick Butterfly Twist. The B Twist is one of the coolest tricks. It's not native to gymnastics. He seemingly does a barrel roll in the air parallel to the ground.

How To: Do a round-off back flip & backtuck street gymnastics

Epic from TRICKset breaking down in his words how he does a round-off back tuck and back layout. The layout taught in this tutorial is the street layout from parkour or freerunning. It is not a formal gymnastics layout.

How To: Pull a wall side flip Trinity trick in parkour

This is a wall flip by using your outside foot off the wall. This freerunning or parkour trick is a variation on the traditional wall flip. Turn so you can plant the trick well and not hit your head.

News: Transform into a human flag

The human flag is one of the hardest tricks in all of gymnastics, parkour, freerunning and general playground acrobatics.

How To: Do a cheat gainer for parkour

Here is a cheat gainer freerunning tutorial video. First, take a little run. This is the starting position of your kicking legs and arms. Kick your kicking leg high as possible. Swing up you both arms and jump off. Turn sideways and spot the ground. Pull down the kicked leg and land on it. Use this back flip move for stunts, parkour, freerunning or dance. Awesome stunt that takes some practice. Hope this tutorial helps.

How To: Properly walk and run for Parkour

Generally, most people don't run properly due to their reliance on shoes. Shoes train you to walk from the heel to the toes instead of using the balls of your feet. Walking the tradition way causes your knees to lock. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to walk and run properly like a practitioner of Parkour.

How To: Perform the butterfly kick

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to easily perform the butterfly kick. All you need to do is shift weight, dip, and kick.

How To: Perform the double leg trick flip

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to perform the double leg. The key to this impressive looking trick is the spin once you lift off. Jogging to build up momentum is not necessary, but it helps.

How To: Do a perfect 360 butterfly twist

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to perform the perfect 360 butterfly twist. In order to do this, first prepare your momentum steps. Keep your feet in front of you and your arms behind ready swing. Then jump and start spinning by twisting your arms around your chest. Finish your movement with a nice kick to land smoothly.

How To: Perform an impressive wall flip

Want to perform a wall flip? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to do a wall flip. It would help if you knew how to back flip already, but that's not a prerequisite. To perform this you'll want to run at the wall in a normal running speed. Then jump and place your foot high. Afterwards, you have to rotate. To achieve rotation you must kick up with your other leg that was not planted on the wall and swing back by leaning your head backwards.

How To: Perform the butterfly kick and twist

You've seen the butterfly kick in various martial arts movies. This impressive looking technique is actually fairly simple to do. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to perform the butterfly kick as well as the other variation of the kick, the butterfly twist. All it requires for you do is to build up your momentum steps, dip, butterfly kick, and spin.

How To: Do a sideflip to a cartwheel

Interested in Parkour? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to perform a sideflip after a cartwheel. The sideflip after a cartwheel requires a technique quite different from the normal sideflip. It requires flexibility, height, lightness, and good air awareness.

How To: Do a backflip with confidence

This how-to video explains how to do a backflip. A backflip is very hard, and takes a lot of confidence so be careful and have fun. If you feel you need it, grab a friend as a spotter and just go try it.

How To: Do a 540 parkour kick

This how-to video is a Tricking 540 kicking tutorial for Parkour. Many people keep confusing the TKD 540 and the Tricking 540 with each other. Get tips from this how-to for distinguishing the two. So if you want to learn the 540 Kick and you're watching this tutorial, know this: