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The weekend of September 27th saw Billy, Brian, Sam, Leon and Jereme heading to NYC to perform as a part of the festivities for those that had raced in the Urbanathalon

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Read more forJereme's experiences there.

The Tribe and Alliance are keeping busy. Fresh off their trip to China, Frosti, Ryan Ford, and Mark Toorock will be joined byteammates Jereme Sanders , Will Schultz, Andy Cousins , Levi Meeuwenberg, Tyson Cecka,  and MiamiParkour 's Adrian Gonzales, to head off to Lebanon! The boys were called in by the US Embassy to give several performances around Beirut and to teach local children. K-SWISS and American Parkour  have signed on to sponsor the event. This is looking to be an amazing event showing the ability of parkour and freerunning to reach out to the world and a chance to train some kids in parkour who could really use a positive influence in their lives. We're extremely thankful to K-SWISS and the US Embassy for making this opportunity possible and we can't wait to get over there and represent!

Thomas Couetdic has written an official review of the Morzine training camp that took place in the French Alps.  From the 16th to the 20th of September, it proved to be a seriously intense experience for everyone that attended. "We came back for breakfast and headed back out immediately for the first conditioning session: a simple and small wall run followed by a controlled climb down. The 100 reps proved deadly on the hands of the guys (especially because Forrest would make everyone start again if one of them failed to do the exercise properly) and they all carried painful blisters until the end of the course. And we had just started..." Click here for the full article on Parkour Generations website.

After an exciting event in London UF is gearing up again for another World Freerunning Championship. If you liked what you saw at the first one now's your chance to be a part of it and if you thought you could bring something of your own, here's your chance! APK's own Skipper placed fifth in the first event! Check out www.urbanfreeflow.com for details. If you were completely against it, that's cool too, there's plenty of places to go train!

There are all types of of obstacles out there in world. So what if you come across something different like a tight rope, chain, or a bunch of zombies wandering the streets? Well thanks to Will you can now be prepared. He's made this fine tutorial for chainwalking . Similar to slacklining, this tutorial shows technique for walking on chains. Check out the video tutorial below!

Miami Parkour has been busy. With their new website launch, Adrian is traveling to Costa Rica to promote Parkour and Freerunning. Check out their new site and promo video below.

Jereme Sanders of the Tribe recently made another Unconventional Training Ground video of himself training various exercises at a local sports field. There are lots of different and new exercises highlighted in this video worth checking out especially if you are a student attending university or high school.

This past Saturday, Sept 27th, New York City hosted the Urbanathalon , an outstanding race through the city which includes vaulting taxi cabs and scaling walls. Dodge sponsored the event and built an obstacle course for people to compete on.  A K-Swiss booth was set up along with Tribe and Alliance members performing on the course and the entire South Street Seaport! Skipper, Leon, Brian, Jereme and Sam rocked the event despite the rainy weather. Great job guys!

The national jam training weekend, hosted by the Michigan Parkour Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan this weekend was a big success! It began with a two hour presentation about Parkour and Freerunning by Travis, Mike, and Levi at the local library which brought in over 100 people. Immediately afterwards, we had a night training session with everyone who had arrived for the jam, as well as those at the presentation that were interested. No count was taken but it looked like at least 40 people came to this session. The jam saw many people who were just getting started, so we ran a thorough warm-up as well as clinics to teach the fundamentals and show how we train. The main event on Saturday brought in around 80 people from all over the Midwest region and further. It was a day full of hard work, and fun which ended in the evening with a BBQ at Hamid's house. On Sunday, those who could still walk came back out and hit up some new locations with much less structured training. It was a complete success in both showing the newcomers the ideal way to practice and train parkour, and showing everyone a great time!

Danny Ilabaca is at it again, with some crazy scaffolding moves. Looks like a little something inspired by Oleg?

Frosti and Ryan Ford from The Tribe were joined by Nikkie Zanevsky for a performance for Steve Madden Shoes. Steve Madden just opened a store in the trendy Chaoyang District in Beijing. The performance featured parkour and freerunning skills on display and the crowd loved it! Mark Toorock was there to help design, choreograph and coordinate. Frosti, Ryan, and Nikkie absolutely killed it! More pics from the performance, plus chicken heads, eating scorpions, and the great wall coming soon!

A massive training session has just been announced by Parkour Generations .  Previous sessions such as last May's in Columbis Ohio have been met with great success. Some details below and other info on can be found here . 

"Two intensive training days in London, UK, with several of the world-renowned Yamakasi Founders, Chau Belle-Dinh, Yann Hnautra, Laurent Piemontesi and Williams Belle, and the entire Parkour Generations collective. The Rendezvous events are the largest gathering of experienced practitioners in the world, and for the first time the event will span two days - the 13th and 14th of December, 2008. The first day will be spent training in groups around the various London hotspots, while the Sunday will see everyone gather at the Westminster Academy Sports Centre for more training, conditioning, and open question sessions with some of the most experienced practitioners in the world. "