This article was recently on the front page of the News Journal in Wilmington, DE. Overall, I think Alison Kepner does a pretty good job of covering some aspects of Parkour. I think it's great that she got an expert opinion on the dangers of parkour, although that really just balances out that "Time Magazine reports that blah blah blah". I find it interesting that Alison didn't choose to ask the insurance agency herself, but rather quote Time Magazine's report. Being THE source for Parkour news in the US, we can't find ANY information to support the claims that have allegedly been made to this insurance agency. If someone breaks a fingernail we hear about it here- if someone smashed their face, we'd have known about it. Anyway, the guys in the article do a fairly good job of representing Parkour as well, but fall for some of the common pitfalls in doing an article - giving up quotes that can sound differently than they were intended, and mixing moves in an article that only references Parkour. This article goes from "8 foot backflips" to moving in the "fastest, most efficient way" in just one sentence! The pictures of course mostly feature flashier moves that are in fact not Parkour, but more commonly associated with Freerunning, or even Tricking, or just plain acrobatics.

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