American Parkour

I'm a assistant instructor and co-founder of a parkour organization, Lubbock Parkour, we are affiliated with our school Texas Tech University. Currently we are trying to become affiliated with our school's rec center (so we can advertise there, and use their facility), but according to the guy in charge of giving the organizations their affiliation with the rec center we need to get a list of other colleges/ universities that have parkour organizations (formal or informal, but preferably formal).

So what I ask you APK is if you are apart of a college that has a a parkour organization, can you tell me what college and if you are formal or informal? Thank you, in advance!

It has been a long three months, but as of next week on the 14th of December my doctor is giving me permission to resume all physical activity! For those who do not know, I broke my collarbone back in September and had to get surgery to fix my break. In the past couple of months I have been focusing on leg work, including various leg exercises and I still participated with my local parkour group but with limited movement, but I was determined to keep the spirit anyways (plus some of my best friends I have made in college are in the group, also to add that I am a founding member of the group also).

I honestly have to say, breaking my collarbone gave me a different view on parkour and life in general. I learned that it may be good to push yourself, but always, always listen to your body. That's why I broke my bone, my body was too tired, but I kept on pushing it past its limits. My body taught me a lesson the hard way. I also came to realize how fragile humans really are, I didn't even fall from that high, and that we must progress to make ourselves stronger if we want to accomplish more.

I know breaking a collarbone is pretty minor in the realm of bone breaking, but never the less I got a better lesson on life in general. In a strangely optimistic way, I think breaking my collarbone is one of the greatest lessons I have ever learned in my life, not to mention it helped my focus more on my first semester of college with my lack of physical activity. The biggest lesson I learned was that you need to take things slowly in a progressive manner if you want to achieve anything. So in the words of an internet meme, learn from my fail. haha

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Now I have some more goals in sight that I plan on achieving, such as the obvious: getting back to the basics, regain my strength. But when those goals are finished I plan on becoming an official Texas Parkour certified coach, which won't be easy but it's a goal I plan on achieving eventually.

Are there any posters of any well-known freerunners/ traceurs out there? Or just a poster of somebody conqouring the city using parkour?

I really need some for my dorm room, right now my wall is semi-boring.

Let me know if you know of any!

So if you haven't heard, I broke my collarbone (badly, as in I needed surgery to have it heal properly), and I will be unable to use my right arm for the next 2-3 weeks (5-6 weeks before the bone fully heals).

Being the determined person I am, I'm currently looking for a routine that is only focused on the legs that will develop strength (maybe some cardio), but requires little to no stress in the arms. (Bonus points for any suggested ab workouts that fit the criteria).


I personally can't think of any good leg workouts except for squats and stationary bicycles at the gym. Although I am open to any suggested workouts (body weights, free weights, and machine) I would prefer any that keep me away from the gym to prevent any chances of infection on my incision.

Thank you in advanced.

So I've been doing parkour at a serious level for nearly a year now, and honestly I'm starting to get bored of parkour. Not the discipline itself, just going out and training the same moves over and over is annoying, I want more of a challenge.

So I tried tricking before, and ended up failing at everything. I couldn't front flip, I can barley do a 540 kick, and I haven't tried anything else. As much as I want to get into tricking I have difficulties. So what I was wondering is: are there any progression exercises to get me ready for the basics of tricking? Like something I can easily incorporate into a daily routine? An other issue I'm having is that the town my college is in lacks any gym with an open gym night, so all my training will have to be outside on the grass.

An other question is, are front hand springs a good progression to learn a front flip?

Sup guys! It's been a bit since I've last been on here, a couple months since I was last really active I'd say. I've been too busy prepping and getting ready for college, now that I'm fully moved in I finally have down time to go onto APK. My activity on APK has slowned down, but my activity in parkour has not. So wut b up?

It seems as if for the past month or two I have been stuck on a plateau. I seem to be unable to get any better at anything, like for instance front flips, I can't do them and I've been practicing them for months. I can't dash vault, I can only speed vault low objects, and the worst of the worst is that I can only vault on one side. I feel as if no matter how hard I try I can't get any better. It's really annoying.

Do you have any advice on how to over come these plateaus?

... since I last logged onto APK, mostly because I'm working a lot now and I never have time for parkour I just sort of pushed it to the side, hopefully reparticipating on APK will boost my motivation! I kind of feel guilty, so what's up people?

Well I feel like an idiot for how I acted yesterday (complaining that it was the end of parkour due to MTV and all), I really don't know what got into me. I guess I was too prideful, and stressed out because of a stupid sickness that I had to get so close to my AP exam on Monday.

Please forgive me, all of those who had to deal with my immature complaints I put on facebook and APK yesterday. Although I do not support the show still, it was unnessicary of myself to act that way. I'm still a complete and total noob to parkour (about to go onto my 7th month of serious practicing) so I had no right to act that way, maybe in a couple of years I will be able to complain and make a lot more sense. haha

So please forgive me those who found what I said offensive and over the top.

So I have been thinking about buying some VFFs (preferably KSOs) only problem is that my feet are two different sizes, one is at least half a size larger than the other. I have a feeling this will bring up many complications with the shoes. What should I do?