American Parkour

1. Watch a lotof youtube tutorials on the flip you want to learn. 2. Go somewhere with something soft to land on like a gymnastics place, or a beach with lots of sand. Another good way to be safe and get over fear is flip into a pool and film it to see how you land. If you cant film it then have a friend watch you. If none of these things are possible then just take all of the pillows, covers, cushions, and whatever else that's soft and throw them out in the yard at flip on that. 3. After you can land them like that then you can take it to something softer like woodchips, just make sure there flat and there's many layers of them. 4. Once you master that you should be able to go to grass. 5. now that you got them on Grass you can move on to a hard patch of dirt. 5. CONCREAT!!!!! For backflips it is a lot easier to have a spotter, it takes out a lot of the fear. Go try one!!!!!!

Over 20 years doing mixed martial arts, now I live in Austria I freeski in the winter and mountain bike in the summer, also enjoy jump stilts, bouldering, skating and drinking.

 I've been dieing to try those jumping stilts, but there kinda expensive(around $150-$300), are they worth the money? if i do get them what brand and model should i get.

Yeah you've got the right idea, but I just can't find any example of it anywhere.

I WILL LEARN THIS....... tomorrow.

I'm not gonna lie, warming up is something that i have neglected in my training and I've been wanting to fix that. So i wanna know what is a good all around warm up and cool down plan for parkour and free running? Should i just do some stretching and jogging, or some intense workout before and after a training session? Any help will be appreciated.

I just recently corrected this with my self. What i did was get to where i could do them with better form on a trampoline, then worked on taking it to grass and saw alot of improvement. Hope this helps

probably a silly question, but whats horse?

I found out that back handspring + back handspring + backflip = AWSOMENESSS.
got it on my 4th try, sooo fun.

this might sound stupid, but ever since i started doing backflips I've seen a great improvement in my abs. started out with just a flat stomach and now i gotta six pack .

i can do them from a run just fine. I just kinda lock up on the jump with the standing ones its hard to explain. i can do standing backflips too, don't know if that's important.