Barclaycard World Freerun Championships Tickets
Monday the 21st of July will see the official media press release being made about our ground breaking event on the 3rd of September. A large portion of the 2000 tickets have already been snapped up exclusively by members of our community, but as of Monday it'll be a free-for-all. Anyone planning to come who hasn't yet secured a place, you have been warned. Tickets on sale here
Preview of the obstacles here

UF Parkour Park: Preview
The Urban Freeflow Parkour parks being built in association with Playworld Systems, (the same people behind the Woodward skate parks in the US) are now ready to roll and be installed throughout the UK. Here's a sneak preview of what's in store. Click thumbnail on right for bigger picture.

Blue Devil: Spotlight Hugger
This summer has been our busiest ever and with the Swatch, Honda, Sony Ericsson, Speedstick and Barclaycard (World Freerun Championships and The Mayor's Thames Festival) campaigns all dropping into place at once, exposure for us has gone through the roof. The one member of our team who's come out smelling of roses is Blue, who's managed to manoeuvre himself into pole position by fronting the Swatch print campaign (currently doing the rounds in all the UK newspapers). As an added bonus, he's just been awarded his own signature 'Off The Wall' tee-shirt designed and produced by Sony Ericsson. It shows him mid-kong and for those with a sharp eye, his busted pinky finger (which sticks out at a right angle) has been included. Pictured here on the right is Cali sporting the signature tee. Click on thumbnail for bigger image.

Workshops
August the 14th will see us taking a brief respite from our hectic summer schedule, to work with Charnwood Arts at Leicester College in the UK. Whilst there we'll be delivering a series of Parkour workshops....

The Mayor's Thames Festival
As stated further down the page, The Mayor's Thames Festival this year (sponsored by Barclaycard) is going to be an extra special one with UF performing on the centre stage right in front of the London eye. The bespoke obstacle design is close to being finished and it'll be the biggest and most ambitious ever seen in the history of Parkour/Freerun to date. Within the next 2 weeks we will be posting a 3D CAD animation showing exactly what's in store for anyone coming along....

Speedstick 247
Last year we were involved in a commercial shoot in the Czech Republic for Speedstick, which has just launched as a nationwide TV and print campaign in the US. It saw us joining forces with Andrew Walton and Goodfilms again, after having worked with them previously in Mexico for an SAP commercial. The Speedstick piece saw Asid, Bam and Sticky starring with choreography and stunt coordination by Ez.
Check www.speedstick247.com for more....

Tempest Spotlight
As the clock ticks away, preparations for the Barclaycard World Freerun Championships are in full effect. Over the next few weeks we'll be posting profiles here to shine spotlight on the athletes who'll be participating. As a quadruple hitter, Team Tempest get the first bit of attention. Click here

Financial Times
Recently the UK's Financial Times ran a piece about one of our athletes, Sticky, who staged an induction session for a reporter of theirs. The piece is now online and save for the ignorant opening comment about being taught to leap off tall buildings, it comes across ok. Click here

Sony Ericsson: W760 and C702 Launch
In conjunction with Sony Ericsson and The Carphone Warehouse, Urban Freeflow are about to launch the "Off The Wall" project, which will be a multi-channel marketing campaign linked to events highlighting Freerun. We'll be undertaking a city jam tour of Liverpool - 26th July, Birmingham - 2nd August, London - 9th August and Newcastle - 16th of August. In addition, we'll be involved with in-store promotions across more than 800 Carphone stores nationwide. The W760 handsets come with exclusive embedded Freerun content produced by UF Media, with Bam having directed/edited and Gingerbeats producing the soundbed. UF athletes featuring in this exciting project are Blue, Pip, Sticky, Kerbie, Livewire, Cali, Jashman and Neil.

For the city tour, this is an open call-out for practitioners in their respective areas to come along and be involved, where we'll have purpose built scaffolding and general obstacles in place to jam on. Anyone interested, should contact ez@urbanfreeflow.com so that formal invitations can be issued.

Canterbury: Festival Time
On Wednesday 16th of July we'll be sending our performance team to Canterbury High in the UK, to be involved in their annual multi-cultural festival. Whilst there we'll be performing demo's and hosting a series of Parkour/Freerun workshops. The event itself will also have a mobile skate park, a panna-ko cage, a bboy demo team and a selection of DJ's. Should prove to be great fun day for all in attendance....

Swatch: Chrono Plastic
The ad we shot recently in the Czech Republic with Swatch, has now gone live and is showing on TV throughout the World. Click here

World's Update
With the Barclaycard World Freerun Championships being announced recently, the Roundhouse are now selling tickets thick and fast. Our line up is close to being locked down and for all those who've been sending in emails requesting to be included, we are going to allow for a few wildcard entries but must stress that the only way to be considered is to fire over a showreel to ez@urbanfreeflow.com
Over the next few weeks we'll be running profile features on the competing athletes in the form of interviews, pics and vids. Until then, we'd like to shine some attention in the direction of Tempest who are based in Los Angeles and are the finest practitioners to come out of the US bar none. They'll be heading over as a 4 man unit (Diddy, Jaywalker and Showtime) to represent USA along with Dickie who'll be repping New Zealand. Their most recent work has been causing a real stir online and can be found here - I Freerun LA

Win Tickets For The World's
Sony Ericsson are currently running a competition on their new 'Off the wall' website where they're offering the chance to win VIP tickets to the Barclaycard World Freerun Championships on September the 3rd, along with 5 star hotel accommodation. www.sonyericsson.com/offthewall

Ford: A Few Photo's
In June UF veteran, Blue, was the star of a film project we undertook with Ford. While filming was in effect, his moves were shadowed by action sports photographer, Pete Webb, who has just uploaded a few photo's from the day. www.petewebb.com

Honda: Dreamscape
We've just begun rehearsals for Honda's Dreamscape production to be staged at the British Motor Show, where we'll be performing a choreographed sequence forty eight times over a two week period. The show itself is Honda's most ambitious yet in the UK and will see us joining forces again with Russ Swift's precision driving team, having worked with them previously at MPH in 2006. Together we'll be putting on an action packed display which will include a complete Honda product line. Asimo, their humanoid will be making a special appearance too. The shows begin on the 23rd of July and will run through to the 3rd of August. Visit www.britishmotorshow.co.uk to find out more.

The Mayor's Thames Festival
A little under 6 years ago, the UK Parkour/Freerun scene was born with just a handful of us regularly meeting to train in and around London 's Southbank. On September 13th and 14th it all goes full circle when Urban Freeflow will be a central attraction at The Mayor's Thames Festival, which has been described by the Evening Standard as “London’s biggest end-of-summer party”. We've been awarded the opportunity to perform on Jubilee Gardens (right in front of the London Eye) where a massive purpose built structure will be constructed for us to provide choreographed performances, jams, workshops and a UK tournament. The free to attend 2 day festival will stretch the length of the Thames from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge and with last year's event attracting in excess of three-quarters of a million people, this year's event promises to be something very special indeed. More info about the event can be found at www.thamesfestival.org

Shaking Of The Tree
Regular visitors here will have noticed the obvious facelift to the front page. Over the next week we'll be making the full transition over and updating the entire website. Please bear with us as we'll undoubtedly encounter a few teething problems along the way....

Barclaycard World Freerun Championships
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with Barclaycard to deliver the first ever World Freerun Championships. The event will be staged on the 3rd of September and will see a selection of world class athletes flying into London from all over Europe, Australia, Caribbean, Mexico, South Africa and the US. This event comes about after 2 years of preparation and will be the first of an on-going international series. Tickets are now available to buy here

Sony Ericsson City Tour Update
Locations and dates for our Sony Ericsson city tour have just been confirmed; Liverpool - 26th July, Birmingham - 2nd August, London - 9th August and Newcastle - 16th of August