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Barclaycard World Freerun
Championships
The
3rd of September was a landmark day for Freerunning when the
first ever World Championships were staged in London. Held in front of a
sold out capacity of 2000 people and filmed by Sky Sports, what follows
is a picture gallery with a few words.... |
Urban Freeflow At The Mayor's
Thames Festival
13th/14th of September 2008 saw us holding centre stage on Jubilee
Gardens right in front of the London Eye. Sponsored by Barclaycard and
exclusively set up for Urban Freeflow to use, we delivered 16 x 30
minute shows over 2 days in front of over 750,000 people.... |
UF In Prague For Swatch Commercial
Shoot
May 2008 and we were hired to head to Prague, Czech Republic to shoot a
new commercial for Swatch. Filmed inside a massive studio, with the set
replicating a futuristic city, the whole process was definitely our most
ambitious yet.... |
Parkour Science
The scientific community is notorious for flagging behind
popular culture, especially when there are diseases to be cured, people
to be studied and data to analyse over and over. But a small number of
studies on Parkour and Freerun have popped up.... |
Glyphitti
A few pics from a night graff rain in London by Sticky. |
Royal Marine Commando Challenge
On the 16th, 17th and 18th of November, we were invited to be a
part of a film project with the Extreme sports channel for the Royal
Marine Commandos. Here's a write up from our perspective...
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Brutal Training
Here's an interesting piece from our friends at
www.brutaltraining.com about
preparing your body for the rigours of hard training. Downloadable
here as a pdf file.
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Redbull 'Art Of Motion' Competition
Saturday 6th of October saw Redbull host an international
competition in Vienna, Austria, with 11 countries participating. We were
there to conduct a report and for three of our athletes to represent the
UK and one represent Latvia....
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Jack Osbourne - Adrenaline Junkies Shoot
In September of 2006 we were approached by Ginger TV, to see if
we'd be interested in being involved in series 3 of Jack Osbourne's
Adrenaline Junkies TV show. The original intention was to film in
Thailand, but due to logistical and time constraints....
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Mercedes - Monte Carlo
May 2007 and one of our most prestigious projects to date, with
Mercedes Benz. The first leg saw ez and Sticky flying over to Monte Carlo,
Monaco, to film an action video featuring the soon to be released
C-Class car....
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Friday Night Project
For Channel 4's new series of The Friday Night Project comedy show,
we were hired to be involved in the production of a special advert for it. The ad
would feature the shows two stars; Alan Carr and Justin Lee
Collins as they
make their way to the studios showing off their Freerun skills....
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Dilution
I can live with being disliked for telling the truth, but I can not
continue living with this opinion and not sharing it with the people I
think it might help. I know I am not the only one who shares the
following opinions and I feel it is worthwhile voicing them if it
changes just one person's mindset and helps them....
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Mexico Trip
In
December of 2006 Urban Freeflow were signed up to fly to Mexico City
and film a commercial for software giants SAP. What followed was a
week of madness in securing locations and shooting to a very tight
schedule.
The contrast of the team dressed in business suits against the sun
bleached setting of Mexico, was an eye opener in itself....
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Portugal
Trip
With
the global campaign of the Nokia 5500 phone launching worldwide,
Nokia agents in various countries are setting up their own demo's
and events using the UF team to perform and to host a series of
workshops. The first official high profile launch was to be set in
Portugal....
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Planet
Parkour Documentary - Singapore
After a very successful project in Singapore filming for a global
campaign with our sponsors, Nokia, we returned a month later for a very
different but equally as ambitious production. This time we were there
to be filmed for a brand new documentary titled Planet Parkour, which is due to
air exclusively in the US. Starring Asid, Bam, Blue, Ez....
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Singapore - Nokia Print Campaign
After a very successful project in Singapore filming for a global
campaign with our sponsors, Nokia, we returned a month later for a very.... |
Boost -
US Tour
October 2005 saw 4 members of the Seidojin team (Asid, Blue, ez and
Sticky) being flown over to the United States to be filmed for a 4 part
documentary for Ripe TV. The whole event was sponsored by Boost
Mobile and started off in New York before flying to Las Vegas and then
Los Angeles.
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The
Discipline Of Parkour
Asid
ghosting across the cityscape; Blue unleashing a ten-foot Kong;
Sticky powering up a wall over twice his height in one fluid
motion… The traceurs at the top of their game seem to be able to
make the impossible seem not only possible but downright effortless....
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Parkour: A Natural Perspective
Most
people are satisfied with walking; a few find the necessity to run;
there are also a growing number of enthusiasts around the world who
seem unsatisfied with merely sauntering through life on a level
plane - they practice Parkour, a quasi acrobatic sport that has been
described as urban-steeplechase aerobics.
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Improving Movement
To
improve movement, each traceur/freerunner should have a firm
understanding of the function of the kinetic chain and its
relationship and interaction with ground reaction forces and
momentum. Once this understanding is developed a logical progression
can be implemented to correct and enhance movement skills.
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Parkour
And The Body
It is
a fact that up to this point in the short history of parkour (in its modern
guise) there has.... |
Get
Your Head Together!
For
those who are new to the sport, there are many hurdles to finding
free expression through parkour; poor physical conditioning, lack of
experience with new techniques and new ways of thinking, and many
other things that can sideline your progress and keep you from
flowing freely. For the new traceur these are not just obstacles to
progress....
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Barefoot Running
Flat
feet; narrow feet; pronation; supination; high arch; low arch; etc…
If you’re in the market for shoes you’ll probably hear some or all
of these terms from salespeople and shoe companies. But does the
shoe actually matter that much at all? What would you say if you
could train yourself to be more explosive, have improved balance.... |
Parkour: A Woman's Perspective
With a
background that comprises mountain biking, ultimate frisbee, cross-country.... |
Balance
Balance
is possibly the most fundamental aspect of good parkour practice.... |
Muscle
Strains
Everyone
has been there - that drop you've wanted to do for three months.... |
Parkour And Perception
Do you feel more
likely to perform a new move, or even a well-practised move.... |
The Method of Movement
Sometimes
it is easy to forget that parkour is a discipline predicated upon
the act of running.... |
Lessons From A Legend
Enab wasn't
really sure what the proper protocol was for a situation like
this.... |
Food For A Traceur
What many traceurs
don't realise about Parkour is that exercise and fitness are not the
only things.... |
Off The
Wall
Without a doubt, the best training for parkour is more parkour. However,
this is not to say that.... |
Eating
Healthy - Are You Nuts?
Healthy eating.....hmmmm a subject that is so easy to dismiss. In an age
where our time is so.... |
Footmarks In France
The
great names of Parkour are well known throughout most of the global.... |
What
Happens When We are Scared?
Ever
heard of the term 'fight or flight'? It is a reflex in our body that
kicks in when.... |
Don’t
Forget To Breathe..!
So, how’s your breathing? Oh fine, I hear you
answer, been doing it since birth thanks.... |
Winter Training
It is often said that the
one true bane of all freerunners is rain. Most, especially beginners....
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Motivation Tips
Variety is the spice of a healthy eating
lifestyle. If you ever get
to the point where you are out....
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The
Fear of aging
What is age? As a wise man once said, a year is merely a man-made
device for measuring how..
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Safety, First and Last
All life entails risk. No matter how much we try to pad the world
with cotton-wool, the harsh reality....
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Spatial
awareness
Parkour, as you may have realised, is really all about space. Or,
rather, the use of space....
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Warm up part one
Much
has been made of the importance of warming-up before beginning a training
session.... |
Focus
So,
you’re beginning to get to grips with the physical aspects of Parkour....
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Moving through fear
It is the little fears that quietly steal our
lives. The grand concerns – death....
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Human
potential
For as
long as records have existed, people have found ways to improve
their movement....
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Stealth
How often have you
stopped simply to listen to the world around you? Indeed, how....
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Surface areas
‘Whoa, hold on a minute’, I hear you say. ‘I came hear to learn the
art of movement, not....
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Competition
It is
fair to say that ‘competition’ has almost become a four-letter word in
parkour circles....
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Sebastien Foucan interview
UF - Hello Seb thanks for
taking the time out to talk to us in depth....
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Stunt
performer?
Many traceurs have ambitions towards becoming stunt performers for TV and
movie....
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Methode naturelle
George Hébert (1875-1957) exerted a major influence on the development of
physical....
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UF's first ever TV assignment
So when he told me he’d taken to jumping
across rooftops following a French sport....
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PKSeben
PKSeben (14th of December 2004)....The
most ambitious event organised by Urban....
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UF school workshop in Torquay
As part of King Edward
VII School’s Activity Week, and due to the initiative of one....
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