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We, at Take Flight, have noticed a lot of books about Parkour and Freerunning coming out lately. This is a great sign that Parkour is becoming ever more legitimate in the eyes of the general public. Parkour books are a great way to continue learning about movement even when you cannot get out and actually practice it yourself. The books offer a range of information from great training tips, techniques, and diagrams, to general fitness information and Parkour philosophies.

Remember, Parkour requires knowing your body and experiencingmovement, so make sure you are continuing your learning by training correctly.

Some of the books out now are very good and contain excellent insight for Traceurs of all skill levels, but as Parkour and Freerunning grows so to will the collection of educational books so keep you eye out for new releases all the time.

Here is a fun edit from Parkour Generation’s 2nd annual Rendezvous event. The video was filmed by Julie Angle and features the Yamakasi founders Yann Hnautra, Châu Belle-Dinh, Williams Belle and Laurent Piemontesi along with Kazuma, the Vigroux Brothers, Forrest, Sébastien Goudot, Daniel Ilabaca and others. This video is an enjoyable watch as it shows the more playful side of Parkour training.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spaGrSBF-Nk

Once featured on YouTube’s homepage here is another sweet little video from Parkour Generations. In this short documentary made by Julie Angel, Forrest and Dan Edwardes discuss Parkour and exhibit their skill in a dense undercover location in London. You may recognize this Parkour spot from some clips in a previous video post of Forrest. To view that video and see a transcribed copy of Forrest’s dictation from the film please click here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkHPQPozDRs

We are starting to have so many videos on this site that we aren’t always sure which ones we have already posted and which ones we still need to post! Yesterday’s post from the Parkour Generation’s Rendezvous I workshop reminded us of a few videos we thought we already had on the site but upon further investigation we found out that we did not. A fair amount of these videos are from Julie Angel and Parkour Generations, and as such we have decided to continue for a time posting a series of their work.

Here is a video from Rendezvous I put on by Parkour Generations. The workshop was conducted in London on the 13th and 14th of May, 2007, and prominent instruction was given by Forrest and Dan Edwardes. You may also recognize other famous Tracers who attended the event including Stephane Vigroux, Sébastien Goudot, Kazuma, Cicso, Thomas, and Yann Hanutra and Laurent Piemontesi from the Yamakasi. We posted three videos from Rendezvous II in our What is Parkour? series that we conducted almost a month ago. Unlike this video which highlights the physical training from Rendezvous I, those videos from Rendezvous II exclusively highlighted a questions and answer time with the Yamakasi. Divided into three parts, you can view the videos from that interview by going to our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th installments of that sequence.

Here is the fourth installment of our What is Parkour? series and the last piece of our three part mini-series featuring the Yamakasi. Stay tuned to MisterParkour.com as we end our five part series tomorrow with a rare video of David Belle speaking openly about Parkour and what it means to him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP6sCV9lA8Q

For part three of our What is Parkour? series we will continue with our mini-series featuring the Yamakasi. Embedded here is video 2 of 3 of the question and answer session that took place at Rendezvous II.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce2ma_ej9nk

Also, here is another link to a great video we posted a couple weeks ago. Featured in the link below is a short video of David Belle briefly answering the question “What is Parkour?” However, please note that this is NOT the rare David Belle video we have promised to post in this series. That video of David (with the transcribed translation) will be the final installment of our five part series so stay tuned.

http://www.misterparkour.com/?p=58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfm_xUV2xkI

A few weeks ago we also posted a Parkour documentary by TK17. The movie is a full length 90 production titled “Parkour Project: Pilgrimage,” and it takes an in depth look at Parkour and its origins in Lisses, France. The majority of the movie focuses on Lisses, but we decided to include a link to this post because the first 20 minutes specifically does a great job of answering the question, “What is Parkour?”

http://www.misterparkour.com/?p=48