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We are very excited to announce our sponsorship of Thomas Dolan!

Thomas Dolan is a skilled Traceur that exemplifies what we do at Take Flight. We first saw him through videos and were immediately impressed not only with his abilities but also with his style, perspective, and humility. After getting to know him better through collaborating on various projects, we extended a sponsorship offer to him, and were elated to bring him on board when he accepted.

A little about Thomas:

Always athletic and energetic, Thomas Dolan had rejected most organized sports, finding that the strict rules and schedules limited his freedom and his abilities. After practicing rock climbing and cross-country running for a year, Thomas’ brother introduced him to the discipline of Parkour, and Thomas knew he had finally found something that was perfect for him. He began training with the local New York community, and was soon completely immersed in the discipline.

Although a native to New York City and a well-known traceur in the New York community, Thomas is currently getting his education at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Pursuing a career in Film and Media, Thomas hopes he can combine the two things he loves most- Parkour and video production- to entertain, inspire, and educate future generations of traceurs and all lovers of movement.

Below is a well known video titled Daydreams which was written, produced, and stars Thomas:

This tee is up for grabs if you stay dialed in to our Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/TakeFlightApparel

The connectivity continues to grow!

We are ecstatic about how much you and every one of our fans has been contributing to the growth of Parkour by commenting and sharing our Facebook page. We post the content but you guys interact, and the result have been amazing. Not only does the Take Flight FB page now have more than 11,000 fans now, this last week we posted the single largest one week interaction total of 1,463!

As always, 1,000+ comments, posts, and “Likes” means we give away more clothing. This week we’re giving away one of our most popular shirts – the Vault Man Tee. Later we’ll be posting on our Facebook page for your chance to win. When we do all you have to do is comment and you’re entered so don’t miss out!

Click for your chance to win one of these tees this week!

Week 27 has concluded with 1,180 Facebook interaction! This is fourth week in a row that we’ve crossed the 1,000 interaction mark, and, as always, when our followers amount 1,000 or more interactions in a single week we give away free Parkour clothing!

This week we are giving away a pair of Parkour Skyline Tees! Sometime later this week we’ll post the announcement on our Facebook page. When you see this, all you have to do is comment and you’ll be entered to win. We are going to add a little twist this week that’ll give you control over your entry, so make sure to stay tuned in to Take Flight on Facebook for another one of our weekly opportunities to get your Take Flight clothing for free!

By popular demand we have recently expanded the Parkour Skyline Tee! As part of our first international clothing line, the Parkour Skyline Tee was originally introduced in only two colors: red and yellow. After two months we introduced a third version (navy) and in one fell swoop we have now have introduced 3 new colors all at once!

The three new colors of the Parkour Skyline Tee are charcoal, green, and white. With the three additional colors offered in the Parkour Skyline design, the tee is now available in 6 total varieties! The original Parkour Skyline shirt still costs only $19.95 and it ships within 24 hours, so if you’re looking for a Parkour-true design sporting the name of the discipline, you have no further to look than this one.

P.S. We’d like to recommend the charcoal version. Of all the colors this one looks especially amazing.

P.P.S. Just for reading our blog and finding this post here is a coupon code: PKsky3. Use it and receive $3 off the Parkour Skyline Tee in the color of your choice!

You’ve done it again! For the second week in a row we’ve had 1,206 interactions (“Likes” and comments) on our Facebook page. That means we are giving away more FREE* Parkour clothing!

This week we are giving away a free Parkour Wings Tee. All you have to do to enter the contest is comment on our Facebook page on the contest entry post we made. The winner will be randomly selected from those who comment and he/she will be given the Parkour Wings Tee of THEIR CHOICE! (there are 4 different color options)

Every week we get 1,000 Interactions on the Take Flight Facebook page we give away more PK apparel. With almost 10,000 fans on the page now we have reached a critical point where we expect to have 1,000 interactions every week. So stay connected to our page and spread the words to your friends. Winning FREE Parkour clothing has never been easier!

*Free international shipping IS included!

We have just launched two new t-shirts for female Traceurs! The two shirts are both versions of the Original Parkour Tee. One is the Pink Women’s Original Parkour Tee and the other is the Women’s Original Parkour Tee in white.

The pink and white versions of the Original Parkour Tee and made using our girls classic tee. They feature “Parkour” written down the right side of the shirt and are incredibly versatile and stylish tops for female Traceurs. What’s exceedingly special about these shirts is the color combos are “For Women Only” so to speak. We currently do not have a white or pink Original Parkour Tee for guys. It took us added effort to produce the new colors, but it was well worth it.

By way of our personal commitment and goal we are continuing to expand our Parkour clothing options for female Traceurs. Even though the number of male Traceurs far outnumber the number of female ones, the philosophy behind Parkour is that it is for everyone. And to us that means that whether there are 100,000 male Traceurs or just 100 female Traceurs, we are unwavering in our dedication to bringing all of them Parkour specific products to fit their needs. These two new shirts for girls are what it’s all about.

We are getting closer! This, the 22^nd week of the 1,000 Parkour Interaction Challenge, we experienced 854 interactions on the Take Flight Facebook Page. This is the highest interactions total since week 8 when we had 864 interactions.

Although we didn’t reach the 1,000 interaction-free-PK-clothing mark, the most exciting thing about the recent interaction total isn’t week 22’s total, but rather the total we are building for this week! At this point, in the last seven we’ve had 1,103 total interactions. This is the highest 7 day interaction total ever! The interaction total is calculated on Monday which means that all we have to do is maintain the interaction total over the next 5 days, nay, we can ever reduce our interaction total by 103 (!), and we will achieve the 1,000 interaction goal required for us to give away free Parkour clothing!

With 8 versions of the Original Parkour Tee now in the Take Flight store, and a handful of new products on the way in the next two weeks, we have more and more on the line which makes the weekly interaction sum more and more exciting. Let’s see if week 23 can be the one. Join us in helping spread Parkour; comment and “Like” posts, and post on the Take Flight Facebook Page so we can get to 1,000!

Week 20 and 21 closed and we’re still tracking the interaction totals on the Take Flight Facebook Fan page. The totals for these past two weeks were 496 and 573 interactions respectively.

The conquest for 1,000 interactions in a single week continues. With some new posting content to provide to the Parkour community, new Parkour apparel to be released this week, and a fan page that has recently exploded, we have high expectations that this week (#22) may be the one where we break through the roof and start giving away all that free Parkour clothing that our fans have been seeking for so long. Join our cause this week, and let’s see if we can make it!

This tee is up for grabs! Let's get 1,000 interactions so we can give it away!

Week 19 of the 1,000 Interaction Challenge has closed with 630 total interactions. Overall this is a lot of interactions but not enough for the 1,000 mark needed for us to give our free Parkour clothing to our fans.

Ferrari 630

Even though the Take Flight Facebook page has grown steadily over the past 4 months the interaction rate through our page hasn’t. Analysis of this trend had us looking for an explanation. To bring the problem into light, for example in week 8 we had 3,100 fans and experienced 864 interactions. Now in week 19 we have over 6,300 fans but only 630 interactions in the week.

Week 8 was an exceptional week when we had all the fans really working for the 1,000 mark which explains the high interaction total. But it’s still confusing to see a smaller total when we have more than twice the number of fans this week. Unfortunately this isn’t a consequence of fewer posts by us, it’s the cause of a Facebook control which limits how many times our posts show up in feeds! Even though we have 6,300 fans, our posts don’t appear to any more people than when we had 3,100 fans.

Even with more Take Flight fans Facebook controls the impressions and our posts are still seen by relatively the same amount of people. This is discouraging because it doesn’t allow us to share Parkour news, videos, and articles with as many people as we hoped. However we are working on new ways to share and bring this information and inspiration to people through Facebook so stay tuned. And in the meantime we are going to continue our commitment to bringing free Parkour clothing to Traceurs around the world through the 1,000 Interaction Challenge. Sooner or later we’ll make it, so keep interacting and keep spreading the Parkour news through Facebook and beyond!

The drive for free Parkour clothing continues! Week 17 and 18 have come to a close, and the Take Flight Facebook Fan Page had 701 and 546 interactions in each of them respectively.

Being short of the 1,000 mark for the 18^th straight week, we’ve decided to do some research into past weeks and present a graphical analysis of the Facebook interaction totals since this challenge began in January. Here is what we came up with:

As you can see, overall interactions are steady and averaging more than 525 a week which is awesome! That’s 525 times people have interacted, supported, and shared Parkour with their friends every 7 days through our page! We hope to reach the 1,000 mark soon and give out free PK apparel through this promotion. But whether we reach 1,000 interactions tomorrow or in a year, to us to see this type of support and sharing of Parkour is a success in and of itself.