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Spiked Magazine Issue #5 has just been released! All the way from England and for sale in the Take Flight store, the newest issue of SPIKED is packed with more Parkour interviews, insight, tips, and new features as well:

In this edition we have some huge Parkour coverage from around the world including an exclusive interview with Sebastién Foucan, Parkour techniques and training tips from PK GEN, huge input from the global parkour community, including coverage from Try n Trace and Parkour Horizons, plus some of the top parkour pics taken from around the globe.

We have a new section on role models, where we interview real role models who are inspirational and actually put something back into the community.

Plus more training and nutritional advice from the SPIKED Peak Performance team, plus some great interviews.

This magazine is at the cutting edge of Parkour and is a must read for all avid Tracuers. Make sure to get to the Take Flight store and pick up your copy today!

A few days ago one of our members in the MisterParkour.com International Forum posted a link to a spectacular video featuring Stephane Vigroux. The video was so good that we have decided to add the video to the MisterParkour.com library which is what we have done in this post.

The short documentary below, by Craig Pentak, features an extensive interview with Stephane Vigroux intermittent with scenes of Parkour training in London. During the interview Stephane talks about the origin and history of Parkour, the Yamakasi, and the word Tracer. He also discusses the mental aspects of Parkour, and his own personal journey finding Parkour and establishing Parkour Generations. In addition, Stephane discusses the obstacles he feels the art of Parkour is currently facing including the push by some to commercialize Parkour and promote Parkour competitions. To this end the documentary is concluded with Stephane discussing his own views, including David Belle’s and Sebastién Foucan’s opinions, of the recent World Freerun Championships.

This video is definitely a must see for everyone in the community; great insight from one of the humblest and most skilled practitioners on the planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1AxUPPcF8

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

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

Starting today www.MisterParkour.com is beginning a five part series that is designed to answer the question, “What is Parkour?” Throughout this series we will be featuring videos with insightful explanations of Parkour from Stephane Vigroux, Forrest, the Yamakasi and of course David Belle. The fifth part of this series will showcase a rare video of David Belle where he speaks for almost four minutes about what Parkour is and what it means to him.

For the first video in this series we start with an excellent video featuring Stephane Vigroux. This video is currently being promoted on YouTube and it was prominently featured on the YouTube homepage a few days ago. In this video Stephane performs some incredible Parkour moves and directly answers the question, What is Parkour?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1FVnoLkfLA

A few weeks ago we posted a Parkour video featuring Forrest. It also does a great job of answering the question, “What is Parkour?” so we decided to include it in this post as well. The video is made in the same style as the video of Stephane above. In the feature Forrest performs some great Parkour moves and thoroughly describes what Parkour is and why he does it.

http://www.misterparkour.com/?p=45

This is a great Parkour video of the Vigroux brothers hard at play. Featuring Stephane and Johann Vigroux this is a collection of footage shot from 2001 to 2003.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASu88gc31wc