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Only $14.95 with the Labor Day Coupon

The Labor Day Weekend is here, and it’s a perfect time for relaxing and a BBQ. In that low-key mindset we’re releasing a coupon code. No ads. No hype. Just a cool promo for our fans that will save you 25% off your entire purchase. If you’re been waiting for the right time to pick up some Parkour gear now would be a great chance.

Code: TFbbq
Savings: 25% off your entire purchase

There are no restrictions or stipulations on the code, and it is good through Monday the 5th. Simply enter it at checkout and your discount will be applied. It can even be used on all clothing from the recent 2011 launch.

Wishing you all the best on this Labor Day Weekend. Enjoy the extended break, stay safe, and stay strong.

Take Flight Girl "Kayla" in The Original Parkour Tee

The 2011 Take Flight Parkour Clothing Launch is just days away!

Designed and produced specifically for Traceurs worldwide, the 2011 launch is as true as anything we’ve ever made and continue our quest for Parkour purity. By mixing urban concepts, current trends, and the Parkour style that Take Flight has pioneered worldwide for Traceurs since our foundation, our 2011 TF launch supports the 2009 and 2010 launches in a way that only Take Flight could do.

In a mix of simplicity and urban elegance, the new launch will debut 6 brand new Parkour tees as well as a slew of new dynamic colors options of past fan favorites like the Original Parkour Tee and the Original Parkour Tee II. With plans for new hoodies, new pants, and new long sleeves for the upcoming winter as well, this launch is just the beginning of another year of pushing the Parkour plateaus and sharing the discipline of Parkour with people worldwide.

Rivaled in excitement only by the 2009 and 2010 Take Flight launches, more than 30,000 people have already been invited to the official TF Facebook Launch event. If you haven’t joined yet you can RSVP here to spread Parkour and, in Take Flight fashion, be entered for your chance to win and sport the newest and purest Parkour gear on the planet.

Are you excited? We are. August 4th is the launch date. Let the countdown begin.

The vote is in. The results are out. And the result is a new product: Take Flight Decals.

Twas another item that was in popular demand and now it is here. Now you can show off your Parkour pride with our high quality, custom, vinyl decals. The 9×5 inch decal is bright white, and will look awesome on anything from binders to laptops to car windows. It is big enough to be seen, and yet small enough not to dominate. It’s spectacular enough to draw attention. Yet humble enough to be all its own. Isn’t this what Parkour is, after all?

Get One For FREE! Here’s How!

Picking up a decal for yourself is as simple as ordering one from the Take Flight Gear page. We’ll ship it out to you direct from our warehouse in 1-2 business days for just $7.95. But get this: the next 10 orders from the TF site that total over $50 in product will get a FREE decal with their order. And after that you can still get a free one with any order over $85! You don’t even have to ask. Place an order for 85$ or more and we’ll put one in your package.

This new addition to Take Flight makes it easier than ever to show your dedication to Parkour. Whether on your binder for your classmates to see, or on your car for the world to marvel at while you’re stuck in traffic. Now you can take Take Flight wherever you go, and everyone will know you love Parkour.

You asked for it and you got it. Given the choice between a new Royal Blue Tee and a Green Tee, you and the rest of the 28,000+ Take Flight Facebook fans selected Royal Blue and that is exactly what our newest release it.

The 6^th version of the Roof Jump Tee is the highly demanded, and specifically requested Royal Blue version. This new release brings the Roof Jump Tee back to earth with a cool and classic color combo that is both bold and brilliant. White on blue you ask? Well the colors represent both France and the United States so they are great. But let’s just face it – the color combo is stunning in and of itself.

We hope you enjoy this new addition to the world’s official Parkour clothing line. It is only $19.95 making it one of the best valued PK tees ever made. But if you can’t afford to buy one, that’s OK too. We gave one away yesterday, and we’re going to give more away in the future.

The Women's Parkour 91 Hoodie. On sale now for only $26!

Winter is still in full swing! (in fact it was snowing today at our Portland, OR headquarters). Sounds like a good reason to have a sale on hoodies, right? That’s what we thought too.

Given the winter season and the demand for winter PK wear, we’ve decided to have a huge sale on our entire inventory of Parkour Hoodies! And since, by the time this over, we won’t be able to reproduce any of the hoodies before spring and summer reach us, we are going to consider this a closeout. What this means is huge savings for Traceurs around the world! Until these are gone you can now grab a Parkour 91 Hoodie (regularly priced for $39.95) for ONLY $26.00!

This sale is a limited time and subject to stock, so if you’ve had your eye on a Parkour Hoodie now is the time. Hurry up and get your Parkour Hoodie in your size before they are all gone!

A ton of our fans pride themselves on sharing Take Flight and Parkour with their family and friends. We thought about this and decided, “If our fans are doing this, why not reward them for it?” This is indeed our idea behind our new Take Flight fan appreciation initiative!

Here is how it works:

• Simply write a blog about Take Flight! You can write anything about us or our clothing including things such as your favorite design, our slogan “Jump. Fly. Dream.”, how TF clothing feels to wear and train it, the first time you heard about Take Flight, or even about yourself, Parkour, and how Take Flight fits in to and embodies your lifestyle. Those are just a couple ideas. Whatever you want to write about is completely up to you.
• Include at least one image of our clothing on your blog (you can copy any of the images from our apparel page located here)
• Include at least one link to our main site in your blog post (link to this page—-> www.TakeFlightApparel.com/apparel.html)
• Publish the blog, share it with your friends, and send us a link to your blog post via an email at contest@takeflightapparel.com so we can see it!

From there we’ll take care of the rest. We’ll read your blog and evaluate it based on multiple factors 3 of which are:

• How much effort it looks like you spent writing the blog and formatting it.
• How many TF links you put in your post.
• How many TF images you used in the post*

We will take all these factors into consideration and send you a gift card to our store ranging from $3 to $15 depending on the above criteria!

Writing a quick blog about Take Flight is all it takes and we’ll send you a gift card good for anything in our store! It doesn’t matter what type of blog you have, so get writing today and continue helping us share Parkour with people around the world!

*Receive bonus points for embedding our logo with a link to the Take Flight Facebook page!

You have our permission to copy this image and use it in your blog posts and on your site!

Our newest international partner is Russian based performance and entertainment company Street Union! They are headed by international Traceur and Take Flight Athlete Ruslan Dzhavadov, and they are making waves in Russia and around the world for their dynamic performances, movement capabilities, and entertainment expertise.

Here is a little more about Street Union Team:

Street Union Team is a Russian based multi-faceted performance and entertainment company headed by internationally renown athlete Ruslan Dzhavadov. The team specializes in dynamic presentations and performances and has assembled a team of professionals that includes professional athletes in the sports of Parkour, BMX and inline skating, martial arts, tricking, hip-hop dance, beatbox, as well as stuntmen and graffiti artists. They have worked on international projects spanning the globe and have emerged as one of the world’s premiere urban performance and consultant firms.

If you’d like to learn more about Street Union Team you can visit their website at www.suteam.ru, or you can visit their profile on Take Flight at www.TakeFlightApparel.com/street-union-team.

Here is a collection of inspirational quotes we’ve assembled and posted on our Facebook page over the past 6 months. Quotations below include those from Plato, David Belle,  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bruce Lee, Buddha, Bill Cosby, Pablo Picasso and others. For even more inspiring quotes you can view two of our previous blog posts featured at the following links:

Inspirational Quotes from Take Flight #1

Inspirational Quotes from Take Flight #2

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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” -Mark Victor Hansen

‎”Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn’t chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.” -Mark Batterson

“When you think that you are done you’re only 40% in to what your body’s capable of doing….that’s just the limits that we put on ourselves.” -David Goggins

“No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are – it is never too late to be who you are meant to be. Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.” –Esther & Jerry Hicks

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns an obstacle into an opportunity.” -Eric Hoffer

‎”The world is but a canvas to our imagination.” -Henry David Thoreau

‎”Discipline is simply choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” -Unknown

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” -Marie Curie

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” -Bill Cosby

‎”Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” -Muhammad Ali

“Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.” –Bruce Lee

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because… the world needs… people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman

“Knowledge will give you power, but character, respect.” -Bruce Lee

“The greatest success comes just one step beyond the point when defeat overtakes you.”

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which opens for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell

‎”A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” -Unknown

“By endurance we conquer.” -Ernest Shackleton

“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.” -Confucius

“When you’re training Parkour with passion, if you’re good, people will notice you. Don’t go around saying, ‘Hey look at this new move I got.’ No. We used to say, ‘If it’s good we’ll tell you.’ Do it for yourself first.” -David Belle

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” -Elbert Hubbard

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” -Pablo Picasso

“You will not do incredible things without incredible dreams.” – John Eliot

‎”Because some people may say ‘Woah they are crazy,’ but we are way more thoughtful than someone who might fall down the stairs because they didn’t pay attention.” -David Belle

‎”Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” -Robert Francis Kennedy

‎”When you freely express, you are the total style.” -Bruce Lee

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” -Napoleon Hill

‎”To express yourself in freedom you must die to everything of yesterday.” -Bruce Lee

“They can because they think they can.” -Virgil

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” -Doug Firebaugh

‎”It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot

‎”Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” -Buddha

“The mark of ferocity does not lie in the power to begin, but in the integrity of perseverance.” -Cy Cooper

“Be a practical dreamer backed by action.” -Bruce Lee

“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.” -William Thackeray

‎”To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the words and most ignoble defeat.” -Plato

“Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.” -Samuel Johnson

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We're giving away this tee this week! Stay tuned for details!

You guys have done it again! This week you have posted more interactions than ever before with 1,394 total comments, likes, and posts!

With a new record interaction total we are yet again giving away free Parkour clothing through our Facebook Fan Page! This week we are giving away a Take Flight City Tee. Sometime in the next 3 days we’ll post an announcement on the Take Flight page about the give-a-way. All you have to do is comment on the post for your chance to win!

Keep up the interacting and stay tuned into our page for more chances to win FREE PK gear and clothing!

We recently challenged people to post creative comments on our wall in order to win a Take Flight Parkour Skyline Tee. Said our FB post:

Comment on this post and win a Parkour Skyline Tee! We’re giving away two of them; one will be given out at random to a commenter, and the other will be given out to the person who posts the comment we like best. Be creative and good luck!

Comments ranged from inspiring quotes, to stories, to personal evaluations and responses to Parkour. Here were some of our favorites:

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“PARKOUR ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” -Derek Boyes

“[Pick] me because Parkour is the sh*t, and that’s a raw t-shirt.” -Andrew Ek

“Parkour made a big change in my life. I made a lot of friends through it. I hope I can win this tee!” -Jose Santos

“Parkour is an escape for me. Escape from pressure at home, peer pressure, everything.” -Alex Marion

“Take Flight for liiiiiife!” -Andrew Paschall

“Parkour is life, Parkour is my life. I would love to have a sick green shirt about my passion.” -Peter Rathana Keo

“There are many paths in life, but only the mind of one in harmony with their environment can see them all and unlock their true potential.” -Ryan Wingate

“WHO WANTS WAFFLES WITH LOTS OF SYRUP?!?!” – Seth Bumgarner

“Take Flight is my favorite destination for Parkour apparel!” -Jason Brazil

“Parkour is the gravy to my potatoes.” -Austin Duris

“…I love you guys.” -Alex Walden

“Parkour helped me and my team stay away from the crap that could drag us down. For a 16 year old kid that could give a care less before this way of life it changed me to where I help myself and other people. It gave me the courage to be myself. It changed my life.” -Johnathon Jones

“Parkour is the best. I would really love a tee. Take Flight rules.” -Brady Darin Moore

“This is the epicest thing of epic epicness. I’m going to go climb onto my roof and ply king kong now…” -Tristan Grieve

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee via Jon Anderson

“Take flight clothing! Woo let’s go. Parkour is great!” -Alec Newman

“Parkour isn’t just a fun activity, it’s a way of thinking. Your training helps you overcome not only physical obstacles but mental and emotional as well. You’ll be walking along one day, and suddenly walls don’t seem as high; you notice that there’s always another path, and sometimes it’s more rewarding to take the one which offers the greater challenge.” -Jevin Dulak

“PK FTW” -Patrick Douglas

“Very cool shirt. It matches the wilderness, go green with Parkour. You guys are very creative with the shirts you make. So far every one I’ve seen is cool and I’d wear any one of them to get the word about Parkour out” -Daniel Adam Yenor

“The skyline is what I think of when I think of the art of Parkour. It’s were Parkour got big. Aside from being simple yet powerful, it’s a perfect representation of Parkour and it’s one of the best shirts I’ve seen. I love it. Absolutely magnificent.” -Johnathan Backflip Sims

“Dude these freaking shirts are so beast. I love them. I think I’m going 2 buy ALLLLLLL of them. LOVE PARKOUR.” -Tyler Smith

“I would like to win this shirt because Parkour has become my life. I haven’t been doing Parkour for very long but it’s helped me become a stronger person not only physically, but mentally as well. Suddenly, I’m not so afraid of everything. …I’ve taken my process of overcoming a stunt in Parkour and applied it to everyday activities. Parkour has given me a chance to escape all of my troubles. Things don’t seem so bad when I’m running along with my friends and learning new ways to improve. I feel that if I win this shirt, I can express my love for Parkour not only to myself, but to others so that they too can experience the joys and benefits of Parkour. “ –Matt Cunningham

‎”Parkour stands out from the crowd because most people can’t do it, but if you learn the techniques and practice, you will get good at it. It’s something that you will want to do all day, every day.” – Liam KenWood

“I love Parkour. It demonstrates the need to stand out from the crowd, the everyday people, and show who the individual REALLY is inside, and who they can become. I would love to get a t-shirt, but even if I don’t you guys rock and keep rockin!!! I will love Take Flight for life and keep practicing. U guys are AWESOME. Keep it up fellow traceurs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE FLIGHT 4 LIFE!!!!” -Ezra Tillett

“Your mom says ‘why?’ Parkour says ‘why not?’” -John Danger Elder

“Parkour has the ability for so much good, and people refuse to see that. For that moment you can just “be.” You’re not worrying about the bills you have to pay later on. You’re not worrying about the places you have to be tomorrow, next week, in a month, ect. You’re in the moment, and can simply “be” yourself. There is nothing quite like it.” -Josh Wright

“The moment where you feel at one with yourself is the time where everything flies away beneath you and all you feel is the wind across your face and the rush of blood singing through your veins.” -Peter Yersavich

“It is simply, THE GREATEST PARKOUR SHIRT THAT HAS BEEN MADE SO FAR! Take Flight 4 EVER!” -Bryce Boss

“If you build it, they will do Parkour.” -David Whitesell

“Well, because of your company, I was motivated to keep doing parkour. It all started with a video titled, on youtube, “Le Evolution parkour.” And everything was going good. Then, everything stopped working out. I just… gave up you could say… Deep inside, my life was already changed. Everywhere I went I saw the obstacles out of buildings and staircases, but I didn’t practice or workout because it was simply too hard. I didn’t want to do it if the results weren’t immediate. I watched another video simply titles “Free running” which re-motivated me, but not fully. The thing that started me again was this company. The clothes were simply amazing, not to kiss ass, but when I looked in the mirror I could be reminded of my goal and what I want to do. Also, I was the only one in my town to do Parkour. I am the original, and it was extremely hard. But, I stayed motivated with your shirts. I represented them in school, and even got my friends into Parkour. I am teaching them now, and they train with me. I told them all about Take Flight and I order your clothes all the time. I have a shipment heading here right now as I’m typing this comment. All I have to say is thank you for keeping me going. It has been 22 months since I first started. September will mark my two year training period.” -Mike Pieri

“Parkour isn’t about tricks or flips… its about seeing an object that ‘normal’ people would walk around and thinking “What if I…” and then you try what you thought and if you liked it try again.  Escape from the normal and Take Flight!” -Bryce Boss