Take Flight

We recently asked our fans what they wanted to see from us. To be exact, the post on our Facebook said:

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD NOW! We want the Take Flight page to be something you are enthusiastic about sharing with your friends. What can we do for you to make this a reality? More PK videos? More quotes? Discounts?! New clothing?! A huge sale?! Or something else? This is your chance to change what we do at Take Flight …and how we run our page so let us know by commenting on this post!

In addition to fans wanting us to continue posting videos and quotes, the number one response we received was to begin making Parkour tutorial videos. When we heard this idea we immediately loved it! As such, starting this week we will begin doing this and we hope to release a new video every week or two.

Throughout the months to come we plan to release Parkour tutorials via the Take Flight YouTube channel on all sorts of movements and techniques to help our followers learn Parkour and be safe in their progression. With this in mind, if there is a specific technique you’d like to learn let us know so we can make a tutorial on it. Post on our Facebook wall or send us an email and we’ll get back to you. We want these video to help you, so let us know what you want!

Phantom Issue #1,042

For the fourth week in a row we have crossed the 1,000 interaction mark! This week, the 26^th week of the challenge, we had 1,042 interactions on our Facebook page which means that more than 1,000 times Traceurs around the world have commented, shared, Liked, critiqued, showed support of, and otherwise interacted with us and the Worldwide Parkour community through our page. Great job everyone!

For reaching 1,000+ interactions we are (as we always do in this case) giving away more free Parkour clothing! It’s just one way we can think of to encourage the interaction and sharing of Parkour through Facebook. Stay connected to the Take Flight Facebook page for all the details and your chance to win!

At Take Flight one of our primary goals is to bring Parkour clothing to Traceurs from all financial walks of life. If you are dedicated to Parkour we believe you should be able to own Parkour clothing; it’s as simple as that. With that in mind we work hard to make sure our clothing is affordable. One of the ways we do this is by never charging tax to our customers.

At Take Flight we charge absolutely no tax on any purchases from our online store! The prices you see are the prices you’ll pay. Whether it’s an Take Flight City Tee want that is labeled $19.95, or a poster of David Belle from B13 Ultimatum labeled $19.95, your checkout total for the items you want will never change. There is no hook or catch – this tax-free principle is true for all the items in and purchases made from our store.

Although shipping charges may be applied to your order (shipping is free with $75 purchases), there is absolutely NEVER any tax placed on any order place through our site.* We have worked hard and smart to develop this foundation, and we are committed to maintaining it for the benefit of Parkour and Traceurs across the globe.

*A VAT (Value Added Tax) may be imposed by the government of importing countries if you make a purchase from a country other than the United States. We working on getting rid of this too, but for now it remains.

We recently changed our Facebook page image and the update has been raising some eyebrows. The old image was our logo shown here:

The new image is this:

As you can see, the new image is much more detailed, and it not only includes our logo, it also includes our website-store address, our slogan (Jump. Fly. Dream.™), a Parkour shirt, and a foreshadowing of an upcoming promotion we are introducing that will change the way we interact with Traceurs and spread Parkour around the world.

In accordance with this new image, tons of people have been dying to know what the Fan of the Week is and how to become it! Although we are going to keep the complete details under wraps until we are ready for the fan of the week launch, for now we will say that we mean to feature fans directly on our Facebook fan page image. Hard to believe? It’s absolutely true.

We expect this recent FB image change to bring a new found energy to the TF Facebook presence and a new found excitement to Traceurs around the world. We plan to utilize it to better spread Parkour throughout the world, so we hope you like it!

The 10,000 Facebook fan mark has been reached! We repeat, the 10,000 Facebook fan mark has been reached!

In less than a year 10,000 Traceurs from around the world have become fans of Take Flight on Facebook. We see this as a monumental achievement for Parkour globally and we couldn’t be happier to be bringing authentic Parkour wear to so many people around the world.

In return for your efforts, loyalty, excitement, and spreading the word about the page around Facebook we are having a huge sale as promised. The sale will be a no limits 25% OFF weekend event when everything in the TF store will be discounted by one quarter of its price. This will bring the price of Original Parkour Tees down to only $11, the price of Parkour Wings Tees and Vault Man Tees down to only $16, the Take Flight Gold Tee will be only $18.75, Original Parkour Pants will be only $24, and posters, DVDs, and other products down to similarly unbelievable and previously unseen prices!

We hope you take this time to celebrate with us and the momentum this time of milestone brings to worldwide Parkour. The details of the sale will be released right here on the Take Flight blog and also on our Facebook page so keep your ears open so you don’t miss out!

You guys have done it again! For the third week in a row you have accomplished the task of making 1,000+ interactions on our Facebook page! This means we are giving away more free Parkour clothing.

We'll be giving away this tee later this week!

Every week that fans make 1,000 or more interactions (Likes, comments, or posts) on the Take Flight Facebook page we give away free clothing. Because we reached 1,042 this week, you have another chance to win. Sometime this week we will be posting on our Facebook page regarding this opportunity. When we do, all you have to do is follow the directions (which will be “comment on this post”) and you’ll be entered. One commenter will be selected at random and we will contact them and let them know they’ve won!

Thank you everyone for interacting and spreading Parkour to your friends through Facebook. This is the #1 thing we do through our page, and we’re overjoyed to see everyone participating by critiquing, commenting, liking, sharing what we we post. Keep it up next week for another chance to win!

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!

Today is the 234th birthday of the United States! Celebrated on July 4th of every year to commemorate the Independence of the United States from Britain in 1776, this is one of the most energy packed celebrations of the year in the United States filled with fireworks and BBQs, and, since the foundation of Parkour, countless community Parkour jams!

In order to celebrate the birthday of the USA we are having a two day 20% of sale! During the 4th and 5th of July we are releasing a 20% off coupon good on absolutely anything you purchase from the Take Flight Store including Parkour gear, magazines, posters, DVDs, Parkour clothing, Parkour tee shirts, hoodies, pants and more. Simply use promo code “PKindependence” at checkout and the savings will be immediately applied to your shopping cart!

Today the U.S. celebrates independence and freedom. But these two ideals are not specialized to the United States. In fact, independence and freedom are two very essential ideals that go hand in hand with the movement of Parkour. So whether you live in the U.S. and you are making special attention of the 4th of July with fireworks, BBQs, and PK jams, or whether you live in another country the 4th is just another day on the calendar, you too can take advantage of our celebration by taking 20% off everything in our store.

Here is a video that recently surfaced of David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli in Austria! Unique in its filming, location, and style, this video is a testament to the wide reaching variably dynamic nature of Parkour as well as the longevity of its founder who, at 37, obviously still doesn’t miss a step.

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http://www.planet-tirol.com/channels/show/channel/8/title/Parkour/mkey/97073406a544ea81cb7f40abb26ae7f0

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!