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The 2011 Parkour Clothing Launch is here! The event started last Thursday August 4^th and continues through this Sunday, August 14^th. We’re giving away tons of free clothing throughout the event, and the culmination of the launch is the release of our 2011 line. Stay tuned and tune in for your chance to win!

Event —> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1713201062

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Let’s make this announcement short and sweet and to the point like A-to-B Parkour style: our pants are back in stock! This includes The Original Parkour Pants AND the Take Flight Parkour Pants. They are also on sale so if you’ve been waiting for our low after-Christmas inventory levels to be brought back to normal, now is your time to grab your pair for multiple reasons. Contended as the most comfortable PK training pants ever designed, we back them with a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee so you can’t go wrong.

The Take Flight Parkour Pants. Back in stock and on sale for only $29.95.

The Original Parkour Pants. Back in stock and on sale for only $34.95.

In the past we had something called the 1,000 Interaction Challenge. Now we are unveiling our 1,000 Fan Challenge. This is another one of our unique Take Flight ways to give away lots of free Parkour clothing. Here is how it works:

• Right now we have 28,500 Facebook fans.
• When we get 1,000 more fans (29,500) we are going to give away 3 free shirts!
• To be entered, you have to be one of the first 20 people to post on our wall the details of which we will announce.
• We will select 3 of the 20 and send them their free clothing!

Hypothetical Example:

1. On March 7, 2011 we reach 29,500 fans. In honor of the giveaway challenge we post this on our page:
2. “We have 1,000 news fans! Be one of the first 20 people to post your favorite David Belle video on our page and you’ll be entered to win one of 3 tee shirts!”
3. 20 fans post a DB video. We select 3 at random and send them their prize!

Simple enough, yeah? The key if you want to win is:

Stay tuned into the Take Flight facebook page daily for updates and to monitor the increase in fans.

The 1,000 Fan Challenge is just another way for us to giveaway free PK apparel. And of course we want you to be excited about Parkour and the growing international Parkour community, and this contest accomplishes that too. We are wising all of our fans the best of luck in this ongoing contest which starts now!

Good luck!

He has been a member of the Take Flight Street Team for months, but upon his request we held back the announcement in order to allow him to finish his first TF Flow Team video. Well the video is finally done and so the announcement in also here. We are extremely pleased to welcome Colorado based Traceur Noah Mittman to the Take Flight Street Team!

Noah Mittman is a WFPF affiliate athlete, a member of Tranquil Movement, and the founder of Snowman Films. He has so much going for him and his passion and devotion to Parkour is so evident that we were thrilled to add him to the team. Below is a little more about Noah, as well as his first Take Flight Promo Video featuring Noah training in TF Parkour Clothing.

Noah Mittman is a 21 year old Traceur from Denver, Colorado that epitomizes the passionate practitioner and the ideology of ever higher, ever stronger. Picking up Parkour just two years ago in 2008, Noah thrives on pushing himself to new limits by stepping out of his comfort zone daily reaching new heights in his training. His dedication and skill has lead to a place on the recently emerged team Tranquil Movement. In addition to his adeptness to Parkour, Noah is also an accomplished videographer, and has produced some of the best Parkour videos to come out of the U.S. Parkour community in the last couple years through his production company Snowman Films.

To find out more about Noah you can visit his Take Flight athlete profile by clicking here.

The Take Flight Facebook page has just today passed 20,000 fans! In anticipation of this event we planned ahead, and in order to celebrate we have just launched two new Parkour shirts!

The Original Parkour Tee II

Lisses France Parkour Tee

The two new shirts (seen above) and color variations of the Original Parkour Tee II and the Lisses France Parkour Tee. These are our two favorite color options of these designs by far, and both are only $19.95. If you want to be the first to sport either of these tees, navigate to the Take Flight store and pick your shirt up now!

Today is a day that only happens once every 100 years! It is the 10^th day of the 10^th month of the 10 year of the century (10-10-10)!!! Since this date won’t happen again in most of our lifetimes (keeping those fingers crossed of course) we want to have a big sale to commemorate it! For today ONLY you can buy a whole slew of Parkour tees for only $10. Below are some of the styles that are discounted. Makes sure to check the site for all the shirts!

We are going to keep this post simple because it is: we want to donate money to your Parkour community.

Why:
One of the founding purposes of Take Flight has been and always will be to support and perpetuate the spread and growth of Parkour around the world. Giving back to Traceurs by donating money to their Parkour communities and programs is one good way we have found to do this.

Example:
Take Flight is partnered with U.S. based Parkour community/organization Texas Parkour. We write a donation check every month to Texas Parkour which they use at their sole discretion to invest right back into their community through Parkour classes, programs, and other events as they see fit. We want to do the same with your community.

What you can do to make this happen:
If you are a member, affiliate, contributor, or fan of a U.S. based statewide Parkour community (e.g. Texas Parkour) or a national Parkour community (e.g. Parkour Egypt) reach out to the leaders/administrators thereof, let them know that we want to donate to you, and send them a link to this blog post. If you are one of those leaders/administrators, you can send us an email at streetteam@takeflightapparel.com, and we’ll get back to you right away.

The All Over Parkour Tee is the last of 6 features we are doing on the six brand new tees in our 2010 Parkour clothing line. Different from anything we’ve ever made (or seen for that matter) this Parkour tee is one of a kind.

The All Over Parkour Tee was created to fill one gaping hole in the world of Parkour clothing: the all over Parkour print. Every shirt ever made for Parkour up until now, even going back as far to the those produced by La Releve, were made with designs only covering part of the shirt. For reasons both obvious and inexplicable we wanted to expand the precedent by producing the first ever Parkour design to cover the entire shirt. The result is the All Over Parkour Tee.

With Parkour written in quite literally every corner of the front of this shirt, the All Over Parkour Tee is in a class all its own. No other shirt says Parkour so fully. The added design component behind this tee was another input directly from Take Flight  founder Adam Dunlap. To raise curiosity and make the shirt that much more noticeable, we replaced the first “r” in “Parkour” with the Take Flight Flight Man. The result is the immediately recognizable world known “Parkour” with an added edge and twist that makes it that much more iconic.

We are extremely proud to have the All Over Parkour Tee in our 2010 line, both for its significance in the world of Parkour clothing and for its authenticity and classic clean urban touch. As such we have released it in more colors than any other tee in the launch – that is 5 to be exact and those colors are Royal Blue, Red, Purple, Yellow and Orange. In spite of the added considerable cost to produce an all over shirt, we are holding the line at only $19.95 for this tee which you can pick up in the Take Flight store now. We will also be giving one of these away later today, so stay connected to our Facebook page for all the details.

Day 5 of 6 is here, and as promised we are continuing our in depth look at the design of the Take Flight 2010 Parkour Clothing Line. Today we are looking at, and giving away, the Lisses France Tee.

The Lisses France Tee is a design that takes us and the entire international Parkour community back to the roots of Parkour. Every Traceur knows the images of Lisses that so prominently populate David Belle’s videos and have since become the most sought after Parkour location for training in the world. With such a reverence for the small Parisian suburb from where Parkour was founded, we decided to dedicate an entire design to the location.

The result of our Lisses France quest is the Lisses France Tee. Boldly showcasing the location of the establishment of Parkour in a clean urban design, this tee could quite arguably be named The Original Parkour Tee in and of itself for its dedication to Parkour and historic authenticity.

Encapsulated by an outline of France herself, and with Take Flight written below the shirts prominent text, this tee combines the roots of Parkour with the worldwide following of its official clothing company Take Flight. The inspirational Flight Man placed at the bottom adds the movement edge and drives home the tone and focus of Parkour as not just a philosophy, ideal, or a discipline from which are created cool videos, but rather a movement based discipline that ever challenges practitioners to improve themselves and become strong.

There has never been a Parkour shirt with quite so much historic connection and reverence for Parkour than the Lisses France Tee. Two versions of the shirt are now available on our site (seen here), and we have another color combo in store for release here in September. Whether you choose to wait to see all three inaugural color schemes or pick one up now, this tee will surely be one that makes you proud to be a Traceur.

Thanks to you guys we are rolling and giving away more Parkour clothing! The Take Flight Facebook page hasn’t received less than 1,000 interactions in 6 weeks and the streak continues with week 29 and 1,078 Interactions!

This week we are giving away a Parkour Skyline Tee. All you have to do is stay dialed in to our Facebook page for the announcement and we’ll let you know when and what you have to do to win (hint: all you’ll have to do is comment on a post. We like to keep things as simple as possible for our fans. After all, you are fans!)

Win this Parkour Tee this week!

To learn about the weekly 1,000 Interaction Challenge click here!

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