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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.

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!

Today is the one year anniversary of the Take Flight International Clothing Launch! We couldn’t be happier for this day and what has been accomplished in the last year, not just for us, but more importantly for Parkour worldwide. In fact, the way we see it, if anything it is NOT us that has advanced as much as our advancement is a reflection of the growth Parkour has experienced around the globe.

With that in mind we wanted to take this time to look back on how far we’ve come since June 25, 2009. Here are a couple milestones to give some perspective:

• In the last year we’ve tripled our product offering through our site by adding new Parkour clothing and PK gear.
• We’ve released new shirt color combos for the Original Parkour Tee, the Parkour Wings Tee, the Parkour Skyline Tee, and the Take Flight City tee.
• We’ve added completely new clothing products including Parkour hoodies, PK thermals, and training pants.
• We’ve added the completely new category of “Gear” to our site and filled it with Parkour DVDs, Parkour posters, gift cards, and most recently magazines!
• Our Take Flight Facebook Fan Page has grown almost 10,000 fans!
• Shared more than 500 of the world’s best Parkour video through our Facebook page.
• We’ve been endorsed, worn, filmed by/at some of the best Traceurs around the world from Australia, to Vienna, from England to Russia, and from the USA to France, including the Red Bull 2010 Art of Motion competition in Vienna and the largest Parkour event in U.S. history via the Revolution Parkour Gym Grand Opening.
• We’ve partnered and sponsored some of the most well known and influential Parkour athletes and communities in the world including Texas Parkour, Parkour Egypt, Kinetic, Apex Parkour, Revolution Parkour, and Urban Vanguard.

With another year behind us and the next one beginning we are super excited with what we have store for the PK community including new clothing launches, new brands, and some huge athlete sponsorship announcements as well. We’re hoping you’ll be there with us as we continue this journey and continue our focus on Parkour and bringing Traceurs around the world the most authentic and highest quality Parkour clothing, gear, and products.

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.

One of the first color combos we added to our line after our International Clothing Launch was the Parkour Wings Tee in an army version. When it came time for our Holiday Closeout we decided to discontinue the shirt in order to focus production on some of our other colors. However, soon after we did this received tons of feedback from Traceurs wanting us to re release the army version of the tee! We are proud to announce that this is exactly what we have done.

After selling for 3 months on our site, then spending 6 off, the Parkour Wings Tee – Army is now officially back in our store! The shirt features the classic Parkour Wings designs with a dig-down-deep army color scheme. Being the only army colored shirt in our Parkour clothing line, this tee is a great addition to your clothing whether you are looking for a new summer tee, or are already planning your back-to-school wardrobe.

There is no telling how long this shirt will be in stock. We’ve done our best to manufacture more than enough, but the pent-up demand could have these flying off the shelf. Offered in sizes Small through 2XL the shirt is also only $19.95, so get to the Take Flight Store and pick up this iconic tee up today!

Spiked has joined forces with Parkour Generations to launch the first ever authentic magazine dedicated to Parkour! The result is an England based quarterly publication that includes articles, training tips, technical insights, and a Parkour perspective from some of the most respected Traceurs in the world including (already) original Traceurs Sebastien Foucan and Stephane Vigroux. The magazine also includes spotlights on PK communities, as well as a constantly growing variety of new features for the worldwide Parkour community to learn from and enjoy.

After being contacted by Spiked regarding their undertaking and their connection with Parkour Generations, we spoke with the directors about the endeavor and knew we wanted to be integrally involved in the promotion and distribution of the magazine. We discussed different options and what has resulted is a distribution arrangement where we are now officially selling Spiked Magazine through the Take Flight store! With Spiked Magazine now for sale via TakeFlightApparel.com, this means that Traceurs across the U.S. can receive copies of the magazine faster and for a cheaper price due to our U.S. based shipping center.

We are extremely excited to be working with Spiked to bring this Parkour magazine to Traceurs in the U.S. and around the globe! If you haven’t had a chance to check out the magazine you can read more information about it on the Spiked website at wwww.GetSpiked.co.uk and pick up the a copy of the newest Parkour issue here!

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!

Our newest tee is now released! By popular demand, we have added another version of the Original Parkour Tee to our line; that being the Original Parkour Tee in Yellow.

Choosing yellow as the newest Original Parkour Tee was not a tough decision. We looked at the options available and after fielding countless requests for new color options of the design we decided to add a little more flare with the next tee. Now with yellow, almost the entire gambit of color options is available in this classic Parkour tee including gray (silver), navy blue, cardinal red, royal blue, charcoal, green, and purple.

At Take Flight we are committed to bringing Traceurs around the world the highest quality, and most desirable Parkour clothing ever created. With that in mind we want your feedback! If there is a new color scheme you want for the Original Parkour Tee,or any other shirt for that matter, let us know via our social sites and we’ll do out best to bring it to you! Until then, we hope you take advantage of our already huge selection of shirts. With yellow as the newest shirt to our line, the 9 options available of the Original Parkour design is plenty to give you the options to wear “Parkour” with just about any outfit.

Take Flight partner Urban Vanguard has recently undertaken an initiative to bring Parkour parks to New York City. Working in accordance with the New York based non-profit Open Road NY, Urban Vanguard is deciding on locations and raising funds for the undertaking. They have already held a BBQ fundraiser, and in accordance with Take Flight and other organizations UV is planning other fundraisers at well.

Below is a video released by Urban Vanguard featuring Sha Mualimm-Ak speaking about the Parkour parks undertaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBEFLucLN4E

We at Take Flight couldn’t be more excited for this endeavor and what it means for Parkour in the U.S. and around the world. If you would like to be a part of this initiative you can find our more at UrbanVanugard.com and at the Urban Vanguard Facebook page. You can also donate direction to the cause at the following link.

http://www.urbanvanguard.com/page/initiatives-for-the-community