Parkour - Wall Run

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  • Freerunner Flag

    parkour
    this video really helped! thanks.

  • revned Flag

    Parkour
    Great stuff... would like to see more. How to's on warm ups and other vaults (kash, etc.)would be greatly appreciated.

  • shooblah Flag


    this helped me a lot, i'm a complete beginner and i found this quite hard at first, but then it was easy :)

  • crazykid199514sep Flag

    starting off
    hey guys i was hoping that you could help me out he. i am just starting parkour with my friend i was hoping you could send me an email telling me where and how to start i do not know if i should start with rolling..... or what i should do yes so if you could send it too me on ipod_andy@hotmail.com thanks.....

  • madshadow Flag

    Parkour
    Hey guys can you guys email me at bmuckelrath@yahoo.com and tell me how might i practice parkour in a neighborhood full of houses with a bunch of walls like a mile away from the neighborhood and can you tell me how i might train in this neighborihood if possible

  • Stefan Flag

    Hi
    well i'm beginner in this so i don't know how to start with doing parkour it's seems very difficult but i want to learn it.... so can you help me ?? write me please thanks :D

  • ccc Flag

    cool
    well im just starting to learn parkour i would like to know, how u warm out, and i think that some tricks are hard but with some pratice they can be done, i think, some guys dont want to teach other people because they show off too much, and thanks for ur videos.

Mark Toorock
American Parkour Company
www.americanparkour.com  
 

American Parkour is the hub that connects the many parkour communities across America into one; for exchanging ideas and disseminating accurate information about the disciplines of Parkour and Freerunning. It was founded and is run by Mark Toorock with the help of many community leaders throughout the country.

Parkour - Wall Run

This video will show how to do the wall run in parkour.

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Mark Toorock: Hi, I am Mark Toorock from American Parkour. Today, we are showing you Parkour. What we are going to show you now is a Wall Run. Some of the important things in a Wall Run are good traction on the wall and a good confident approach to the wall. Leon is going to show you a little drill you can do before doing a Wall Run just to get the idea of how to get the most traction on the wall. He is just going to run up, pop off the wall using the ball of his foot and land. This is a good start to prepare you for doing the whole wall run where you are going to want as much traction and power as you can to get all the way up over the wall. Leon is now going to do the whole Wall Run.

One of the common things that people do wrong when they start this move is put their foot too high on the wall. If you put your foot too high on the wall you don't get good leverage and you don't get good traction. So you want to put your foot somewhere just above knee height, maybe about mid thigh height to start and you want good contact with the ball of your foot.

Leon is going to show us where that point is. Notice how the ball of his foot rolls up to the wall to get traction as he propels himself up the wall. Next, we are going to show you Cat Leaps in Parkour.

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