For those of you who are unfamiliar with parkour, the term for a parkour practitioner is a traceur. Another term which isn't used as much but was mainly an English translation is a free runner.
For more detailed info on parkour, it's philosophy and mainly other aspects of this art of movement, you can check out the two links on the sidebar of my main page. Urban Freeflow is out of the UK and is a huge movement and they have progressed quite quickly for they are sponsored by Adidas Nokia and are working on several projects including advertisements which we'll hopefully see soon on American TV. Parkour.net surrounds more of David Belle the Founder of parkour. It includes some videos for download as well as information and forums.
Wikipedia - Parkour has some good info and some references, it'll mainly get the real idea behind parkour across pretty well and has some pics.
But the good stuff, videos can easily be found on video.google.com - here are a couple keywords to search: David Belle, Parkour, Yamakasi. David has a bunch of good videos on there and that's the best way to see the top level parkour to understand where new traceurs are reaching for. Some othertime I'll link some more specific vids that I like but for now just browse around and let me know what you think.
-Joe
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hello,
My Name is Zachary Maller and I am from Stamford, CT.
I was wondering if this is the Stamford in CT.
I do Parkour here in Stamford Along with a bunch of other people and we are starting a community here.
here is the Stamford Parkour Site:
http://stamfordparkour.ning.com/
I hope this is from CT cause that would be awesome
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