Parkour co-founder Chau Belle trains in a park in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Belle was one of nine co-founders of the street sport born in the suburbs of Paris in the 1990s. Parkour is involved ...

Wearing blue sweatpants and a maroon T-shirt, Kelty Tobin runs across the carpeted section of APEX Movement Loveland. He transitions to a cartwheel and, after landing, leaps toward a padded section of ...

THE MIND AS IT IS ON THE BODY. FREE RUNNING OR PARKOUR, AS IT’S MORE COMMONLY KNOWN, IS ALL ABOUT GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B AS CREATIVELY AS POSSIBLE. AND HERE AT KENTUCKIANA, PARKOUR IN ...

The world gymnastics federation FIG wants to add the growing parkour discipline to its remit, in time for Olympic inclusion in 2024. Yet parkour groups are fighting the bid tooth and nail, saying ...

PETOSKEY — A new gym is offering kids ages 3-15 the opportunity to learn coordination, build muscle and get out of their comfort zones through parkour, gymnastics and obstacle courses. Cowabunga Ninja ...

Parkour, an exercise regimen based on military obstacle course training, has arrived in Brooklyn. And it probably comes as no shock that the first gym to offer it is in Bushwick. Today the Brooklyn ...

Ever wondered if there were a new sport you could pursue that — unlike skiing, paddling, cycling or climbing — required no new expensive gear and no certain location? What if you could just walk ...

Since its beginnings in the 1980s in France, parkour has been sporty – but not exactly Olympic sporty. Parkour and its cousin freerunning involve scaling urban obstacles and using the city as a ...

Gymnastics chiefs have been accused of 'stealing' parkour after voting to include it under its umbrella of sports. Parkour is typically a street sport which involves running, jumping and climbing over ...

As she grew up, Silke Sollfrank competed at a high level as a gymnast. There was one problem – she never liked “the competition” of the sport. Everything changed for her when she was introduced to ...