Go ahead, yawn Parkour off as the next soccer, nothing more than a sport that’s trendy overseas but will never gain popularity in the U.S. Victor Bevine and David Thompson beg to differ.

Two disciplines, two cities, one challenge. High-risk rooftop jumps as bike riders and parkour athletes push limits across ...

Thirteen young men huddle on the edge of the playground. One takes off, attempts to vault over a bench and tumbles to the ground amid laughter. Another hoists himself to ...

(David Belle, the Frenchman considered the founder of the sport, worked on that film as parkour stunt coordinator.) At its most basic, parkour, which Belle developed in France in the late 1990s, ...

Invented in the 1980s in France, parkour is a sport usually favored by extremely nimble people who move freely through any terrain using their own strength and flexibility, ...

Limitless, a free sports and wellbeing event aimed at teenagers and young adults, will take place at War Memorial Park in ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — For a glimpse at one potential growth area in the action sports arena, look no further than the Westfield Culver City mall on a recent June afternoon, where a handful of young men ...

Having grown up playing sports, Los Angeles native Sara Mudallal began practicing parkour when she was 20. Courtesy Abel Orozco But Mudallal is used to standing out.

Parkour UK, who say the sport was founded in France by a group of nine men in the 1980s, describe it as a physical discipline in which participants "move freely over and through any terrain using ...

Parkour now officially a sport after United Kingdom becomes first country to recognise it. Free-runners all over the country are rejoicing after an application to the Home Country Sports Councils ...