Caleb Pocock can do things normally reserved for cartoons and fictional characters. He can scale 10-foot walls with just his hands and feet, hop between ledges 7 feet apart and vault over just about ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At most schools, climbing on lockers, jumping from balconies and scaling walls while balancing on railings will get land you in detention. Not at Boulder’s ...
Back flipping off 5-foot walls into a smooth somersault requires both confidence and intense training for traceurs, or practitioners of a sport called parkour. “I don’t like to put a boundary on what ...
The members of the Michigan Parkour club could give Catwoman a run for her money. Three nights a week, a group of students gathers in front of the Dental School to practice Parkour – an old French ...
Each week reporter Jeff Darge searches campus for a new club to join. The shortest route between two points is a straight line, but backflipping from one point to another is a lot more fun. I had the ...
A group of eight to 10 students congregates in front of the School of Dentistry’s Kellogg Building on a bright Tuesday afternoon. Some of the guys (though a lone female will join them later in the day ...
They run, they jump, they climb, they perform. The University of Massachusetts parkour club competed in Parkour Day Saturday, the first in what the team hopes will be an annual event to showcase the ...
Monday nights, in the corners of campus, the Virginia Tech parkour club teaches members to navigate terrain like Spider-Man. Parkour, or free running as some call it, is a hobby enjoyed worldwide. It ...
“It’s kind of a good hub.” The brothers' club in Christiansburg will provide wooden vault boxes, tumbling floors, bars and other equipment designed to provide training for parkour. Elijah Bowen said ...