Major community websites
| The London based parkourgenerations website is active since 2006. With roots in the old French parkour scene and a huge international connection, it provides all sorts of resources about the practice: articles, blogs, calendar, forum, training exercises… | |
| The American Parkour website started in 2006 and grew in parallel with the development of parkour in the USA. Today a huge community website, it features many tools (calendar, spot map…) and training articles for the practitioners, particularly about fitness and physical preparation. The website could benefit from a technical update though… | |
| The website of this large Canadian community has some articles and a few tutorials but most of all a huge forum: thousands of posts, including an interesting Health and Wellness section and several regional sections. Since 2004! | |
| Parkour.com started in February 2011 with at least an excellent domain name! It focuses mainly on freerunning and provides a wide range of fresh international news. They also have a promising Learn Parkour section. Sébastien Foucan is officially the owner of parkour.com | |
| Parkour-spot.com is born in France in 2009. There you can find a lot of spots around the world and a forum in English and French. A great place to start if you want to visit France. I am active on the parkour-spot forum. |
Parkour training
| Monkeyspirit.org is today the biggest website entirely dedicated to parkour training. Started in 2008 by yours truly, it gathers the knowledge of several years of experience and research. The content is presented with a modern easy-to-navigate design and the users can ask questions through a FAQ. | |
| The Australian Parkour association maintains a parkour wiki dealing with technique, terminology and parkour related articles. |
Bloggers
![]() | Chris “Blane” Rowat is a member of the parkourgeneration team. He is famous for his dilution post about new traceurs who try to imitate the older practitioners without the proper dedicated training. |
| Daniel Ilabaca is among the most skilled traceurs / freerunners worldwide. His video blog always features great and inspiring videos. |
Institutions
| The French ParKour Inter-Asso regroups several French parkour associations. Its purpose is to promote parkour and help other associations to develop. | |
| Parkour UK or PKUK is a National Governing Body for parkour in Great Britain: “Parkour UK aims to support and develop parkour/freerunning in the UK, and to make the benefits of the sport accessible to any and all who want to learn. Parkour UK will always strive to maintain and improve the spirit of the discipline.” |
Hall of Fame
| The history of Parkour.NET starts in 2001. Around 2006 it is the biggest international forum about parkour. However it is forced to close in 2008 after a controversial dispute with the Belle family. Read-only until 2011, the forum offered a huge amount of training advices, thoughts and historical debates about Parkour. In November 2011 the domain name was sold to a company unrelated to the parkour community. | |
| In November 2011 David Belle, recognized as the main founder of Parkour, finally released his website. The website has little interest in itself but you may want to follow the Youtube channel or theTwitter channel. | |
| Erwan Le Corre is an international authority on the Méthode Naturelle. The Méthode Naturelle is a training method at the origin of Parkour and also a statement against mainstream sport specialization. |
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