Parkour in America (Part 1)

The final Parkour in America documentary. Completed for my senior honors thesis at Ohio State.

Winner Best Editing for a Short Film, and Nominated Best Director, Best Foreign Film, and Best Screenplay, at the 2009 Palermo International Sport Film Festival.

Official Selection: 2009 Hot Springs Doc Fest
Official Selection: 2009 Temecula Valley International Film Festival
Official Selection: 2009 Ohio Independent Film Festival

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• parkour
• in
• america
• craig
• pentak
• ohio
• state
• generations
• yamikasi

[jlel]

I love this video! Great job! I'm a new traceuse from Malaysia and have been following the Parkour in America documentary. It's really inspiring for a new group here in Malaysia that I'm a part of called Discret Parkour. I will definitely share this with my fellow traceurs and traceuses here. I look up to Parkour Generations A LOT and it's great how they went over to Ohio to help with everything. I would sure hope they would make the time to come to Malaysia some day. Keep training safely!

[BlacksVideos]

Great documentary. Greets from Sweden.

[forterocks123]

I myself am a practitioner in the state of utah, in utah people frown very heavily on the practice due to the misunderstanding of the art, we have no safe place to train we cannot train in public property, parks, let alone at colleges. I received such heavy resistance when trying to organize a club at my college and I find myself dropping out of college so that I may pursue other avenues to help bring parkour up in a proper way.

[SonoftheFather]

You guys ought to come to the University of Kansas in Lawrence Kansas and convince them. I tried and when they replied back, they gave me what everyone else has. All of this "Too many legal ramifications, definite serious injuries, don't want to get sued, etc, etc." Whatever they researched, it wasn't a true portrayal of parkour. Seriously, though, help!

[seenaownz]

hey man nice vid if you can please check out mine by typin in lost in front of you and its the first one i look forward to your feedback

[gsomej]

Finally a documentary that isn't loaded with new wave bullshit. If these people can somehow beat UrbanFreeflow, parkour has a chance. I'd rather support a group of integrity and truth than a group of sellouts to the media.

[SalafeeSpot]

Its so funny Muhammed Howell was my room mate for 6 months last year lol. Now I see him on youtube its great :)

[BayAreaBum]

parkour didnt originate in france it has been around since forever

its called moving people and our ancestors did it and monkeys do it and everything else on this planet

[matthew5551]

@BlacksVideos In that way I agree.

[BlacksVideos]

@matthew5551

As a physical and mental method of training, with values and a philosophy, parkour haven't existed for that long. The Yamakasi guys created it.

[Kwashi2009]

OH hell yeah, I live 15 minutes away lol def gonna see me next week

[matthew5551]

hahah i love how it says parkour was originated. its the word yes. but if u look at it. parkour is a natural thing for humans to do. weve been doing it since we were hunters. weve been doing it in warfare and all though just recently weve began to just redevelope these natural movements again youll find that its more like human rehibilitation than anything else. why else do you think you like doing it so much its only natural and its in all of our dna. it just became a passion to sum ppl