Awesome Parkour

These vegan Terra Plana VIVOBAREFOOT running shoes are useful for another activity – they’re light and flexible which helps with the balance and finesse moves needed for parkour. (Thanks Mark!)

Before anyone out there gets ready to flip out at the amusement park, you should know that the NJ State Fair closed the ride down for the WFPF to film these sick parkour moves. Kids: no, you may not.

It takes a couple of minutes for the action to really kick in, but once it gets going, you’re in for 5 minutes of epic freestyle parkour action shot in and around London. Impatient? Jump to 2:25.

Aung Zaw Oo is an animator for Monday Night Combat. But his day job didn’t prevent him from releasing another showcase of his agility and reflexes, including the best way to put shorts on.

The guys at 3RUN do martial arts, parkour, free running and acrobatic stunts for film, tv and com. They’ll blow your mind with this compilation of some of their incredible moves.

Some might say that Tret, the all-muscle star here, is just an out of control canine, but those with a discerning eye know he’s in training for the pet parkour olympics. Low quality vid; sweet moves.

While we’ve seen our share of cool Parkour stunts over the years, this video reminds us that it’s the extreme sport of insane people, and you should never, ever try it yourself.

Inspired by 19th century French firemen, or pompier, pomparkour adds ladders to the already dangerous pastime. This particular video though is actually a viral ad for an energy drink.

And we thought the building jumping, wall climbing acrobatics of Parkour were a recent phenomenon. Check out this 1930 footage of Arnim Dahl which proves that it’s been around much longer than that.

This flowing video from Latvian talent Andrew Skuryat is 14+ minutes with some NSFW music, but you’ll want to watch it all to see some impressive athleticism, free running and parkour moves.

We can kinda sorta juggle, but Aung Zaw Oo puts us to shame with his AZO Showreel 2009; he parkours, juggles, skateboards, swordplays, and gets dressed — often simultaneously.

Serene Teh’s Parkour Motion Reel is a bit of finger gymnastics in and of itself; it’s a fantastic stop-motion animation drawn with a technical pen that really puts the “flip” in flip book.

Infamous‘ inadvertent twin, Prototype, comes out June 9th; this launch trailer doesn’t reveal anything new, but does a good job of showing off the game’s messy brand of violence.