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Parkour Wall Run and Cat Leap: Train Like a Ninja with Young Flip

June 15, 2012 by Mike Fitch 7 Comments

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This week’s video tutorial is a double feature, covering two Parkour essentials: the Wall Run and the Cat Leap. And we’re super excited to have Professional Parkour athlete and American Ninja Warrior David “Young Flip” Rodriguez teach us how to master them. Both of these movements are not only great exercises, but are also two […]

Filed Under: Exercise Tutorial, Features, Instructional, Parkour Tagged With: cat leap, Flip Rodriguez, parkour, wall run

“Spider” from MTV’s Teen Wolf: On Animal Movements and Becoming the Werewolf

August 16, 2011 by Mike Fitch Leave a Comment

This week I had the great opportunity to interview Albert “Spider” Valladares, a 25-year old Miami native who is a real inspiration to those of us interested in parkour, free running, and bodyweight sports. He’s currently starring in the role as the werewolf on MTV’s hit new show Teen Wolf. His background is impressive – […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: animal movements, parkour, spider, valladares

Learning the Parkour Kong Vault

April 28, 2011 by Mike Fitch 7 Comments

The Kong Vault is a great Parkour move, and we’re lucky enough to have David “Young Flip” Rodriguez from G4’s Jump City show us exactly how to execute this maneuver. In our featured video Flip takes us through a step by step progression on learning the Kong Vault. He is a professional freerunner, member of […]

Filed Under: Articles, Exercise Tutorial, Features, Instructional, Uncategorized Tagged With: Flip Rodriguez, Kong Vault, parkour

Bodyweight Brainstorm Workout in NYC

March 6, 2011 by Mike Fitch 7 Comments

Mike Fitch and Becky Evans, New York

[singlepic id=5 float=center] While in NYC this past week, I had the pleasure of meeting up with New York’s very own Al Kavadlo (fitness guru/bodyweight enthusiast) and Rebecca Evens (Budokon instructor). It was an excellent opportunity to take three different backgrounds and styles of bodyweight training and bring them together for one intense workout! If […]

Filed Under: Alternative Exercise, Articles, Bodyweight Exercises, Features Tagged With: Al Kavadlo, animal, muscle up, NYC, parkour, workout

Advanced Bodyweight Workout Challenge – Week 4 Entries

February 14, 2011 by Mike Fitch 5 Comments

KEVIN GRETO sent in our favorite entry this week. He integrates some parkaour and hand balancing techniques into his workout. And, the only tool he uses are a pair of parallettes, which if you don’t have a pair of your own, you can click on the parallettes tab to learn how to make them. I […]

Filed Under: Challenges, Parallettes Tagged With: challenge, greto, hand balance, parallettes, parkour

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