Bay Area Parkour

An open space for traceuses and traceurs training in the San Francisco Bay Area

Previously Featured Videos

Progression Videos
BApk official resources
(featured permanently, rotating)

Pilgrimage - a Parkour Project
A full-length documentary about Lisses - the birthplace of parkour - and about parkour itself. Shown to David Belle for approval before release, by Duncan Germain (aka TK17)
(featured April 29, 2008)

Obstacles and Opportunities
TK17's description of the basics of parkour, taken from the documentary "Pilgrimage".
(featured May 9, 2008)

No Tricks
Parkour isn't about flash but progression and hard work.
(featured May 17, 2008)

Motion analysis from ParkourVienna
300 to 600 frames per second against the 30 of my flip camcorder... look at the details!
(featured August 31, 2008)

Go! - TK17
Considered one of the best (if not THE best) parkour "sampler" on YouTube (in terms of techniques and mentality), it's also pk philosophy, and well, yes... Art.
(featured September 20, 2008)

Parkour homework
Rain should just be another obstacle... but why not going "around it", instead of "in it"?!
(featured October 3, 2008)

Original Traceurs
David (Belle, credited Parkour founder), Sebastien (Foucan, credited Freerunning founder), Stephane (Vigroux, PK Generations founder), and at least Kazuma (but if you spot more people, post it...) all together in this video.
(featured October 12, 2008)

office parkour
Don't do that at work! :)
(featured November 14, 2008)

From Sweden, with "Impedimentum"
(featured November 24, 2008)

Douglas Fairbanks in "Zorro", and
30s Movement
Old timey 1920's/30's videos appropriate to show people that we are not really doing anything new.
(featured December 13, 2008)

Mental Block
Ali, a young freerunner in London, discovers that the hardest obstacles to overcome are the ones in his mind.
(featured 12/28/08-03/06/09)

First Year Training Parkour
How Ann's first day of training parkour with David Belle factored into starting the first ladies' jam in New York.
(featured 1/13/09-03/06/09)

DUSK.....
Just simple movement with some editing....
(featured 01/15/09-03/10/09)

Jo vs The Med Center Wall
NEVER give up!
(featured 02/11/09-03/16/09)

A Day of Few Spoken Words
A day with PKTK (Parkour Tokyo)
(featured 01/31/09-03/26/09)

Yamakazi in "Ensemble" by Apollo J
PK/music video with really positive vibes and emphasis on a caring, helpful community.
(featured 03/05/09-03/29/09)

Trace Elements Hanging Rock
Mountain Goating, or Trail Running on steroids? Anyway, get ready for some nature parkour...
(featured 02/24/09-04/29/09)

David Belle!!!
Old but 'gold' David's interview, substituted by this new one among the featured videos...
(featured 03/29/09-05/07/09)

E.S.T - What Though The Way May Be Long
Art... Motion. Parkour.
(featured 03/10/09-05/18/09)

PKNL - Community 2009
See Youtube for more information ;)
(featured 03/24/09-05/22/09)

Worldwide Traceuse Project 2009
Girls Training Parkour around the World.
(featured 03/15/09-06/18/09)

David Belle interview April 2009
A recent interview.
(featured 05/07/09-07/21/09)

Parkour Gym Class with Ryan
PK gym classes from BApk, since 2007.
(featured 05/18/09-07/21/09)

Naïm - 'Tomber' or not 'tomber'
That is the question!
(featured 04/29/09-09/04/09)

PK-Granny
It's a good thing Granny knows Parkour!
(featured 06/18/09-09/18/09)

Parkour.it: Parkour for the Children
charity event organized by the APKI, PARKOUR.IT, PKGen, MajesticForce, Momu, fiaba and the Province of Rome.
(featured 05/22/09-11/15/09)

Currentely featured videos


Latest Activity

likely to be canceled if it rains weather forecast for Monday
7 hours ago
jodie is attending jodie's event
December 21, 2009 from 6:15pm to 8pm
REMINDER: earlier start time (6:15pm) to have some more daylight *run laps *Quadrupedal crawls, inverted bipedal movement *Stair work *Rail Crawl *Muscle-ish ups *Core work, planks
8 hours ago
lol, it's good to see this again HARDCOUR PARKOUR
9 hours ago
snark added a video
I found this pretty inspirational. PARKOUR. Uh. Before anyone else makes a fuss, it's efficiently, not creatively.
13 hours ago
bubakunush joined Brownie's group
We all know how hard it is to get up to the jams in SF every weekend. How about organizing a couple jams closer to home and repping the South Bay?
16 hours ago
bubakunush is now a member of Bay Area Parkour
17 hours ago
yesterday
Seng added a video
yesterday
December 20, 2009 from 12am to 3:30pm
MEETING POINT: behind Main Quad (map here!) SLIDESHOW Basic/beginners training provided, but ALL LEVELS present and WELCOME! Check here for RIDES. Session description: This training provides a healthy atmosphere for new practitioners to start pa…
yesterday
Great shot!
on Saturday
Starting mid January I'll be back in the game again and would like to join!
on Saturday
Nick Jr. joined Seng's group
discussion for skiers, snowboarders, snoeshoers and others who like the cold, white precipitation
on Saturday
Hell yes. I actually have one day of the weekend off!
on Saturday
Will Turner is attending b2c's event
Obstacle Course Training at Hellen Wills Playground -SF
December 19, 2009 from 12pm to 3pm
Come to this amazing playground and train to run obstacles quickly and efficiently! we will work on the following: 1. Stringing moves together smoothly (flow) 2. Thinking on your toes, adapting quickly to find best route (agility) 3. Hitting poi…
on Saturday
Justin Tang, hillexallen, Shane Worthge and another member are attending Seng's event
December 20, 2009 from 12am to 3:30pm
MEETING POINT: behind Main Quad (map here!) SLIDESHOW Basic/beginners training provided, but ALL LEVELS present and WELCOME! Check here for RIDES. Session description: This training provides a healthy atmosphere for new practitioners to start pa…
on Friday
That looks so fun! out of town too :( for sure next time!
on Friday
on Friday
Seng added a video
Cats are hard to beat, especially when they are CG.
on Friday
Just Steve joined Seng's group
discussion for skiers, snowboarders, snoeshoers and others who like the cold, white precipitation
on Friday
Should we start shooting for one? I should be able to make 1/30-31, not the Friday, though. (Sorry, but for me planning is crucial...)
on Friday

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