How would you like to be hired to travel to Lisse and train under the Yamakasi, Stephane Vigroux, and Seb Goudot? Sounds like a beautiful dream right? Well my fellow Tribe member Ryan Ford (Demon) was given that opportunity a few weeks ago for a documentary on parkour by ESPN. And he wrote the whole thing up very well as a featured story on American Parkour, excerpts below:

In particular, I wrote this paper for the parkour community in the USA, which is young and largely independent from the more advanced traceurs and ideas in Europe. Most people over here have been self-taught and now find themselves in the position to teach others. While we have a lot to teach the new people getting into parkour, there is still much that we have to learn ourselves. It is in our best interest to learn as much as we can from those who have more experience and knowledge.

Demon spent three days of training around Lisse and Evry, learning from many of the members of the Yamakasi as well as some of the best parkour teachers in the world.

One of the most important things to the Yamakasi is that you never give up and always try to push yourself that little bit extra. You should always strive to be better than you were the day before. When you train, push your limits past those set in your mind. Most of the time, the mind will quit long before the body will fail. Laurent repeatedly told me that, “When it starts to become hard is when it has just begun.” This is the most important part of training and it is what will define you in your training and your life.

Read the full story on APK -here-

…lucky bastard ;)

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