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Daniel Ilabaca was the winner of the inaugural Ultimate Parkour Challenge, winning the $10,000 prize. The European Parkour Tour 2010 (2010) Daniel Ilabaca traveled across 4,000 miles to eight major cities to meet some of Europe's best free runners.
Choose Not To Fall is a 2010 short film directed by Matthew Marsh, shot by Davidé Hazeldine III, with music from Stephen Schlaägter produced by Mummu. [1] The film discusses the practice of parkour, featuring parkour practitioner Daniel Ilabaca.
The athletes, Daniel Ilabaca, Ryan Doyle, Tim Shieff, Oleg Vorslav, Victor Lopez, Gabriel Nunez, Paul Darnell and Richard King, and the company principals, Victor Bevine, David Thompson and production partner Francis Lyons came together with the stated purpose of bringing the sport of Parkour to mainstream American audiences through television ...
Daniel Ilabaca: 22 Liverpool, England, UK Freerunner *1st Place in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Raced against a Ferrari on German TV and won, *Appeared in numerous commercials for Toyota, Mercedes, & KSwiss, *One of the most watched freerunners, over 30 million YouTube views to his credit Ben Jenkin: 19 Blackburn, England, UK Freerunner
Red Bull Art of Motion is a parkour and freerunning competition, established in 2007 and created by Red Bull.It is an international competition with qualifiers being held in various regional competitions around the world throughout the year.
Jump London is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television. It later spawned a sequel, Jump Britain that first aired in January 2005. Both feature documentaries were directed by Mike Christie.
The word parkour derives from parcours du combattant (Obstacle course), the classic obstacle course method of military training proposed by Georges Hébert. [23] [24] [25] Raymond Belle used the term "les parcours" to encompass all of his training including climbing, jumping, running, balancing, and the other methods he undertook in his personal athletic advancement. [26]
Freerunning is an athletic and acrobatic discipline incorporating an aesthetic element, and can be considered either a sport or a performance art, or both. Freerunning is similar to parkour, from which it is derived, but emphasizes artistry over efficiency and speed.