Britt Hertz takes on intense urban parkour obstacles to see whether gymnastics skills can survive the streets.

Feel like re-enacting a James Bond chase scene? Urban gymnastics or, Parkour as its called, caught mainstream attention a decade ago when Daniel Craig's stuntman performed it in a chase at the ...

Since its beginnings in the 1980s in France, parkour has been sporty – but not exactly Olympic sporty. Parkour and its cousin freerunning involve scaling urban obstacles and using the city as a ...

Parkour co-founder Chau Belle trains in a park in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Belle was one of nine co-founders of the street sport born in the suburbs of Paris in the 1990s. Parkour is involved ...

Mark Toorock, 47, teaches parkour, a kind of urban gymnastics, and is founder of the American Parkour Academy. He lives in Fort Valley in Shenandoah County, Va., but for 10 years lived in his gym, an ...

PARIS (AP) — Their test of skill and courage was as dangerous as it was effective: Having clambered as stylishly as they could to the summit of a jagged, pyramid-shaped climbing wall in the suburbs of ...

In an industrial section of Brooklyn, envoys of the global parkour community shuffled into a loft-like gym space, gave high fives to other hoodie-clad free-runners before sitting to ponder the future ...

Since its beginnings in the 1980s in France, parkour has been sporty – but not exactly Olympic sporty. Parkour and its cousin freerunning involve scaling urban obstacles and using the city as a ...

Since its beginnings in the 1980s in France, parkour has been sporty – but not exactly Olympic sporty. Parkour and its cousin freerunning involve scaling urban obstacles and using the city as a ...