How to do Freerunning Moves

Hello, I am here again to talk about parkour and freerunning. In my last topic I talked about how to do a few parkour moves. I just realized I didn't cover any freerunning moves, so this post will be on how to do a few different freerunning moves.
The first one I am going to cover is the front flip. Like I mentioned in a previous blog, there are many different types of front flips. I will cover the basic front flip along with a slightly more complicated webster front flip. To do a regular front flip, whether it is off an object, or simply just on a trampoline, you need to flip at the top of your height/ jump. By that I mean you don't try to flip right when your feet hit the ground and goes as fast as you possible can. You need to start to flip right before you feel you are going to fall down. For the flipping itself you just throw your arms at the ground and grab your knees. It should look like a cannonball position. Then when you feel your flip ending you release and land. You will get a feel for it eventually. A picture of a man doing a front flip is below.



The next front flip I am going to cover is a webster. A webster is a flip like I also mentioned in an earlier blog, is meant for going from a higher object to a lower object. It is really hard to do a webster on a trampoline. I have a clip of me doing a webster in a previous blog. You can find that here.
To do one you don't jump up that much. Once you get up on the object you just grab on of your legs and the momentum will flip you. Then you land either in a roll or one foot after another so you can keep running. A picture of a kid about to do a webster is pictured below.
The final move I will cover is the wall spin. I have shown me doing a wall spin before in previous blogs.
When you start off doing wall spins I would suggest that you start running at the wall at an angle instead of just running straight at it. Once you get up close to it you jump and out your arms out on the wall. Then you scissor them away from each other. By that I mean you pull them in opposite direction to get the rotation needed. Then, you land it on two feet.
Those are all the moves I am going to talk about in this post. If you want to learn how to do other vaults and moves just go to the link below.
http://www.americanparkour.com/content/category/4/60/377/
There they have a whole bunch of tutorials letter you learn every moves out there. Also If you ever want to know the definition for some of the things I am saying here you can go to the link below.
http://www.americanparkour.com/content/section/11/215/. Here it can explain some of the terms for parkour and freerunning.Well as always thank you for reading and see you later.

Parkour and Freerunning Moves

Hello, I am here again to talk about parkour and freerunning. In my first post I explained what parkour and freerunning are. If you want to read that you can read it here.
My second post was on the history of parkour and freerunning and you can read that here.
This post will be on some of the parkour and freerunning moves. One of the most basic parkour moves is the kong vault. The kong vault is one way to get over an obstacle. A video of me doing a kong is below.
A basic freerunning move would be a front flip. There are different kinds of front flips. One type of front flip is called a webster. The webster is intended for flipping from a higher object to a lower object. A video of me doing a webster is below.


Another freerunning move is the wall spin. The wall spin is a type of wall trick where you spin along the wall horizontally. A video of me doing a wall spin is below. In a previous post I have a picture of me doing this same move if it looks familiar.

Of course there are hundreds of other moves, that I don't have video of. So, I will tell you about a few of them. One of my favorite parkour vaults is the dash vault. The dash vault is where you jump and make you legs go first over the object then propel yourself off of it with your hands. It looks like you are going to sit on it, but then you propel yourself off. Another cool vault is the 360 vault... Where I bet you can guess what you do. You jump and put your hands on the object, spin 360 degrees, and land. Pretty simple, but it is a fun vault to do.

One of the coolest and most known freerunning moves is the wall flip. In a wall flip you run up the wall and do a flip. It sounds simple but, I have a history with wall flips. I learned how to do them 2 years ago right when I started learning. Then, a few weeks later I forgot how to do them. Also, after I heard what happened to one of the kids to my gym I wasn't too keen on doing them. He broke his leg in 2 (or 3 I can't remember) places and had to be on a wheel chair for 6 weeks.

Okay guys, that is all of the moves I am going to talk about in this blog. I might talk about more moves in my next blog. I am going to the gym tomorrow so I will try to get some more footage for you. Also sorry I forgot to mute the audio on the videos, I will remember next time. If you have any other questions or comments then just leave a comment. Thank you for reading and I will see you later.