Top 5 Girl Parkour Videos
If you only have 15 minutes to live, these are the 5 girl parkour videos you should watch. It is by no means complete and there are many women out there who are and will exceed this level. These videos were chosen because of the impact it made on the parkour/freerunning online community.
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Worldwide Traceuse Project 2009 - Girls Training Parkour All Over the World
A video project involving worldwide collaboration, this compilation opened eyes to the current level of girl parkour. With strength, agility and flow, the ladies show us their skills. This video features traceuses Alexjandra, Carolin, Kat, Kirsty, Ixek, Isis, Hollie, Lisa, Liv, Mari, Maria, Michi, Tamara, Silex, Lari, Jenita, Jackie and Nan.
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Kat 2008 video
Kat flies the flag for the Mexican and Spanish-speaking parkour community. While her fluid and strong moves might be enough to make you look twice, her advanced moves with a high degree of risk caught people's attention as to just how good this girl is.
Liv Rowlands: 3rd year training video
Several years ago, this became the first female video to show the possibilities for women's parkour. This video literally takes you by the neck and shakes you like a rag doll while you scream for mercy. Liv's take-no-prisoners explosive moves gets respect from men and women alike for the strength and (female) balls shown.
Parkour Generations: Go Girls!
The first professionally produced entirely female parkour video, received and still receives mixed reactions. The supporters talked about the "true" spirit of parkour, fluidity of form and gave a thumbs up for female participation in the community. On the flipside, it was criticized for the basic level of movements, often superfluous use of technique and for giving a poor representation of the level of girl parkour.
Parkour Generations Women's Classes
Ann Kaczka Documentary: First Year Training Parkour
Ann's first lesson in parkour was both a dream and a nightmare. Meeting and learning from David Belle but being the only struggling beginner there amongst fit young men performing in front of a crowd, is like that horrible nightmare of appearing naked to give a speech. An open and well edited documentary, Ann shares her feelings about being a woman starting and training in a male-dominated field.
Ann's article, "Girls and Parkour"
Building Strength and Technique
A selection of parkour conditioning and technique videos for women
Having "girly arms" are no excuse for unlocking your full potential and here are some video links to help you become stronger! Conditioning has a whole pile of benefits including being able to jump higher, run further and last longer. And most importantly, parkour (freerunning and ADD) exerts a lot of force and impact on your body and joints so having strong and limber muscles will help you prevent injury. If you're into doing parkour in the long-run, conditioning and building your technique slowly will help you and the videos are divided into 2 different levels. Please remember that nothing beats going out there and getting active, or finding your local gym, parkour or sports club to learn the exercises first-hand. With these videos we hope that you will find them helpful and well, fun! Enjoy!
Starting out/ Beginner
Conditioning:
Amanda Kimbro (Hawaii Parkour)
A beginner traceuse conditioning video for drills that can be done anywhere with exercises that focus on muscle groups specifically for parkour and a full body workout.
Carissa V, Leigh Valley Parkour
Carissa demonstrates a day of technique and training that will help girls starting training.
Kirsty Hibbert Outdoor Parkour Conditioning
Jump ons, jump overs, hand shimmies basic exercises, then moving into more advanced techniques like hand stands and climb up practise.
American Parkour youtube channel
American Parkour has a playlist of Parkour techniques that helps explain basic techniques including 2 handed vaults, monkey vaults, wall runs and cat balances.
Intermmediate & upwards
Warning: The exercises at this level have more risks than at a starting level. Parkour can be a dangerous activity. There are inherent risks in any physical activity, and Parkour is no exception. Please exercise caution and to have a realistic assessment of your skill levels before trying more advanced exercises. Involvement in dangerous sports and related activities carries a significant risk of damage to property, personal injury or death. Participate at your own risk!
Conditioning
Kirsty Hibbert Upper Body Conditioning
If you're looking to increase your upper body strength and work a range of different muscles in your shoulders and arms, try this video. Kirsty also has a push-up variations video.
Kat Monos Urbanos Video Tutorial
In Spanish, Kat gives several examples of combining techniques to make movement continuous.
Regularly updated, this channel by Ryan Ford of Colorado Parkour has lots of technique, drills and conditioning ideas that you can do anywhere.
Parkour Generations youtube channel
If you need a challenge, check out PkGen's "Behind the Jump" video tutorial series with a variety of ideas on training and conditioning