A series exploring unique fitness classes by someone who hates fitness classes. You can thank YouTube for bringing Parkour to the people. You know the videos: nimble-footed dudes scale city walls, ...

Wisconsin has the nation’s highest reported death rate from falls among older adults. But many falls can be prevented through balance drills and classes — from ballroom dancing to parkour — that ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. -- The spirited sport known as parkour that treats the world as one big obstacle course is gaining traction outside of the urban enthusiasts whose YouTube-worthy acrobatics spread its ...

The Skyladder parkour course at Tianmen Mountain in China is a dizzying maze of obstacles and long drops — and it was all caught on camera. Calen Chan is a freerunner, parkour athlete, and founder of ...

In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 photo, Michael Chung, of Brookline, Mass., leaps over a balance beam while running an obstacle course during a Parkour training class in Brookline. Parkour, developed ...

In 2009, Westword writer Joel Warner told the story of Colorado parkour pioneer Ryan Ford, who had recently opened the world’s largest parkour gym, APEX Movement. Since then, the sport — described on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you’re my age and you’ve even heard of “parkour,” it’s probably because of that scene in the 2006 remake of “Casino Royale,” when James Bond chases a ...

They’re into video games, role-playing, comics and superheroes. And they may be some of the most athletic kids around. They’re known as “traceurs,” practitioners of a relatively new activity called ...