Parkour for Beginners | In Depth Step-by-Step Guide

My Parkour Beginner Course:

For my Beginner Course I completely re-imagined how I would learn Parkour, if I was to start over again today. What would I learn first and why? What mistakes could I have avoided? What's this even about in the first place? :) Hope this video helps answer some of your questions!

MUSIC

00:00 - Intro
01:19 - Why learn Parkour?
02:30 - is Parkour for you?
03:01 - my teaching style
04:40 - the problem with learning Parkour
05:20 - the fix
07:38 - what shoes do I need?
07:57 - what spots you need and where to find them
08:58 - what does a Parkour session look like?
11:14 - BALANCE
13:00 - LANDING ON FLAT
14:33 - PRECISION LANDINGS
15:50 - important detail about the journey ahead
16:58 - HANG & CLIMB - Part 1
20:15 - HANG & CLIMB Part 2
23:20 - Armjump - Common Mistakes
24:35 - ROLLS
26:54 - Combos
29:08 - VAULTS - Part 1
31:28 - VAULTS - Part 2
33:42 - UNDERBARS & SWINGS
36:46 - WALLRUNS
40:05 - what's next?

[flaxgamer]

I'm learning parkour and your videos give me so much information I'm from Pakistan in Pakistan parkour is not that famous here everyone plays cricket but i love parkour the reason is simple beacause it's fun and challenging you can train your whole body in any way you want love you Jason paul stay strong stay safe ❤

[AndrewKaminskyiParkour]

"Super extra beautiful" - the frase of the day😆
Such an incredible work

[abbalos]

I started parkour at 32 because of your videos. Always been a fan but I didn't know it was possible for me to actually learn it at my tender age 😂

[zaccampa]

I used to practice parkour almost ten years ago. It was a lot of fun and I have been missing it. I’m here for a refresher course lol plus I just found out my three year old niece loves Spider-Man and I want to surprise her for her birthday next year.

[Legendarylynx]

1:16 As soon as I read the warning message the video instantly earned a like from me. That was so funny!

[SpiritualityofScience]

You inspired me so much I got a job at a local parkour/ninja gym and I did my first class last night! I'm so proud of myself ❤. Thank you so much. I'm also still watching your videos and learning from them. You're amazing and your service is deeply appreciated.

I have EDS and was never able to be successful at physicality growing up. I've spent many years strengthening my muscles and now I am strong enough to do some stuff successfully! I'm 34 and overcoming disability with parkour. You're more inspiring than you know ❤

[TripleD]

Having my 50th birthday this year. Today i went for my first parkour session. Small controlled stuff (obviously) but had lots of fun.

[anattasunnata]

You are a gift to humanity, man.
You are doing such an amazing job for the PK community. I think many of us would've been so grateful for a video like this when we started.

Thanks for everything, Jason!
(Also, it's really cool seeing you posting content again)

Greetings from Chile!

[itzskye]

This is the most entertaining parkour video I’ve watched, it’s like your TALKING to the audience

[blaqoD]

Lot of things to say about this video. As a coach I'm so happy to see good content from experienced practitioners that can actually think at and for beginners level.
I consider very important to coach to beginners qpm, landings, climbing, descending, rolling, balance, and vaulting in this particular order (with different levels of each category intertwined throughout sessions - good qpm session will turn into usable strength and prep for roll, vault and landing, a thorough landing and climbing will help for vaulting and connections for roll etc). As you said, many roads lead to many Romes, and there are different styles of coaching and learning your own path (which I found beautiful in parkour in the first place).
The jump in, which some call Arm-leap, as a part of the arm jump or classical cat leap, is something that I coach before diving into cat leap. But I have to admit that this seems to be like accessory techs that some simply find it inherently integrated as a part of a move or variations and, to me at least, it seems like they think it's going to get to a student anyway. Myself included here, because I never thought about the pencil roll, barely recommended it but still used it as progression the hip roll - due to the risk of them using it to disperse a big impact and injuring hips, wrists and coccyx.
Bottom line it comes down to how you see the path, and as a coach, on how you choose to guide the student to finding his path. As long as the basics are covered and the body is physically prepared, from this point it's literally exploration.
Great content ❤ and I hope it reaches more soon to be parkour beginners. I'm definetely sharing this with my students so they'll see there are other ways and styles.

[lincekawaiilindi]

I always wanted to learn parkour, just because of the feel of the flow and the mobility. This really helped on how to start!

[cicikus]

It's crazy that this is in our blood. Seriously, leave a little boy alone, and he will come up with some parkour moves, as long as his kid body allows. Love the content! Really pulls one into parkour.

[maxwellmegagamer]

how in the hell does this only have 35k views, this seems like the type of vid that would get like 1.5 million

[Stillmano-da-great]

Watched this when it came out, inspired me to start trying parkour. I started training consistently. A week ago I landed my first double backflip on a trampoline, I can consistently hit gap sideflips and backflips and some j steps. Its been so much fun going out with my freinds and challenging eachother into little challenges. Vids on my channel, but thank you so much for helping me out

[MARADOOOO_I]

GRACIAS JASON POR ESTE EXCELENTE VIDEO.
GRANDE CAPO .
💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

[sagar.jhajjari]

It's almost 12 years, i got to know about you man, I watched red bull art of motion Santorini, followed you till my teenage and you vanished for a time, good to see you again uploading❤❤

[Scarcore]

17:20 climbing is awesome. I am not only a park purist but a climber as well. It helps lots with upper body strength and power used for dino’s and stuff. Plus it’s a fun thing to invite some friends too

[arthxrdev]

Hi Jason, I just wanted to say thank you so much for making this video, and lots of other videos. I am 13 years old and really unfit. These have inspired me to finally push myself when it comes to parkour instead of procrastinating. I have always tried of parkour but failed. I believe that this is my opportunity. Thank you man. :)

[Shuriiiiken]

You are my most favourite free runner in the world your tutorials are 10/10 you explain every possible thing someone would need to know and I love your style and the way you do parkour you are a massive inspiration and I thank you for giving your time to help beginners out

[DogLover_NoahFinnceFan]

This is by far the best video on youtube, we need people like you man.😃