Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 8 min

Walking on all fours supports our strength, coordination, and ability to move. Especially useful for vaulting, climbing, falling, and going under obstacles, QM is the foundation of parkour. This class covers all the basic types of QM: forward and back, side monkey, the scramble/gallop, ground kongs, and applications. Go explore!

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 9 min

Ukemi, or falling practice, is a martial arts term we’ve adopted in the parkour community. We fail a LOT in parkour. But falling can be fun and safe! This video covers the basics of bounce backs, breakfalls, rotating falls, and scrambles.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 13 min

Also called the safety vault, the step vault is the most versatile vault in parkour. Starting from the ground up, you’ll learn detailed drills to perfect your step vault technique, how to overcome a variety of obstacles, and many other fun and useful variations and applications.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 7 min

Chest vaults and gate vaults are essential, low-impact vaults for all parkour athletes. These vaults have surprising applications, such as descending or carrying a backpack, or learning fall safety and creativity.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 11 min

Build your pushing strength for parkour. Pushing is integrated into many techniques: vaulting, climbing, mounting obstacles, and falling. This video covers the parkour push up, all essential push up progressions, progressions and drills for wall dips, and injury prevention.

Coach: Haley Richardson
Length: 2 min

Learn the basics of the forward parkour roll. Rolling properly will lighten the impact of a fall or landing during your run, decreasing or eliminating your chances of getting hurt. You can also use them to add flow to any line.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 16 min

Rolls are crucial to parkour training. They reduce impact when landing and falling, and can be used to traverse distance or navigate obstacles. But rolling on hard surfaces can hurt if you do it wrong. In this video, Brandee will help you perfect your technique for forward, backward, and side rolls.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 9 min

In this video, Brandee dives deep into lazy vault technique. You'll learn drills and progressions for fluid, confident vaulting in any situation. This lesson also covers the outside lazy or thief vault, vaulting at different heights, and how to lazy vault down from an obstacle.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 12 min

Learn the reverse vault for moving over, up, down, and across obstacles. The reverse vault has a unique twisting, turning movement that's also useful for falling safety. This video will teach you fundamental techniques, multiple different progressions, focus shifting, and basic applications.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 12 min

Rail balance is the ultimate way to practice focus. With dedication, you will learn incredible control, which will benefit all of your other movement techniques. This class covers mounting and dismounting the rail, basic rail balance positions, rail walking, basic balance challenges, and quadrupedal rail balance.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 8 min

Underbars are fun and useful in helping you get through small spaces. This video will teach you drills and progressions for learning and improving your forward and reverse underbar technique (also known as 360 underbars). You can use tree branches, ledges, bars, or anything you can hang and swing on.

Coach: Brandee Laird
Length: 5 min

What happens when your foot slips out? Learn how to fall safely on the ground and get back up as quickly as possible. This technique requires basic understanding of a single leg squat and the step vault or sit through movements. With practice, you will learn to trust your body in more dynamic, improvised situations.