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It's finally happened! In early 2010 Parkour became a nationally recognised sport

Working with Parkour UK - the national governing body of the sport - and Sport England, Highline Extreme have developed the world’s first commercial quality, purpose built training course!

Parkour, or 'Freerunning' is one of the fastest growing sports around!

Parkour has been developed during the last decade by a group of dedicated athletes and has received massive media attention through films such as the James Bond film ‘Casino Royal,’ the French action film ‘District 17’ and ‘Jump London’ (a documentary on the sport itself)

The first name for the discipline, born in France in the 1980s, was Art du Deplacement; best translated in English as the Art of Movement. Over time other names were used to describe it, including Parkour - derived from the French parcours, meaning 'route' or 'course' - and later Freerunning. However, the name has never been as important as the methods and spirit of practise which remain at its core today. For the sake of convenience, these pages will refer to the discipline as Parkour.

Parkour focuses on developing the fundamental attributes required for movement, which include balance, strength, dynamism, endurance, precision, spatial awareness and creative vision. It is a way of training one's body and mind in order to be as completely functional, effective and liberated as possible in the physical realm, and a way of thinking based on rigorous self-discipline, autonomous action and self-will.

Beyond this simple explanation, however, parkour is a discipline of self-improvement on all levels, an art that reveals to the practitioner his or her own physical and mental limits and simultaneously offers a method to surpass them.

A practitioner of parkour aims to be self-reliant and physically capable; fit, strong and healthy; honest and sincere; disciplined; focused; creative and always useful and helpful to others.

The Parkour UK team alongside the country's first Parkour / Freerunning qualified coaches on the new Highline Parkour course at Moberly Sports & Education Centre, Westminster in January 2010. Leading the course were Parkour UK's Coach Educators Stephane Vigroux, Francois 'Forrest' Mahop, Dan Edwardes and Johann Vigroux.

One of the candidates on the course was one of the founders of Parkour / Freerunning and star of James Bond film 'Casino Royale', Sebastien Foucan who successfully completed his coaching qualification.