As expected, ALL age groups fully exceeded expectations across the FreeStyle and Speed Events in the Regional Qualifiers. All age groups are stacked and it is impossible to say who is going to be at the top in the USA Parkour Championship.

Fernando Arce and Joey Adrian on hand to host, Tampa, FL is about to play host to the TOP Parkour FreeRunning athletes in the United States.

This year’s Parkour Championship event will once again feature the Parkour Alive After 5 and Best Skills fan favourite rounds.
We are expecting to see some insane high level tricks as the competitors battle it out to reach the final rounds.

The course provided by Integrated Obstacles will feature a number of changes throughout the weekend as the events progress catering for bigger leaps, larger drops and higher level skill requirements.

The 2020 USA Parkour Cup is sanctioned by the rules from the International Parkour Federation and sponsored by Pure Kick Energy.
Combining the United States’ best competitive Parkour athletes with an evolving course is going to provide an explosive event.

Needless to say, 2020 Parkour calendar is starting out with a bang.

Schedule and details can be found here: https://wfpf.com/usa-parkour-cup-2020/

The definitions of Parkour and Free Running have been debated amongst the community since the earliest beginnings of the movement. Naturally this has also led to debates surrounding the way in which “Parkour competitions” should be judged, as the sport’s popularity continues to increase.

However, we could argue that this debate brings huge benefits for the sport, as this fluid definition of Parkour and Free Running presents a great opportunity for its interest to be maintained in the public eye.
Indeed, the flexibility of the definition means that athletes approach the Sport from different angles and often mix their movements with different disciplines such as Break Dancing, Tricking, Capoeira etc…
This has resulted in “Parkour competitions” of various types appearing across the world.

For example, Speed Competitions where competitors have to move from point A to point B in the fastest time possible, overcoming obstacles along the way.

Didi Alaoui at RedBull Art Of Motion

In contrast, other competitions focus more on the ‘freestyle’ aspect of Free Running; judging the difficulty of individual moves put together in a sequence performed within a certain area. – The recent RedBull Art Of Motion is a good example of this.

This variety encourages an abundance of creativity towards Parkour and its competitions, sparking new interest from people who may not have been initially drawn to the sport. This is reflected through the popularity of a new Show recently, where Parkour is mixed with the traditional childhood past time of ‘tag’.
World Chase Tag.
It’ll be interesting as the popularity of Parkour and Free Running continues to grow, how new ways to judge the competition emerge too.