How To Parkour

The new craze is like parkour, plus alcohol and minus all of that silly training. So could the craze, um, jump Stateside? After all, New York City is rife with fire escapes and balconies, hovering above the dangerous concrete below.

In January of 2009, Electronic Arts brought style and action together in what to this day is arguably the best parkour gaming experience: Mirror's Edge. Despite positive critical reception, the game didn't reach blockbuster sales numbers and so while

His secret is the French discipline parkour, which involves vaulting over, climbing on and swinging around objects often found in an urban landscape. Thomas, 20, who used to wrestle and play football, studies computer programming at Lincoln Land

It even brings in-vogue parkour-style free-running into the FPS genre, offering a wholly new way to run-and-gun. However, it seems that good ideas – much like good intensions – often pave the road to gaming hell. Like a lot of recent upcoming games,

Parkour involves running, jumping, vaulting and flipping over obstacles. That could be roofs, rails, stairs, ledges and anything else you might literally run into or climb over. Jason Simpson, who runs Goose Creek Gymnastics with his