Erin Stretch Fingers

Erin goes into vampire mode and flicks a shocker for the first time. Whilst we applaud her effort, we have to point out that the positioning of the fingers would be best suited to a heifer like Julie's mum.

How's About That Then?

At the Swatch studio shoot, Blue donned this dodgy white wig to serve up his best Jimmy Saville impression (minus bouncing a kid on his knee while blowing in his ear).

East End Fatties

During the Honda Dreamscape event we had time out to go swimming in the Thames. Most of the guys decided that bridge jumping was necessary to cool off and they were joined by all the local cockney kids who'd obviously been eating way too many pork pies.

UF Sausage Jockey

No words needed really. Sticky admits to loving sausage and he's not bothered which hole they go in.

New Superhero

Introducing a new Superhero from Finland in the form of Spider Head. Here we see Spidey during the Honda Dreamscape event. The sun was just too much for everyone and the costumes they had to wear, were unbearable. So the shaving of heads became essential. Nobody told Spidey that he looked like a twat though.....we simply let him dig that hole for himself.

Buckwire

Too many handstands have had a detrimental effect on Livewire, who's teeth have grown x 5. All is not lost though as he's just landed a role in the Alice and Wonderland panto in Brighton. He can be seen performing handstands dressed as the March Hare.

Tits Out For The Lads

In Prague doing the shoot for Swatch, Neil showed the guys his feminine side by flashing his tits.
Nobody made a move on him from our team but Timmy the lighting guy, had his wicked way and said that Neil with a wig on definitely passed the test. Poor Neil wasn't able to vault properly for 2 days.

Asimo

The Honda Dreamscape show saw us working with Asimo, the walking and talking humanoid. He had a bit of an attitude problem and kept calling us a bunch of c**ts but after taking him out and getting him drunk, he was ok in the end.

Falling From The Sky

Whilst doing the Honda Dreamscape shows we were blessed with some blazing sunshine. Wasting no time at all were the guys who used a nearby bridge to dive off of into the Thames. Here we see Livewire falling from the sky.

Gay Trek

In Prague for the Swatch commerical shoot. There were so many pranks played on each day and here we see the guys hamming up for the camera in Village people stylee. The stylists provided the most whack clothing for everyone to wear and at best, they looked like extras from the gay version of Star Trek.

Thames Festival

One of the best team experiences to date. In Sept of 08 we were provided with a beast of an obstacle right in front of the London Eye on Jubilee Gardens. Was an absolutely amazing experience and one that none of us will forget in a hurry.

World's Lines Fuck Up

At the World Freerun Championships Kerbie had the task of being MC on stage throughout. Here we see him being pranked by the team with his page being printed in extra small text. It read as "If you have trouble reading this, you are gay".

Newcastle Shocked Into Action

During the last leg of the Sony Ericsson 'Off The Wall' tour, we got to hook up with the safest bunch of guys from NEPK. This pic shows us at the end after having taught them the ways of the shocker. Gotta love manipulative teachings....

Beef Curtains

As part of the Visit London shoot, Asid, Cali, Kerbie and Sticky had to dress up and blitz London in costume. Asid pulled the shortest straw and had to get kitted out as a Tower of London Beefeater. He proved to be very popular with the tourists who were puzzled to see him flipping and spinning all over the place. He was so convincing that he got a bollocking from a real Beefeater. Noob!




Sticky wasn't too far behind in the clown stakes but managed to redeem himself with a well timed shocker.

City Shocker

It still makes us laugh out loud how we've managed to single handedly convince so many people to (unwittingly) adopt the shocker as THE hand sign of Parkour. What started out as a joke has turned into a beast of its own and seen film stars, politicians and a variety of journalists into flicking it to the camera thinking they are 'street' and in touch with youth culture.
Here Ez and Sticky drill a couple more at the Bruce Lee documentary shoot.

Moving With Ruthless Precision

Gotta love rocking fly apparel and then being the centre of some photoshop shizzle. Here we see Cali, sneaking about in London Metropol....

Introducing Cali

After we got rid of the whingers from our team a couple of years back, we promised ourselves to never allow another Frenchman into the team. Then steps up Cali who restored our faith and made us change our minds. Not just naturally gifted as an athlete, but he's got the full package and what is not usually common with our Gaelic step brothers, he has a wicked sense of humour.
Shame about the earrings. Gay.

Pimped

At the end of the Swatch shoot we had a chance to kick back and pimp it up. Back row - Copdom, Pip, Livewire, Bam. Front row - Neil, Ez and Sticky.

PK Day - OG

Only announced 7 days prior, we expected about 10 people to turn up to our first outdoor jam in 4 years. PK Day - OG turned out to be a mammoth one with so many highlights. 100+ people all united by Parkour/Freerun and there to simply train and have fun. Classic old skool vibes.....

ez plays santa and dishes out the freebies. Within seconds 50 x backpacks and over a thousand stickers were snapped up by the hungry pack.










Kerbie and Bam garmed up and representing. Kerbie can be seen sporting a circa 2006 exclusive Seidojin tee (only 7 were ever made) while Bam sports an adidas number.






ez repping a murdered out glyph.










Stoney (complete with black eye after getting a beating from some local priests) and Molotov look on unimpressed with their fellow team members. What used to be a serious team has decended into one of pure filth and a jackass mentality.





But when in doubt, a human glyph usually does the trick to get things back on track.







Neil tries to figure out other uses for the FRPK wristbands.








While Sticky opts for a more vulgar approach but gets merked by the tiny red dot.







New kid on the block (Majora) was told to earn his stripes as part of his initiation and what better way to do it, than shove your fist in your mouth? 100 cool points awarded on the spot.

Sponsored Shocker

Usually when someone gets taken into the sponsored team, the running of events goes like this.....Get invited on board, receive contract and a cheque for £10,000, get sent some glyph merchandise and then receive extensive training in the art of flicking a shocker. With Frazer, he decided to take it upon himself to start flicking shockers before receiving his proper training. As a result, he screwed it up by trying to teach his girlfriend (in the white) a watered down version which has lost him some brownie points with the rest of the team.

Soap Dodger No More

Having got rid of our French soap dodgers a while back, Neil stepped up to fill the void of smelliest team member. However, due to a mishap with a bottle of washing up liquid and a fountain, he was 'cleansed' and no longer smells like a bag of shite.











Ahhhh, look at them having fun.











A landmark day for Neil who not only washed his entire body, but got to wear his dads y-fronts for the first time ever. Gotta love family bonding.

Bumboclaat!!

Having spent a long time locked away editing our Black Ops video offering, Bam decided that he had to get away from the doom and gloom to recharge his batteries. So where did he go? The fucker got on the phone to Maxi Priest, headed off to Jamaica and basically chilled out big style for 10 days. Pictured here taking a 'taxi'.

Caught In The Act

Inspired by Banksy, Sticky decided to try his hand at a bit of stencil graff at night down at Southbank. Rule number one when getting into some existencilism - DON'T GET CAUGHT! Here we see Sticky being papped while in the act. Total shutdown!!


Tools of the trade.

Another Hair Scare

With Kie constantly being tagged as the only girl in UF because of his flowing locks, he took the step to eliminate his gayness completely, by getting Pip's mum to do the honours and give him a going over with the clippers. Whilst we applaud the fact that he stepped up for the chop and now looks a little bit more like a man, the number 6 graded finish has a striking resemblance to a famous 1970's comic called Dick Emery, which is NOT so cool.

Separated At Birth

UF sponsored athlete, DjuXa, from Latvia has just been rumbled as a bit of a headbanger before his PK days. Is he a hairy metal head or a troll? You decide.

Microsoft Performance

At Microsoft's head office, we were engaged to deliver a series of dynamic performances as part of their 'Heroes' campaign. Because it was staged indoors, a purpose built set of obstacles were shipped in for us to use consisting of scaffolding, vault boxes and a cat leap wall. This allowed the guys (Asid, Blue, Livewire, Neil, Pip and Sticky) to let loose in front of the 300 strong crowd and really crank things up a notch. As a result, the whole event was an outstanding success and outside of representing in our usual pro manner, we had plenty of time for some fun stuff.










Asid collars poor Pip and preaches about the benefits of converting to scientology. Pip listened for 5 mins before dribbling from the corner of his mouth and falling asleep.










These guys were blacked up to represent the heroes silhouettes, but they obviously didn't think about the possibility of upsetting anyone and being branded racists. We tried to get Blue to act offended and refuse to perform until the 'situation' was addressed, but he couldn't keep a straight face from laughing so much. So we opted to just get a group shocker pic. For anyone who can't tell, Blue is on the far right.











One of the obvious things when the guys were jamming, were all the females coming out to check out all the fuss. This saw plenty of requests for photo's and for the guys to perform topless (which of course they did). Making the most of a photo opportunity, we corrupted these ladies into striking shockers by telling them it was the universal freerunning hand sign. Gotta love the art of persuasion.

LG Shoot

In January we were commissioned to shoot an ad for electronics giants, LG. For the release of their new Plasma tv (which is all picture and has no borders) we were briefed to 'take it to the edge'. Starring in the ad were Blue and Kerbie, who stepped up to run riot around the rooftops of Soho.
In this pic Sticky surveys the bigger of the jumps. Below lies a box rig made up of 200 cardboard boxes, crash mats and a tarpaulin cover. This 'should' ensure a soft landing but on the first jump, Kerbie (pictured in pink to the left of the mats) landed awkwardly and sprained his ankle badly. As a result, he had to be carted off to hospital and we had to call in Molotov who was sleeping at the time. Being the true star he is, he got a cab over, did the jump twice and then fucked off back home to sleep.











Here we see Blue on the left and Molotov on the right as they fly through the air.

In The Trenches

Our third visit to the Royal Marine Commando's training grounds (CTCRM) in Lympstone, Devon, saw the U$F TV film unit roll in to capture the final segments for our new Black Ops video. During our 2 day visit we filmed a night stealth run featuring Livewire, Kie, Neil and Jashman from the Glyph Unit and Sean, Ratty and Si from the Marines as they moved in around Exeter city centre. The second day saw Ez, Neil and Sticky attack the Commando's 6 mile endurance run, which was a killer, but you'll see for yourselves when Black Ops is released. Outside of the filming (as per usual when the guys get together) pranks and games were in full effect. None of us can wait for the next project to unroll as the Commando's are both inspirational and funny as f**k to be around.












Bam with his weapon of choice for the stealth run













Neil before shouting "Say hello to my lil friend" and then running off screaming into the woods













Sticky taking no prisoners and collecting STC scalps by the dozen. BOOM HEAD SHOT!!













Sean foolishly allows himself to be on the receiving end of one of Sticky's games. In this case, blood was drawn from a whipping and full credit needs to be given to Sean for taking it without so much as a groan. When it came to Sticky's turn, he whinged like a bitch and ended up getting away very lightly. Jashman wasn't so lucky and now has his very own red stripe to prove it.

Sticky Outsized At Last

This picture of Sticky with Jashman has been unearthed from their school days and is valid proof that we've at last, found someone with a bigger head than Sticky's widescreen one. In recent years Jash's body has balanced out and grown in proportion with his skull but as this early pic shows, he was once king of the shiny forehead brigade. For that alone, he now gets the title of 'Biggest head in Parkour'.

Leave It To Beaver

During our time at the Royal Marine Commando's training grounds in Lympstone, Devon, Sticky got dumped off the rope regain with Neil and showed an uncanny likeness to a certain beaver from Canada. Separated at birth? You decide....

On The Blag

In Prague after another highly successful shoot, ez tries to style it out by chomping on a cigar. Being a non smoker, as soon as someone offered to light it up, he could be found trying to offload it quick time.

Lemon Twist

In Prague, Czech Republic, after a shoot with DHL in freezing cold conditions. Here at the wrap party, we see the normally teetotal Blue, after being coerced into a Redbull and Vodka drinking comp with ez. Midway through the night, some bastard got a round of tequila shots in and here we see Blue after taking a hit of cinamon, downing the shot and then killing it off with a twist of lemon.













Finding it hard to shake off the zing, Blue freaks out. Wrrrrrrrrrrecked!!











In no time at all Blue passed out and in his sleeping state, became the subject of a few pranks. Here we see him being stitched up to look like he's been doing lines. Notice the drunken attention to detail with frazzles being meticulously placed all over his head. *NB......No narcotics were used in this pic. The 'evidence' was captured with use of pitta bread crumbs. However, Blue was mortified when we told him the next morning that he'd been doing class A's all night.

What Happens In Vegas.....

With Kerbie, Livewire and Sticky working in Las Vegas for our project with Spike TV for their annual Video Game Awards, the guys got to hang out with a whole host of celebs.







At the awards all pimped out.












Here we see them with the Mac Daddy of Boxing - Don King.












Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters begs to hang out with Kerbie. Reluctantly he agrees.












Livewire gets himself some man-love.











Wrestler Kurt Angle gets a quick squeeze from Sticky.












Kerbie with Spiderman creator, Stan Lee.











The guys with living acting legend, Samuel L Jackson.

Spinning Marine

Fresh from being taught 'Parkour' for the Extreme sports channel/Royal Marines Commando challenge, Capt Sean Lerwill throws it all back in our face by taking up Freerunning. In all seriousness, the whole Commando squad took to the discipline like ducks to water and as seen in the pic, Sean has been getting in plenty of practice of his own.

Boooooolsheeeeeeeeet!!!

As part of the Motorola RAZR2 promotion, Kerbie, Livewire and Sticky had to hit the streets of Birmingham. Here they session the famous bronze bull statue at the Bull Ring.
The Mexican mouse, he say booooooooooolsheeeeeeeeeeet!!

Do You Know How I Know You're Gay?

Hoping that this pic had been buried in the UF vaults forever, this nice little snap has just resurfaced to haunt Sticky. bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
Set up as part of the Vauxhall Tribes promotion, Sticky and Kerbie were coerced into appearing in some rank girls mag. And they say that there's no such thing as bad news.....

Bo'Selecta!

With Avid Merrion being ill, Blue got the call from Channel 4 to step in and do Bedtime With Bear for the beginning of the new series. Originally he wasn't up for it, but when they waved £5K under his nose...............

Army Shocker

October 25th saw Sticky and Ez deliver a Parkour workshop to the 4th Battalion of the Royal Engineers. It was the first time that Parkour had ever been taught to the army and it won't be the last. Turned out to be a massive success with all the soldiers stepping up to attack everything thrown their way with varying levels of success. Here we see a group shot with almost everyone flicking a shocker.

Naked Ambition

Not content with coming first at the 'Big Trick 3' event in Germany, Livewire hooked up with local photographer, Salajin, to take some action shots. She wasted no time in convincing him that regular Parkour action pics had been done to death already and to get his rat out instead. All done in the name of art. Riiiiiiight.

Numero Uno

Sticky tries to large it up but being dressed like a cross between Freddy Krueger and an extra from a Boy George video, he fails. Shutdown!

Rappers Delight

For a while now we've kept the truth about Steve the rapper quiet, but now is the time to reveal that he's the latest edition to our 'street team' and you don't get much more street than Steve. Finding a homeless man at Southbank is no big deal, but with Steve, we've unearthed a gem who can rap with the world's finest. Since meeting him we've hooked him up with sponsorship and whenever we hit London for a media opportunity, Steve is always on hand to spit some lyrics and spice up the day. He even managed to start a fight with the usually placid Blue, at a recent MTV shoot and for that alone, he deserves his stripes. Here we see him gatecrashing the Kevin Zacher shoot and in no time at all, was serving up cold lyrics to amuse everyone.
Not ones to miss a photo opportunity, Sticky and Livewire got up close and personal. For most, the smell would have killed it but having had a former team mate being a soap dodger, they were used to it and weren't deterred in the slightest.
Wandering off to the London eye, Steve continued spitting for anyone who would listen. Here he encounters another street performer and rolls off some lyrics about a headless chicken to Rihanna's 'Under my umbrella' song. Class!
Steve, look at the lens bruv. We want a profile shot. He tries his best but in his altered state of being absolutely wasted, he can't get his eyes to work properly. After 6 or 7 snaps, this was the closest he got to nailing it.
As always, after 10 mins in his company, we get bored and try to lose him. Here we see him saying "Its all good in the hood" after we've just slipped him a tenner for beer and fags. Until the next time.......

A Bum Note

During our photoshoot with award winning photographer, Kevin Zacher, Sticky couldn't resist getting his ass out for this photo opportunity down at Southbank.

Plastered

During the Motorola roadshow, Livewire and Sticky decided to empty 2 packs of plasters and cover their faces completely. Huuuuuuuge improvement!

Battle Of The Machines

For our up and coming 2008 Connex project in Las Vegas with JCB, we've had to spend time at their Midlands based HQ to play around with their heavy machinery. With the production team mapping out the ground to replicate the performance area, ez and Bam had to get to grips with the 'Loadalls' and figure out what could and couldn't be done. Here we see Bam testing out the roof for a proposed cat leap from a central stage platform. Performing aside, the team can't wait to get back to Las Vegas again. The last time around Asid, Blue, ez and Sticky had the time of their lives filming with Mad Media and Boost Mobile. This time around we could have as many as 8 athletes there running riot. hmmmmm

Portland Pwnership

Location: Portland, USA and with Bam and Sticky previously doing a high tempo job in Prague, they were expecting more of the same in the US for the second leg of the shoot. However, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the vibe was much more relaxed and as a result, found themselves with plenty of time to venture out on their own. Here we see them dabbling with Sticky's SLR and Bam's fish eye lens in their downtime.

Acidic By Nature

Prague was a fantastic place for Parkour and everywhere you looked, opportunities presented themselves. Another very clear thing was how prominent street art is there, with literally every wall being covered in graf. Here we see Asid pointing our where he's going to add his own piece later on during a night stealth mission.

Motorola Roadshow

September 2007 and Kerbie, Livewire and Sticky get stuck into the Motorola RAZR2 campaign. The project itself was cool enough with the guys shooting a viral video and then performing at various cities. The downside was the gheytto shiz they had to wear in the process, which was a cross between Hong Kong Phooey and The Village people.

UF Brotherhood

UF sponsored athlete, Stoney, decided to take a gap year from Uni and instead of taking the easy path of fame n fortune through the 'street circus', he opted to work in a cathedral as an assistant. There haven't been any reports of any strange incidents yet, but we are all betting that its only a matter of time before he has to bash the bishop. Right now there are rumours going around that the priests are already calling him their 'lil bitch'.

My Name Is Earl

During their photoshoot in Portland, USA, Bam and Sticky found themselves with plenty of free time to rinse all their money on designer clothes. In the process, they saw an American Apparel store and decided to tick off 'wearing the whackest clothes you can find' from their to do list. Here we see Sticky in a fetching white number and Bam looking ravishing in his two piece titled the 'lady killer'. The pictures taken in the Anne Summers shop with crotchless panties and fishnets will have to wait for glyph ting V.2.

Goodfella

Kerbie in gangster mode for the Daily Mail shoot. Rumours are floating about that he decked the photographer and went through his pockets to 'borrow' 300 quid and the keys to his Bentley. You can take the boy out of Sutton but can't take Sutton out of the boy.....

Blue Shocker

Fresh back from filming in Prague and it was straight back into action with our seminar in Camberley, Surrey. Nice turnout and positive minds all round. Joining us for some fun was Blue, sporting his busted hand. As pissed as he was about not being able to join in properly, he still cranked out a shocker which showed that his priorities are still in place.

Protection From Muppets

It is common knowledge that the UF glyph has armour-like properties, but nobody has ever captured it on film before.
Here we see Asid wearing a red 'Street prophet' top from our range after being asked if he would do an advert with Wendes for Lillets. Before Asid could say "Fuc..... the glyph took over and went into shutdown mode. Now THAT'S what you call protection.

Wearing his scars with pride? Yeah right....

With Ez and Sticky training for a series of marathon and triathlon events, Sticky literally dived in head first, taking his training to extremes and ending up in an Italian hospital bed. Although he is a strong county level swimmer, while on a 1.5 hour swim in harsh conditions, assisted by a coach in a canoe, things took a turn for the worst and he was swept against a pier by the strong tide and battered relentlessly by on-coming waves. An air ambulance and rescue team had to be called in and once pulled clear, he was whisked off to A&E with severe cuts and bruises along with suffering from hypothermia and shock. What a muppet!!

French Tomfoolery

Who are these fools pictured with phones? As part of a stock library shoot we did aaaaaaages ago, we had to dress up in suits and jump around a bit in London. Was an ok time but luckily, the money paid was lucrative to fund a trip for Sticky and Bam to go to the US, where some real clothes were purchased in the form of Bape and LRG. Who said that money doesn't buy you happiness? More than likely some guy signing on and bitching about being hard done by.

Lewis In Pole Dancing Shocker

During the No More Landmines shoot, Lewis was singled out to be dressed up as a chav and told to get himself up a lamppost. Thinking that they were making things easier for him, one of the production team attached a saddle which protruded and at first, it looked fine. However, they had him stay up there for about an hour and when he finally got down, he could be heard cursing anyone within earshot and moaning constantly about his sore arse. Quality!!

No More Landmines

As part of a the 'No More Landmines' project, we completed a 2 day shoot at Battersea Park in London. Members from the core performance team, sponsored team and moderators on our forum were featured (Asid, Blue, ez, Sticky, Neil, Molotov, Lewis, Pip, Kie, Bandit and Biomech). As with most shoots, it was at times, a painfully slow process and this served to bring on the fun n games quicker than anticipated. A great deal of it involved fighting but in between punches, pinches and chokes, we managed to trick Neil into eating 4 flying ants (earning him the new nickname of Anthony) and managed to laugh hard as Molotov was dressed up as a postman and Pip as a carpet depot salesman. The finished piece will go online as a viral, will be shown in cinemas and could possibly make its way onto TV.

Bam Bond

As part of a 7 page spread we did with the Sunday Times, Bam got to play the part of Bond kitted out in Prada garms and accompanied by some fine ladies. Here we see him being snapped mid flight going over a car and below, we see his love interest in the form of Stiffler's mum.

Fashion Faux Pas

Here we see Spidey kitted out in his Euro fag shorts which won him many looks from passers by. The night before we'd been watching the '40 year old virgin' movie and these shorts prompted the infamous line "You know how I know you're gay?".

Hi-Rollin'

Monte Carlo was a beautiful place with so much to do at night. But being lazy asses, the guys opted to rinse the room service and get wasted on the alcohol in the mini bar. As a result, the ghetto jacuzzi was thought up and here we see Sticky, Asid and Bam getting a little too familiar with each other.

Shrek III

With the main Mercedes-Benz performances done and dusted in Monte Carlo, Monaco, it was time to hit the beach. Here we see a newly shaved Shrekwire doing a spot of sky diving.

Erm, I'm Tied Up At The Moment

During our last day in Rome, the whole team were invited up onto the main stage to say our goodbye's and thanks to everyone for such a great experience. As Stefano (the organiser) gave a little speech, ez motioned to Blue after seeing some cable ties lying around. He stated that with just 2 little cable ties, he could incapacitate a man and render him helpless. Just as Blue finished saying "Bullshit", ez looped the ties over his fingers and tightened them as quick as a flash. Realising that he was in trouble and in no position to escape, Blue started to panic, especially as the team were taking their turn to speak to the crowd. As soon as everyone realised what was going on, they burst into laughter which just made Blue panic even more. Eventually some wire cutters were found and he was released to a big cheer.

Egg and Poon

In Rome, Italy and having the best team trip experience yet. Who of all people steps up to kill it dead? Yep, Sticky the man best known for his random hotel hijinks decided to use his time to set up an 'Egg and Poon' race. Without going into too much detail, it involved a toilet, a bidet, a bog brush and plenty of heaving. Plain nasty!

Sightseeing In Rome

With workshops and performances complete, a tour of Rome was called for and the sights weren't hard to find.

From Mug To Thug

With Livewire looking like a right plum sporting his badger rug haircut, an 11th hour meeting was called before the team were due to go on stage for the Mercedes gig, and a drastic decision was made to unleash the Barcelona clippers once again. Yes, he kicked up a stink and whinged like a little bitch, but he had no choice other than to cave in to peer pressure.

When In Rome

June 2007 and quite possibly the best team trip to date, with so much being crammed into the time we had at hand for the Parkour Italy gathering. A lot of ground has been covered over the last 4 and a half years since the birth of UF and we've seen people come, go and have their whingeing asses kicked out of the camp. But when reflected upon, the core team (the same collective who've been representing together from the very beginning) has never ever been stronger as a unit and this trip alone, confirmed this to everyone. Left to right - Bam, Blue, Asid, Kerbie, Ez, Sticky and Livewire outside the colosseum.

Countdown To Blackout!

After being told that he could be put to sleep in 5 seconds without the need of any punches or kicks, Sticky stepped up and challenged ez to produce the goods. Here we see Sticky sitting down with ez behind him applying the rear naked choke. In the 2nd pic we see Sticky start to panic at the realisation that its no joke, and by the 3rd pic his eyes are glazed over as he fades into la-la land. The 4th pic shows him laid out on the floor waking up in total confusion as to where he is and how he got there. All captured on video and making its way to a youtube account near you, soon.
*Please note that the choke was executed by a trained martial artist and unless applied correctly, is extremely dangerous. Do NOT try this at home noobs.

Badidas

If you look a little further down the page, you'll see a piece about Steve the Rapper, who in all honesty is just a 40 year old Southbank piss head that thinks he's a rapper. When we first met him, he was all kitted out with Reebok gear but we managed to hook him up with some adidas garms and here, we bumped into him again (by complete accident) while conducting recces for Done & Busted. We're glad to announce that he has cleaned up his act and was repping hard in his 3 stripes but unfortunately, is still busting out no hope lyrics.

You're Shit And You Know You Are

At Thorpe Park and in-between performances with plenty of time to rinse the rides with fast track passes. On the way back to the dome, Blue motioned over to the ladder challenge and said "Piece of piss!". Yep, obviously being a practitioner for over 4 years gives you a heightened sense of balance. So first up was Blue, all garmed up in his adidas kicks and fresh glyph armour. Boom! Wiped out instantly.

Next up was Asid, who anyone would have expected to breeze it and claim his Tweenies soft toy. Blam!!


Stepping up to save the day was Sticky, but with a head that has officially been titled the 2nd largest in Parkour, the odds were always gonna be dodgy due to the weight of it. Needless to say he got taken out straight away and everyone then sheepishly walked off shaking their heads.

Thorpe Park

9 day performance and workshop event at Thorpe Park in Surrey, with our very own Asid and Blue, who were working their asses off. Here we see them on stage with Funkstylerz after completing yet another set piece. While they were milking the applause from the crowd, others from the team were lending their support by abusing their VIP passes to fast track every ride in the park and jump as many queues as possible.


Livewire and Sticky at the beginning of the day and kitted out with VIP passes. With those in hand, there's only one thing to do.......start the rinsing. From here only a few snapshots were captured but almost everything was stealthily filmed on a POV videocam. A little edit is being prepared right now and once ready, it'll make its way here on Glyph ting.



The first ride sessioned was called Stealth which shoots you from 0-80mph in 2 seconds and literally tears you a new asshole!!! Next up was a water ride called Tidal wave (don't quote us on the name). Sticky - "Yo ez, when you went on this before, did you get wet?" ez - "Nah, it looks worse than it is". 5 mins later and as everyone hurtled down the runway to smash into the water head on, all that could be heard were screams as the freezing cold water coated everyone from head to toe. Livewire saw sense beforehand and knew he was in for a soaking, so he stripped naked and rode it bareback, much to the amusement of all the staff.


Sticky, who is now a pro in the art of rinsing, gets some long overdue payback as Thorpe Park dishes out a rinsing of its own. In this case, its more of a rinse down which saw him walking around like a hunchback for an hour while waiting for his clothes to dry off.

High Speed Jowler

After a long day of filming at the Latimer estate in London for the 'Seek n Destroy' (working title) project, we returned to Surrey with the top down and Cypress Hill blasting loud "You won't be real with us, but ya reelin' us and you want to ride", which is quite apt at the moment. Here we have Bam deciding to pop his head over the windshield to capture a quick jowl while hitting 120mph. Boom, head shot!!!

Waxing Lyrical

After a team meeting in London, we headed over to Jubilee gardens in Waterloo, London, to kick back and chill in the sun. We hadn't been there for longer than 30 seconds before being accosted by this random 40 year old drunk, who proceeded to cuss everyone while spitting in an MC style. Was the most random and funniest thing to happen for ages and luckily, Bam had his camcorder at hand to capture most of it. Blue was on his first hit list and when asked his name, the drunk fired back with "Blue?! You should be called Brown" and then launched into one of his lyrical sessions where he rhymed about Sticky being called Pricky and ez being called Tiger on the guitar from Spain. Yup, very odd but no doubt, it'll make it into a new UF edit very soon.

Signing The UF Oath

Some people will stop at nothing to pledge their allegiance to the cause.
Shutdown!

Separated At Birth?

Those who've been on the scene for over 4 years will remember Blue sporting his afro (before he saw sense). Looking back, it has now dawned on us that he could in fact, have been leading a double life as one half of the Outkast group. hmmmmm

Picture Callout

Right now we are attempting to collect snapshots of as many people wearing UF clothing as possible. The pics will be used for a London art project to go on display later this year. Anyone wishing to participate simply needs to send in a jpeg of them wearing a tee, hoodie or beanie from our range (sized no bigger than 500 x 500 pixels). As submissions start to come in, we'll be randomly firing out exclusive limited edition freebies (some designs that have yet to see the light of day), so anyone taking part should include a forwarding address in case they are chosen. Also state preferred tee-shirt size. email to parkour@urbanfreeflow.com

The pic can be action based but a regular profile pose would be just fine as long as the clothing is clearly obvious. Pics like the one here are perfect.

Thanks
ez

Friday Night Project

The 18th of May saw the completion of a new action edit for The Friday Night Project tv show for Channel 4. It features the show's 2 main stars; Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr, running through the London streets performing Freerun feats. Obviously they weren't capable of doing the moves themselves, so in stepped our very own Livewire and Sticky who performed as their stunt doubles. Initial and Tech recces carried out by Bam and consultancy/coordination by ez. Pictured on the left is Livewire who doubled for Justin Lee Collins. bwahahahahahahaha! Urban FreeflOWNED!

Tutorial in how to annoy someone beyond belief

Make sure your victim is drained after a hard day of shooting, wait for them to fall asleep in the minibus during the hour long drive back to the hotel, bring out an SLR with the flash set to annoyance mode, point near their head and click away. When they awake, pretend that you yourself are asleep and when they drift off again, repeat the process. After about 10 times when they've snapped and lost their temper, promise to stop, wait for them to fall asleep again and then start all over again.

Monte Carlo mission begins.....

Arrived in Monte Carlo, Monaco and have completed the last bit of location scouting. Things started off with a production meeting to revise the schedule for the shoot. Here we see Sticky (the star of the action edit) showing off the new Mercedes C class with the DOP sitting in the background. A whole bunch of updates to follow......

Kie gets a haircut

Fresh from getting his long locks chopped off in favour of a ladylike bob, we ask ourselves if Kie was in fact, separated at birth from the X-Files munter - Scully?

The Full Monte (Carlo)

June 2007.....Team trip to Monte Carlo, Monaco, for Mercedes Benz. None of that Nissan Qashqai 200 quid a day drizzle where you bust a gut and and are lucky to get some biscuits and diluted orange squash (served in foam cups). We're talking business class travel, helicopters, yachts, 5 star hotels and fine food. bwahahahahahahahaha!! Forget Vegas....The rinse-ometer has just been turned up to max.

Estonia - Nokia Simpel Session tour

Team shot taken in Estonia. Standing from left to right - Kerbie, Blue, Mikel, Sticky, Bam, Spidey and ez. Crouching - Hilario and Luis. Mikel the guy in the camo was our chaperone and in his own time works as a DJ and hip hop dance teacher. A very cool guy but for some reason he liked to wear oversized combat trousers that looked so stupid. We thought about telling him but couldn't be bothered.

Head Rocked

After a heavy duty week of filming overseas, the last night was spent partying hard, with no sleep being had before the flight home. So naturally everyone was out like a light as soon as they got on the plane. For some reason Sticky has a head that is perfectly shaped for slapping and here we see him in cloud cuckoo land, before getting served upside the head and rapidly woken up.

Lookalikes.....

Chris Waddle, ex-England international footballer but mostly famous for his 1980's dodgy mullet, gets paired up against Livewire, the number one mullet bearer in Parkour. Who is who? hmmmm

Discovery - Extreme Body

On the 24th of April, Asid, ez, Kie, Pip and Sticky were involved in an ambitious project for the Discovery channel with the working title being 'Extreme body'. In the piece including Freerun, a group run was filmed in segments at Royal Oak (Meanwhile 2) and for one particular shot, special attention was given to a landing from height to show how the knee deals with the impact. This will eventually be done via computer animation which will zoom into the knee itself and show all the muscles, tendons and bones in action. The day proved to be another good one (standard procedure) and although we weren't really allowed to film the action pieces, we got some random behind the scenes shit especially for the Glyph ting.....










Asid at the world famous skate spot - Meanwhile Gardens. This place has been here since the 1970's and has played as a backup area for us whenever we've been rained out of Southbank. However, word on the street says that it is about to be demolished by the local council. If this is true, it'll be a real shame.











Sticky shows everyone that he is in fact, addicted to crack.











The camera crew set up in a corner spot to capture all the action.





Pip thought that by being a sponsored athlete, he'd be saved from Hasan's fists of fury. No, no, no! Slaps are given out at every opportunity. Next up is Sticky who's head has now officially been confirmed as the 2nd biggest in Parkour. Last but not least, we see Asid getting some brotherly love.











Pip tries to unleash his Inner monkey.











Being his first full on paid job for jumping railings n ting, Pip succumbs to the pressure of FSIGS and flakes out from exhaustion. Noob!











Sticky decides to get serious for a moment and looks at the playback on the monitors.













This girl was actually one of the production team who they dressed up as a tramp for the tunnel sequence. Erm......nice try but the first thing every one of the team said was 'Bride of Chucky'. Shutdown!








The guys wait about like lemons as the camera crew set up their next shot.








Kie, Asid and Sticky rocking glyph apparel. Kie with his long hair, has been constantly chided for looking like a girl and the never ending abuse seems to have paid off. He's at last promised to cut it off in favour of a Billy Ray Cyrus mullet.











More free time between takes and it was only a matter of time before someone dropped one. Kie here on the right points a finger but forgets the golden rule of farting.....The one who smelt it, dealt it.

Redbull Beatrider

In 2006 5 of the team (Asid, Blue, ez, Stephane and Sticky) had the opportunity to fly over to NY for the Redbull Beatriders summer camp. We spent a week there at the most amazing campus, eating fine food and training in an Olympic gym. One whole week to just teach Parkour for one day. Mental!!! Outside of teaching, it was all swimming in lakes, topping up our tans, upsetting the Ninjitsu students, playing basketball, rinsing the Xbox and raiding the bboy dorms with water bomb stealth missions. One trip to remember for sure.
Here's an insight into what the bboy experience was like.

Lil Jack Jam

A hot April day down at Southbank, London, Jak took it upon himself to arrange a team jam and as they say 'arrange it and they shall come'. With a healthy turnout, almost all the sponsored athletes along with a good dose of vets joined together for a nice relaxed session.










Kie tries to style it out but fails miserably







Neil, Pip, Kie and Molotov watch Lewis try out a new angled cat leap down the Imax stairs









Kerbie catches it on camera and they crowd around to watch the playback







With the pace being nice n chilled, everyone headed to the skate area at Southbank for some experimentation training








Jak launches himself across the Imax orange walls. Pic captured by ez's 5 year old son







Mid-training and Jak's attention span wavers

Monaco

In Monaco doing a very ambitious project for Mercedes Benz and it is 1st class all the way. Here, ez is picked up at the airport and whisked off by helicopter to perform a series of location recces and write up risk assessments. This trip prepares the rest of the team to fly back out in May, where they will film a video sequence before flying home and then returning again in June/July to perform live.

Handstand practice

Sticky practicing handstands up at the crack of dawn and showing that there's always light at the end of the tunnel.

Addicted to shaving products

In Estonia and taking time to 'Chill out', Sticky decides that the best way to entertain himself is to cover himself and most of the room in Shaving gel. Ordinarily, this wouldn't raise too many eyebrows, but this kind of behaviour is becoming a bit of a regular occurrence when overseas.

Estonia - Simpel Session

At the Simpel session for our sponsor - Nokia, this is the amazing panoramic view we had of the venue. 6000 people were in attendance for the final day and it was absolutely insane. Things started off with the skate comp, which was zzzzzzzzz. But the BMX comp was out of this world with huge techs and combo's being pulled by the riders. If the word 'professional' is to be dished out, these guys are the ultimate with balls of steel and skills to pay the bills in skillionaire fashion. This picture was taken from the top of the scaffolding structure we were given to play with.

Double scoop

Bam and ez doing a shoot for the Evening Standard newspaper at the beloved Cat alley location.

PK5

Held at Southbank for the first time and generating a massive turnout. At this spot, when the tide goes out, soft sand allows for a great landing area from height. Picured here is the stairway that Blue famously front flipped down.

PK4

This time we moved away from Liverpool st in favour of Kerbie's area of Sutton. Numbers had grown exponentially (40+) and again we attracted attention from the police. We later found out that the first rooftop we'd hit, was in fact the roof of a Bank and the police had been alerted to a break in. Pictured here, we have Asid launching himself across a gap from said Bank.

PK3

PK3 and its the turn of Blue to meet up with us for the first time. He instantly stepped up and tore apart the Leap of faith. A little later we ventured up onto some higher rooftops above Liverpool st station and as a result, were involved in a full on chase by the police. After only getting away by the skin of our teeth, he said "You know what guys, this shit ain't for me". 4 years later...........

PK2

A month after PK1, we held another and again, we felt as though things were getting crazy. Despite the number pictured here, Pk2 attracted 17 people to practise. Pictured in the middle is Bam, who had found out about the jam a day previously online and before heading off from his flat, had told his flatmates "I have a strange feeling that today is going to be a very important day in my life".

PK1

Group shot from PK1 held at Liverpool st, London. Only 13 of us in attendance but at the time, we all felt as though we were a part of something huge.

Merrell

Before the glory days of adidas sponsorship, our primary shoe sponsor was Merrell. While with them, we did a print campaign starring Bam as the main athlete and a close up of ez's foot. These huge posters could be found all over the London underground and there's still a store in Soho, London, that has the poster in its shop front window.

Big day out

In 2004 we were invited to the 'Big day out' which was a street event in Nottingham, UK, where for the day we were paid top dollar to jam in the streets, with them providing full insurance cover. Insane!! Here, Asid launches himself off a portable toilet while crowds of people mill about beneath.

Twathill

Those from the early days on the message boards, will remember this guy and what a twat he was. There is an animated gif of this ID card, but its too offensive to post in this blog (and that's saying something!).

Purple Monkey

In 2003 we were invited to feature in a punk video for Purple Monkey. Was probably the most random thing we've done and was a complete waste of time. However, free food and beer was on offer at the venue (Cartoon club) so some quality rinsing was put into effect. The Cartoon club was later the venue used to hold UF's 1st birthday bash. In this pic, ez does a spot of monkeying around.

First UF logo

Here's the logo that started it all. We hate it now but even so, it was still the first one and featured on the first tee shirts we ever sold in the car park, outside the Iceland store in Sutton at PK4.

Geneva motor show

At the Geneva motor show for the World premiere launch of the Toyota Aygo car. This trip came off the back of live stage performances in Barcelona, which was probably the most outstanding team trip we've been on yet, for so many reasons. The fact that we were on tour with all the girls from the Eric Prydz 'Call on me' video didn't hurt either. 1st pic....Back row from left to right - ez, Hasan, Zoe and Bam. Front row - Blue, Asid, Sticky and Kerbie. 2nd pic, Deanne Berry and co. Oh how they are missed.

The 45

ez and Bam cat leaping the 45 during a shoot for the BBC. This is before we realised that big dangerous jumps are not big, not clever, and don't make you a better practitioner for doing them.

Erith rinsed

Here we see the UF KR3W of old at Erith gymnastic centre. We used it for a series of indoor PKdays and in this instance, we were staging PKSeben with Foucan as special guest.

Leap of faith

It is well documented that the UK Parkour scene started in London. Here we have Bam getting some quality air time at the Leap of faith in Liverpool st. The leap of faith was regarded as an induction jump to prove your worth and was centre stage for the first ever PKdays. Now it has CCTV cameras and anti climb bars in place to deter people from using it. This was largely due to the landing area being a church roof and an influx of noobs frequenting it on a regular basis.

Eidos trip

Coming back from the very first meeting at the Eidos HQ for the 'Freerunning' game. ez tests his new camera phone out by capturing Foucan and M2 sleeping on the job.

In Evry, France

Here Asid poses with some of the Yamakasi students in Evry (2004). Notice the YKI tee-shirt which was from Malik Diouf's clothing range. Even though there was a language barrier, these guys were really cool and the art of movement did all the necessary communicating.

ID shoot

Modelling for clothing co Y3 (an extension of adidas) which appeared in ID magazine. This shoot took from 6am to 6pm in the freezing cold. ez ended up being perched on this wall in the East end of London being told constantly "Yes!!! Hold that pose" by Timur, the photographer, while people at street level shouted "Jump, you c**t!!".

Boom, headshot!!!

Here we have Asid in full costume for his role in Drona. In the Bollywood movie he plays an Indian security guard along with Kerbie, as they chase Daniel Ilabaca across some rooftops. If the yellow suit isn't insulting enough, the glasses definitely put the final nail in the coffin.

Las Vegas strip

While in Las Vegas we spent an entire day running down the main strip in blazing hot weather getting tracking shots. Needless to say, everyone was beat, so instead of going out for the night, we opted for some in-room entertainment in the form of 2 'dancers'. Just before they arrived, we hooked up a tiny POV camera hoping to capture action for U$F TV. Little did we know, but they would be scam merchants and upon arriving, demanded a fee just to be there. They then locked themselves in the toilet and refused to come out unless given 700 bucks. When told to "Get the fuck out of here", they said "Welcome to Las Vegas, honey" to which Josh (Mad Media) replied "Well, you're talking to Mr San Diego.....Get your fat asses out of my hotel room", which creased everyone up. To cut a long story short, hotel security were called to get them ejected and as all seven of us left for a strip bar, one of the girls was being escorted off site by the 5-0 for being under age. Reality bites!

Life imitating art

Asid poses in front of graf of his boyhood hero.

Jumping ship

Here Bam gets interviewed in Singapore for the Planet Parkour documentary, shortly before launching himself off a bridge onto a passing boat.

Hasan comes out swinging

Fearing that the team is becoming lazy, Hasan decides to step up and dish out some more slaps. Here we see Sticky, Blue and Livewire on the receiving end of some heavy punishment.

Life on ice

In Reykjavik, Iceland, during a break from performing, Nokia laid on plenty of downtime for us to use an olympic gym and best of all, to visit a volcanic spa, which was an amazing experience. Open aired and with outside temperature being set to freezing, the water was as hot as a steaming bath. Here we have Bam and Sticky lording it up and applying face packs.

Blame it on Mr Dead

In New York, we were invited to an exclusive Prince Paul hip hop party, but as with anywhere in the US, you need to produce ID. Knowing that Sticky was too young to get in, we tried to blag it but were turned away. So in order to salvage the night, hip hop artist and good friend Mr Dead came out and advised us to get a cab across the river to a cool little hang out that would be "rocking". Taking his advice, we went and as we entered, found it to be totally empty. Being absolute muppets, we decided to hang about for 20 mins to have a drink with the barmaid. 5 bottles of vodka later, we emerged at 6am and headed back to the hotel. Once there and chilling in Asid's room, ez broke into a sweat, slid off the bed into a bedside lamp and crawled to the bathroom to hurl his guts into the toilet. Lesson learned the hard way......Everything in moderation.

Hollowback

Sticky and Blue posing with up and coming bgirl at the Redbull Beatriders tour in New York. Was an absolutely amazing trip with them being joined by Asid, ez and Stephane for what can only be described as the campus to own them all.

Profile of a freerunner

Asid looking suspicious during the filming of 'Asid - Profile of a freerunner'. A production by Julie Devil.

Wanted dead or alive

During our time we've had a fair bit of heat thrown our way, but none have been as good as this one. Live and direct from the official retard of Parkour - Yakob, this poster was thrown up on our forums and still gets a good laugh. If we still had the Concrete Jungle in effect, this would be right at the top.

I wanna take you to the gaybar

On the second leg of our tour for Toyota, we had to hit Geneva. Whereas in Barcelona previously, we got to stay in a 5 star hotel, the Geneva section was purely ghetto and we ended up sharing rooms in the most rank hotel there. Here, Asid looks pissed off in the background as he's pulled the shortest straw.

Freerunning game

Blue gets his wish granted to star in a computer game.

Flame grilled

Even back then the "co-founder of Parkour" was given about as much love as a red headed step child.

Star Psychic: Sally Morgan

While shooting for Sally Morgan's show, Sticky was given a reading and was freaking out as she started getting headshots with her spot on info. Afterwards he rushed over to ez and was like "Yo, have you been giving her inside info, cos she said shit that nobody knows about". When told "Nope", he spent the next hour or so walking about in deep puzzled thought.

Survival

In Estonia for the Nokia Simpel session trip. Sticky had asked the hotel laundry service to clean a bunch of his clothes but at checking out time, he found that they'd been lost. In a moment of panic, he had to find what he could to wear before jumping in a taxi to be taken to the airport. It wasn't until we got to the customs baggage check where we had to take off our shoes, that we realised what a gimp he'd been. Instead of asking one of us to lend him some clean socks, he took the drastic measure of wearing a pair of gloves on his feet. Everyone was falling about laughing and even the customs officials had to admit that they'd never seen anything like it before.

Doppelgangsters

The guys (Bam, Blue, Livewire and Sticky) making the most of their down time during our trip to Lisbon, Portugal for the Nokia SK8 cup.

Blue flipping out

Before Blue stepped aside as UF's backflip trick ferret for Bam, he was the one person always asked by the media to flip off some shit. Working with the media has always been a labour of love as most of them don't really care about being spot on factually. For instance, we would rock up to a shoot and perform all manner of 'pure' techs that would go down well. But the instant anyone cranked out a backflip, that would be what got them excited and 10 times out of 10, would be the picture that made it into the publication. Proved to be a real headache for us but now that there's a split between Parkour and Freerun, the ironic thing is that it makes the media circus all the easier to navigate through.

Paying last respects

Cat alley.......located near the Imax in London. This one place was amazing for cat leap and precision practice. There was a fear factor to overcome because of the height but once mastered, it provided a multitude of combinations. Sadly, shortly after Jump Britain aired on TV, the whole of Southbank got swamped with beginners wanting to hit the London hotspots they'd seen. Eventually Cat alley got hit too and in an effort to kill it off, the owners of the adjoining building, coated the entire landing zone in anti-climb paint. Shortly before it was killed off, Sticky managed to nail the level to level cat to cat and a kong to precision across the gap was being eyed up. For many of the early practitioners, this area holds some fond memories. In this pic, Bam travels over the gap via a precision while Asid and Blue look on. RIP....Gone but never forgotten.

Before the Rinse philosophy

Doing a shoot for Matador magazine in 2003 and being paid for our services. This was unheard of at the time.....being paid to play?!! We spent a few hours with them basically training and allowing the camera crew to shadow us. In return everyone was paid £50 and taken to lunch. We were told to "choose wherever you want to eat" and being naive, we opted for Burger King. Oh how we've sharpened up since then and over the last few years have become pioneers of the Rinse philosophy. A downloadable version of the mandate can be found on our main site. Pictured left to right - Asid, ez, Blue and Bam.

Supersize me!

Back in the early days of Parkour in the UK, it was all about going big. You have to realise that there were no resources at hand and most definitely no help being provided by anyone about safe training practice. This led to the whole big jump philosophy and pictured here, we see Asid when he was going through a kamikaze stage of seeking out the biggest precision jumps possible. This jump is at the shell centre in London and is huge, with no room for error. While training with us, both Thomas and Foucan from France, eyed it up but declined. At the time, we took this as a sign of weakness but in fact, they were showing signs of where they were at with their own game and it was us who looked like noobs. Big jumps looks wow, but knees go oww!!

YKI Wear

When in France filming 'The way' documentary, we stumbled across the Yamakasi guys teaching some of their students. We were invited to hang out with them and for a whole day, spent time with Malik Diouf, Charles Perriere and Guylain N'Guba-Boyeke, who were really cool guys. Of all, Malik seemed to be the one with entrepreneurial tendencies and had set up a clothing company called YKI. He had some great gift boxes which contained a tee-shirt, lanyard and wristbands. We ended up buying a load and were singing their praises in the hope that things would develop. Sadly, the project died on its feet and didn't go anywhere. Maybe someday it'll be resurrected again?

RIP UF KR3W

One of our early team designs for the now defunct 'UF KR3W'. Each member of the team had their name written into the larger lettering. People often ask why certain members of that team were cut loose and most think it was because they had decided to "step out of the spotlight" of their own accord. The real reason which has never been disclosed until now, was because those same people decided to go to the Reading music festival instead of showing up to the initial meeting with Mike Christie (Director of Jump Britain). At that same meeting, an informal casting was being held at the Shell centre for the sequel to the Jump London documentary. Needless to say, Jump Britain helped catapult us to where we are now. Using Sticky as an example because he was the youngest in our team at the time, he's now been all around the world, featured in high profile commercials/movies and is sponsored by Adidas and Nokia. To top it all, he actually gets paid to play and helps run our academy classes in London. Its funny how we all have paths in front of us and its up to us as individuals to find our own way. Some lead onto higher levels and some lead to dead ends.

Henry Reichhold

Nokia commissioned well known artist Henry Reichhold for a project using only the technology of mobile phones. Asid was used for the print campaign and Bam for the video one. Was a great project which saw the exhibition being held at the Cargo venue in London. Just outside the building were 20 or so life sized canvases adorning the walls and the next day Henry reported happily, that someone had stolen the lot. To him this was the ultimate compliment. Little did he know, but a stealth mission had been put into effect by Asid, where each and every poster had been jacked and had somehow made their way to his bedroom a few miles down the road.

A new era....

At the beginning of 2007 we had a real shake of the UF tree. This led to a stripping down of the team from being an 'international' one and going back to being made up of the core members from Seidojin. On paper, all looked ok but it wasn't until we all got together as a unit (including most of our sponsored athletes) for the first time to film for the ITV, that we saw everything magically gel. The sponsored guys stepped up with amazing skills, an eagerness to represent and mixed with the acidic humour of the vets, produced a vibe that was better than it has ever been. Kind of like a revisit to the old skool days but with mad skills and experience already in the bag. After this particular day of filming, everyone in the core team agreed that we'd been too 'serious' for a long while and that the sponsored guys had actually given us a massive lift. From there, the Glyph unit was born and the team now stands at its strongest ever. Pictured from left to right - Stoney, Molotov, Sticky, Asid, Bam, Blue, Pip, Jashman, Kie, Neil and Lewis.

Mad Media

In LA again. This time for the final leg of the Boost mobile sponsored 'Urban Running' documentary for Ripe TV. This pic was taken on our last night after just having completed shooting individual interviews. Pictured back row from left to right - ez, Asid, Sticky, Brian, Frankie the fish and Blue. Front row from left to right - Otis, Josh and Milan. Brian alone, was our saviour for the trip and imparted some of his wisdom by teaching us the power of the shocker, introducing us to the Pink Taco brand and allowing us to download his entire Jerky Boys collection. His rendition of Dental malpractice was pure genius and had us crying with laughter.

Out in LA

Shooting video footage in Los Angeles. Nearing the end of our project we hooked up with some of the local LA guys for a jam with mixed results. A few of the guys turned out to be on point. Third from the left in the back row is Xin and first on the left in the front row is Dung......Two very cool guys indeed with very open minds and skills to match. Not forgetting Frankie the fish (third from left in front row) who ended up joining us for the LA leg of the Ripe TV documentary. However, in the back row first from the left is a guy called 'TrACEur', who everyone instantly hated. Hate is such a strong word to use but for some reason this guy had "please hate me" written all over him.

Royal Variety Performance

For the 77th Royal Variety Performance, we (Asid, Bam, Blue, ez, Hasan, Livewire and Sticky) were invited by Royal appointment to appear before Queen Elizabeth and be on national tv. It was an amazing experience all round and during the finale, ez was invited on stage to meet the Queen. Being in a totally surreal position, he decided to just go with the flow and enjoy it for what it was. Just before she came on stage for the introductions, Elliot the bboy on his left, was sweating profusely and stated that he was shitting himself. Ez's exact words were "This is a once in a lifetime thing, so I'm going to make the most of it and slip her my business card" to which Elliot replied "Yo, for real?!" before being called a prick. As Asid was filming this on his camcorder, he can be heard saying "Gwan ez, knock her out!!". Priceless.

Tat Who?

In the last year we've had various people send us pics of their glyph inspired tattoos. Here are a few.

Another day at the office

For a corporate client, we were asked to dress and perform in business suits. Shot in London, the day saw Bam, ez and Sticky getting full on 5 star treatment and having their own showbiz trailer parked at Imax. It was really odd to be getting treated like movie stars in a spot we'd shed blood, sweat and tears training at over the years. We did try to blag the suits at the end of the shoot but were politely declined. So much for FSIGS.

Battle of Trafalgar

Probably the scariest thing we've done yet in terms of scope was working for the Royal Navy, who were holding a big celebration at Trafalgar square, London. We performed in front of 10,000 people and played the role of bandits being hunted by soldiers. The piece lasted no more than 5 mins but was a head rush and something none of us forgot in a hurry. Especially so, because Sticky got injured in the process. Noob!

Glyph Unit

Half of the core team arrive on the scene for training looking dark. We constantly get comments everywhere we go about how striking the white glyph looks set on black. This one logo has received massive exposure around the world and the fact that it does all the talking for us without the need for any wording, is something that we are all very proud of. Within the team we say that the glyph provides kevlar type properties. hmmmm

In Mexico - SAP

At the end of 2006 we were hired to shoot a commercial in Mexico City with the storyboard seeing the guys wearing suits and tearing up the city as businessmen. The whole experience was an absolutely fantastic one and this shot was filmed on the final day as the sun was setting. Asid and Bam had to jump from the top of this skyscraper to give the impression that they were jumping into the unknown. In order to capture the shot effectively, they had to disappear from frame, which meant that they had to drop out of sight totally. For this jump a scaffolding structure had to be built and was set so that they'd drop 15 feet onto a matted area. Was breathtaking to be there and see it in action.

Talking of fashion...

While in Singapore filming the Planet Parkour documentary, everyone made the most of rinsing the hardware shops there for Xbox 360's, PSP's and iPods. Breaking away from the norm, Blue and ez went in search of tee-shirts and found some identical replicas of Bathing Ape (Bape) tee's in a dodgy market and snapped up as many as they could. Tagging along was Bam, who seemed clueless about who or what Bape represents and he bought a bunch along with some bogus rips that were similar, going by the name of Gape or something random like that. None of us could bring ourselves to tell him, so like true friends we cussed him behind his back. Pictured here, Bam wears one of his erm......Gape Sta tee's.

Found it!!!

The guys all pretended to not know where the Gaydojin pic of them dressed in tight rainbow fairy clothes was. The location for this shot was Reykjavik, Iceland. As mentioned further on down the page, Simon the stylist was responsible for this fashion faux pas. Before refusing to wear these bottoms to perform in, a snap was taken for the archives to be locked away forever. Gwahahahahahahahahaha gotta love betrayal. From left to right - Sticky, Hasan, Livewire, Bam and Asid.

Jump Britain cinema premiere

On the 5th of January 2005, we set up an exclusive premiere for the Jump Britain documentary literally days before it aired for the first time on tv. With tickets being limited to strictly first come, first served, the Curzon cinema on Shaftebury avenue in London was confirmed as a sell out straight after the announcement was made. All in all it was a great night with 3 months of hard work coming to a head.










Kerbie flashes his golden ticket.











Bam gets to grips with our HDV camera.











HD Bandit, Noodles and Marquis sit and wait.











Asid, Elilric and Hasan do the same.











The cinema starts to fill up.











Afterwards Mike Smith (Exec producer), ez and Mike Christie (Director) celebrate.

Don't cry for me Argentina

Shooting a hair advert in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kerbie had to grow his hair for 2 months beforehand and then have it styled on location. This presented headaches as he was used to having it shaved number one style. Upon arriving in Argentina, he was whisked to the stylists and given this mullet which brought him 100% flaming from everyone else in the team. The redeeming factor on his part was that he was paid a small fortune for the job, so dollar dollar FTW.

James Blonde

This pic was emailed in by a random person but provided us with much to laugh about. Nuff said.

You say jump and we say how high?

Photoshoot for the launch of Vauxhall's new Astra hatchback. When told to come down to London for some car games, Sticky misunderstood and turned up ready to do some gambling. "Car games you fool.....not CARD games!". The organisers were crapping themselves trying to find a decent location to do the shoot and their brief was simple......find a suitable urban setting. Well with available time being set to zero, we hit Meanwhile gardens at Royal Oak. It did the trick and the huge mural there provided a more than suitable backdrop.

Breaking & Entering

For the filming of Anthony Minghella's Breaking & Entering movie, starring Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright-Penn, Martin Freeman and Ray Winstone, Bam and Kerbie were hired as stunt doubles with ez being brought on board as the freerun consultant. Pictured here is Rafi Gavron, who also starred. In the film he plays a troubled teen from an imigrant family who just wants to practise freerunning, but is forced into a life of crime by his peers who use his skills for their own needs. Even though Bam and Kerbie were doubling for him and his cousin in the film, we still had to train them to a proficient level. Here he can be seen rocking some fly apparel during a training week at Steve Dent's stunt school.

Kill Bam artwork

U$F Volume Two - Kill Bam was without a doubt the one video project we've done, that was the most fun to produce. While working on it, this image provided plenty of laughs and inspired Bam to animate it as a shuriken using the tried and trusted combustion package. Right now we are preparing Volume Four to have some more of the same and if the opening sequence from Jack Osbourne is anything to go by, it'll be a gem.

One trip to rule them all....

On our travels we've hit some amazing spots but if pushed to name one trip that stood out above any other, it probably has to be the Boost trip which saw New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles being hit within a 10 day period. Vegas in itself is a complete mindfuck but if you only get one opportunity to go in your lifetime, grab it. In this pic we were doing a shoot at the famous Las Vegas sign on the main strip and at times like these, we had to pinch ourselves and ask if this was really happening. Although all looks good here, we were in fact in a sombre mood after witnessing an old lady being killed on a cross section just 10 feet away from our vehicle. As she crossed the road, the driver of the vehicle that hit her was on a cell phone and jumped the lights. This resulted in her being clipped at about 30 miles an hour and being spun in the air doing a 720 degree spin. When she landed, she was totally motionless and on the news later that day, was pronounced dead. At times like these, everything is put into context and you get to appreciate what you have......One life. Pictured from left to right - Blue, Asid, Sticky and ez

Arthur

Another blast from the past. This guy had a whole video dedicated to him. While training at Liverpool street we saw this guy scanning the streets for cigarette ends, so we offered him a fiver if he'd put on a UF tee and say "PK UK" to the cameras, which he did. The video is called 'Jamming at Arthur's' and can be found on the www.youtube.com/theufmuseum archive. He turned out to be a really nice guy with a fetish for pen collecting. Then years later in 2007, ez took his 5 year old son to see an Arsenal v Spurs football game and while waiting for friends, a familiar figure walked out of the gents toilets. Still looking exactly the same and still wearing a UF tee-shirt, Arthur looked in fine shape. Then to top it off, ez's son said "Daddy, who's that gremlin". A moment in time for sure.

Pimped

Back when the UK scene first began, one of the bigger teams in terms of numbers was the 'Pimp Krew'. They attended almost all of our early indoor PKdays and had an active website of their own.
Wonder what happened to those guys? If anyone knows, please give us a shout.

Elililililiric

The Terminator jam in London, which was staged to say goodbye to M2 as he left for the US. Was the biggest outdoor jam we've seen yet and it seemed to have hundreds of people out in force jamming along the Southbank. The fact that we had BBC cameras following our moves, only drew in more attention. So to split the day up effectively, groups were formed to hit different areas. In one of those groups was Elilric (a former UF moderator) who tried a kong vault and face planted on concrete or should be say Kongcrete. When he came back with this shocker of a lump, we did all we could do to stop ourselves from laughing at him and calling him an uber noob. Then to top it all off, we had HD Bandit and Marquis (two of the bigger lads in Parkour) launch themselves off the Pier walls onto soft sand by the Southbank skatepark. This was met by a massive cheer and it almost brings a tear to the eye to see those old days of attitude free, fade away into the memory banks. Great memories indeed when it was ALL simply about having fun.

UF's first visit to Lisses

Sponsorship money from Merrell, allowed us to take our first ever trip to Lisses a looooooong time ago. Making the most of the opportunity, we filmed a documentary called 'The Way' which can be found in our www.youtube.com/theufmuseum archive. Was a great trip all round. Especially so because of the F1 hotel which we affectionately titled the Le Booger door hotel (long story).
Here we see the team coming face to face with the Dame du lac for the first time. Notice the team sweat tops which the local French guys tried to buy off us. When told that we only trade in the currency of dollar dollar and not rolled up cigarettes, they got pissed and went off to argue amongst themselves.

Clean living

More Singapore shots. Clean from living life in the fast lane, Bam hooked up with the guru behind Michael Jackson's fitness regime, Eduardo P Smithe. Here we see him meditating under water in a 'think tank'. He claims that it has worked wonders and as a result, he can now balance on water for 3 whole seconds.

In a West End town with dead end walls....

Bam and ez doing a shoot with the Times newspaper trying to look all urban but ending up looking like the Pet Shop Boys have started a comeback.

Birth of an art

In Singapore and suffering from the heat, idle thumbs got to play. At the Mega Media HQ, sat a wheelchair which was zoned in on and used and abused. The result was the development of a new art co-founded by Asid, Bam, Blue and ez. We've had it trademarked and everything (are you listening Frenchies?). Its proper urban and involves moving from A to B in the most efficient manner. Check this......you can even throw in manuals and handplants and when you get skills to pay the bills, you can even rescue people too.

Who's the daddy?

For the Ford advert shot in a green screen studio, the producers wanted to pass Kerbie off as a dad with a 10 year old son starring alongside him. Regardless of the dodgy jumper and facial hair, the son still managed to look older than his 'dad'.

Homeless in Singapore

In Singapore filming the Planet Parkour documentary. While everyone else was practically working their asses off in the sweltering heat, a disinterested ez decides to grab some zzz's as a disgusted woman looks on. Apparently taking a nap in a park is unheard of there and carries a four year prison sentence.

Famished Krew

This picture was taken for a teen magazine of the younger members from the old 'UF KR3W'. We don't think it was ever used by them and up until now, has been filed away. If any picture can be shown to give an example of why its not cool to do Parkour topless with under developed bodies, this is it. Check Sticky on the right looking ashamed and trying to hide his face.

Bollywood nights

A while back, Asid and Kerbie were enlisted to feature in a Bollywood chase sequence for a film called Drona, dressed as security guards. They were joined by Daniel Ilabaca who was doubling for the lead actor. bwahahahahahahaha at the banana boys costumes but bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha at the make up used to turn Danny into an Indian.

A true master

When in New York preparing for a video project with old skool bboy legend - Crazy Legs, we were also introduced to Sifu Shi Yang Ming, who defected to the U.S in 1992 while on the first-ever Shaolin Temple Monks tour of the United States. Speaking no English at all, he decided to take the bold step of following his dream and now runs a hugely successful Shaolin temple in NY, with a client base made up of many top celebrities. His classes are insanely hardcore but outside of the spiritual nature of his life, he is tuned in commercially (has starred in commercials and movies), is a heavy hip hop fan (hangs with RZA amongst others) and enjoys the odd alcoholic drink or two, which he calls 'special water'. A very special man indeed and his aura can really be felt when around him. Of the team, Asid was touched the most as he is fascinated by Eastern philosophies. Checkout http://usashaolintemple.com/ for more.

Clarkson pranked

This pic was taken at the time of the Top Gear MPH show. At an after show drink up, one of Kerbie's mates (Phil) kept following Jeremy Clarkson around and when in a good position for the perfect snapshot, took his penis out and stood behind him. Just before Kerbie could capture it on film, Clarkson turned around and said "What the fuck do you think you are doing?!". Busted.

Afro ting

Those who've looked carefully at U$F Volume 1 would have seen this image flash up randomly. At last we can confirm that it was in fact, Blue when he was going through an OG phase. "My baby don't mess around because she loves me so.....heeeeyyyyy yaaaaaaaaa" - Outkast

Laid bare

Shortly after the Jump Britain documentary aired, we were approached by Cosmopolitan magazine to be a part of their celebrity centrefold calendar. They wanted us to pose naked and were diplomatically told to "Piss off" before it was made clear that the shoot would be to draw attention to testicular cancer for the Everyman charity. A few phone calls were made and through laughter and plenty of "we are so gonna get flamed for this" comments, we decided to go ahead seeing as it was for such a good cause. Was very weird to be naked with a group of your friends but was actually quite a liberating experience, that brought everyone closer together in a look but don't touch or your fingers will be broken way.

Spidey kegged

Spidey has long been around on the Parkour scene and has only recently come on board the UF team. A very cool guy with an off the wall sense of humour that never fails to make us giggle. For instance, at our PK11 event at Xmas 2006, he decided to do a live Santa/Evil bunny chase scene with one of his Finnish friends. Beforehand, we showed the latest version of the Finnish guys famous Santa Parkour videos on a projector, which went down well. However, the live chase was without a doubt, the most random thing seen anywhere. It lasted for a few minutes with the bunny flicking a middle finger at everyone before running off. Went down like a lead balloon with everyone, but that's what made it so funny. Here, he gets welcomed into the team with a kegging by Sticky.

South Africa - BT

A week before Bam headed out to Cape Town, South Africa, to film an advert for BT, Ez was there conducting site recces with the 4x4 production team. Of all the locations, this one was the most ambitious of the lot and he had to call in the Stunt Network to rig it properly and to ensure it was 100% safe. Aside from being a beautiful location to film at, this one jump managed to fulfill Bam's boyhood dream of being a stuntman. The finished video should be ready anytime now and promises to be action packed without the need for any flips to be thrown in. Shock horror!! Someone call the Freerun police.

Flagging your attention

At the end of the Jack Osbourne - Adrenaline Junkies shoot, Sticky and Livewire decided to wave goodbye with a couple of flags. In all fairness to Jack, he was totally down with the whole humour thing and chipped in with some filthy jokes that can't be printed here.

Top Gear - Selling souls

Blue, Livewire and Kerbie at the Top Gear MPH show in Earls Court. The pic gives the impression of total sellout, but in all fairness to the guys, their live piece was the nuts.

Nokia X Factor

Shooting the Nokia X Factor advert. The director asked Blue to take the most efficient route. Blue - "Erm.....well I'd probably just run past the bin". Director - "Ok, just jump over the fucking bin then".

The darker side of humour.....

One of our forum members was awarded a pair of trainers in a random comp, but before they were shipped out, he openly developed an attitude problem on the boards and as many who'd fallen before him in the past, started to shit talk beyond belief. So it was decided to send him some much sought after adidas prototypes. Well sort of........was a bit of a hatchet job but they were delivered and prompted the response we were after.

Mama said knock you out!

With ez talking constantly about boxing and the UFC, Hasan (of all people) had enough and cranked out a right hander sending him rocking.

NakedWire

In his spare time getting over his knee injuries, Livewire has convinced himself that training naked will quicken the healing process. For younger viewers, we've added a black strip to cover his modesty.

Mr New York - Words by ez

Introducing Regis the man behind Redbull. An all round star who has become a great friend. Our first trip to New York was with Adidas to help launch their flagship store on Broadway and Houston, and although it was a fantastic experience, we were totally naive 'tourists' who didn't venture out of our own little bubble of mayhem. However, after hooking up with Redbull USA, we were shown exactly what New York had to offer. From meeting all of the major creative people on the scene to hanging with all the top people in the skate, bboy and graf industries, Regis alone opened up my eyes and made me fall head over heels in love with this fabulous city.
The night this picture was taken, Harold Hunter of Zoo York fame was partying with us and shortly after returing home, tragically died from an overdose. His passing was like a bomb going off in the scene. Seeing the aftershock was something I'll never ever forget and getting to see first hand, how tight everyone was within that very large circle, made me realise that the place is one real community of very real friends.
Since that first trip, we've been back to New York many times and Regis is always the first cell number that gets called upon landing. Nothing but love for this unique and mad hombre.

Return of Take That

During a trip to Reykjavik, Iceland, for Nokia, Simon the stylist thought it'd be a good idea to kit everyone out in the gayest of team outfits. If the tee-shirts look gay, you should have seen the bottoms which were 2 sizes too small and were matching colour wise. Everyone point blank refused to wear them and the show went on.

Erith before the place got rinsed

Back when Erith gymnastics centre was famous for UF's indoor PKdays. This pic shows the scale of them when everyone came together to have FUN. This was long before a split between Parkour/Freerun and before the birth of purists in Parkour. These days represented full on jamming in a totally attitude free environment. RIP

Concrete Jungle

Another one from the old skool. Back in the day we used to have a place called the Concrete Jungle where we hosted cartoon pics that were on the raw side. Was a great section and provided many laughs. We'd love to resurrect it but it isn't really fitting to be hosted on the main UF site. Now we just need to find a suitable place to host it? hmmmmm

Ghetto Banquet

When in Torquay hosting a series of school workshops, we did it all as a freebie on the basis that they'd cover our accommodation and food. Turning up as an almost full strength team, the organisers did their best to look after us and did a fantastic job. However, they had no idea how much food we can get through in any one sitting and after dinner everyone was still hungry. Seeing as it was too late to hit the shops, we retreated to our rooms and slept it off but Blue and Sticky on the other hand, were having none of it and decided to go on a hotel stealth mission. After an hour or so on the prowl, they came back with these goodies which they'd 'borrowed' from the hotel kitchens and titled their feast as the 'Ghetto Banquet'

Graf life

On a trip to yet another exotic place in the world. In this case, Singapore. Blue can't resist a bit of old fashioned vandalism....Glyph style.

UF KR3W

Back in the very beginning at Liverpool street. Here some members from the old 'UF KR3W' gather at the foot of the Leap of faith for a shot. You can tell how old this pic is as Bam was still going by the name of Thud.

Eidos HQ

The first time we were invited to playtest the PSP version of the 'Freerunning' game at the Eidos HQ as a team. On the way into the offices, there were images of Lara Croft (their most famous creation) everywhere. Here, Sticky gets to grips with her life sized statue and flicks a couple of shockers for the camera.

Barcelona beauties

When in Barcelona, Spain, shooting for a Toyota advert, we got a break long enough to hit the famous street of La Rambla. Here Asid gets accosted by some strange looking green 'thing'. Most of us moved away rapidly but Asid was seen to be exchanging phone digits and on our last night there, couldn't be found anywhere.

Where eagles fly

Most of the team have decided that the journey we're on is a mad enough one to mark the memories by way of getting tattoo's. Some have already got themselves branded and here, Blue shows his own set of wings that stood out and called his name at Mister Cartoon's.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas....Riiiight.

When sponsored by Boost mobile in the US, we were invited over to star in a documentary called 'Urban Running' for Ripe TV. The project saw us filming in New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles and was probably the one trip that stands out most for so many reasons. Boost mobile are well known for looking after their athletes and for this trip everything was 1st class. In particular, when in Las Vegas we were booked into the Mandalay bay hotel and everyone had their own apartments with plasma screens everywhere. While everyone was chilling, rinsing and lifting their jaws from the floor, an unphased Sticky, used his time well and decided (for no logical reason) to cake himself from head to toe in shaving foam.

Blast from the past

Way back when we were working on the Eidos 'Freerunning' game, we hooked up with an artist there who knocked these together for us. Not bad drawings but when you look at the detail on the hands, the guys have either got a serious case of Elephantitis or are products from the Anne Summers collection. Check how Asid and Hasan (the only muslims in our team) are depicted as dark terrorist like characters....bwahahahahaha
Pictured are - Asid, Bam, Blue, Ez, Hasan, Kerbie and Sticky.

Just another proto...

Here's a pic of the new RBK shoes made specifically for 'Parkour'. Erm...........Lovin' the Urban Ghetto styling.......crack out the Bape Sta's and let's have a party. Pic sent in by B. Random.

Alien V Predator

Quite possibly the largest head in Parkour. Rumour has it that Jashman scoop was sponsored based on the advertising space on his forehead alone. All that's needed to complete the set is a grill.

A Glyph hair ting

We've had people send in pics of their Glyph tattoo's before, but never of their hair being shaved into shape. Until now that is. Props to the barber for getting the specs right.

New Design

For a long while now our chief designer, James Wildi, has been churning out artwork for UF. Most of them are kept in an archive and never see the light of day, but some have been used for tee-shirts and on the UF site. One of his latest pieces and a firm favourite, is the Glyph beater design here. The original concept drawing (on the left) we felt was very bog standard and needed juicing up, so with a few well aimed cusses about the nature of his early design being gay, he beefed things up and we now have a hustler of an image (below left). Its still work in motion but gives an idea of where its going.....
The trainer in the pic represents the Glyph Industries concept design.














Blam!!!

5 Pointz

One of the most awe inspiring places we've hit yet. Here ez survey's the scene at New York's famous 5 Pointz building, which is totally covered in graf. It goes without saying that the Glyph now adorns the building. In fact it can be found all over the rooftop.

Thug life.....

Random shot of a Sutton thug taken at Royal Oak during the promotion of Casino Royale on DVD.

Give him a hand

While filming the Nokia X Factor advert in Elephant & Castle in London, the team soon got restless and the pranks started to unroll. Here we have Livewire caught on the end of a heavy duty back slap. The culprit being Sticky, had to do some serious begging to be let off the hook. The job in question turned out to be the easiest pay day ever for any UF team member, as what was initially a four man job, turned into a one man show with Blue hogging the limelight. All the other three (Asid, Livewire and Sticky) had to do was sit back and get paid to play. Even Fagin would tip his hat to that serious bit of rinsing.













Sticky and Livewire chill out in the shade while Blue sweats his nuts off in the blazing heat jumping around doing PARKWAR.

Hard at work

While on tour, some people think its all work and no play. Here Sticky kicks back while on the Redbull Beatriders tour in New York and prepares to go on another water bomb mission with Asid, Blue, Ez and Stephane.
Using pure stealth tactics, the 5 of them took on an entire dormitory full of bboys and absolutely wasted them. Armed with over 200 water bombs and 5 heavy duty pump action water assault rifles, an attack was put into effect that lasted for over an hour and resulted in the entire interior of the house getting a thorough soaking. The organisers weren't overly pleased but by the time they started whingeing, they were soaked too.










The Boom team

Catwire

Spotted in Derby, UK, prowling the streets at night. Also known as Chavwire or Pikeywire. Currently on the comeback trail after busting his legs in a kegging incident.

I can dance all day, I can dance all day....

A few months back some of the team took part in outdoor expedition training. Everyone brought random clothing to keep warm, but Kerbie decided to step up and rep in full kit freshly bought from the shops. Needless to say, he still had a miserable time and was just as covered in shit as the rest of us by the end.

Caught in the act

Disillusioned with the direction that Parkour is taking, Sticky takes drastic action and tries his hand at the gayest 'sport' in the World. Unknown to him, he gets caught in the act and named n shamed.

Adrenaline Junkie

In September of 2006 we were approached by Ginger TV, to see if we'd be interested in being involved in series 3 of Jack Osbourne's Adrenaline Junkies TV show. The original intention was to film in Thailand, but due to logistical and time constraints, attention was shifted to Paris and Lisbon before a decision was made to make London the focal point. The Plan of action was to spend 3 days with with the team which consisted of Jack and 5 of his recruits (Anthony, Becky, Georgie, Kie and Lisa). Day one would be spent at Moberly sports centre teaching them Freerun basics and assessing their proficiency, before hitting the streets of London to hopefully take them on a run from St Paul's to the Southbank.

The Glyph Unit in effect

Day 1 - In the gym
On the first day UF was repped by Bam, Ez, Jashman, Kerbie, Kie, Lewis, Livewire, Pip, Sticky and Stoney, with Bam, Ez and Sticky leading the way with teaching of the basics. In-between the rest of the guys gave demo's of some of the more ambitious techniques for the cameras.













Boom.....group shot!!!

Of Jack's group it was Kie who really got into it most. Coming from a background in Ninjitsu, he was really keen to get involved. Initially, the day started off with us thinking "WTF have we got ourselves into?" as nobody other than Jack and Kie seemed to really give a shit. But after some games and a demo, the mood swung in our favour and everyone began to get into the vibe. By the end of the day we got to the point where everyone was at a level where they tackled an assault course we'd set up, surprisingly well. At the end of the day we explained to everyone that we were very happy with the effort applied and that with a little bit of on location training, they'd be ready to tackle a basic street run.

Day 2 - On the Streets
Everyone arrives at St Paul's and they are all aching like mad from the gym session (bwahahahahaha). Sticky led them through a thorough warm up before the director decided to throw everyone in the deep end and call action pretty much instantly, with no prior walkthrough. This saw a bemused group set off on a run that never seemed to end. When they finally stopped, some were having asthma attacks and were all sweating profusely. A couple of people were actually crying (bwahahahahahaha again) but as they say, the show must go on and the director quickly shouted action again and off they all trundled. Was highly amusing to see, but equally as frustrating as we wanted to see the guys stepping up to try some techniques attributed to freerun as opposed to funrun.













Jack catches some quality hangtime

By the time we reached the Southbank, things started to get interesting and we saw things being spiced up a bit. While Kie was loving every minute and Jack was getting well and truly stuck in throwing down plenty of rolls on concrete, the others weren't keeping up too well. Anthony was plain struggling with a fitness level of zero, Becky had knackered her hip, Gerogie was running on a busted knee and Lisa was just having a truly miserable time. That said, they were still trying which was all anyone could have asked of them. Jack being Jack, wanted to step up and do something with some meat and bones on, so after consulting the stunt coordinator, Jim, we set up some boxes and mats for him to launch himself onto from height. As the Parkour purists cried into their raw egg and milk drinks, screaming about roofjumps and drops, everyone laughed and shouted "Freerun".













Blue fresh home from South Africa, explains to the guys how he got jacked at gunpoint

Day 3 - The last stretch
The last day followed much the same pattern as day 2 but due to poor weather, pick up shots were the main priority along with body cam shots. As the weather got better, more action was captured and as the finale skit, Jack and Kie stepped up to try their hand successfully in cat leaping the Imax walls. All in all, the whole experience was a really good one. The crew and recruits were all really great people and a real pleasure to work with. As for Jack, he was top class and aside from really getting into the swing of things, proved to be a really nice guy who joined in with kegging, telling offensive jokes and even adopted Sticky's knack of jamming his fingers in places they shouldn't be.













Wasting no time in getting Jack glyphed up for this pose