Parkour: The Complete Guide To Parkour and Freerunning For Beginners

This book bills itself as "the complete guide to parkour and freerunning for beginners." It is not. While I appreciate brevity, this book is so brief as to be completely useless for the beginner.The first few chapter provide a brief history of parkour which is interesting albeit superficial. I actually applaud the author for including a short historical note at the beginning of the book. Even though it doesn't offer any practical advice for the beginning student, it's useful to know where one's hobby comes from. However, that lack of practical advice continues throughout the book.My greatest problem with the book is that, though it does offer brief written descriptions of a handful of exercises and movements that would be useful for the beginning practitioner of this sport, it fails to offer any photographs demonstrating the proper execution of these techniques. Despite the inclusion of an early chapter regarding safety, the lack of proper pedagogy multiplies the risk that the beginning student trying the exercises with no other instruction would make a potentially injurious mistake.While the book represents a valiant attempt to provide a succinct introduction, it ultimately fails to provide any instruction that the reader can actually apply without acquiring further information from other resources. For that reason, I can't recommend this book.As an inconsequential side note, the book also suffers from some editorial oversights. These don't impair understanding and would be completely forgivable if the information provided were more useful, but in the absence of demonstrative photographs, the reader's eye is often distracted by the occasional typographical error.

This Book is okey. it is actually only 30 pages long. Although considering it only $9.95 it is pretty good. this book does not give much information on how to do Parkour moves and more focus's on the history of Parkour (which is cool but does not need to be the entire book)

This might have gone betterwith the kids had it been a CD or DVD. Easy read with lots of information.

I've been interested in parkout and free running for a while and this book gave me a huge boost. The Complete guide has some great practice drills that are easy to do anywhere and really has some good stuff especially on landings and rolls. It's pretty physically demanding and a thorough recommended exercise routine is included. Some great resources towards the end of the book and found it to be well worth the money!

I found book interesting but smaller than I thought it would actually be.

a little thin on content. could use pictures and/or diagrams

Nice introductory book on Parkour. Simple and short. As I am not an expert on Parkour, I cannot say if there is something wrong in the book.

My son likes the book and has learned quite a bit from it.

30 pages long and not a single picture in a book attempting to teach you basic techniques of this movement art? Poor. Avoid. 👎🏻

Could have included more pictures and tecniques, a little to short..

E' un libro abbastanza mediocre, completamente privo di immagini e con spiegazioni non facilissime visto che descrive a parole movimenti complicati che si capirebbero bene solo tramite immagini. Breve e poco utile, meglio farsi spiegare da qualche conoscente che lo pratica per hobby.

This is not a book, but a pamphlet!!!! so 20$ for a pamphlet is a joke. and since this was a gift , we looked very cheap giving this "book" as a gift! We could not find the number of pages anywhere with the mobile apps!