I have recently returned from holiday, in April and August of this year I was lucky enough to visit New York and then Los Angeles respectively. While parkour was not the reason for these trips I couldn't go all that way and not at least check out some of the areas. So I made contact with some of the guys in each location with the aim to be able to spend at least one day with them so I could not only see the different places these traceurs train but also so I could see the differences in other pk communities outside of London.

France. Sarcelles. Birthplace of the Art of Displacement. That's where we began last week's training days with the Yamakasi founders Chau Belle-Dinh and Yann Hnautra and several of the Majestic Force team. And what a place - an incredible forest carved in two by an enormous wall, surrounded by trim-trail training obstacles perfect for movement training. Here the spirit of the discipline was born before it moved to Evry and Lisses in the city, and it's easy to see why.