Free Running: A Beginner’s Guide on Training in Parkour and Free Running Paperback – August 24, 2014

It's SUPER basic. Many of the pages are dedicated to the "diet"- an Atkinsesque plan. Not for my son.

I would give it 0 if I could. It's a scam. It's like the author copy pasted the same 3 paragraphs that are neither useful or informative. You can learn more about parkour and free running by spending 10 minutes on google. There are no illustrations or instructions that are helpful. Sadly, some of the information is contradictory to itself. For example, one paragraph starts with "Parkour does not involve acrobatics..." The very next paragraph starts with " Free running is an art related to parkour that involves acrobatic maneuvers..." There are only 25 pages, with huge type, double spaced dedicated to free running. The rest of the book is a "free" book about a ketogenic diet that was included as a "bonus." Most of them are dedicated to FAQs. The feeble attempts at instruction are generic and not useful. For example, Basic Move 4: Landing and Falling, the author cautions you to figure out where you're going to land before you jump and then goes on to recommend that you land with the balls of your feet touching the ground first, and when you contact the ground bend your knees further but don't over do it so you can roll in a diagonal direction to break your fall. Get on google for 10 minutes and you'll be able to write a better book than this. Let me know if you do, I might like to buy it.

the only thing i learned from this book is that i wasted my money. This may be useful for a kid, but if you have any athletic ability whatsoever, you will be sorely dissappointed.

Oh my God, there is nothing nice I could write or recommend about this book. The only Parkour move described or illustrated throughout the whole book is the guy on the front cover, the history of Parkour looks and sounds like it has been downloaded from wiki, and then the second half of the book is about a diet with a fancy name which is ridiculous because I bought a book to improve my Parkour not a book to tell me about how eating more fruit and veg is good for me. So to all those of you reading this review... DO NOT INVEST IN THIS BOOK.

This product is a total waste of money. How can a beginners guide to free running have no pictures, little details about the basic movements and have half the pages dedicated to ketone diet advice.There are typos throughout and the book quality is more leaflet than paperback.Utter rubbish.