“You can jump even farther”: Tony Hawk and Pasha Petkuns talk about their experiences in the sport

“You can jump even farther”: Tony Hawk and Pasha Petkuns talk about their experiences in the sport

A new documentary about the history of parkour and freerunning with world stars.

Parkour is not just a sport. It is a real way of self-expression. And if now it can rightfully be called a full-fledged discipline, but before it was not so.

Pushing Progression, a 26-minute documentary about the history of competitive freerunning with commentary from the world’s stars, has been released.

Tony Hawk, Jason Paul and Pasha Petkuns talk about their experiences and the formation of parkour from its inception to the moment the environment transcended the sport.

Tony Hawk, a skateboarding legend, notes that at the heart of any sport is the idea of development. And that’s what attracted him when he got up on a board.

No matter how far you’ve already progressed, you can jump even further, no matter the type of terrain. Is there a limit to development? I think there isn’t. There is no limit. I can’t and don’t want to slow down.

Pasha Petkuns, three-time Red Bull Art of Motion champion says that in the beginning almost nobody knew anything about parkour.

“You were looked at askew on the street. People didn’t understand what it was we were doing. We had to come out of the shadows to get the status of “sport”, to give it popularity. Pioneers in new disciplines show the way to others, they determine how far everything will go, they show young people that everything is possible. In the formative years of a new sport, it’s the pioneers who start doing things a little differently,” says Petkuns.

You can watch the movie at the link. Share your impressions in the comments.