Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Parkour - Free Running in Jerusalem

This is how Free Running is uniting Arabic and Israeli teenagers

Dani, 17, performs a jump flip

 Dani, 17, back flips in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem - a bustling thoroughfare that had been a terrorist target in the Second Intifada

Ibrahim, 16, pushes off on a tree near the city walls

 Yazan, 17, back flips on a road in south Jerusalem

 Dani, 17, side-flips on a painted wall

 Yazan, 17, also shows off a side flip, this time in an alley in the Old City

Ibrahim, 16, on a dome atop David's Tomb on Mount Zion

Matanya Tausig's outstanding photographic project. Courtesy of The Independent 

1 comment:

  1. Awesome stuff. I'm a NYPK (New York Parkour) representative from Connecticut. I'm here in Israel for 9 months and would love to train with people from around here and show me some spots. Email me! zmaller@Mac.com
    Zachary Maller

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