This is a clip of a future knee replacement candidate racing down the 999-step ‘Stairway To Heaven, located in Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, China. The stairs have been modded with additional parkour obstacles, and I can feel my ankles snapping just watching. Could I win the race?

This is a video of parkour athlete Nico Fischer demonstrating his skills by repeatedly (and smoothly) jump-climbing up and down two parallel walls without touching the ground. His friend Aziz gave him the nickname ‘Elevator-Man’, which I’m adding to my list of blackballed houseguests. I made the mistake of letting

Proving he’s not the man to compete against in the floor is lava, this is a video of traceur (a parkour practitioner) and Instagram user pkguywithglasses making his way around his entire home without ever touching the ground. Impressive! Also, I hope he owns that place and isn’t renting it

This is a worthwhile and beautifully shot video of freerunner Calen Chan dressed as Ezio Auditore da Firenze from Assassin’s Creed II (and Brotherhood and Revelations) performing some very impressive parkour in and around Khiva, Uzbekistan. The video comes complete with Ezio giving chase and doing battle with costumed enemies.

This is a video of explainer of things and self proclaimed man with no athletic abilities Tom Scott attempting to do some parkour under the guidance of Access Parkour instructor Hedge. He, uh, he wasn’t lying when he said he had no athletic ability. He jumps over a handrail and

This is a video of the members of parkour team STORROR playing an extreme game of the floor is lava by taking turns attempting to parkour their way across Full Fathom Five, a seafarer memorial sculpture created by artist Michael Dan Archer in Portishead, England. The sculpture consists of 108

Like I needed a reminder that robots can and will hunt me down given the opportunity, this is the latest video from harbingers of the robot apocalypse Boston Dynamics starring their Atlas humanoid robot performing a little parkour. So, if you were wondering if you could out-parkour a killer robot

This is some Ring security cam footage of a dog briefly demonstrating its parkour skills at a backyard party, presumably to garner the attention of the women there. I feel you, dog. Reminds me of the time I went to a party and tried to impress the ladies by performing