Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Vaults 101 & 102 are 2 of the first parkour videos I ever made (early 2005). They're also the worst *and* best videos I ever made 😂
At the time, it was a challenge to find anyone to train with or learn from, online or IRL. I couldn’t find anyone in Colorado. YouTube didn’t exist yet. The best parkour videos were hiding all over the Internet. Some took all night to download on my dial-up modem!
I made Vaults 101 & 102 because I was so excited to learn more parkour. I thought vaults were extra cool. I was amazed to see so many variations. I wanted to collect all of the vaults to study and share!
I was still a parkour newbie, and also new to making videos. Stumbling my way around Windows Movie Maker produced these glorious results 💀 We’ve come a long way since!
While I never uploaded Vaults 101 & 102 to YouTube, a few random accounts shared it over the years. Apparently, lots of people found it useful at some point in their parkour journeys.
After Jason Paul mentioned Vaults 101 a few days ago, I was surprised to hear how many people remembered the video but didn’t know I made it. Makes sense since I didn’t use my real name in the video!
Instead, I made it under the name “Demon”—my Urban Freeflow forum login, aka your parkour name. When signing up for UFF, I never thought the name would stick with me for years. I simply chose “Demon” because it was my high school mascot and I didn’t know what else to use 🤷♂️
It makes me happy to know that people still think fondly of Vaults 101 & 102. It’s comically bad by today’s standards but also proof of how much parkour has developed since 2005. Here’s to finally giving it a belated but permanent home on my YouTube channel!
cheers,
Ryan
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Vaults 101 & 102 are 2 of the first parkour videos I ever made (early 2005). They're also the worst *and* best videos I ever made 😂
At the time, it was a challenge to find anyone to train with or learn from, online or IRL. I couldn’t find anyone in Colorado. YouTube didn’t exist yet. The best parkour videos were hiding all over the Internet. Some took all night to download on my dial-up modem!
I made Vaults 101 & 102 because I was so excited to learn more parkour. I thought vaults were extra cool. I was amazed to see so many variations. I wanted to collect all of the vaults to study and share!
I was still a parkour newbie, and also new to making videos. Stumbling my way around Windows Movie Maker produced these glorious results 💀 We’ve come a long way since!
While I never uploaded Vaults 101 & 102 to YouTube, a few random accounts shared it over the years. Apparently, lots of people found it useful at some point in their parkour journeys.
After Jason Paul mentioned Vaults 101 a few days ago, I was surprised to hear how many people remembered the video but didn’t know I made it. Makes sense since I didn’t use my real name in the video!
Instead, I made it under the name “Demon”—my Urban Freeflow forum login, aka your parkour name. When signing up for UFF, I never thought the name would stick with me for years. I simply chose “Demon” because it was my high school mascot and I didn’t know what else to use 🤷♂️
It makes me happy to know that people still think fondly of Vaults 101 & 102. It’s comically bad by today’s standards but also proof of how much parkour has developed since 2005. Here’s to finally giving it a belated but permanent home on my YouTube channel!
cheers,
Ryan
△ Our teams & schools:
→ apexmovement.com
