Ultimate Parkour Challenge

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| genre = Reality
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| runtime = 30 minutes

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| starring = Andy Bell
Travis Wong

| country = United States

| location = California

| language = English

| network = MTV

| first_aired = {{Start date|2009|10|22}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2010|06|11}}

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 12

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Ultimate Parkour Challenge is a miniseries that premiered on October 22, 2009 on MTV featuring the six of the top parkour and freerunning competitors from around the world expressing their styles against each other in a series of themed challenges filmed in California.{{cite web | url=https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/ultimate-parkour-challenge | title=Ultimate Parkour Challenge TV Review | Common Sense Media }} It was originally aired as a special, but a full miniseries aired in May 2010.{{cite web | url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/will-parkour-the-acrobatic-street-sport-become-a-pop-culture-hit-like-skateboarding/ | title=Will parkour, the acrobatic street sport, become a pop culture hit like skateboarding? | date=24 June 2010 }} The series is hosted by freestyle motocross and parkour enthusiast Andy Bell, and stylish freerunner/martial artist Travis Wong.

Hosts

Andy Bell: A former "Nitro Circus" FMX (freestyle motocross) rider.
Travis Wong: A former nationally ranked "forms and weapons" martial arts competitor.

2009-2010 Competitors

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! Competitor

! Age

! Hometown

! Background

! Parkour Team

! Known For/Style

! Achievements

Pip Andersen

| 19

| Taunton, England, UK

| Parkour trickster

| Urban Freeflow

| Despite being one of the most skilled and strongest Parkour athletes in the world, he is known best for his sense of humor and clownish antics

| *One of 8 featured Athletes in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Finalist in 2008 World Barclaycard Championships, *4th Place, 2007 World Freerunning Championships, *Appeared in a commercial for Swatch watches, Models for clothing and apparel companies

Daniel Arroyo

| 23

| Tampa, Florida

| Freerunner

| *One of 8 featured Athletes in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Achieved YouTube fame as the inventor of the "Cast Bomb", a very high-risk move

King David

| 26

| Las Vegas, Nevada

| Freerunner

| *Finalist, MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Underground YouTube sensation, *Most respected in the U.S. Parkour community

Ryan Doyle

| 25

| Liverpool, England, UK

| Martial Artist

| Freerunner

| Explosive corkscrew flips, spins, and other acrobatic moves harvested from a background as a renowned martial arts champion.

| *1st Place, 2007 Redbull Art of Motion, the first ever international freerunning competition, *UK Martial Arts Tricking Champion for 4 years running, *Finalist, MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, *Appeared on Discovery Channel's Fight Science, *Appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Ellen DeGeneres' stunt double

Daniel Ilabaca

| 22

| Liverpool, England, UK

| Freerunner

| *1st Place in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Raced against a Ferrari on German TV and won, *Appeared in numerous commercials for Toyota, Mercedes, & KSwiss, *One of the most watched freerunners, over 30 million YouTube views to his credit

Ben Jenkin

| 19

| Blackburn, England, UK

| Freerunner

| Urban Freeflow

| Nickname is "Jenx", a shortened version of his last name. Considered a protégé of fellow freerunner Daniel Ilabaca. Universally considered one of the next Parkour superstars.

| *3rd Place, 2008 Barclaycard World Freerunning Championships, *Taught a Parkour workshop at Camp Woodward in summer 2009.

Brian Orosco
(only in 2009 competition)

| 25

| San Francisco, California

| Stuntman

| Team Tempest

| Nickname: "Nosole". His "superman flips" while freerunning a course.

| Featured as one of 8 featured Athletes of the 2009 premiere season of MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge. *Competed on several episodes of Japan's popular athletic TV series Ninja Warrior competition on G4.

Tim Shieff

| 21

| Derby, England, UK

| Former professional breakdancer

| Urban Freeflow

| *1st Place, 2009 Barclaycard World Freerun Championships, *Finalist, MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *2nd Place, 2008 World Freerunning Championships, *2nd Place, 2009 Red Bull Art of Motion Championships, *Appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, *Featured in the NY Daily News, *Collected over 3.5 million YouTube views in the last six months

Mike Turner

| 20

| Santa Barbara, California

| Hollywood stuntman

| This all-American, 6'2" former soccer player is famous for his incredible "ups", high jumps, athleticism, and fantastic dexterity.

| *One of 8 featured athletes in MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, *Master Instructor of the WFPF/Equinox Fitness Parkour Program, *Appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Oleg Vorslav

| 22

| Daugavpils, Latvia

| Internet sensation

| *Featured dancer and stuntman in Madonna's "Jump" music video, *Also performed with the pop superstar on her globetrotting world tour, *Most viewed parkour video "ever"—his "Russian Climber" had collected over 50 million views