-The whole movement started in France,
and it's been around for 15 to 20 years.
-It's all about self-expression.
Your environment is your canvas, and your body is the paintbrush.
-It's a legitimate excuse for adults to play.
-All it requires is a creative mind, a strong body,
and shoes, if you want.
-It can be summed up in two words.
It's just, "Why not?"
Our world these days is so ordered.
There are so many signs and directions
telling us what to do and what not to do.
Those kinds of things kind of seep into the back of our mind,
and so we start to become conditioned
and very predictable.
There's no framework for freerunning.
It's just -- It's free.
-In my experience, there's really nothing else like it.
To me, it's a lifestyle.
It's, "Let me be me."
-I think the greatest part of freerunning
is the mental outlet.
I could be having just a total crap day,
and then I go out and train for 20 minutes,
and I've completely forgotten
about everything else in the world.
It's very, very similar to meditation.
I think a lot of people start out
based on the attraction of the movement itself
just 'cause it's so cool.
It's similar to falling in love for the first time.
You get those butterflies in your stomach.
You go to sleep, and you dream about it.
You wake up, and you get excited to go do it.
I decided that this was gonna be something
that I was gonna make part of my life
for the rest of my life.
-Being a gymnast in college, I developed an eating disorder.
I had no confidence.
After that, I moved out to L.A.
to pursue my dream of being a stuntwoman.
One of my former teammates was being trained by Victor Lopez.
Seeing what they were doing,
I just knew that that's exactly what I wanted to do.
And I just remember telling him like, "Hey. One day,
I'm gonna be the best female freerunner in the world."
-It's awesome to have a place that you can go to
and do anything you want
and never have somebody say, "You can't do that."
Look at it. It's just --
It looks like it's moving sitting still.
You just -- You see it, and you want to go jump on it.
-Team Tempest is a group of freerunners --
16 guys and me as the only girl.
I'm not naive.
Like, I know that I can't jump as high or as far as the guys.
But what's so cool about freerunning
is I can make it my own.
-We're a family first and athletes second.
We lift together. We train together.
We have fun together.
It's the whole package.
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There is that one, you know, fundamental point
that we all agree on,
and it's that passion that brings us all together.
-It's kind of like a gang in a way, you know,
like, a positive gang.
-You can pretty much go anywhere in the world and meet somebody.
-I now have lifelong friends from Sweden, from Thailand,
Germany, Australia.
-The sense of community --
I mean, it really is family, you know?
Everybody wants to see you succeed.
-I would really seriously take a bullet for these guys.
-We have our hard days where, you know, nothing seems to work,
and we're falling and scraping ourselves.
And then you find a line
that just fits together so smoothly,
and you hit that moment,
and you feel that kind of sense of control and satisfaction.
-We work our asses off to get to where we are.
Like, we don't start doing these crazy flips the first day.
This stuff doesn't come easy.
Like, if you want something in life,
like, you have to get out there and get after it.
Everybody has to start somewhere.
You just start practicing jumping on a little curb.
If you put enough hard work and dedication and passion into it,
like, you're gonna be successful.
-The more you kind of delve into it,
it becomes kind of a metaphor for life.
You start to see things differently.
You don't put so many barriers in your way.
You don't make excuses anymore.
-I will be involved in the freerunning community
for the rest of my life.
This sport has really changed my life in every way.
It's done so much for me,
and my teammates, Team Tempest, have, you know, really helped me
realize what my dreams were
and being able to accomplish them
and just, you know, live life to its fullest.
Above anything else, I think it's given me the confidence
to accept myself for who I truly am.
-Do something that scares you every day.
You don't necessarily need to jump past your boundaries,
but keep pushing them,
because you find out what you can really do
when you push yourself.
-The best thing about freerunning
is realizing that you can do things
that you never thought possible.