At the end of the Swatch shoot we had a chance to kick back and pimp it up. Back row - Copdom, Pip, Livewire, Bam. Front row - Neil, Ez and Sticky.

Only announced 7 days prior, we expected about 10 people to turn up to our first outdoor jam in 4 years. PK Day - OG turned out to be a mammoth one with so many highlights. 100+ people all united by Parkour/Freerun and there to simply train and have fun. Classic old skool vibes.....

ez plays santa and dishes out the freebies. Within seconds 50 x backpacks and over a thousand stickers were snapped up by the hungry pack.

Kerbie and Bam garmed up and representing. Kerbie can be seen sporting a circa 2006 exclusive Seidojin tee (only 7 were ever made) while Bam sports an adidas number.

ez repping a murdered out glyph.

Stoney (complete with black eye after getting a beating from some local priests) and Molotov look on unimpressed with their fellow team members. What used to be a serious team has decended into one of pure filth and a jackass mentality.

But when in doubt, a human glyph usually does the trick to get things back on track.

Neil tries to figure out other uses for the FRPK wristbands.

While Sticky opts for a more vulgar approach but gets merked by the tiny red dot.

New kid on the block (Majora) was told to earn his stripes as part of his initiation and what better way to do it, than shove your fist in your mouth? 100 cool points awarded on the spot.

Usually when someone gets taken into the sponsored team, the running of events goes like this.....Get invited on board, receive contract and a cheque for £10,000, get sent some glyph merchandise and then receive extensive training in the art of flicking a shocker. With Frazer, he decided to take it upon himself to start flicking shockers before receiving his proper training. As a result, he screwed it up by trying to teach his girlfriend (in the white) a watered down version which has lost him some brownie points with the rest of the team.

Having got rid of our French soap dodgers a while back, Neil stepped up to fill the void of smelliest team member. However, due to a mishap with a bottle of washing up liquid and a fountain, he was 'cleansed' and no longer smells like a bag of shite.



Ahhhh, look at them having fun.



A landmark day for Neil who not only washed his entire body, but got to wear his dads y-fronts for the first time ever. Gotta love family bonding.

Having spent a long time locked away editing our Black Ops video offering, Bam decided that he had to get away from the doom and gloom to recharge his batteries. So where did he go? The fucker got on the phone to Maxi Priest, headed off to Jamaica and basically chilled out big style for 10 days. Pictured here taking a 'taxi'.

Inspired by Banksy, Sticky decided to try his hand at a bit of stencil graff at night down at Southbank. Rule number one when getting into some existencilism - DON'T GET CAUGHT! Here we see Sticky being papped while in the act. Total shutdown!!

Tools of the trade.

With Kie constantly being tagged as the only girl in UF because of his flowing locks, he took the step to eliminate his gayness completely, by getting Pip's mum to do the honours and give him a going over with the clippers. Whilst we applaud the fact that he stepped up for the chop and now looks a little bit more like a man, the number 6 graded finish has a striking resemblance to a famous 1970's comic called Dick Emery, which is NOT so cool.

UF sponsored athlete, DjuXa, from Latvia has just been rumbled as a bit of a headbanger before his PK days. Is he a hairy metal head or a troll? You decide.

At Microsoft's head office, we were engaged to deliver a series of dynamic performances as part of their 'Heroes' campaign. Because it was staged indoors, a purpose built set of obstacles were shipped in for us to use consisting of scaffolding, vault boxes and a cat leap wall. This allowed the guys (Asid, Blue, Livewire, Neil, Pip and Sticky) to let loose in front of the 300 strong crowd and really crank things up a notch. As a result, the whole event was an outstanding success and outside of representing in our usual pro manner, we had plenty of time for some fun stuff.



Asid collars poor Pip and preaches about the benefits of converting to scientology. Pip listened for 5 mins before dribbling from the corner of his mouth and falling asleep.



These guys were blacked up to represent the heroes silhouettes, but they obviously didn't think about the possibility of upsetting anyone and being branded racists. We tried to get Blue to act offended and refuse to perform until the 'situation' was addressed, but he couldn't keep a straight face from laughing so much. So we opted to just get a group shocker pic. For anyone who can't tell, Blue is on the far right.



One of the obvious things when the guys were jamming, were all the females coming out to check out all the fuss. This saw plenty of requests for photo's and for the guys to perform topless (which of course they did). Making the most of a photo opportunity, we corrupted these ladies into striking shockers by telling them it was the universal freerunning hand sign. Gotta love the art of persuasion.

In January we were commissioned to shoot an ad for electronics giants, LG. For the release of their new Plasma tv (which is all picture and has no borders) we were briefed to 'take it to the edge'. Starring in the ad were Blue and Kerbie, who stepped up to run riot around the rooftops of Soho.
In this pic Sticky surveys the bigger of the jumps. Below lies a box rig made up of 200 cardboard boxes, crash mats and a tarpaulin cover. This 'should' ensure a soft landing but on the first jump, Kerbie (pictured in pink to the left of the mats) landed awkwardly and sprained his ankle badly. As a result, he had to be carted off to hospital and we had to call in Molotov who was sleeping at the time. Being the true star he is, he got a cab over, did the jump twice and then fucked off back home to sleep.



Here we see Blue on the left and Molotov on the right as they fly through the air.

Our third visit to the Royal Marine Commando's training grounds (CTCRM) in Lympstone, Devon, saw the U$F TV film unit roll in to capture the final segments for our new Black Ops video. During our 2 day visit we filmed a night stealth run featuring Livewire, Kie, Neil and Jashman from the Glyph Unit and Sean, Ratty and Si from the Marines as they moved in around Exeter city centre. The second day saw Ez, Neil and Sticky attack the Commando's 6 mile endurance run, which was a killer, but you'll see for yourselves when Black Ops is released. Outside of the filming (as per usual when the guys get together) pranks and games were in full effect. None of us can wait for the next project to unroll as the Commando's are both inspirational and funny as f**k to be around.


Bam with his weapon of choice for the stealth run



Neil before shouting "Say hello to my lil friend" and then running off screaming into the woods



Sticky taking no prisoners and collecting STC scalps by the dozen. BOOM HEAD SHOT!!



Sean foolishly allows himself to be on the receiving end of one of Sticky's games. In this case, blood was drawn from a whipping and full credit needs to be given to Sean for taking it without so much as a groan. When it came to Sticky's turn, he whinged like a bitch and ended up getting away very lightly. Jashman wasn't so lucky and now has his very own red stripe to prove it.

This picture of Sticky with Jashman has been unearthed from their school days and is valid proof that we've at last, found someone with a bigger head than Sticky's widescreen one. In recent years Jash's body has balanced out and grown in proportion with his skull but as this early pic shows, he was once king of the shiny forehead brigade. For that alone, he now gets the title of 'Biggest head in Parkour'.

During our time at the Royal Marine Commando's training grounds in Lympstone, Devon, Sticky got dumped off the rope regain with Neil and showed an uncanny likeness to a certain beaver from Canada. Separated at birth? You decide....

In Prague after another highly successful shoot, ez tries to style it out by chomping on a cigar. Being a non smoker, as soon as someone offered to light it up, he could be found trying to offload it quick time.

In Prague, Czech Republic, after a shoot with DHL in freezing cold conditions. Here at the wrap party, we see the normally teetotal Blue, after being coerced into a Redbull and Vodka drinking comp with ez. Midway through the night, some bastard got a round of tequila shots in and here we see Blue after taking a hit of cinamon, downing the shot and then killing it off with a twist of lemon.



Finding it hard to shake off the zing, Blue freaks out. Wrrrrrrrrrrecked!!



In no time at all Blue passed out and in his sleeping state, became the subject of a few pranks. Here we see him being stitched up to look like he's been doing lines. Notice the drunken attention to detail with frazzles being meticulously placed all over his head. *NB......No narcotics were used in this pic. The 'evidence' was captured with use of pitta bread crumbs. However, Blue was mortified when we told him the next morning that he'd been doing class A's all night.

With Kerbie, Livewire and Sticky working in Las Vegas for our project with Spike TV for their annual Video Game Awards, the guys got to hang out with a whole host of celebs.

At the awards all pimped out.



Here we see them with the Mac Daddy of Boxing - Don King.



Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters begs to hang out with Kerbie. Reluctantly he agrees.



Livewire gets himself some man-love.



Wrestler Kurt Angle gets a quick squeeze from Sticky.



Kerbie with Spiderman creator, Stan Lee.



The guys with living acting legend, Samuel L Jackson.

Fresh from being taught 'Parkour' for the Extreme sports channel/Royal Marines Commando challenge, Capt Sean Lerwill throws it all back in our face by taking up Freerunning. In all seriousness, the whole Commando squad took to the discipline like ducks to water and as seen in the pic, Sean has been getting in plenty of practice of his own.

As part of the Motorola RAZR2 promotion, Kerbie, Livewire and Sticky had to hit the streets of Birmingham. Here they session the famous bronze bull statue at the Bull Ring.
The Mexican mouse, he say booooooooooolsheeeeeeeeeeet!!

Hoping that this pic had been buried in the UF vaults forever, this nice little snap has just resurfaced to haunt Sticky. bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
Set up as part of the Vauxhall Tribes promotion, Sticky and Kerbie were coerced into appearing in some rank girls mag. And they say that there's no such thing as bad news.....

With Avid Merrion being ill, Blue got the call from Channel 4 to step in and do Bedtime With Bear for the beginning of the new series. Originally he wasn't up for it, but when they waved £5K under his nose...............

October 25th saw Sticky and Ez deliver a Parkour workshop to the 4th Battalion of the Royal Engineers. It was the first time that Parkour had ever been taught to the army and it won't be the last. Turned out to be a massive success with all the soldiers stepping up to attack everything thrown their way with varying levels of success. Here we see a group shot with almost everyone flicking a shocker.

Not content with coming first at the 'Big Trick 3' event in Germany, Livewire hooked up with local photographer, Salajin, to take some action shots. She wasted no time in convincing him that regular Parkour action pics had been done to death already and to get his rat out instead. All done in the name of art. Riiiiiiight.

Sticky tries to large it up but being dressed like a cross between Freddy Krueger and an extra from a Boy George video, he fails. Shutdown!

For a while now we've kept the truth about Steve the rapper quiet, but now is the time to reveal that he's the latest edition to our 'street team' and you don't get much more street than Steve. Finding a homeless man at Southbank is no big deal, but with Steve, we've unearthed a gem who can rap with the world's finest. Since meeting him we've hooked him up with sponsorship and whenever we hit London for a media opportunity, Steve is always on hand to spit some lyrics and spice up the day. He even managed to start a fight with the usually placid Blue, at a recent MTV shoot and for that alone, he deserves his stripes. Here we see him gatecrashing the Kevin Zacher shoot and in no time at all, was serving up cold lyrics to amuse everyone.
Not ones to miss a photo opportunity, Sticky and Livewire got up close and personal. For most, the smell would have killed it but having had a former team mate being a soap dodger, they were used to it and weren't deterred in the slightest.
Wandering off to the London eye, Steve continued spitting for anyone who would listen. Here he encounters another street performer and rolls off some lyrics about a headless chicken to Rihanna's 'Under my umbrella' song. Class!
Steve, look at the lens bruv. We want a profile shot. He tries his best but in his altered state of being absolutely wasted, he can't get his eyes to work properly. After 6 or 7 snaps, this was the closest he got to nailing it.
As always, after 10 mins in his company, we get bored and try to lose him. Here we see him saying "Its all good in the hood" after we've just slipped him a tenner for beer and fags. Until the next time.......

During our photoshoot with award winning photographer, Kevin Zacher, Sticky couldn't resist getting his ass out for this photo opportunity down at Southbank.

During the Motorola roadshow, Livewire and Sticky decided to empty 2 packs of plasters and cover their faces completely. Huuuuuuuge improvement!

For our up and coming 2008 Connex project in Las Vegas with JCB, we've had to spend time at their Midlands based HQ to play around with their heavy machinery. With the production team mapping out the ground to replicate the performance area, ez and Bam had to get to grips with the 'Loadalls' and figure out what could and couldn't be done. Here we see Bam testing out the roof for a proposed cat leap from a central stage platform. Performing aside, the team can't wait to get back to Las Vegas again. The last time around Asid, Blue, ez and Sticky had the time of their lives filming with Mad Media and Boost Mobile. This time around we could have as many as 8 athletes there running riot. hmmmmm

Location: Portland, USA and with Bam and Sticky previously doing a high tempo job in Prague, they were expecting more of the same in the US for the second leg of the shoot. However, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the vibe was much more relaxed and as a result, found themselves with plenty of time to venture out on their own. Here we see them dabbling with Sticky's SLR and Bam's fish eye lens in their downtime.

Prague was a fantastic place for Parkour and everywhere you looked, opportunities presented themselves. Another very clear thing was how prominent street art is there, with literally every wall being covered in graf. Here we see Asid pointing our where he's going to add his own piece later on during a night stealth mission.

September 2007 and Kerbie, Livewire and Sticky get stuck into the Motorola RAZR2 campaign. The project itself was cool enough with the guys shooting a viral video and then performing at various cities. The downside was the gheytto shiz they had to wear in the process, which was a cross between Hong Kong Phooey and The Village people.

UF sponsored athlete, Stoney, decided to take a gap year from Uni and instead of taking the easy path of fame n fortune through the 'street circus', he opted to work in a cathedral as an assistant. There haven't been any reports of any strange incidents yet, but we are all betting that its only a matter of time before he has to bash the bishop. Right now there are rumours going around that the priests are already calling him their 'lil bitch'.

During their photoshoot in Portland, USA, Bam and Sticky found themselves with plenty of free time to rinse all their money on designer clothes. In the process, they saw an American Apparel store and decided to tick off 'wearing the whackest clothes you can find' from their to do list. Here we see Sticky in a fetching white number and Bam looking ravishing in his two piece titled the 'lady killer'. The pictures taken in the Anne Summers shop with crotchless panties and fishnets will have to wait for glyph ting V.2.

Kerbie in gangster mode for the Daily Mail shoot. Rumours are floating about that he decked the photographer and went through his pockets to 'borrow' 300 quid and the keys to his Bentley. You can take the boy out of Sutton but can't take Sutton out of the boy.....

Fresh back from filming in Prague and it was straight back into action with our seminar in Camberley, Surrey. Nice turnout and positive minds all round. Joining us for some fun was Blue, sporting his busted hand. As pissed as he was about not being able to join in properly, he still cranked out a shocker which showed that his priorities are still in place.

It is common knowledge that the UF glyph has armour-like properties, but nobody has ever captured it on film before.
Here we see Asid wearing a red 'Street prophet' top from our range after being asked if he would do an advert with Wendes for Lillets. Before Asid could say "Fuc..... the glyph took over and went into shutdown mode. Now THAT'S what you call protection.

With Ez and Sticky training for a series of marathon and triathlon events, Sticky literally dived in head first, taking his training to extremes and ending up in an Italian hospital bed. Although he is a strong county level swimmer, while on a 1.5 hour swim in harsh conditions, assisted by a coach in a canoe, things took a turn for the worst and he was swept against a pier by the strong tide and battered relentlessly by on-coming waves. An air ambulance and rescue team had to be called in and once pulled clear, he was whisked off to A&E with severe cuts and bruises along with suffering from hypothermia and shock. What a muppet!!

Who are these fools pictured with phones? As part of a stock library shoot we did aaaaaaages ago, we had to dress up in suits and jump around a bit in London. Was an ok time but luckily, the money paid was lucrative to fund a trip for Sticky and Bam to go to the US, where some real clothes were purchased in the form of Bape and LRG. Who said that money doesn't buy you happiness? More than likely some guy signing on and bitching about being hard done by.

During the No More Landmines shoot, Lewis was singled out to be dressed up as a chav and told to get himself up a lamppost. Thinking that they were making things easier for him, one of the production team attached a saddle which protruded and at first, it looked fine. However, they had him stay up there for about an hour and when he finally got down, he could be heard cursing anyone within earshot and moaning constantly about his sore arse. Quality!!

As part of a the 'No More Landmines' project, we completed a 2 day shoot at Battersea Park in London. Members from the core performance team, sponsored team and moderators on our forum were featured (Asid, Blue, ez, Sticky, Neil, Molotov, Lewis, Pip, Kie, Bandit and Biomech). As with most shoots, it was at times, a painfully slow process and this served to bring on the fun n games quicker than anticipated. A great deal of it involved fighting but in between punches, pinches and chokes, we managed to trick Neil into eating 4 flying ants (earning him the new nickname of Anthony) and managed to laugh hard as Molotov was dressed up as a postman and Pip as a carpet depot salesman. The finished piece will go online as a viral, will be shown in cinemas and could possibly make its way onto TV.

As part of a 7 page spread we did with the Sunday Times, Bam got to play the part of Bond kitted out in Prada garms and accompanied by some fine ladies. Here we see him being snapped mid flight going over a car and below, we see his love interest in the form of Stiffler's mum.

Here we see Spidey kitted out in his Euro fag shorts which won him many looks from passers by. The night before we'd been watching the '40 year old virgin' movie and these shorts prompted the infamous line "You know how I know you're gay?".

Monte Carlo was a beautiful place with so much to do at night. But being lazy asses, the guys opted to rinse the room service and get wasted on the alcohol in the mini bar. As a result, the ghetto jacuzzi was thought up and here we see Sticky, Asid and Bam getting a little too familiar with each other.

With the main Mercedes-Benz performances done and dusted in Monte Carlo, Monaco, it was time to hit the beach. Here we see a newly shaved Shrekwire doing a spot of sky diving.

During our last day in Rome, the whole team were invited up onto the main stage to say our goodbye's and thanks to everyone for such a great experience. As Stefano (the organiser) gave a little speech, ez motioned to Blue after seeing some cable ties lying around. He stated that with just 2 little cable ties, he could incapacitate a man and render him helpless. Just as Blue finished saying "Bullshit", ez looped the ties over his fingers and tightened them as quick as a flash. Realising that he was in trouble and in no position to escape, Blue started to panic, especially as the team were taking their turn to speak to the crowd. As soon as everyone realised what was going on, they burst into laughter which just made Blue panic even more. Eventually some wire cutters were found and he was released to a big cheer.

In Rome, Italy and having the best team trip experience yet. Who of all people steps up to kill it dead? Yep, Sticky the man best known for his random hotel hijinks decided to use his time to set up an 'Egg and Poon' race. Without going into too much detail, it involved a toilet, a bidet, a bog brush and plenty of heaving. Plain nasty!

With workshops and performances complete, a tour of Rome was called for and the sights weren't hard to find.

With Livewire looking like a right plum sporting his badger rug haircut, an 11th hour meeting was called before the team were due to go on stage for the Mercedes gig, and a drastic decision was made to unleash the Barcelona clippers once again. Yes, he kicked up a stink and whinged like a little bitch, but he had no choice other than to cave in to peer pressure.

June 2007 and quite possibly the best team trip to date, with so much being crammed into the time we had at hand for the Parkour Italy gathering. A lot of ground has been covered over the last 4 and a half years since the birth of UF and we've seen people come, go and have their whingeing asses kicked out of the camp. But when reflected upon, the core team (the same collective who've been representing together from the very beginning) has never ever been stronger as a unit and this trip alone, confirmed this to everyone. Left to right - Bam, Blue, Asid, Kerbie, Ez, Sticky and Livewire outside the colosseum.

After being told that he could be put to sleep in 5 seconds without the need of any punches or kicks, Sticky stepped up and challenged ez to produce the goods. Here we see Sticky sitting down with ez behind him applying the rear naked choke. In the 2nd pic we see Sticky start to panic at the realisation that its no joke, and by the 3rd pic his eyes are glazed over as he fades into la-la land. The 4th pic shows him laid out on the floor waking up in total confusion as to where he is and how he got there. All captured on video and making its way to a youtube account near you, soon.
*Please note that the choke was executed by a trained martial artist and unless applied correctly, is extremely dangerous. Do NOT try this at home noobs.

If you look a little further down the page, you'll see a piece about Steve the Rapper, who in all honesty is just a 40 year old Southbank piss head that thinks he's a rapper. When we first met him, he was all kitted out with Reebok gear but we managed to hook him up with some adidas garms and here, we bumped into him again (by complete accident) while conducting recces for Done & Busted. We're glad to announce that he has cleaned up his act and was repping hard in his 3 stripes but unfortunately, is still busting out no hope lyrics.

At Thorpe Park and in-between performances with plenty of time to rinse the rides with fast track passes. On the way back to the dome, Blue motioned over to the ladder challenge and said "Piece of piss!". Yep, obviously being a practitioner for over 4 years gives you a heightened sense of balance. So first up was Blue, all garmed up in his adidas kicks and fresh glyph armour. Boom! Wiped out instantly.

Next up was Asid, who anyone would have expected to breeze it and claim his Tweenies soft toy. Blam!!

Stepping up to save the day was Sticky, but with a head that has officially been titled the 2nd largest in Parkour, the odds were always gonna be dodgy due to the weight of it. Needless to say he got taken out straight away and everyone then sheepishly walked off shaking their heads.

9 day performance and workshop event at Thorpe Park in Surrey, with our very own Asid and Blue, who were working their asses off. Here we see them on stage with Funkstylerz after completing yet another set piece. While they were milking the applause from the crowd, others from the team were lending their support by abusing their VIP passes to fast track every ride in the park and jump as many queues as possible.

Livewire and Sticky at the beginning of the day and kitted out with VIP passes. With those in hand, there's only one thing to do.......start the rinsing. From here only a few snapshots were captured but almost everything was stealthily filmed on a POV videocam. A little edit is being prepared right now and once ready, it'll make its way here on Glyph ting.

The first ride sessioned was called Stealth which shoots you from 0-80mph in 2 seconds and literally tears you a new asshole!!! Next up was a water ride called Tidal wave (don't quote us on the name). Sticky - "Yo ez, when you went on this before, did you get wet?" ez - "Nah, it looks worse than it is". 5 mins later and as everyone hurtled down the runway to smash into the water head on, all that could be heard were screams as the freezing cold water coated everyone from head to toe. Livewire saw sense beforehand and knew he was in for a soaking, so he stripped naked and rode it bareback, much to the amusement of all the staff.

Sticky, who is now a pro in the art of rinsing, gets some long overdue payback as Thorpe Park dishes out a rinsing of its own. In this case, its more of a rinse down which saw him walking around like a hunchback for an hour while waiting for his clothes to dry off.