Vault (parkour) - Freerunning and Urban Acrobatics

Freerunning and Urban Acrobatics

Many activities have built on more common movements and given names to many other types that can be considered vaults.

• Reverse vault (not to be confused with the 360 side vault): Place one or two hands on the obstacle and perform a backwards spin over it.
• 360 vault: Like a speed vault, but with a 360-degree turn about the hand.
• Cast bomb: Backwards kong to back flip.
• Cast vault: Backwards kong.
• Kong gainer: A kong vault, but with a back flip in the air.
• Dash bomb: A dash vault, but with a front flip after the dash.
• 360 degree underbar vault.
• Double kong vault: A kong with two taps; useful to get over two obstacles at once.
• Triple kong: A kong with three taps.
• Gate vault: One's weak hand is placed on top of an obstacle's surface while the strong hand goes below for strength in rotation over at a 45-degree angle.
• Sky vault: A one-handed cartwheel over an obstacle.
• Vert vault: Hands are placed in a regular vault fashion but one leg is kicked up over one's head.
• Rocket vault: Done in a lazy fashion, both legs go together and are perfectly straight, and the feet are grabbed by the traceur's hand.
• Rail flip vault: Two hands are placed on top of the obstacle and a front flip / forward handspring is executed.
• Shoulder vault: To roll over an obstacle as efficiently as possible. Usually done after spoiling a move.
• Wall spin: Run at a vertical surface at an angle and spin oneself 360 degrees around the surface.
• Reverse vault: A kong vault, but when the hands are placed, a twist is done to go further over the obstacle.
• Lazy "turn”: A lazy vault, but with a turn to land in a cat position.
• Dive roll: A dive over an obstacle with a roll to withstand the shock at the end.
• Carriage: A wall walk, but with a Kong right at the peak of the walk.
• Palm spin: A thief vault, but hands spin the body in a 360-degree motion.
• Barrel: A double-leg reverse over an obstacle with one hand.
• Star: A cartwheel over an obstacle.
• Thief 360: A thief vault but with a 360-degree twist. It is usually immediately followed by a roll.
• Inside monkey: A monkey vault but the legs are outside the arms; the legs are still bent monkey-style.
• Inside dash: A dash vault but the legs are outside the arms.
• Underbar 180: Underbar, but hands are used to twist body in a 180-degree motion.
• Double jump: Practitioner uses a higher object/obstacle to jump from to gain more height/distance.
• Dash 360: A dash with a 360-degree twist.
• Dash bomb barani: A dash bomb with an aerial, or barani, instead of a front flip.
• Weave: Practitioner goes through an opening (for example, between two bars) and quickly comes out the other side.
• Blisto: Like a regular vault but with a 360-degree twist. A Blisto with a 720 is a "blast".
• Wall climb: Like an upward wall run, but hands are used to push oneself upward.
• Cat grab: Clinging to an obstacle in a squat position.
• Cat leap: To jump for distance and go into a cat grab.
• Pop vault: One of the most basic and popular moves. Traceur will run at a wall or fence and "pop" (kick) and propel himself upward to overcome the obstacle, which is usually taller than them. (Ex. Pop regular = kick up wall and then do a regular.)
• Monkey roll: A monkey vault followed by a roll, without landing on your feet before the roll.
• Butterfly vault: Similar to the reverse vault, but legs swing in either a clockwise or anticlockwise direction. It is called the butterfly vault due to its twist Relation with the Butterfly twist.
• Obstacle vault: This movement just slightly happens to be a vault it's very similar to a dash vault but only you don't put your hands on the wall or rail and sort of squat forward over the object in a forward motion.
• Split vault: Performing a split in a mid air vault.
• Kick vault: Kicking one leg out over the wall then rest both hands on the wall and push off wall getting other leg over.
• Leopard vault: Leaping from a higher object to a lower one placing slapping hands on lower wall and pushing off.
• Descent vault: 180 vaulting over an object e.g. wall and dropping down.
• Setter vault: Performing a 180 onto a wall which gives you this "set up" to perform a backflip for example to get off the wall.
• Air bomb: similar to the dash bomb but only rolling sideways of a wall nice and tucked and then leads into a propelling sideways flip descent.
• Slide vault: If you come across a large wide surface to long enough to vault then a slide vault is when you hop onto the object and slide off it tapping your hands on it as you leave the obstacle.
• Spring forward: A rail flip but with a spring flip and legs are spread out.
• Scissors: In a lazy motion, but legs move side by side in a scissor like cutting motion.
• Superman: In a kong motion, but hands do not touch the obstacle.
• Cannon: A jump but legs are in monkey form and arms go around cupped legs.
• Underbar 540: Underbar but with a quick 540 twist.
• Gate flare: Like a sideways gate vault motion, with legs perfectly straight.