Parkour UK launches interview series with style star Elis Torhall

Parkour UK has launched PKUK Conversations with Sweden’s Elis Torhall as the first guest, kicking off a new interview series on its YouTube channel. The opening episode puts one of style parkour’s most visible names at the center of a format built to go beyond clips and competition results.

Parkour UK’s Instagram post framed Torhall as the “notorious king of style parkour competitions” at OMFG in Oslo and said the conversation looks at how he keeps progressing while staying dominant. The episode also touches on his view of the current competitive scene, injuries, and the biggest moment of his career so far. By putting those topics into a long-form interview, Parkour UK is giving competitive parkour a different kind of stage, one that focuses on the decisions and habits behind the run rather than only the score at the end.

Torhall’s own biography helps explain why he is such a natural first choice. On elistorhall.com, he says he began parkour at age 8 after first trying gymnastics, and that his father, a P.E. teacher, helped with his first flips. He also says he spent years training on a garden trampoline, building the flip and twist technique that has become part of his style. That background fits the kind of athlete Parkour UK is choosing to spotlight, one whose identity is built as much on movement quality and originality as on raw difficulty.

OMFG has become a meaningful marker for that branch of the sport. Oslo Movement Festival describes OMFG as a parkour and tricking event, with competitions, workshops, festival passes, and event locations built into the festival structure. Competition details for OMFG 2026 are listed as coming soon, and search results place the next edition in Brumunddal, Norway, from June 10 to 14 as a five-day international parkour and movement festival with competitions, workshops, jams, training, and music.

Torhall’s competitive record gives the series a strong opening voice. His Instagram bio lists him as 22 and from Sweden, with SPL x3, 2x KOTC, 7x parkour World Cup appearances, and 1x FIG world championships title. Parkour UK is using that profile to shape how younger traceurs see the sport: not just as a path into judging criteria and formal competition, but as a space where style, creativity, and institutional pathways can still meet on the same run.