Ah, the power of video. There are just some things you can't write about or photograph to get the full impact. No, you have to see it.

There isn't much to this video, but it's Friday and who says you can't take a break from saving the world to be a little light-hearted from time to time.

So sit back and enjoy watching some of the world's best free runners tackle the 2011 National Parkour Summit in Seattle, Washington. This is some impressive stuff here.

And for our Storyhunters, if you feel inspired to pitch your own sports related story, log in (above right) and head on over to the "Assignments" tab to get in touch.

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Hussein worked for his family's real estate company showing apartments around the city of Quasir before the Syrian uprising became increasingly violent eight months ago. That all ended when frequent bombings and gunfire between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and Syrian rebels turned the country into one of the most dangerous place in the world. Most jobs in Syria, including Hussein's, disappeared.

Blockades and attacks on foreign journalists in Syria has made real-time information about the conflict more and more scarce. Hussein, a pro-revolution activist who asked not to use his last name for fear of retribution, began taking pictures and videos of the violence and sending them to TV stations, free of charge, filling the void for media footage of the conflict and effects on daily life in Syria. 

Broadcasters are increasingly relying on untrained citizen journalists like Hussein for insight into what's going on inside countries where goverments restrict access. In this eye-opening short documentry video, Storyhunter Ricardo Garcia Vilanova treks along with Hussein to see what life is like for the former salesman turned journalist.

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This doc is fantastic because its characters are. Period.

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A woman's place in lowrider car culture has typically been reserved to scantly dressed models sitting on their hoods of shiny cars in magazines, but a group of women in San Antonio, Texas are changing that. Adorned with flowers and Betty Boop seat covers, these custom rides combine the testosterone of chest thumping hydraulic pumps with a delicate woman's touch.

Storyhunter Veronica Zaragovia takes us inside "Estilo Bajito," a co-ed lowrider group that has become a welcoming home for several women who have bucked the expectations of mini dresses and lipstick for work pants and axle grease.

They work side by side with their male counterparts, tweaking their own cars and embracing the culture from the driver's seat.

Here’s a must-see piece of journalism from Syria by the Associated Foreign Press.

Free Syrian Army fighters have adopted a 12th century Crusader castle as their base for its tactical advantage of the high ground and for it's cultural significance as a rallying cry.  Incredibly close to the action, these journalists have managed to capture rebels tending to the wounded while being fired upon, a weeping child-soldier barely taller than the assult weapon he wields and the shelling of the medieval ruin re-inhabited in the midst of this 21st century conflict.

As world leaders meet with Kofi Annan to broker a peace treaty for Syria, this video is a rare and raw look at the very real conflict plaguing the nation.

Skateboarding is one of the fastest-growing sports in Brazil, especially in the slums of major cities. As the populations of these favelas surge, open spaces to play soccer are becoming more and more scarce. With more streets and less grass,  youngsters are dropping the soccer ball and hopping on skateboards.

Storyhunters Alexandre Rampazzo and Tatiana Polastri documented this trend and caught some amazing shots of a downhill longboarding competition in the hilly outskirts of Sao Paulo.

"Amar is 14 and top of his class. Someday he'd like to be a professional cricketer, but for now he's the family's main breadwinner, working two jobs six and a half days a week on top of attending school in the afternoons. This short observational documentary is a simple journey with Amar through his daily life."

We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Jigar Mehta, a former New York Times video journalist and co-creator of 18DaysinEgypt, an online platform for collecting and curating crowd-sourced media from the Egyptian revolution. The name of the project refers to the time protesters spent in Tahrir Square to force Mubarak’s resignation over a year ago.

We love that the site is encouraging "group storytelling" and trying to get Egyptians involved in crafting their own narrative of the revolution. We talked to Mehta about the “interactive documentary’s” unforeseen evolution and the intersection of social media and storytelling.

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