KABUL - Jumping from one wall to another in a ruined building on the western edge of Kabul, Jamil Shirzad explains the rise in parkour among youngsters in Afghanistan.

"In the beginning there were only four teenagers training in parkour when I started practicing about six years ago, but today I am leading a 60-member team," Shirzad said.

Parkour, in which participants use the urban environment to create an obstacle course, is a new phenomenon in Afghanistan and very few people know about it in the war-battered country.