The recent documentary by Julie Angel following the work of Parkour Coaching in bringing the discipline to children in disadvantaged areas is now available as a high quality wmv file download - just follow this LINK.

A short edit of the first Parkour Coaching Seminar is now online and can be viewed by following this LINK.

The video was shot and edited by Parkour Coaching's very own Julie Angel. More of Julie's films can be found at her site: julieangel.com

The Tokyo shoot for K-Swiss and MTV was a huge success, and thoroughly enjoyable for all involved. We would like to extend our thanks to everyone At K-Swiss International, Furst Media and MTV Japan for their professionalism and efforts during the week's shooting, and to everyone in Tokyo who helped make the project run so smoothly. Big thanks also to the Takuma and the guys from the band '10-Feet'; the music video should be excellent!

The results will soon be shown worldwide on MTV and on the K-Swiss wesbite, and when they are up we'll provide the links here.

The months of July and August will see Parkour Coaching running regular outdoor workshops for Brent Council, aimed at young people over the age of 12 in the borough.

Over the summer months Parkour Coaching will again be running three workshops a week for 8-13 year olds as part of the Edutain Programme in conjunction with Westminster Sports Unit and Positive Futures.

Edutain is a government funded scheme based on providing constructive, challenging activities for young people in the school holidays. The programme aims to encourage citizenship and crack down on crime and anti-social behaviour.

The week of July 23-27 will see Parkour Coaching providing two workshops per day for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council. The workshops will all be held outside in the borough, using the natural urban terrain.

Parkour Coaching athletes Stephane, Dan, Forrest & Tracey are to be featured in a video created by Julie Angel as part of an installation comissioned by the museum. The museum is a privately funded foundation, presenting a variety of exhibitions on Swiss and international architecture.

For more information about the museum, see HERE.

Monday June 4th will see a team of four from Parkour Coaching demonstrating the discipline at the 'Active Westminster' event - a day of displays and presentations of key initiaties in Westminster. Taking place at Porchester Hall, Queensway, the event promises to promote sport and physical activity in the Westminster area.

To enquire about attendance please call WCC on 0207 641 2618 or email active@westminster.gov.uk

Parkour Coaching embark upon an innovative project this weekend with the exciting and creative dance theatre company Kompany Malakhi. Over the coming months we will be teaching parkour to dancers auditioning for roles in Malakhi's forthcoming 2008 live performance tour, and helping Malakhi to integrate parkour movements into several key scenes of its latest stage show.

For more information on Kompany Malakhi, click HERE

The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports has just been published, containing a contribution on the discipline of parkour written by Dan. This is the first time parkour has found its way into a hardcopy encyclopedia and is just another indicator of the growing recognition the discipline is now receiving.

More info on the encyclopedia can be found HERE.

A four-strong team from Parkour Coaching will be heading to Tokyo on June 3rd to work on a new media project with K-Swiss and MTV, the results of which should be outstanding.

More news to follow.

There will be no Monday Academy Class on the 28th of May due to Moberly Sports Centre closing for the bank holiday. Instead we will be running a special outdoor class that night, which is already fully booked...

A big thank you to Thomas, Blake and Bobbi for helping out with the shoot, the billboard-size results of which should be quite spectacular!

For more on the upcoming event, follow this link.

The new documentary Jump Westminster has just been picked up by ITV Local and can now be viewed on their website at the following link.

Parkour Coaching is currently working on two separate projects to build permanent and specialised Parkour training areas in London: one with the City of Westminster which will be completed in December of this year; and another with Roehampton University’s SPARC - The Sport Performance Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre.

These parks are designed by traceurs to enable practitioners to work freely on every aspect of the discipline in one dedicated space, and will be open to public use at any time of day or night.

Free for anyone age 9-19 from the Westminster area, these classes will be held at the Stowe Centre on the Harrow Road in Royal Oak from 6.30-8.30pm every Monday.

For full details, see the Classes page.

Wiltshire in particular has seen an explosion of its practising community as a result, with one group of young traceurs managing to raise several thousand pounds in funding to develop their own website, training facility and generally build on what they have learned from the workshops.

Our congratulations to Dale, John and the rest of the guys and to Nick Thrower from the Alternative Sports Programme for guiding them through their process.

Next up are Brent Council, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Surrey County Council, Wiltshire again, and the list goes on...

Filmed by Parkour Coaching's very own Julie Angel, in conjunction with Westminster Sports Unit, the film explores the impact of teaching Parkour both in schools and in local community centres to young children in the Westminster area of London.

View the video online HERE.

Thanks go to Google Video for hosting the film.

Huge thanks go out to the Yamakasi, Seb Goudot, Thomas, Cisco and Kazuma for coming over from France for the events and we expect to see them all back soon for more of the same!

A full report of the Seminar is forthcoming, along with a set of new images from the day for the gallery. Thanks to everyone who made it possible, and to everyone who turned up and trained with such spirit on the day.

in Coventry, where we will be running an outdoor workshop and giving a live demonstration.

The event is free and includes performances from top West End shows and a variety of other live music and performance acts, and this will be the first time that parkour has been showcased.

For more info on West End Live, go to www.westendlive.co.uk

This unique event is part of INTRANSIT - a series of artist led/devised tours across various parts of West London. The series is commissioned by the RBKC Arts Development Office.

Chau, Williams, Yann and Laurent require no introduction to any practitioner of the art of movement and we are very happy that they will now be lending a hand in the development of the practice of the discipline in the UK and beyond.

Our entire team should be present for the event, which will be quite unprecedented and should prove to be an excellent opportunity to learn from some of the founders of the movement.

The Seminar will run from 1-4pm and costs £10. To reserve a place on the Seminar, email us HERE

The film documents the teaching carried out over the past year by Forrest and Dan in schools and for local community centres in the Westminster area of London, a project that has greatly raised awareness of the discipline as well as helping to reduce crime and get people fit!

For more information as well as short trailers, see www.julieangel.com

two Indoor Academy Classes (Monday and Thursday evenings), and two Outdoor Academy Classes (Wednesday and Friday evenings), as well as a Fitness Class on Sunday mornings. All details can be found on the Classes page.

ASPHALT SHORTS is an annual festival of short films about cities and urbanism, projected outdoors by city|space. Now in its fourth year, the event draws a large and enthusiastic audience, creating an impromptu public gathering in an otherwise forgotten corner of the city.