From the 16-18th May the Yamakasi Founders will be hosting an historic seminar event in Evry, the birthplace of the discipline, supported by the City of Paris. The event is free to attend, and free accommodation can be reserved in a gym the City is providing which can sleep up to 200 people on the nights of the 16th and 17th May.

On the 2nd of May the global YouTube homepage and many of the local YouTube homepages from various countries will be featuring nothing but parkour videos for a 24 hour takeover. Parkour Generations & our filmmaker Julie Angel have been invited to be guest editors to work with YouTube and present 12 films from the global parkour community. Known as a 'Takeover Day', this event will give incredible new exposure to the grass roots of the discipline and will bring it to a whole new audience.

Today's Off The Wall gathering in central London was another great day, with traceurs coming from all over to brave the rain and share a day of parkour at an excellent training spot. The heavens opened as the group warm-up began, giving everyone a thorough soaking and adding that extra element of fun by making every surface good and slippery... But it dried up later in the day and by then the Jam was in full flow. Check back for details of the May event, to be held as always on the last Sunday of the month.

Some never-before-seen footage of Team Members Stephane and Johann Vigroux has found its way into a new edit put together by the brothers, which can now be seen online at the Parkour Generations Youtube Channel here. The footage was captured between 2001-2003 in and around Paris and includes some excellent jumps. A fresh edit of more recent action is on its way...

A new short edit of London-based traceuse Agota can now be seen on the Parkour Generations Youtube channel here. Agota began training in the Academy over a year ago and has shown great dedication and drive to progress so quickly, and continues to be an inspirational member of the female parkour community. This particular edit was shot by Parkour Generations' own Forrest, better known for being in front of the camera!

Just a last minute reminder that tomorrow, Sunday 27th April, is this month's Off The Wall open training day in London, to be held this time at Elephant and Castle from 1pm onwards. The nearest tube station is Elephant & Castle on the Northern and Bakerloo lines. Also served by rail by South-East Trains and First Capital Connect. There are MANY buses that serve the area, so the best thing to do is check the TFL website's Journey Planner before you travel, over at http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/

The founding members of the Ohio State University Parkour Club have now created a new website from which to operate, called Parkour Horizons. We are happy to have been involved in the establishment of the club and are very pleased to see it go from strength to strength so quickly. In May we will be running two days of training in Columbus, Ohio, and there will be several other activities going on throughout the four or five days we will be there in what will be the largest parkour event the USA has seen to date.

Sunday 27th April will see our 'Off The Wall' open gathering in London happening from around 11.30am-4pm. The location has now been set, and it will be held at the estate area behind Elephant and Castle Underground Station (Bakerloo and Northern Lines). The 'Off The Wall' sessions are free to attend, and open to any and all no matter the level of experience or ability. Several of the Parkour Generations team will be there to offer guidance and assistance should anyone be looking for it. Email Brian(at)parkourgenerations.com for more information.

A classic action video of Parkour Generations Team Member Kazuma, never before seen online, has recently been put up by the man himself. Shot in 2001, the video is actually a compilation of two edits with some mass action scenese featuring many of the original Lisses traceurs sandwiched inbetween. Look closely and you will even see a young Stephane Vigroux attempting a monstrous Saut De Bras... The video can be seen here .

The now-classic Julie Angel film, 'MySpace', featuring Forrest and Dan showing the many possible uses of a tiny piece of urban space in London, has now passed the million-views mark on Youtube. The highly-popular short film has been shown at video exhibitions all over Europe and America, and has always received high acclaim. We would like to thank Julie for her ongoing inspirational work that makes such films possible and opens up the world of parkour to a much wider audience around the world. Go on, give it another watch..

A new film documenting our recent Open Training Day in New York, run by Stephane, Dan and Chris, has just gone online and can be watched in its entirety here. Shot by our very own lady of the camera, Julie Angel, the piece is an insight into the first major seminar on American soil run by European traceurs, and promises to be the first of many. Next month will see us in Columbus, Ohio, which Julie will also be capturing.

Along with the forthcoming 2-day seminar we are running on the weekend of May 24th and 25th in Columbus, Ohio, Julie Angel will also be giving a presentation of her films and a talk on her work in general with Parkour Generations. This will be just one of the extra events that will be going on there in the lead up to the training days. In conjunction with the Ohio State University parkour community, managed by Parkour Horizons, these training sessions will be free to attend and are open to any and all who want to learn.

Parkour Generations Coach Alli has just returned from a long trip to Brazil, where he spent much time training with the parkour community there and running some group sessions for the Brazilian traceurs. Finding a lot of enthusiasm and hunger for good knowledge and training methods out there, Alli had a great time and is now back in the UK ready to throw himself back into the action. Another of the coaches, Dom, is currently out in New York helping to spread the good word of hard training and follow up on the seminar we ran there in February.

Today's charity photoshoot and press call promotional event for UK Aware's upcoming environmental awareness day in May was good fun and generated some great shots and footage to boot. A couple of eco-friendly electric cars received a bit of a beating, but all for a good cause! The star of the day, however, was a 45'000 year old piece of glacier ice that Brian promptly took to eating.

On Sunday April 20th a team from Parkour Generations will be providing demonstrations to help support and publicise the forthcoming London Aware 08 environmental solutions exhibition next month. The event is being staged by UK Aware, a social enterprise events group dedicated to raising awareness of environmental issues around the country, and we are happy to be supporting this important cause as an Associate Sponsor.

This month we will be holding the regular 'Off The Wall' open gathering on Sunday April 27th in central London. These training days are open to any and all who want to attend, to learn, practise and share knowledge with others and to benefit from the experience of the Parkour Generations team members who will be on hand thoughout the day. We stress that these are NOT structured teaching sessions, and anyone wanting to take part in a more focussed training environment can find details of the daily classes we run at the 'Coaching' link on the site menu above.

On the weekend of May 24th and 25th a six-strong team from Parkour Generations will be running open training days in Columbus, Ohio in the United States. In conjunction with the Ohio State University parkour community, managed by Parkour Horizons, these training sessions will be free to attend and are open to any and all who want to learn. Once again Julie Angel will be present to capture the proceedings.

Halfway through the school holidays and the various workshop courses for young people - such as the Edutain Programme for Positive Futures and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea course - are going very well. The programmes continue every day this coming week, until Friday April 18th, and then on Monday 21st the East Barnett Community Parkour Club we are running starts up and again and will run every Monday from 4-5.30pm.

On May 17 and 18 our good friends and colleagues the Yamakasi Founders, now found at Majestic Force are running a huge open event in Paris, which will include hard training at 3 famous spots in the city plus some demos and extra tid-bits thrown in. Attendance is FREE, and anyone bringing a sleeping bag will also get FREE ACCOMMODATION for the nights of the 16/17th in a gym set aside for the purpose by the Paris authorities. You will be able to reserve some floor space either on the Majestic Force website at the link above or here on this site.

On Sunday April 20th a team from Parkour Generations will be providing demonstrations to help support and publicise the forthcoming London Aware 08 environmental solutions exhibition next month. The event is being staged by UK Aware, a social enterprise events group dedicated to raising awareness of environmental issues around the country, and we are happy to be supporting this important cause as an Associate Sponsor.

Friday April 11th Parkour Generations will be running several workshops for young people for London's Tower Hamlets Council at their Urban Adventure Base in Mile End. The workshops will run from 2-6pm around the grounds of the Base and the surrounding park. Follow the link above for location details and more information about the Urban Adventure Base.

The Yamakasi Founders, partners of Parkour Generations, have recently unveiled their new website as part of their Majestic Force label. Still the leaders in the field, Chau, Laurent, Yann and Williams have been there since the start of the whole movement and continue to set the standards.

With workshops for the Positive Futures programme, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, our regular London schools and our own daily Academy classes going on all this week and next, plus some tasters for groups such as the Mile End Urban Adventure Base, we are being kept fairly busy..! It's always refreshing to see the discipline benefiting young people across the capital, and with the developments in store this year it will soon be accessible by many, many more across the country.

The anniversary issue of the webzine Galrilla is now featuring an article on our resident film-maker Julie Angel.

The next Parkour Generations Girls' Jam will be held on Sunday 13th April in London. The Girls' Jams are open training days for any and all women who want to start, learn about or share their practice in parkour and are always attended by many of the more experienced traceuses in the UK. One or two of the Parkour Generations coaches will also be present to help guide the newcomers on their way. For more information on the time and location, email Tracey on Tracey(at)parkourgenerations.com.

Once again we are running the highly popular Parkour Workshops for the government's Positive Futures social inclusion programme over the next two weeks. Positive Futures is a national partnership between Sport England, the UK Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit and the Youth Justice Board, and aims to use sport to reduce anti-social behavior, crime and drug misuse among 10 - 19 year olds from selected and disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Every weekday from April 7th-18th we will be running workshops for young people between the times of 12-2pm for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The sessions will be held at the Rugby Portobello Trust in West London, and are open to allcomers. For more information contact the Trust at the above link, and come join in!

Due to a small group having to pull out of Wednesday 9th April's Outdoor Class, we now are in the rare position of having a few spaces available - first come, first served..! Email dan(at)parkourgenerations.com to secure a spot.

A new gallery from photographer Andy Day has just been added to our gallery, which you can see here. Andy was joined in Paris by Forrest and Stephane, and also by Williams and Laurent from The Yamakasi.

The fashion shoot which took place last August was commissioned by German magazine Stern, and an extensive article features in their current issue.

A reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd April, we will be hosting open workshops at the next Sportathon Roadshow event as part of the build-up to the London Olympics. The activity day will be held at Paddington Recreation Ground and a team from Parkour Generations will be there between 3 and 6 pm, and all are welcome to attend and join in. Always fun, these events are aimed at encouraging sport and physical activity across the country as we move towards 2012 - so come and have a go!

Online TV channel Urban Bass is now showcasing two of Julie Angel's classic edits featuring the Parkour Generations Team, MySpace and Rain. Julie's films following our work have gained enormous recognition over the past few years, and we have no doubts that the new edits currently in the pipeline will improve on even her high standards...