An excellent gallery of images from the second day of RendezVous IV taken by Kiell is now online and available to view by clicking here. Enjoy.

Today's Academy Class will be cancelled due to Moberly Sports Centre being closed on the Bank Holiday Monday, September 1st. Classes resume Tuesday 2nd September with the Beginners Class at Westminster Academy Sports Centre.

Well, it's done and dusted now - and what an amazing event it was: definitely the best of the Rendezvous gatherings to date, wtih so many great people involved and such great spirit brought to the training by absolutely everyone. Today the event broke into several groups which then travelled independently around the central London hotspots, working on every aspect of parkour training and pushing everyone to their limits. The day ended at the Southbank Centre again, with many tired faces lit up by huge smiles. Good friends made, good memories forged, and a great success all round.

Today saw the first day of this year's Rendezvous gathering in London, and what a day it was... Perfect weather and great training all day long with over 100 people from all over the world: who could ask for more?! The Southbank Centre were perfect hosts, giving us free rein over the whole 21 acres of the iconic riverside grounds. Great to have the Yamakasi founders and Majestic Force over to bring their immense knowledge and skill to the seminars, and inspiring to see such enthusiasm and dedication in the training from everyone involved today.

For the last few days we have been doing everything possible to support our dear friend and injured traceur Naoki Ishiyama, a member of both ADD Nation and the Parkour Generations collective, following his severe spinal injury incurred from a fall resulting from a tree branch breaking beneath him. The upswelling of support from the community has been incredible, but there is still so much more to do.

Today we ran two separate production units, one for the hit CBBC TV series 'MI High' and one for the forthcoming movie 'St Trinians 2', providing choreography, directing and stunt doubling on both projects for parkour action sequences. Both shoots went exceptionally well, with some great footage captured, and we were very happy to have Mike Christie of Jump London fame directing the St Trinians shoot and Julie Angel running the MI High shoot, with Dan and Stephane choreographing respectively.

We are very lucky to have four members of the Majestic Force from France, including two of the Yamakasi founders, teaching this weekend at the international gathering in London. Yann Hnautra, Williams Belle and Tony Thich all arrive tomorrow to prepare for the event that kicks off Saturday morning at the Southbank Centre. Unfortunately Anoulak has encountered a problem with his ID papers (!) but all is not lost as Francois Terrien will come in his place - we look forward to having the guys over for what should be an unforgettable event...

This September we are organising a truly global jam against climate change in conjunction with environmental awareness group Sandbag on September 26th, called One Giant Leap, and the response has been incredible. Scores of parkour communities around the world in over 20 countires have signed up to hold a jam on that day in their part of the world, raising awareness of the dangers of pollutant emissions to our environment in advance of the Copenhagen world summit in December.

With the annual gathering that is Rendezvous 4 going off with a bang this weekend, August 29/30 in central London, we are happy to announce that Sticky, another long-time UK veteran, will be in the mix as a guest -and anyone who knows him will know to be prepared for a few laughs. The event this year is dedicated to our good friend Naoki Ishiyama, who unfortunately can't be with us due to a recent injury - but will be there in spirit. Get well soon Naoki-kun!

A new parkour-based TV commercial for Perfetti chewing gum, starring team members Stephane and Dom along with two traceurs from Denmark and Portugal, is now showing in several European countries and can be seen online HERE. A fast-paced and short edit, well worth a watch.

The third Parkour Camp for the City of Westminster begins this week, running every day from August 24-28 - from 10am to 1pm at Moberly Sports Centre, 101 Kilburn Lane, W10 4AH. Open to the public and totally free for all who want to join in, so come along if you can.

This week is also the last week of the summer Edutain workshops we run for Westminster's Positive Futures programme. These are running Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week, from 1-3pm, for 8-13 year olds. For more details see HERE.

A team from Parkour Generations will next week be working on the 'St Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold' movie, providing stunt doubling and choreography for a parkour-based action scene. Team Members Tracey and Agota will be doubling two of the main cast, one of those being the character 'Roxy' played by Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud. The scene will be directed by Mike Christie, who directed the seminal documentary on parkour 'Jump London'.

Legendary Lisses traceur Kazuma has just touched down again in the UK, and we are pleased to announce that he will be present and in the mix at next week's international Rendezvous gathering. Kaz has been in France and Brasil for the last few months, training and teaching, and we are very glad to have him back in London for the forseeable.

The end of next week sees Rendezvous IV, the international gathering in London happening at the Southbank Centre and some of the city's best training hotspots throughout the weekend of August 29/30... and we are pretty damn excited about it! With several of the founders of the art from France coming over to teach alongside the entire Parkour Generations collective, plus the film-making and photography skills of Julie Angel and Andy 'Kiell' Day thrown into the mix, it should be an incredible event.

Recently we shot a music video for the release of the debut EP from a groundbreaking new group named Hui-a, a pair of musicians of Maori ancestry who use traditional instruments and themes alongside the music of today to create a fusion of styles which results in a simply great sound. The video features team member Yao and a few of our Youth Academy students from London, and can be seen online now HERE.

We are very proud to announce the release of our first DVD, Once is Never: Training with Parkour Generations, produced in conjunction with Julie Angel. The DVD is a collection of a host of the most successful films from seminars and training camps we have run around the world, each version re-edited to include extra footage, plus a couple of extra new films thrown into the mix. The DVD will soon be available to order here on this website, as well as on Amazon.com and can also be picked up at a special discount at our Academy Classes.

For the last few years we have run regular parkour workshops for the Positive Futures' Edutain Programme in London for the City of Westminster, and this summer is no exception with the course running from July to the end of this month. Every week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday we run the sessions at different sports and leisure centres for young people in disadvantaged areas, and the programme has made a great impact on the 8-13 year old age group that it engages. For more info on Edutain, hit the link above.

This weekend we will be running workshops and demonstrations at the World Surf Lifeguard Championships in Newquay, UK. The event runs both Saturday and Sunday 22/23 August, and we will be there on both days - if you are in the area then come down, get some sunshine and have a go at parkour for yourself!

As of this week our Handbook of Parkour/Freerunning is now available worldwide, and can be ordered online through Amazon.com and found in most major book retailers around the world. We will also be offering the book at a discount very soon here on this very website...

A quick reminder to everyone that our new "Weekend Wake-up" Sunday class starts tomorrow (16th August) at Earlsfield. It's open to anyone of any ability level to come along and experience an outdoor class, so if you're interested in coming along, please meet outside Earlsfield train station at 11am. For more details on the new class, head on over to our outdoor class page HERE.

The top-rated children's show on the BBC, 'MI High', is about to enter its fourth series and the opening episode will feature an explosive cityscape action scene revolving around parkour movements. A team from Parkour Generations will be providing choreography, directing and stunts for the sequences which will be shot near the end of this month. 'MI High' is produced for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos, who also created the hit BBC spy drama 'Spooks'.

Among the instructors at this year's international gathering Rendezvous 4 will be Yann Hnautra, Tony Thich and Anoulak of the Majestic Force team from Paris. Also coming over for the event will be another of the Yamakasi founders, Williams Belle... and anyone who has seen Williams move knows why this most elusive of the original Yamakasi is so highly respected.

Parkour Generations workshops are happening all over London every day this summer, with today being no exception with sessions for the City of Westminster Summer Camp, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London Youth Organisation, Positive Futures Edutain project and Waltham Forest Council.

As of today team member Thomas is back in the UK and will be active at classes again. He will of course also be present and correct at the international gathering that is Rendezvous 4 at the end of this month, along with the rest of the team and the Majestic Force guys from France. Should be a doozy...

We get a lot of requests about how to practice quadrupedie correctly, and last year we ran a long session as a warm-up while giving a seminar in Ohio, USA. Julie Angel was there as ever to capture everything, and has now released a short edit showing some of the basic quadrupedie drills and training principles. The warm-up on that warm Ohio day was led by Stephane and Kazuma, and can be seen HERE now.

An amazing new gallery has just been put up from the five-day workshop camp in Denmark that Stephane, Johann and Laurent of the Yamakasi led. The European gathering was held between the 3rd to the 7th of August and was hosted by our friends from Street Movement. With a great turnout of over sixty traceurs and traceuses in attendance, the camps gallery can be viewed HERE!

The Rendezvous 4 gathering this year, happening on the Bank Holiday August weekend of the 29th and 30th, is now filling up fast - once it is full we will sadly be unable to accept any more people, as the training groups have to be kept to manageable sizes for the action in and around the Southbank Centre on those days.

Also this week, from Wednesday-Friday, we will be running open workshops for young people for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea between 2-4pm each day. Wednesday will take place at Webb Close, Dalgarno Gardens, while Wednesday and Thursday will take place at Wiltshire Close, Chelsea. Designed to help young people in the inner city get access to a positive discipline and an engaging physical pursuit, these workshops have been running for 3 years now for RBKC and we hope they continue for a long time to come.

Today we will be running a whole day of parkour workshops for Sutton Council in Beddington Park, Sutton, SM6 7NP. The sessions run from 10am-12pm, 12.30-2.30pm and 3.00-5.00pm in the park, and are open to the public. Registration will begin at 9.30am, so get to the park early if you want to join in.

The second of our week-long Westminster Summer Camps is running all this week, 10am-1pm at Moberly Sports Centre, 101 Kilburn Lane. Open to any and all, these workshops are a greta introduction to the discipline and a good way for young people in particular to try their hand. The 3rd week in the series will commence August 24th, same place and times.

Our teams running seminars in Switzerland and Denmark last week have just returned, and both events were great successes with hard training, good spirit and new friends being made in both countries. We would like to express our sincere thanks to both Street Movement in Denmark and Try N' Trace in Switzerland for organising the events on the ground and for having us over to teach - fantastic to see the spirit of the discipline alive and well in both countries and still growing!

We are proud to announce that the outdoor class schedule has now been expanded to include our "Weekend Wake-Up" Sunday training session! Starting at 11am on Sunday 16th August, this brand new class will be open for anyone, beginners and veterans alike, to join in and enjoy two hours of structured parkour training. Booking is not necessary since we have adopted a round-robin system for locations depending on which Sunday of the month it happens to fall on.

For the next few weekends we will be running specific parkour workshops for young people in Ashford, Kent in collaboration with a forthcoming festival to create a piece of choreographed outdoor work that will animate the spaces around Ashford town centre on 26 Sept as part of a dance music event.

Tomorrow, Saturday 8th August, we are running two workshop events for the City of Westminster in London. We will be at the Queens' Park Festival for the 2nd year running, giving free public access workshops from 12-5pm. We will also be running a workshop at the Church Street centre, from 2.30-4.30pm. Both open to the public so come along and dive in!

Today we are running another workshop session for London Youth, a network of more than 400 youth clubs serviving 75,000 young people a year. Today's workshop will be held in East London at Attlee Youth Community Centre, 5 Thrawl Street, E1 6RT, and runs from 3.30-5.00pm. The next session with London Youth falls on August 13th and will be held in the Westminster borough. Check back for more details!

A quick reminder to all traceuses this weekend... The monthly womens Jam will be held on Sunday the 9th August at Earlsfield and will hopefully (depending on the weather) be followed by a small BBQ in the park! The event is open to all levels, beginner to veteran, and will make an excellent introduction to any ladies wanting to try parkour for the first time. For more information please contact tracey(at)parkourgenerations.com.

Tonight the BBC World Service, the UK's international radio station, will be following our weekly Women's Class and interviewing Dan and Anne-Therese as well as a few of the students for their thoughts on the development and growth of parkour. The piece will air later tonight, so click the BBC link above to listen in.

The global jam to raise awareness about climate change before the December Copenhagen summit is now really building momentum, with Switzerland, Brasil and communities all over America signing up. We now have over 20 major nations taking part, who will all be running a One Giant Leap jam on September 26th in their part of the world. It's great to see such a response from the global parkour community, and it serves as a reminder that our discipline is filled with incredible people all over the world, all willing to stand up and be counted when it matters.

All those people seeking a roof over their heads during the Rendezvous 4 event should jump on over to our forum where a new sticky topic has been created to give you some possible solutions. Post on the thread if you're looking for somewhere to stay so that anyone who can provide room is able to look in one location for possible tenants. There are also some youth hostel suggestions which are very cheap but require early booking before they run out. You can visit the thread HERE!

Following on from our Easter sessions at Whitefield School in London, we are today running workshops there all day again. Our Parkour for Schools Programme has expanded hugely over the last few years and is now seeing parkour classes happen regularly in tens of schools in the UK with incredible success. This is set to expand exponentially this year with some major new developments for the discipline in the UK and Europe. Click the link above for more information on the Schools programme.

Today we begin daily sessions for the Barnet Summer University, in the London borough of Barnet. Workshops run from 12-4pm in Friary Park, Barnet, and are open to anyone between the ages of 8 and 25 years old. We also begin a 2 week course for 'at risk' young people with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, running from 12-2pm today, Wednesday 5th, Friday 7th, and then 12-14th the following week. No matter where you are in London, there is something nearby ;)