From everyone here at PKGen to everyone of you out there, Happy New Year! Whether you are seeing it in with midnight training, a thousand muscle-ups, firework displays, barefoot running in the snow, wild parties or a quiet night in with friends and family, have a great evening and an amazing 2011.

Our regular Wednesday and Friday evening Outdoor Classes are now open for booking for January - the outdoor classes are open to everyone, of all levels of ability or experience, but we only take a limited number of people each evening so please book a slot early at the link above and come kick-start your training for 2011.. ;)

Well, now that the smoke is beginning to clear and the dust to settle following all the Christmas fun and frolics, and people are slowly, blearily, looking ahead to the New Year we would like to remind everyone that the Parkour Academy Classes restart on Tuesday 4th January and will run as normal thereafter. We look forward to seeing everyone in training in 2011 and hope you all have a great New Year's Eve..!

We'd like to wish everyone in the global parkour community and beyond a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - 2010 has been an incredible year for us and for the discipline worldwide, and 2011 already promises to be even better. May your training be bountiful and have a great festive season! We'll see everyone back in class on January 3rd ;)

Last week saw the first airing on national TV of the BBC musical movie, The Rules of Love, produced by Serena Cullens and directed by Ben Gosling Fuller. The movie features parkour action sequences which were choreographed by Parkour Generations, with Developing Athlete Dan Woodrow performing the stunt doubling for the lead role.

Dan and Stephane have just returned from delivering the ADAPT instructor qualification course in Finland, which was hosted by the Finland Parkour Association. The course was a great success, booked solid with aspiring and existing coaches from around the country. The level of ability and competence in both parkour and coaching was very high and it looks like the discipline will be in safe hands in Finland going forward.

Team Members Andy 'Kiell' Day and Chris 'Blane' Rowat have both just posted up an account of their experiences during the grueling 1000 muscle up challenge undertaken by eight hardened athletes earlier in December 2010.

Thursday 22nd December will officially be the last class of the year for 2010, returning back in 2011 with the Indoor Academy at Westminster Academy Sports Centre on Tuesday 4th January. We wish everyone a happy festive break and hope you all get some well earned rest from your training. Eat well, be merry and be prepared for an exciting 2011 in Parkour!

Well done to James, Kush, Elena, Dylan and Naomi who braved the freezing cold, snow and ice to come along to the Sunday weekend wakeup class with Blane and Andy. Yes, it was cold, but that was forgotten while everyone jumped into doing some great drills, conditioning, balancing a few challenges and a little bit of pain training to warm the body up.

Recently, Parkour Generations photographer Kiell was interviewed by Italian parkour company 'Urbanamente Vitale'. To head over to their site and read the interview (the English translation is below the Italian one) just click HERE.

Parkour Generations would like to welcome Adham Fares to the Developing Athlete Programme (DAP) and the PKG family. Adham has been a long time youth academy and indoor academy practitioner who has shown a constant hunger for training hard and pushing his limits on a daily basis. For more information on the Developing Athlete Programme, click HERE.

A little while ago we worked on the pilot episode of a revolutionary new multi-media drama series, called Resonance, providing the stunt doubling and choreography for the central parkour action sequences. The show, starring Aidan Turner and Charles Dance, is being developed in a quite unique fashion that allows the audience to shape the narrative and create scenes that will appear as the series unfolds. You can see a short trailer for the pilot at the link above, which explains much more about this exciting new show.

This Sunday, December 19th, Dan and Stephane will be teaching at Finland's snappily titled annual jam, Supreme Parkour Armageddon Most Ultimatum 2. Having been invited to teach at the event a couple of years ago we are expecting the same high-energy stuff from all the participants, who come from all over Finland to take part. Hit the link above to be taken to the event page for more details. And if you're coming, wrap up warm!

This weekend and early next week we will be delivering the ADAPT instructor qualification course in Finland, hosted by the Finland Parkour Association. The course will run from 18-21 December and will be held in the city of Jyv

This past Saturday 5 of the Parkour Generations Team - Stephane, Blane, Andy, Dan and Chris - plus Affiliate Coach Joe 'Bring it to the' Boyle, Bruno 'Rachacuca' Peixoto of Brasil and Jun Sato of Japan entered the ring to square up against 1000 muscle-ups in one day. The fairly monumental challenge was undertaken in an effort to raise money to go towards recovering traceur Naoki Ishiyama's medical bills accumulated last year.

This sunday 12th December there will be a womens Jam held at Mile End and Victoria Park from 1.30pm. Please meet opposite the Mile end tube station, ready to run! For those unfamiliar with the jams, they are free and open training sessions, for all levels of experience and ability. They are a great opportunity to catch up with other practising traceuses and to share training ideas and encouragement.

Renowned parkour photographer Andy 'Kiell' Day has just released a fantastic large book of images that resulted from a trip he took with team members Blane and Thomas to Italy in 2008.

A few weeks ago team members Alli and Stephane did a photography shoot for Harrods 'Men's Lab' range, and their is now a little behind the scenes video online giving a glimpse into this aspect of our work/ The photographer on the shoot was the excellent Adrian Myers, with whom we have worked a few times now, and the photographs can be found in a big pullout poster inside the latest Harrods Magazine.

This Saturday will play host to seven members of the Parkour Generations team attempting to do one thousand muscle ups each within a twenty four hour time limit all for a very worthy cause. The team have all been debating and discussing tactics, emotions, timings, food, music, rehab, massages and every other topic under the sun in order to be ready for the challenge, but with one looming thought that remains clear in our minds... It will be one extremely hard and unforgiving day.

We are running a Level 1 ADAPT Instructor course this week in London for the NGB, Parkour UK, held at the state-of-the-art Little Venice Leisure Centre. Stephane, Dan, Forrest and Chris will be running this course which again is fully booked. Good luck to all the candidates!

Last week's ADAPT Instructor Qualification course in Denmark went very well, with four of the senior members of the Danish collective Streetmovement completing the course with flying colours. Well done to everyone who participated and we look forward to seeing more of Mikkel, Martin, Jeppe and Mikkel next year both in the UK and Denmark.

Here at Parkour Generations it is known to all of our students that we encourage all-weather training and try to embrace any environmental conditions that may effect your performance or abilities. Since it is the season for snow, ice, wind, cold and damp clothing we are happy to present this video from our Glasgow comrades (three ADAPT Affiliates) who demonstrate the beauty of new challenges adverse weather can bring. Great stuff guys!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Sutton academy has had to take a short hiatus over the holiday season. After liaising with Sutton Council, we can confirm that the the class will be returning in January 2011 in full form and we expect to see all of our Sutton students ready for action. Stay tuned for more information as, and when, we receive it. Until then, happy training to all of our academy students!

Recently, team director Forrest had an interview with Pride Magazine that has been featured in their current November issue which can be picked up in all major newsagents and stores right now. On their website, the magazine is described as "Pride has been the lifestyle bible of the woman of colour for nearly two decades. Pride is unique, blending multiculturalism with modern UK living. Pride is the face of black Britain."