We're very proud to hear that the L.E.A.P Park (London Experience for Art du Deplacement and Parkour) will be the very first facility to receive the Olympic 2012 Inspire Mark in the country.

Quoted from the Olympic 2012 Website :

Just a quick reminder that there are no London Academy classes today because of the bank holiday. OLF and Moberley Sports Centre are closed. All classes will resume tomorrow.

It's one of those five-Sunday months this month and therefore we will be hosting the Weekend Wakeup Class at Archway from 11am on Sunday 29th May.

Meet outside the Archway tube station (Northern Line) and be ready for some training!

As a reminder, the Off-the-Wall jam will be starting immediately after the class and students are all welcome to join in with the fun.

See you Sunday!

Some of the more eagle-eyed users may have noticed that we added three new classes to the schedule that will be starting in July and August. With the return of team member Johann from France, he will be leading our new Discovery, Themed and Advanced classes.

The Discovery class is centered around becoming more familiar with your environment and moving through it. For more details on that class, click HERE.

This Sunday (the last sunday of the month) hosts our 'Off the Wall' free training jam. If you haven't been to an Off the Wall before, its a great way for anyone in the Parkour community to come along and train together, share tips, have fun and enjoy the day. It's open to any ability of traceur or traceuse and will have Parkour Generations instructors hanging around for any advice or help you want.

Where: Archway.

The video of the week is:

Training.for.stoun.(L). uploaded by limitparkour25 from Spain

This video is a short one but has long takes and is all shot in one spot. The movement in this video is basic but dynamic and fluid.

It has become apparent that due to a small issue with the email settings some new registered users have not been receiving their registration/password emails. This only should have effected those using GMail and trying to register using a gmail / googlemail account.

We have just heard that an architectural design project we worked on last year, the Kilburn Grange Park Adventure Playground created by Erect Architecture, has won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) international Children's Making Space Award - a highly prestigious award only given out every five years.

With this year's Residential Parkour Training Camp in the alpine resort of Morzine, France, now only ten weeks away it's the perfect time to start the Ten Week Preparatory Programme in order to make sure you arrive at the Camp fully prepared to take advantage of the week's training.

Film-maker Julie Angel has just released another raw mini-film of our last American Rendezvous event from 2010, in Columbus Ohio, this one showing Stephane Vigroux teaching a specific rail balance drill to work the focus and determination. Julie decided to release these mini-films without editing, in order for the full information being passed on in the sessions to come across on screen. To watch the film, CLICK HERE.

Parkour Generations Asia is fast developing, with the first residential training camp organised for July - the Parkour Anti-Gravity Retreat on the idyllic island of Phuket. This camp should be the first of many we hold in the Asia region now that we have a base of operations in Bangkok, Thailand.

A quick notification that next week (26th May 2011) our Lee Valley class will be closed and there will be no Parkour class. This is a perfect opportunity for all the students to come along and train at the Moberly Indoor Academy class or even have a go at some of Blane's daily challenges instead. Class will resume the following week.

Next month we will be appearing at the Crossover Youth Culture Festival in Dortmund, Germany, on June 18th. The festival is a celebration of youth culture, from rock to rap, skateboarding to parkour, street dance and more.

We are pleased to announce an official collaboration with UK anti-bullying charity Kidscape and Spiked Action Sports, with one of our directors - Dan Edwardes - becoming an Ambassador for the Spiked Knockout Bullying Campaign. 

A VERY brief insight into a Parkour Generations Indoor Academy class... Features Andy Pearson as Instructor and Naomi Honey as Assistant Instructor. Shot on Thursday 5th May 2011 with a Canon 550d.

For more details on our classes visit the website parkourgenerations.com/timetable

Film-maker Julie Angel has just released a new film showing the question & answer session with Parkour Generations and the Yamakasi Founders following the last American Rendezvous in Columbus, Ohio. The video is the entire Q&A session, uncensored, with answers from many of the founding practitioners on all sorts of topics ranging from the history of the art to methods of training to overcoming mental blocks.

Our own woman behind the camera, filmmaker Julie Angel, has just today released this new film from the first American Rendezvous workshop event held in Columbus, Ohio. Teaching were 11 team members from Parkour Generations and the ADD Academy and it marked the first time the Yamakasi Founders had ever taught in the USA. The event was hosted by Ohio-based organisation Parkour Horizons, and will be again this year - this month in fact! 

A little teaser of what goes on behind the scenes here at PKGen - a shot of Team Member Yao in studio today doing some motion capture work for a forthcoming movie, details of which we are unable to release at this time unfortunately! Rest assured though that it's shaping up to be pretty darn unique.

There are also some 3D projects coming up which will at last put parkour action properly under the 3D spotlight... Stay tuned for more details.

Hi Ladies!

Tomorrow's Women's Class will be held at the Elephant and Castle training spot, the Heygate Estate, Thursday May 5th. Anyone attending should meet outside the Shopping Centre exit of Elephant and Castle tube station for a 7pm start and be ready for action ;)

The Video of the Week goes to...

Path Of Least Resistance, produced by Paul Maunder and featuring some of the Northern Parkour community. Uploaded by Obsidian1138 from Manchester, UK.

MANY thanks to everyone that made it down to what was a very sunny Off The Wall jam on Sunday - Great fun with the teamwork warm-up, slacklining, the frisbees, the Yao'ing, and... oh yeah... some Parkour somewhere in there too!

Since today is part of the long bank holiday weekend unfortunately classes tonight at Moberly Sports Center and Optimal Life Fitness centre in Hither Green are both cancelled. All academy classes will be resuming normal service as of tomorrow, starting with our hugely popular Indoor class at Westminster Academy.