Tomorrow sees the start of this year's week-long Morzine Redisential Training Camp in the French Alps, lead by Dan and Blane. Everyone is very excited to get out to the beautiful resort town again for some hard training in the invigorating fresh air of the mountains, and we will have updates and news as the camp goes on.
Since it is the fifth Sunday of the month, the weekend wakeup class will be held at the Iconic spot at Earlsfield.
We will meet outside the Earlsfield train station at 11am and run to the estate and park to get a good two hours of parkour training in. The class is suitable for both beginner and advanced practitioners over the age of fourteen. For more information head over to the webpage HERE.
Today's display in front of a live audience of ten thousand at Trafalgar Square went down a storm, with the performance team working very hard under high-pressure conditions to put together a great show for both the public in the Square and the millions watching on BBC TV. You can see a recap of the day on the BBC website.
Tomorrow, Wednesday 27th July, sees the London 2012 'One Year To Go Celebration Event' taking place in London's Trafalgar Square. Parkour UK, as a 2012 Inspire Mark project, will be present throughout the event and Parkour Generations will be providing a full, live display of parkour on the mainstage during the evening show. The parkour display will kick off at 18.30.
Between 15-19th August we willl be running daily workshops for ICAN, the International Cultural Arts Network, in Northern Ireland. The aim of ICAN is to facilitate the exchange of skills and knowledge between international and local community arts practitioners who use The Arts, in all its form, as the neutral vehicle to bridge barriers between current and formerly conflicted areas world-wide.
The highly anticipated and successful Morzine Parkour camp will be kicking off next week and this is a last reminder for anyone wishing to go to get their bookings in before we have to switch off the paypal link on the page. If you've previously paid a deposit and are still needing to send the remaining balance then it would be best to get that in over the weekend too.
Next month sees the return of the Just So Festival, a boutique, weekend-long festival of creativity aimed at children, young people and their families. Last year we ran hugely popular workshops throughout the event and this year will be doing the same for both the Saturday and Sunday, 20-21st August.
This weekend, 22-24 July, is the official London 2012 Open Weekend. Celebrating one year to go to the Games, it will feature art, dance, film, sport events and more right across the capital.
Wednesday 27th July sees the London 2012 'One Year To Go Celebration Event' taking place in London's Trafalgar Square. Parkour UK, as a 2012 Inspire Mark project, will be present throughout the event and we will be providing a full, live display of parkour on the mainstage during the evening show.
Swim or Sink. Parkour. uploaded by GalizianUrbanProject from Vigo, Spain.
This is another video showcasing fluid, basic and explosive movements with some creative use of the environment too. This is a great example of how the parkour scene is evolving in terms of ability and style of movement.
This year's 'Rendezvous' gathering weekend event in London, August 20-21, is now fully booked - apologies to anyone out there who would kill for a place (maybe that's your only option now...), but we really can't take any more participants at this stage.
A new short film featuring the words and action of one of the founders of parkour and a member of the original Yamakasi, David Belle, has recently been released - it's a commercial piece commissioned by Remington, and shows David training and talking in his loval environs of Lisses, France. The film has some great shots, and is well worth a look.
Early next month we will be shooting a new viral commercial for Expedia, advertising London as the compelling place to visit that it is. The entire shoot will be carried out with top-end 3D camera technology in some of London's most iconic parkour locations and will be titled 'London from the Air'. This is one of the first times parkour has been shot in high quality 3D and we are looking forward to seeing the results, which will be broadcast online in due course.
For the following two weekends we will be running an ADAPT Level 1 parkour coaching qualification in Birmingham, on behalf of NGB Parkour UK.
The National Governing Body has committed to qualifying 500 coaches by the end of the Olympic year, 2012, as part of its London 2012 Inspire Mark achievement, and it's fantastic to see the coaching of the discipline growing healthily across the country.
We're happy to announce the addition of another member to our Affiliate Coaches scheme - Armen Gyuloyan of Armenia, currently living and teaching in Moscow, Russia.
Team Member Annty Marais has just finished shooting a commercial for a new buggy with Big Shots Productions in Holland.
The shoot went smoothly, and the resulting commercial edit will soon be available online - we'll have it here as soon as it's ready, so keep checking back to catch it when it goes live ;)
The latest news from Decathlon UK and Parkour UK regarding the re-release of the classic shoe which has proven to be the most popular footwear for parkour around the world: Decathlon UK have given a message to the community, which can be read below.
This September 3rd and 4th sees the annual Labor Day Jam happening in Ohio, USA, hosted by our colleagues at Parkour Horizons - we will again be sending a coaching team out to America to coach throughout the training event. Following the enormous success of May's American Rendezvous seminar, we are anticipating another fantastic weekend of training and are looking forward to seeing the community Stateside again.
This weekend's Moscow Parkour Festival hosted by the Moscow Parkour Academy was a great success, with traceurs coming from all over Russia to take part in workshops run by Parkour Generations and our partners the Yamakasi Founders.
This weekend PKG team members Chris, Kristian and Andy were on hand at the London film and Comic Convention at Earls Court to help out international stunt coordinator heavyweight, James Bamford with his stunt presentation to highlight Parkour and stage combat. With over 140 productions to his name, James is known for his work on movies from Watchmen, X-Men and Stargate to X-Files, AvP2 and Smallville.
Today we are very happy to announce that the PKGen family has grown by one more member with the addition of a long-time practitioner, Mr Joe Boyle.
Joe started Parkour back in 2006 and has been training hard and solidly ever since. He helped raise money with the 1000-muscle up challenge last year alongside other members of the team and completely blew everyone away with his strength and determination.
This weekend, July 8-10, sees Dan and Johann along with Williams of the Yamakasi Founders teaching workshops throughout the Moscow Parkour Festival. The event has been organised by the Russian Federation of Extreme Sports in conjunction with the Moscow Parkour Academy and the Moscow City government.
Since we began organised parkour coaching over 6 years ago, our Coaching Department has been run off it's feet (no pun intended) and has never been busier than it is now.
Jump Bandung #1 (english subtitle) uploaded by gardeniadiary from Bandung, Indonesia
This video from Indonesia describes how parkour has had a hugely positive effect on their lives and changed some of their philosophies. More so, though, it brings light to what parkour is to them and their feelings on movement and practice. It's another beautifully shot video and again has high use of slow motion.
We are pleased to announce that this week we will be opening a new Youth Academy Class in conjunction with the City of Westminster, adding to the existing Youth Academy Class already in the north of the London borough.
Parkour UK in partnership with Decathlon UK has secured the return of the shoe of choice for Traceurs / Freerunners. Due to our exclusive partnership with Decathlon UK we have been working on bringing back the shoe, with a few alterations to improve the performance of the shoe for practitioners.
