The Parkour Generations Daily Challenges or W.O.D. (Workout Of the Day) pages have just been upgraded and are now better than ever.

Integrated through twitter.com you can keep track of Blanes daily updates, reply, retweet or favourite and join in the new #PKGWOD Hashtag via the dedicated page here: http://www.parkourgenerations.com/dailychallenge

MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA! This month's open jam in London, Off the Wall, is the Halloween Spooksville edition and will kick off this Sunday 30th October at 2pm at Elephant and Castle, inside the infamous Heygate Estate.

On Saturday November 5th our resident film-maker and parkour researcher Dr. Julie Angel will be giving a presentation at the Royal Anthropological Insititute's event, Sport Cultures: Capturing Sport in a Globalised World.

Today's assessments for the latest candidates for the ADAPT Level 1 Coaching Qualification in the UK went extremely well, with everyone showing great coaching abilities as well as parkour skill and knowledge and coming through with flying colours. 

Our Outdoor Classes for November are now open for booking and can be found via the Outdoor Academy Page. 

Since this Sunday is the rare fifth Sunday of the month we will be hosting the Weekend Wakeup class (from 11am to 1pm) at the awesome Earlsfield training spot. If you've never been to Earlsfield before then you should meet us directly outside the Earlsfield Train station, ready to run, at 10.50am. 

Today saw day two of the latest Level 1 ADAPT instructor training course in London happen - great group of guys and girls, and as always we have practitioners from all over the world looking to become qualified to coach, with traceurs from Kuwait, the United States, Italy, Latvia, France and the UK all bringing their talent and knowledge to the course. Long way to go, but so far everyone is doing very well and we're stoked to see such good practitioners so committed to spreading and communicating the discipline to others. Keep it up guys!

This year our very own photographer extraordinaire and team member, Andy 'Kiell' Day will be part of the country's biggest photography festival (Over 165,000 visitors per year) over in Hereford. 

In his first ever solo exhibition Kiell will be showcasing 25 images on display at  RRA Architects, The Watershed, Wye Street, Hereford, HR2 7RB from Friday 28th October to Saturday 26th November, 10am-5pm. The whole show will be open to the public from the Monday to the Saturday.

This weeks double-bill video of the week is by Sabra555 or as we know them, Parkour Generations D.A.P. members Alex and Serg. Titled 'Pickpocket, Pt1 - The Pickpocket' and 'Pickpocket, Pt 2 - The Hero'.

An excellent new video from the East Grinstead PKG massive. Some swift and flowing movements and a clever story unfold on the rooftops of EG.

This week's teaching, in brief. Ahem.

Starting today we are delivering a Parkour UK 1st4Sport Level 1 Award in Coaching Parkour/Freerunning in Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

One of our current collaborations is with a company called Myndplay, the world leader in a new form of gaming technology which allows you to control a computer game with only the power of your thoughts..! Has to be played to be believed... We've just released the Director's Cut Trailer for the brand new game entitled Parkour Heroes, in which you take the control of aspiring Hero Axel as he faces challenges and difficult training to become the best he can be. We love it :)

On Friday October 28th we will be partnering with StreetGames to deliver workshops at their London and South-East Sports Festival. 

The second addition to our Core Team goes to the long-time veteran traceur, superb practitioner and talented Mr Stephen Moss. 

Hailing from the beautiful island of Hawaii, we are very happy to welcome a new addition to our Core Team, Ozzi Quintero. 

We take great pleasure today in introducing the most recent member of the Parkour Generations family, Dorcia Edwards, into our highly successful Developing Athlete Programme (D.A.P.). 

This week we have a video from traceuse 'thereseupk' labelled 'Nicest thing'.

Submitted by Leon Lawrence.

Open casting on the TWIST 3D movie for any budding moviestars out there in the parkour community is still open for a few more weeks, and you can now download a printable flyer to hand out amongst your own parkour community to spread the word. 

With many of our workshops, seminars and general marketing campaigns we have fantastic one-off designs created for the website to advertise that particular event. We get many requests for copies of the designs to use as desktop wallpapers and so we have decided to release a brand-new 'Downloadables' section of the website (located under the 'resources' menu) dedicated solely to giving those images away in various common dimensions and resolutions.

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a brand new advanced technology thought-controlled gaming product with industry leaders and our partners, Myndplay, called Parkour Heroes.

We have just started a brand new Indoor Class catering for North London, in partnership with London Metropolitan University. 

The class is held in the university's grounds, in the Tower Building on Holloway Road, and is open to the public as one of our regular Academy Classes. Further, the class is completely free for all students of London Metropolitan University!

Video of the week is from MichTodorvic and titled SwagRun.

Fairly short video with some huge movement involved. Good to see some action from the Canadian traceurs and they aren't taking it easy!

As of next month we will be commencing an entirely new class in London specifically catering for 2-6 years olds WITH a parent, practising together.

There are very few activities for parents to share with their young children in London and the Family Parkour Class provides an outlet for this, while giving both parent and child the opportunity to explore their movement, get in shape and have a lot of fun in the mix ;)

A while back we were involved in the creation and release of a POV parkour-based computer game, Mirror's Edge, which based its main character Faith on our own original traceuse Tracey Tiltman. At the time we ran a nationwide campaign for EA Games, delivering public workshop events up and down the county and other promotional events.

In 2009, in conjunction with environmental and political lobbyist organisation Sandbag, we organised the One Giant Leap campaign in order to promote awareness of the need to reduce carbon emissions ahead of the UN Copenhagen Summit of world leaders. The event was and remains to this day the world record for the largest single training day for parkour practitioners around the world, with over 125 cities participating in over 35 countries.

We are happy to announce the launch of an open casting call for a brand new, high profile movie production we are currently involved in called TWIST.

A reminder that this Sunday we will be running open workshops and training sessions at Hyde Park as part of the Royal Parks Half Marathon charity event. 

Today saw the initial test shoot for a forthcoming movie production that will see full 3D used for the first time with parkour on a project of this scale. Five members of the Performance Team with Dan provided all the action, and we are happy to be working alongside our good friend Sebastian Foucan who is acting as parkour co-ordinator on the film. 

Due to the enormous popularity of our Academy Classes and our gold/silvercard membership scheme, which has been going from strength to strength, we are now offering further discounts to any students that hold a current NUS (National Union of Students) Extra card. For details of the NUS Extra card you can visit their website (http://www.nus.org.uk/) or alternatively speak to your university student union representatives.

 Autumn has sprung, and oh what glorious sunshine!  

#25 VOTW is a short action edit by Toby Segar and Team Storror and is a combination of moves performed with concrete confidence in their ability, and though some of the moves seem superhuman (note 1.49, it has to be seen to be believed) a couple of bails thrown in show that they are quite human and simply very skilled. Some nice diving kongs/SDC and kong/SDC to precisions in there too.

So enough talking, watch, rub your eyes, rewind and watch again. Enjoy!

In Febnruary 2012 we will be running the second of our new 'Anti-Gravity' Parkour/Yoga residential training camps on the beautiful isalnd of Phuket off the coast of Thailand. 

This weekend, due to the Hyde Park half marathon, the weekend wakeup class will be starting from 11am outside the Hyde Park Corner gate. See the map below for directions.

Keeping up with tradition, we will be delivering day-long workshops at the Royal Parks Half Marathon event held at Hyde Park in central London for our fifth year.  The event this yearwill take place on Sunday 9th October 2011 at Hyde Park and we will be right in the centre of the fitness festival running open workshops for the public. Completely free to attend, many of the team will be on site to share their knowledge, so come on down and get involved.

We've just updated and issued our regular newsletter, now named Pathfinder, which anyone can subscribe to free by ticking the box at the bottom of the homepage.