Awsa is a singer, songwriter, backing vocalist, and Pilates instructor who fell in love with Parkour in April 2010. A trained dancer, kickboxing-dabbler and ball sports enthusiast, she describes Parkour as the ultimate movement vocabulary in which her body and mind can free, and express, itself. Amongst other things. Having taught Pilates and physical rehabilitation for 10 years, she is constantly researching stretch, and injury preventative, exercises that could ensure a practitioner's long and jumping life. She is also a Viking plotting how to love the world one song at a time, and sometimes wears a hat.
Blake has been involved in the UK Parkour scene since it started way back in 2001 and is part of the group "The Saiyans" or "SaiyanClan" as its known on more formal occasions. He has been hiding in the metaphorical shadows of the scene in an almost ninja like fashion. He has on occasion been spotted lurking in the background of a few Parkour videos by avid "Blake conspiracy theorists" but there is no concrete evidence he actually exists.
It has been said that Blake now teaches Parkour in his local area of Edgware with the Saiyan Parkour Academy.
Blake often goes off on farcical rambles when talking about himself in the third-person but promises to try and keep more on-topic in his blog posts.
Saiyan Parkour Academy Facebook
I'm a Parkour Coach based out of Glasgow, Scotland.
I run Glasgow Parkour Coaching and co-ordinate various parkour projects around Scotland.
I've been training for over 6 years and try to spend my time training, teaching and travelling.
Chris has been training at parkour since 2007, and learned initially from youtube videos before moving to London in 2009 and starting to train with Parkour Generations. His sports background is in basketball and climbing, both of which he still does today. For Chris, parkour is about fun, challenge, getting stronger, and exploring the city (probably in that order). Chris is also a keen photographer and could not miss the opportunity to put a link to his stuff... here:
James is the greatest parkour practitioner on Earth. He is tall, dark, handsome and mildly delusional. He also currently volunteers as an occasional assistant coach with Parkour Generations.
I'm a parkour coach in Southern California. I started parkour in 2009 and have been training pretty much everyday since. I started training with PKGen while living in London.
Joseph began practicing parkour in 2006. After training largely on his own for a year, he started to organize the Columbus, Ohio parkour community in early 2007. He co-founded Parkour Horizons, an organization dedicated to promoting and institutionalizing the discipline of parkour, in 2008. He currently works as Parkour Horizons’ Director and Head Coach. ADAPT LVL 2, NASM CPT
Blake is currently traveling around the world on a research fellowship awarded by the Watson Foundation (started by Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM). When not eating large quantities of food he is investigating the current state of parkour within the global context, the effects of varying exterior influences (big companies, advertising, increased media attention...) on the sport, and the potential of parkour as an agent for positive social change.
After running cross country and track for four years, Nick started training parkour in early 2007. He co-founded Parkour Horizons (Columbus, Ohio, USA) in 2008 and has been a lead instructor since. Nick is also a co-director of Parkour Horizons and organizes most Parkour Horizons training events.
after being born, raised and spent most of my life in Istanbul, i moved to Glasgow in 2008 around the same time i have discovered parkour. being already a capoeira practitioner, i was amazed and addicted to the movement and flow within it.
i have been a parkour coach for just about 2 years now, and enjoy spending my time training my body and my mind. i'm also a printmaker/illustrator but that's another story.
Bruno Peixoto, AKA "Rachacuca" practices Parkour February 2005. He's a film director graduated in Film at the Center Una University, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Currently, Bruno lives in London, England, where he performs a search on the relationship of the Parkour in the Performing Arts: Theatre, Dance, Circus and Performance itself. This project was awarded by the Brazilian National Foundation for Arts, FUNARTE Performing Arts Scholarship. When he's not training, Bruno listen to grindcore music and eats açaí with japanese food in industrial scale.
Feel free to contact him at:
bruno@pkmaxparkour.com
www.twitter/rachacuca
www.gorilabranco.com
www.parcours.com.br
www.rachacucaparkour.com
"My country is the world, all men are my brethren and my religion is to do good." - Thomas Paine. As a world citizen, Shi has trained with communities in London, Paris, Sydney and Melbourne , and has lived in Asia, Australia,the Middle East and Europe. Currently in Melbourne and helping out with the Australian Parkour Assocation http://parkour.asn.au , Shi is also the webmaster of http://girlparkour.com , an all inclusive website primarily for women who train parkour.
From a background in Martial Arts and rock-climbing John started training Parkour in August 2003. Having trained in a number of countries he is now based in Perth,Western Australia and is a senior instructor with the Australian Parkour Association.
