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News from July 2007
Following last week's radio interview for BBC London with Parkour Coaching's Stephane and Dan, today a different show on the same radio station interviewed Dan about the recent explosive growth of parkour. The interview can be listened to on BBC London's website archive, at 1 hour 45 minutes into the Robert Elms afternoon show for Tuesday July 31st. Wednesday 01st of August 2007 
The hugely popular German fashion magazine 'Stern' has commissioned our photographer Andy Day plus four of the team for a photo shoot in Paris from July 30th to August 1st. Laurent, Williams, Forrest and Stephane will be providing the action as they roam around the old stamping grounds in France. Tuesday 31st of July 2007 
Westminster Workshop in Regents Park Wednesday, August 1st will see Parkour Coaching hosting workshops from 11am-3pm at the Inner Circle in Regents Park in conjunction with Westminster Sports Unit. Free access to all who wish to come along, and with the weather looking promising it should be a fine day for all. Tuesday 31st of July 2007 
Adidas Update: Mission Accomplished Parkour Coaching's recent trip to Shanghai for the Adidas live event was carried off without a hitch, including four live performances - two outdoor and two indoor - for China's media as well as a thousand-strong audience. The team returned safely yesterday and were thrown straight back into things as a photo shoot in France kicked off the very same day! Tuesday 31st of July 2007 
Parkour Coaching will be running workshops and live demonstrations for nine consecutive days this August at Thorpe Park. Everything will be centred on a purpose-built training area that should be one of the most impressive Wednesday 25th of July 2007 
Andy Day has just published a series of photographs taken at Abbey Road with Parkour Coaching's Dom, Chris and Yao. The images have been added to the Gallery section of the site as well as being published on Andy's own site - kiell.com. Wednesday 25th of July 2007 
Parkour Coaching Shanghai'd... We will be sending a five-man team to China next week to display the discipline of parkour at an innovative live event for Adidas. Stephane, Dan, Yann, Kazuma and Thomas depart on the 25th of July for Shanghai, where the performance will be structured across an impressive indoor and outdoor setting. Saturday 21st of July 2007 
Early morning of Saturday 21st July tune in to BBC London Breakfast Radio to catch Stephane, Dan and Forrest being interviewed about the growth of parkour and Parkour Coaching's teaching of the discipline. The piece will go out live and is scheduled for a 7.40am start. Friday 20th of July 2007 
Over the next few months Parkour Coaching will again be running the highly successful workshop format for young people all over London, in an effort to encourage children to practise a discipline that will bring them good health and to raise awareness of the importance of exercise. The 23rd of July will see the start of the 'Edutain' programme for 8-13 year olds with 3 workshops a week in the Westminster borough for two months, run in conjunction with Positive Futures. Other ongoing courses will be happening in Brent, Kensginton and Chelsea, Wiltshire, and for numerous London schools. Sunday 15th of July 2007 
Women's Training Sessions in London Due to the explosion in the numbers of female practitioners at our Academy classes, Parkour Coaching intitiated a regular outdoor training session only for women. The session is held once a month, at a pre-selected London hotspot, and is a perfect way for people to learn from the more experienced. Anyone interested in attending should send Tracey an email here so she can add you to the mailing list. Friday 13th of July 2007 
Stephane Vigroux on Sixty Minutes The 11th and 12th of July will see a crew from the international news documentary programme 'Sixty Minutes' following Stephane around Lisses and Evry as he discusses the development, history and practice of parkour. Friday 13th of July 2007 
MTV Japan featuring Parkour Coaching After the shoot for K-Swiss in Tokyo last month, MTV Japan have launched a few taster features about Parkour on their website - the music video for the band 'Ten Feet' is up already as a teaser with more details on the full K-Swiss TV commercial, featuring Stephane, Dan and Forrest to be released soon. Monday 09th of July 2007 
'The Outside In; Female Parkour' on YouTube Julie Angel's film, 'The Outside In; Female Parkour', featuring Academy student Karen Palmer, has been selected by YouTube's editors and is being featured on their Sports Category page - click here. Monday 09th of July 2007 
'Jump Westminster' Premieres on the Community Channel We are delighted to announce that Julie Angel's acclaimed parkour documentary, 'Jump Westminster', will premiere on the Community Channel (Sky 539 & Virgin 233) on Saturday 28th July 2007. 3.30pm. Sunday 08th of July 2007 
Olympics Roadshow Parkour Workshops Friday 6th July will see us running more workshops at the second of the 250-or-so 2012 Roadshow event days planned in the build-up to the Olympics, following the success of the Greenwich Sportathon event. This one will be held in Hyde Park from 4-9pm, and is again open to all-comers. Sunday 08th of July 2007 
Academy Women in the Spotlight June 21st saw the Parkour Academy women receiving more attention, this time in the form of an article and photo shoot for the Daily Mail. Some fantastic images of the women training around some iconic sites in the city have resulted, and will appear in our Gallery section soon. The article will appear in the newspaper soon, and we'll inform you here when it does of course. Thanks to Agota, Alice, Naomi, Amy, Tracey, Lucy and Karen for bringing such energy and enthusiasm! Sunday 08th of July 2007 
West End Live and Trace Event Update On the weekend of 23/24 June, Parkour Coaching ran workshops both days in Leicester Square for the impressive West End Live festival. Despite a few rain showers the workshops went down very well with the public and people of all ages and walks of life got to try their hand at some simple movement drills. Huge thanks to Westminster Sports Unit for helping out, and to all the Academy crowd who lent a hand, especially James, Brian, Yao, Andrzej, Dom, Christian, Alli, Naomi and Amy - oh, and to one Johann Vigroux for carrying his duvet all the way from France. ;) Sunday 08th of July 2007 
A new gallery of photographs featuring the athletes from Parkour Coaching has just been released on kiell.com. As we make developments to the Parkour Coaching website, the new images will be uploaded to our gallery. Sunday 08th of July 2007 
The urban culture magazine, Big Smoke, will be running an article on Parkour Coaching and the Academy classes in its next edition. The website can be found here : www.bigsmokelive.co.uk. Sunday 08th of July 2007 
Saturday June 30th saw the first of the Forest Hill Performing Arts School workshops go off with a bang. Wanting to integrate simple parkour-based movements into an ambitious theatrical project, the drama students and staff threw themselves into the workshops with great enthusiasm and worked hard at it all day. With another session to come, the finished action scenes should keep the audiences on the edge of their seats! Sunday 08th of July 2007 
Jump Westminster Download Now Available *UPDATE* Jump Westminster is now available for download via Parkour.net. Sunday 08th of July 2007 
Parkour Coaching in the Olympic Roadshow Tasters Sport England are hosting a number of sporting roadshow sessions around the country as part of the London 2012 Olympic drive, and Parkour Coaching was invited to run the parkour workshops at these ´sportathons´. The roadshows kicked off in Greenwich on Friday, and are touring 27 locations across the country over a 10-week period. Sunday 08th of July 2007 
A write up of our recent ground breaking seminar is now available to read. Sunday 08th of July 2007 |
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