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This Thursday we will be running a day of workshops at the Lewis Pengam School in Wales, just outside Cardiff. The workshop is being supported by Caerphilly County Borough Council. There is a swelling of interest in the discipline in Wales at the moment, which is great to see, and we are very happy to be able to encourage it and help it maintain momentum with the schools and local authorities. Tuesday 9th March 2010 
FREE D: School Training Facilities The new Free D training facilities, designed in conjunction with our partners - UK-based company ESP Ltd - and endorsed by both afPE and Parkour UK, have now been installed in 4 schools in northern England. The official launch took place at St. Leonard’s Primary School in Padiham which is a current case study for the Trust Schools Strategy. It was an outstanding success with support from Burnley Football players Clarke Carlisle and Chris Eagles who were there to back the concept. The community-based project has already had a huge impact in the Burnley area, with the resource currently being used by our team in conjunction with the local police force to train young people to take the ADAPT Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Parkour. Having a permanent outdoor facility like this in schools is perfect for young people to learn the fundamentals of movement upon, and we look forward to seeing it in use across the country soon. Tuesday 9th March 2010 
Gymbox Partnership: Outdoor Classes Starting in April we will be providing weekly outdoor parkour classes in central London for health and fitness group, Gymbox. The initial classes will run out of the Covent Garden location, HERE, where we will meet the class and then head out to a local outdoor training hotspot. The classes will be 1.5 hours in length and full of the usual fun and frolics one would expect from any of our Academy Classes.. Moreover, these new Gymbox classe are also open to the general public - you don't have to be a Gymbox member to join the class, just meet our instructor at the Covent Garden Gymbox centre for 6.30pm on Tuesday April 6th and join in! Monday 8th March 2010 
Parkour Generations and Carbon Media have entered into a collaboration that unites two of the most experienced companies in the world of parkour to create a singular source of talent and production services for TV, film, advertising and events: The Parkour Partnership. The award winning production company Carbon Media is home of director Mike Christie and producer Mike Smith who made the seminal Channel 4 documentaries Jump London and Jump Britain in the early noughties which brought the discipline to a truly global audience. Our two companies have worked closely together since 2006 and are now able to offer a complete and professional ‘one stop shop’ for production and talent needs to advertisers, agencies and producers. The Partnership has already worked on the action sequences for UK hit movie 'St Trinians 2: the Legend of Fritton's Gold' and a unique POV television commercial for Alpella. Details of the Partnership and contact information can be found on the Parkour Partnership Website, and we are very happy to have Carbon Media as an official partner. Thursday 4th March 2010 
Walt Disney Studios has premiered the new trailer for producer Jerry Bruckheimer's parkour-influenced Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, opening in theatres on May 28. Directed by Mike Newell, the video game adaptation stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell. The movie had parkour's own David Belle providing the action sequence stunt-doubling and from this trailer it's clear that the film will involve a lot of the trademark parkour sequences from the original console game. Click the link above to watch the new trailer. Wednesday 3rd March 2010 
16th March this year will again see us providing a day of workshops for the National Junior Indoor Rowing Competition, taking place in Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, London. NJIRC is the world's largest indoor rowing championships, organised annually in London by London Youth Rowing, and is always a high-energy and highly popular day. We will be there all day, from 9.30am-5.00pm delivering workshops for the thousands of people who attend the event. Come on down if you can! Wednesday 3rd March 2010 
South East London Academy Opens Today The first class of the new South East London Academy begins tonight at the Optimal Life Fitness Training Centre in Hither Green (South East London), a few minutes by train from London Bridge. It's a classic training space, filled with kettle-bells, free weights, mixed martial arts and a purpose-built scaffolding for us to boot... Blane will be running the class from 7.30pm-9.00pm and it is open to anyone from complete beginners to veteran practitioners. The first class is totally free, so come along and try it out. Monday 1st March 2010 
Following the recent launch of the official ADAPT instructor qualifications in the UK and Euope, we are now happy to announce a new scheme that will create the first network of qualified instructors - the Affiliate Coaches. These are individuals who have achieved an ADAPT qualification and are affiliated with Parkour Generations as instructors. The scheme is open for any ADAPT qualified individual to apply to join, and these coaches will be found working alongside our own team of instructors at events, classes, workshops and seminars. The first 6 instructors are already listed on the Affiliate Coaches page, and we are looking forward to seeing this network grow and grow in the months to come following the launch of ADAPT. Friday 26th February 2010 
Very soon veteran practitioner Johnny 'Sticky' Budden will be embarking on his 1000 Miles of Parkour run in aid of Motor Neurone Disease from the northern tip of the UK all the way to the birthplace of the art in Paris, France. This unique journey will involve him running over a marathon a day for about a month, using parkour to overcome any obstacle in his path, and hooking up with traceurs in various cities to join him for a spell before he moves on. If you haven't already, PLEASE head over to his blog by clicking the link above and donate in support of this very worthy cause. He needs all the help he can get (it's a long way...) and we are behind him 100%. Friday 26th February 2010 
Copies of February's SPIKED Magazine arrived on the shelves across the UK and in the post today at PKGen, and we are very happy with how this initial half-and-half issue has turned out. Looks fantastic. The new partnership between SPIKED & Parkour Generations will see the action sports publication develop over the coming issues into a full-blown Parkour magazine, the first in-print Parkour magazine in the world. This edition includes a 25-page official dedicated section on Parkour as a lead-up to the launch of the full magazine soon. This edition is packed with features including Parkour - ethos and way of life, how to train safely, how to get involved, training spots, techniques, plus articles on the global Parkour community. The aim of the magazine is to be the voice of the community, so we will be regularly requesting submissions of articles, photos and the like from you all to put into the magazine. Order your copy now from our homepage if you haven't already! Friday 26th February 2010 
Parkour Generations photographer Andy Day, aka Kiell, will be in France for two weeks as of Monday. He'll be spending time in Fontainebleau, Evry and Lisses, and Marseilles. If you're interested in meeting up, feel free to get in touch - andy (at) parkourgenerations.com. Friday 26th February 2010 
As of March 10th we will begin running weekly sessions for Woolwich Polytechnic College in greenwich, London. The school is a successful, heavily over-subscribed, boys’ comprehensive situated in a modern building on a green field site and we will be there every Wednesday afternoon from 3.05-5.05pm running a parkour class. Woolwich is the latest school to join our burgeoning Parkour for Schools Programme and we are looking forward to bringing the benefits of the discipline to their community. Thursday 25th February 2010 
As reported yesterday, our new indoor classes have been added to the website. The first is from 1st March at the Optimal Life Fitness Training Center in Hither Green (South East London). Blane will be running the class from 7.30pm-9.00pm for any ability practitioner and will contain training with some of the more unique features of the gym! The second new indoor academy is already running and is based in Sutton at the Westcroft Leisure Center in Carshalton alongside both Andy and Alli. This session is split into two parts, one for under 14's from 4.00pm to 5.30pm, and the second part is 5.30pm to 7.00pm for anyone over the age of 14. The Sutton classes are only £1! Thursday 25th February 2010 
New Academy! South-East London We are happy to announce the opening of a new weekly indoor Academy class for South-East London, which will be running every Monday from March 1st at the new Optimal Life Fitness Training Centre in Hither Green. The centre houses some great training groups, including MMA, kettlebells, olympic lifting and Crossfit. The location of the centre is 174-176 Hither Green Lane, Hither Green SE13 6QB, with the entrance just off Lanier Road and via the loading bay. The class will run from 7.30-9.00pm every Monday and with a purpose-built scaffolding inside for our use it should be a whole lot of fun... and hardship, of course ;) All are welcome, from beginners to veterans, and details/maps will soon be up on our Indoor Academy page. Wednesday 24th February 2010 
Off the Wall. Sunday. Vauxhall. 12.30pm. Vauxhall will be playing host to our regular Off the Wall Jam this month. It's a completely free and open rendezvous of traceurs and traceuses of any ability to meet, train and connect with other practitioners from the community. Team members from Parkour Generations will always be at hand to help with any questions or queries you may have and will lead a general warm-up for anyone wanting to participate. The Jam starts at 12.30pm on Sunday 27th February at the Vauxhall walls. If you do not know where this is, click on the google map HERE. See you there! Wednesday 24th February 2010 
ADAPT Courses: March and April Following the success of the first official ADAPT instructor qualification course in January, which saw Seb Foucan among other experienced practitioners qualifying to become coaches, NGB Parkour UK will be administering three further courses in March and April - one in Middlesex, one in Westminster and one in Lancashire. The demand for the qualification course is enormous, and in Spring the Level 2 course will be rolled out for the more experienced practitioners to become full instructors. For those interested in becoming a parkour coach, please contact us directly or the NGB via the link above. Tuesday 23rd February 2010 
New Video: Sarcelles Training Day A new video by our very own Julie Angel has just been released online, which covers a simple day of training in the forest of Sarcelles, one of the birthplaces of the discipline, with some of the PKGen team, Majestic Force and the Yamakasi founders. It is often said that the discipline of parkour was born in the city while the spirit was born in Sarcelles, and this video captures that perfectly we think. Check it out HERE. Tuesday 23rd February 2010 
Sport Relief: Parkour against Poverty This year on Sunday March 21st we are coordinating parkour activities across 16 UK cities in conjunction with anti-poverty charity, Sport Relief. Sport Relief is part of the Comic Relief project which raises millions of pounds every year to aid poverty-stricken countries around the world. We are looking for groups and individuals in 16 participating cities to get involved and assist during the event day, running workshops and demonstrations where necessary. For more details, visit our forum here and get in touch. It's a great cause and one we are committed to supporting. Tuesday 23rd February 2010 
New Academy: OLF Training Centre This weekend saw us delivering an introductory workshop at the first open day for the new Optimal Life Fitness Training Centre in South-East London, Hither Green. The centre houses some great training groups, including MMA, kettlebells, olympic lifting and Crossfit, and we will be opening a weekly evening Academy class there in the next couple of weeks. The class will follow a similar model to our existing Academies and will cater for the South-East London area. The location of the centre is 174-176 Hither Green Lane, Hither Green SE13 6QB, and more details can be found on their blog HERE. As soon as we have the time/day for the new class, you'll be the first to know ;) Sunday 21st February 2010 |
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