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This weekend a large number of the Parkour Generations Team will be running two days of demonstrations and workshops for the finals weekend of the London Youth Games at Crystal Palace on the 4th and 5th of July. The London Youth Games are a unique season of events at the heart of youth sport in the Capital, involving all 33 London Boroughs and 26 National Governing Bodies. The Games are free and open to all young people, aged between 7 and 17, living in or going to school in the Capital. In 2008 over 27,000 participants represented their local borough in 60 competitions across 30 sports. With parkour playing a more and more important role now in the physical education of young people in the country it's great to have the discipline represented at such a positive event. For more information on the games, click the link above. Thursday 2nd July 2009 
Employment and Education Day Workshops All day today we are running workshops for young people at Moberly Sports Centre as part of the City of Westminster's Employment and Education Day. This summer sees a raft of workshops going on for Westminster all over the borough as they continue to be the principle pioneering local authority for the discipline and for making it accessible to young people in London. Thursday 2nd July 2009 
This morning Dan will be talking on BBC Radio 4 from 9-10am, for the Midweek show with Libby Purves. Tune in to 92-95FM or listen online at the BBC Radio 4 website. Wednesday 1st July 2009 
Last week Dan spent some time with American best-selling suspense novelist Jeff Abbott, who came over to London to research parkour for his new book. Jeff is keen to portray the discipline accurately and convincingly, including the history and concepts involved, as it will be a skill utilised by the protagonist of the story. Jeff's work is really very good and worth reading, and we are sure he will do the art justice in introducing parkour to his very successful line of novels. You can find mor einfo on Jeff's work at the above link, and we'll let you know when the new work is released. Tuesday 30th June 2009 
Sunday saw June's free London jam taking place, known as 'Off the Wall, and we had a stunning day for it - great weather, great location, great people... big thanks to everyone who came down to practice and share ideas, and especially to Grant for taking care of the now-traditional warm-up! See you all at the end of July for the next one... Anyone wanting further info about the jams can email us on Brian(at)parkourgenerations.com Tuesday 30th June 2009 
RDV4 T-Shirt Competition Closed. A big thank you to all those people who sent in designs for the Charlie Keeper Design competition we hosted on the Forum. The competition is now closed and a winner has been chosen. The lucky winner's design will be printed up later this year on the Rendezvous 4 T-Shirts for everyone to wear at the event. The winner will also be given a signed first edition of the new Charlie Keeper Book as well as some Canvas Prints. Monday 29th June 2009 
We will be shooting a stills campaign for communications giant T-Mobile in London this summer. The campaign will reach across Europe and the USA, and will feature Team Members Dom and James in action. Having now done projects for Nokia, Samsung, 3, etc as well it is clear that the communications industry have a bit of penchant for parkour..! We don't expect this to be the last campaign of its kind either. Monday 29th June 2009 
BBC Radio Discussion: Wednesday On Wednesday this week, July 1st, Dan will be on BBC Radio 4 for the Midweek show, discussing the new book, the development of the discipline in the UK and all other matters parkour-related. The show airs live from 9am on Wednesday, and you can either tune in on the radio or listen live on their website at the link above. Monday 29th June 2009 
The Morzine Intensive Training Camp has just drawn to an end, and what a great success it was. Blane and Forrest would like to thank everyone who attended for making the week so spirited and enjoyable: everybody worked hard but also managed to have great fun and keep smiling throughout. Great team spirit! We would also would like to thank Serge and Chalet Philbert for providing such first class accommodation for the second year running. Photo galleries and video edits of the event will follow in due course, and well done to all who made the trip from all over the world. See you again next summer! Sunday 28th June 2009 
This year's Intensive Training Camp in Morzine, France, is now under full swing and going exceptionally well. With participants from Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Ecuador, USA, UK, France and Spain, it is a truly international event and we have been impressed at how quickly everyone took to the training and forged a real team spirit amongst themselves. The weather has been beautiful and the managers of the Chalet Philbert resort have looked after everyone incredibly well. After four days of non-stop training, today is the rest day before the real challenge is presented tomorrow... The Morzine Camp goes from strength to strength, and next year we look forward to making it even better! Friday 26th June 2009 
On Wednesday this week Live Magazine, the 'voice of youth' in the UK, came down to the Outdoor Class to cover the training for a two-page review in their July issue. Well done to Samara and Crystal for jumping in with both feet and giving the class a try, and we look forward to the piece next month. For more on Live Magazine or to book a place on our regular outdoor classes, click the links above. Friday 26th June 2009 
Monday 29th June sees us begin a series of workshops at St George's School in the Westminster Borough of London. Two 2-hour sessions on Monday, Thursday and Friday gets the course going and will give a good portion of the student population a taste of parkour training. With such a huge demand now from the school sector for regular parkour classes the next academic year is going to be a busy one for us. Friday 26th June 2009 
This Sunday our free monthly London Jam, 'Off The wall', will meet at Poplar Station on the DLR at 12.45pm. The famous end-of-month gatherings are a means to get together, exchange ideas and training tips with all levels of practitioner from absolute beginner to battle-hardened veterans. We will move on to the training areas there soon after the meeting time, so anyone wishing to jump in should aim to be there on time and ready to move. For more information on the jams contact Brian on brian(at)parkourgenerations.com. Come along! Friday 26th June 2009 
Story of London Festival: June 27th Ongoing at the moment is the Mayor's Story of London Festival, a month long celebration of London’s past, present and future. This pan-London jamboree showcases the city’s huge and glorious heritage, highlights many unique facets of its present day cultural offer and takes a sometimes fun, sometimes serious look at its future. This year in conjunction with renowned architecture charity Open House, and as part of ‘The Lives of Buildings’ city-wide event in association with English Heritage, we will be putting on a public demonstration and workshops at Trinity Buoy Wharf on Saturday June 27th, between 2-5pm. The workshops on the 27th are open to the public, so all are welcome to come along and take part in this historic event. For more information click here. Thursday 25th June 2009 
Next week we will be running two days of demonstrations and workshops for the finals weekend of the London Youth Games at Crystal Palace on the 4th and 5th of July. The London Youth Games are a unique season of events at the heart of youth sport in the Capital, involving all 33 London Boroughs and 26 National Governing Bodies. The Games are free and open to all young people, aged between 7 and 17, living in or going to school in the Capital. In 2008 over 27,000 participants represented their local borough in 60 competitions across 30 sports. With parkour playing a more and more important role now in the physical education of young people in the country it's great to have the discipline represented at such a positive event. For more information on the games, click the link above. Thursday 25th June 2009 
The next two issues of extreme sports magazine, Spiked, will be running features on parkour and the work we get up to here at Parkour Generations. Spiked magazine covers all and any extreme sport, from skateboarding to kite surfing, mountain biking to base jumping, climbing to MMA, and now parkour! The ethos of the magazine is to provide stories about professionals down to the amateur participant or spectator, with a clear message that highlights the fact that extreme sports are open to anyone, at any age, at any level. The magazine promotes health and fitness through sport and promotes building confidence. SPIKED have also partnered with Kidscape, an anti bullying charity, where they are working together to help children build confidence through sport and physical activity. You can subscribe free to the magazine, including free delivery, by visiting their website at the link above - well worth checking out. The first issue containing parkour is released July 10th. Monday 22nd June 2009 
Tomorrow, Monday 22nd June, we will be running yet another in the ongoing series of workshops for Pupil Referral Unit young people in Westminster. These sessions are a great way to engage young people who have perhaps become disaffected and disillusioned with more conventional forms of physical activity, and have proved to be a great success throughout many London boroughs. We find the young people in the PRU scheme to have bags of talent and energy, and often simply in need of a suitable challenge - which parkour always provides ;) Sunday 21st June 2009 
Coming up this week, Tuesday June 23rd and Wednesday 24th, we will be running two days of workshops at Haberdasher's Aske's Knights Academy for young performance arts students. The project is to enable the students to then add parkour elements into an upcoming live performance. Projects like this are always inspirational and highly creative, we find, and it's great to see renowned schools such as Haberdasher's picking up on the versatility and visual appeal of the art. Sunday 21st June 2009 
The long-awaited Intensive Training Camp situated in the French Alps, in the beautiful resort town of Morzine, kicks off on Monday with Blane, Forrest and Agota all flying out this weekend to prepare the ground. The camp is at full capacity and booking is now closed, but next year we are intending to again increase the amount of places we can accept. One week of hard training awaits those lucky enough to have got on this year's, as well as a few fun ativities and events to help them relax between Forrest's fearsome runs..! We wish everyone the best of times out there, and look forward to hearing the war-stories from those who survive to tell the tale... ;) Friday 19th June 2009 
London Gathering: June 28th Off the Wall The famous 'Off the Wall' free monthly jams in London have now just had their year anniversary, and are going from strength to strength. A means to get together, exchange ideas and training tips with all levels of practitioner from absolute beginner to battle-hardened veteran, these gatherings run on the last Sunday of every month and are open to all. The next Off the Wall jam is Sunday 28th June, and will be held in East London. It will run all day, beginning with a thorough warm-up run by some of the Parkour Generations Team, and will consist of fun, frolics and a whole lot of movement... For more details, email Brian on Brian(at)parkourgenerations.com or sign up to our Facebook Page for updates. Thursday 18th June 2009 |
