Zachary Cohn and Charles Moreland recently launched a new website, Rochester Parkour , to help build the community in Rochester, New York. The primary goal of the website is to increase awareness of Parkour in Rochester and the surrounding areas and facilitate new traceurs finding and training with more experienced ones.
The website contains basic information about Parkour to educate those who don't know what it is, a list of Classes, a weekly training schedule that is updated every Wednesday, as well as a link to the APK forums. It will eventually have a Flickr gallery to help organize and display photographs.
Reporters from The New York Times recently attended a jam in New York City and wrote a great article featuring Nikkie Zanevsky, recently back from China. The article also features Ann Kaczka, Ryan Irish, Sha Mialimm Ak, and Michael "Pyro" Araujo from NYPK. The video goes on to feature the basics of Parkour with Nikkie narrating and explaining.
Nice job, everyone involved, and hopefully this can get Parkour some good exposure in New York City. Thanks to Peter Gerstenzang, author of the article.
Chase Armitage of 3run has been an inspiration and major influence in the world of Parkour and Freerunning recently. The amount of practice and dedication he's put into the two disciplines have been captured in this new video he's been working on for one year... "I just want to show people that we all begin somewhere, I was new to
Parkour, Freerunning and filming, but with passion and dedication you can achieve so much, no matter what your goals in life are, just go for them and live your dreams." The video is available for download on his new website www.3inspiration.com in full HD resolution and other various formats. Below is the high quality youtube video. Thank you Chase!
San Franciso Parkour
and invited traceurs are teaming up with YouTube to participate in the upcoming YouTube Live event on November 22nd, 2008 @ 5PM PST. Its looking to be a large event with a lot of big acts. Check out the promo vid below, at 0:27 in the "Underground Athletes" section a clip of NoSole and Andrey is featured. Good luck guys!
Ozzi is at it again with a very well written and detailed blog entry titled "Our Sour Down Moments - Injury Recovery" . In his blog, he pinpoints specific muscles and joints into upper and lower body injuries, then offers a few recovery methods. There's a couple great topics most traceurs overlook in his blog as well. Thanks Ozzi! Click below to read the entire blog.
The weekend of September 27th saw Billy, Brian, Sam, Leon and Jereme heading
to NYC to perform as a part of the festivities for those that had raced
in the Urbanathalon
The Tribeand Alliance are keeping busy. Fresh off their trip to China, Frosti, Ryan Ford, and Mark Toorock will be joined byteammatesJereme Sanders,Will Schultz,Andy Cousins,Levi Meeuwenberg,Tyson Cecka, andMiamiParkour's Adrian Gonzales, to head off to Lebanon! The boys were called in by the US Embassy to give several performances around Beirut and to teach local children.K-SWISS and American Parkour have signed on to sponsor the event. This is looking to be an amazing event showing the ability of parkour and freerunning to reach out to the world and a chance to train some kids in parkour who could really use a positive influence in their lives. We're extremely thankful to K-SWISS and the US Embassy for making this opportunity possible and we can't wait to get over there and represent!
Thomas Couetdic has written an official review of the Morzine training
camp that took place in the French Alps. From the 16th to the 20th of September, it proved to be a seriously intense experience for everyone that attended. "We came back for breakfast and headed back out immediately for the
first conditioning session: a simple and small wall run followed by a
controlled climb down. The 100 reps proved deadly on the hands of the
guys (especially because Forrest would make everyone start again if one
of them failed to do the exercise properly) and they all carried
painful blisters until the end of the course. And we had just started..." Click here for the full article on Parkour Generations website.
After an exciting event in London UF is gearing up again for another World Freerunning Championship. If you liked what you saw at the first one now's your chance to be a part of it and if you thought you could bring something of your own, here's your chance! APK's own Skipper placed fifth in the first event! Check out www.urbanfreeflow.com for details. If you were completely against it, that's cool too, there's plenty of places to go train!
There are all types of of obstacles out there in world. So what if you come across something different like a tight rope, chain, or a bunch of zombies wandering the streets? Well thanks to Will you can now be prepared. He's made this fine tutorial for chainwalking . Similar to slacklining, this tutorial shows technique for walking on chains. Check out the video tutorial below!
