The first organized and sponsored freerunning demo in Boulder happened this past weekend at Summerfest. Despite scheduling conflicts and the planning stages compacted into one morning, Demon, Sat, Kannagasai, and Kathryn put on a successful and mostly improvised demonstration in front of a crowd of a hundred people. The audience was mainly rock climbers who were very receptive and interested in the movement. Thanks to The Spot and La Sportiva for their help in putting together the demo. The entire event was great and the demo is sure to increase interest in the Boulder parkour scene. A full write up and video footage are coming soon.
- "Livin that life some consider a myth" The next Will Smith Blockbuster movie "I Am Legend" will feature some very talented Traceurs in the role of Hemocyte -that's a mutant that's sort of vampirish and sort of super-human. Asa, Exo, Moses, and Willgrind have all been cast for the role and have been through the intensive first week of being shaved and having their bodies scanned for exact proportions. Several other traceurs from around the country were fortunate enough to go to the tryouts with stunt legend Vic Armstrong - who played Harrison Ford's double in all the Indiana Jones movies. Huge thanks go out to Kathleen and Jess at Kathleen Chopin casting agency. They're super cool to work with! Congrats to the guys, we look forward to hearing about their on-set adventures and seeing them in the finished product next summer. We'll release some photos as soon as we have the go-ahead.
She will also be filming Monday at 3:00 in Battery Park if you can make it then.
Jen Keber works for MTV Italy as a casting director and senior production assistant. She's here in New York doing a workshop in Digital Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. For her final project, she'd love to do a short 5-10 minute documentary on Parkour. The kicker is that she needs to film this weekend, as it's only a 4 week course so she didn't have a lot of notice. If you're in the city this weekend and would like to take part please email me and I'll put you directly in contact with Jen. She needs help choosing locations and would love to work with anyone familiar with the area and dedicated to Parkour. Email me
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if you're able to help out. Ciao Gratsi!
Whenever we speak of APK, we're fond of referring to it as a content driven website. Without the articles and features, it would be nothing but a fancy chat system. Being that our goal is to bring the most useful information to the Parkour and Freerunning communities, we can never have enough good content to build our foundation on. With that being said, it's important to highlight the amazing amount of useful information that we've collected in such a short time, both to remind our members what they should be here for, and hopefully to motivate people to keep sending us their finished products as well as their ideas, as we can always use both aspects of the equation! Our three richest sections are the, Informative Articles , Fitness Articles , Tutorials , and the Photo Gallery .
Along with these small glimpses into the content we DO have, it's important to realize the amazing amount of information we haven't had time to collect. A more-extensive Video Section would be great, but that comes with the caveat that the videos have to be high-quality. Along the line of articles, there is always room for opinions or intelligently-written wrap-ups of jams and events. Do you have a good idea of training? A design for a Parkour-specific piece of equipment? A random, winding rant about the nature of the community? Send them our way, and we'll surely find some use for them!
The weather has finally broken for most of the US and with the exception of thunderstorms in the plains it looks like a perfect weekend to be out doing some Parkour!
How will you make the most of it? Will you train? Relax? Spend time with family or friends? One thing for sure ... you shouldn't spend it staring at a computer screen!! Go live.
For anyone visting for the first time, our site is in "weekend mode" where we take down the Parkour Videos, Parkour Photos, and over 200 articles and stories we have, and leave up only things which relate to Parkour Training. This is designed to get people outside doing Parkour instead of inside reading the internet.
If you need training ideas, Check out Demon's Drills (under PK Training Tips) on the left, or the tutorials which you can print and take outside. Check back Sunday night for our full-featured site.
For anyone visting for the first time, our site is in "weekend mode" where we take down the Parkour Videos, Parkour Photos, and over 200 articles and stories we have, and leave up only things which relate to Parkour Training. This is designed to get people outside doing Parkour instead of inside reading the internet.
If you need training ideas, Check out Demon's Drills (under PK Training Tips) on the left, or the tutorials which you can print and take outside. Check back Sunday night for our full-featured site.
How will you advance this weekend? What will you learn? What new thing will you try? How will you become more fit, more useful?
For anyone visting for the first time, our site is in "weekend mode" where we take down the Parkour Videos, Parkour Photos, and over 200 articles and stories we have, and leave up only things which relate to Parkour Training. This is designed to get people outside doing Parkour instead of inside reading the internet.
If you need training ideas, Check out Demon's Drills (under PK Training Tips) on the left, or the tutorials which you can print and take outside. Check back Sunday night for our full-featured site.
Well, this is it! the last weekend of the summer. We hope that by shutting down APK we helped to keep you outside this summer, away from the computer, away from your television, off your ass and outside moving around, being human.
Did you improve this summer? How did you train? Did you spend dedicated time trying to be better, or did you just play around? If you did spend time training, what did you learn about yourself? About Parkour?
Check out the new dumbell training article by Gearsighted below!
Your challenge for this weekend: go do something new. When is the last time you did something you never did before?
On Friday NYparkour's server was hacked into by an unknown source. They deleted most of our front page and Our boards will have to be rebuilt. The hackers replaced our front page with one of there own making, we want to make it known that from the reports we received it was more likely to be the work of bored Hackers rather then an actual political, or rebellious group statement, and of course do not reflect the feelings of Our parkourCommunity. Part of our Front page has been now been restored and work has been started on the forums. Until Completion NYparkour members should feel free to use The NY section of the APK forums, as they are up and running. We will of course update you through APK with more info as we obtain it, so worry not, get out, and go train.
There really are no shortcuts in life. People grasp for products that will make them "lose weight without effort" or "get smarter in your sleep" ... the only person any smarter is the one making money from these things while some poor desperate person believes that they will change their life by paying for a secret shortcut. At APK we get countless emails asking "How can I get started?", "What's the fastest way to become better?" The answer is very simple.
1. Become more fit. No shortcuts. Try the APK WOD - if that's too challenging, do the APK Warmup every day for 2 weeks, then do the WOD. No Shortcuts.
2. Practice. Train hard. Read the tutorials or better yet find someone local who knows what they're doing and learn from them, then go do it. No shortcuts.
3. Set goals. This is the proven most effective way to acheive anything and everything. Without setting goals you might as well not fool yourself into thinking you even want something. No shortcuts.
