From October 22 to November 19, six women from Women's Adventure Magazine have been training parkour with the Colorado Parkour Academy in Boulder, CO. After seeing an article featuring Colorado Parkour in Outside Magazine, the women contacted Ryan Ford to set up a parkour program for their staff. Over the four weeks, the women had eight training sessions led by Ryan Ford with help from Matt Marshall, Jake Smith, and Brenda Parker.

The women learned about the fundamentals of parkour in both an indoor and outdoors setting and made a huge improvement over the past month. As part of a new column in Women's Adventure Magazine, their training experience will culminate in an article on parkour and how it applies to women. Keep an eye out for the article in the spring as it should provide some great publicity to help get more women involved in parkour.