Author Topic: Official 2009 National Jam Schedule (Read 5166 times)

hardcoretraceur · « **on:** April 02, 2009, 09:41:02 AM »

A National Jam is an opportunity to gather the active members of a community and a chance to invite people from around the country to come train in the spots you've grown to love. A National Jam should teach people how to properly condition, teach people to train respectful of training spots and of the people around them, give rules for dealing with authorities and media, and take the chance to have a large in face forum to discuss Parkour in general.

Schedule as of 4/17/09:

Beast Coast: May 22-25
Philadelphia: May 30
Midwest: June 12-14
New York: June 19-21
Texas: June 25-28
Pittsburgh: July 9-12
Chicago: July 17-19
Toronto: July 31-Aug 2nd
Colorado: August 7-10
Washington: August 28-30
Michigan: September 25-27

National Jams 2009
See this spreadsheet for contact information of jam hosts and coordinators along with available housing and schedule information.

If you are hosting a National Jam please contact me at Jesse.PKNY(at)Gmail.com

Please feel free to use this thread to discuss national jams - dates pertaining, what you would like to see at them this year, what you liked and disliked about past national jams and most importantly how awesome national jams are.

Andy Keller · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2009, 07:56:57 AM »

Quote from: Jesse Danger on April 02, 2009, 09:41:02 AM

Washington: August 28-30

Just to clarify, that one is Washington - The State. [Not Washington - The District.] For the District, see (B)East Coast Jam.

It's only a 2,692 mile difference...

Kyle Gouch 'Triple K' · « **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2009, 04:24:45 PM »

I heard Cleveland, OH was hosting a jam over memorial weekend... But, that's just what I heard.

hardcoretraceur · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2009, 10:29:57 AM »

memorial is going to be all over the country then i think

Derik (QuikSilva) DaSilva · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2009, 11:33:04 AM »

I'm posting this only to recieve updates under my "Show new replies to your posts" button thingy. Woot laziness!

BatmanNYPK · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2009, 12:38:10 PM »

No PKNY???

Skipper · « **Reply #6 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:39:52 PM »

Memorial Day weekend is historically the greatest weekend for parkour / freerunning! the weather is nice, its not too hot, people are excited to be done with winter and getting ready for summer.... its no wonder EVERYONE COPIED ME. LOL, as long as people have fun across the country, life is good

hardcoretraceur · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2009, 07:17:43 PM »

updated with spreadsheet

Kyle Gouch 'Triple K' · « **Reply #8 on:** April 23, 2009, 11:48:26 AM »

You should put the state and/or city the jam will be basically starting in, like instead of Beast, put Beast(Washington D.C.)

hardcoretraceur · « **Reply #9 on:** April 29, 2009, 08:02:21 AM »

Don't know any more info yet on it, but Philadelphia is up, they've definitely got some great spots, I'm sure a bunch of us from NY will be going down.

Jacob Knotts · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2009, 04:36:13 PM »

Any idea if anything will be hosted in Ohio? I don't think I'd be able to (or want to) travel more than maybe an hour to hour-and-a-half from Lancaster. There's a group up on the Ohio State University campus, if that means anything to you. (PKHZ)

hardcoretraceur · « **Reply #11 on:** May 07, 2009, 09:17:45 PM »

They were thinking about putting on an event but I'm not sure if anything is final yet.

Muhammad · « **Reply #12 on:** May 07, 2009, 11:05:08 PM »

In Ohio we are still a bit up in the air whether we are doing anything for sure this Memorial Day weekend. There is a good possibility we may do something like we did last year with Parkour Generations, but I don't know if we have the funding secured yet for their airfare. We will put out an official announcement soon regarding this once it has been decided.

Cody Beltramo · « **Reply #13 on:** May 07, 2009, 11:58:21 PM »

If you're planning on doing something like last year again, I'd suggest setting it for a weekend later in the summer. I don't know how many people would be able to make it with such short notice, and I'm sure a bunch would if it was like it was last year. I know I'd be up for it again, and if it's during one of the weekends in July that are open, my odds of going at least increase drastically.

DemonEcho · « **Reply #14 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:33:12 AM »

So I'm definitely going to the (B)East Coast jam, but me and my friends have to be back home at 3 on sunday for my one friends graduation party. Maybe i'll go to the Philly one the next weekend. But I don't want to be super dead for my grad party which is the 31st. haha.

Jacob Knotts · « **Reply #15 on:** May 08, 2009, 02:16:08 PM »

Quote from: Muhammad Howell on May 07, 2009, 11:05:08 PM

In Ohio we are still a bit up in the air whether we are doing anything for sure this Memorial Day weekend. There is a good possibility we may do something like we did last year with Parkour Generations, but I don't know if we have the funding secured yet for their airfare. We will put out an official announcement soon regarding this once it has been decided.

Thanks for the update, Muhammad.

Muhammad · « **Reply #16 on:** May 10, 2009, 10:47:21 AM »

Status update for Ohio:

We've decided not to have a big event during the Memorial Day weekend this year, but instead have opted to plan for something later on during the summer to give us more time to collect resources. We will be sure to put out a notification well in advance if we're going to do something big so that people have a chance to plan it out ahead of time if they want to participate. Until then, we'll be seeing you around

Keyouse · « **Reply #17 on:** May 12, 2009, 09:44:33 AM »

Where abouts is the midwest jam going to be held?

Cody Beltramo · « **Reply #18 on:** May 12, 2009, 10:22:53 AM »

The location actually links to the relating thread, but since this is on page two, here's the URL:

http://www.americanparkour.com/smf/index.php?topic=16105.0

It's in Minneapolis this year.

Matthew Wang · « **Reply #19 on:** May 15, 2009, 09:07:14 PM »

I thought there was only going to be one official national jam in Colorado like always. Are all of those posted going to be national jams??

If so, i've gotta train train train for the one in Washington!

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Author Topic: Official 2009 National Jam Schedule (Read 5166 times)