American Parkour

To be more specific, I will be at the WSU campus from about 8:00am to 3:00pm.

M@,

Thanks for posting! I highly enjoy Ronald Jenkees and his music. The message at the end definitely can be applied to all of our parkour videos!

Collin
+10PU

Surely none of you have a reason to quote this. You're arms must be tired enough already.

Quote.

But seriously, this is a great idea, as I said before.

I do think I'll be incorporating this with other things since I do not post a lot on here. Maybe 10 pull-ups for every facebook status I make? Who knows!

+10

thanks alot great advice.p.s. is it a good idea to give him the web address

Yes, that would be an excellent idea!

Not only would another potential Traceur be a member here, but he could use all of the resources (and people!) to help him learn things you can't teach him.

-Collin

10PU

Hey everybody,

Although I know this forum is basically dead, I thought I would inform any lurkers that KCPK will be hosting their Monthly KC Metro Jam this Saturday, March 5th, 2011 from 11:30am-10:00pm. You do not have to stay for the whole jam. It will be held in an around Case Park Kansas City, MO. There is a facebook event for it, so feel free to go on there. You can find the event here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193956503956103&index=1.

Happy training, I hope to see some of you there.

Great idea, I'm for sure in!

10 Done.

I'm sorry, man. If it seemed like I was saying it was about having a cool name and symbol, it wasn't what I meant. Although, if we're talking about a county-sized area, 13 people seems big enough to call it a community to me, and what you just described seems like a community to me, but if you insist, I'll refer to it as a team. Actually, I'm all for having a cool symbol; a cool name is almost good, but it would be easier to find a local community that calls itself "Alaska Parkour" than a local community that calls itself "Snowrunners," if you get what I mean.

No apologies are necessary man! I think I might have just misread your post. I do see where you are a community, and to be honest, we do use the term community and team interchangeably, depending on where we are/what we are doing. I agree, having a cool symbol and being a part of a group/team/community is awesome, but it is more about the spreading of Parkour in a positive manner.

We have a group around here that started up and are calling themselves "Rush", and no one knows about them, yet everyone around here knows about Olathe Parkour. Something that has helped us flourish compared to "Rush" who I have heard are more hoodlums than traceurs, is the fact we are always respectful, especially when wearing OPK or Parkour related clothing. We want to give Parkour a good name so we can help it spread in a good way.

in a positive....way? Hahaha, did you get interrupted mid-response there?

Hahaha yes I did, my apologies! Darn houses catching on fire Thank you for finishing out my sentence though!


But yes, refer to my original post, just add "way." at the end of the last sentence.

When I first started training Parkour, I was not big on the whole "team" thing. I had myself and 3 other friends who practiced, and we just went out and trained once or twice a week. However, we had a few additional friends who wanted to start, and we decided to start a team (I was still a bit hesitant). We created t-shirts, and carried a few of the Parkour FAQ print outs (which is somewhere on this forum) with us. People stop and ask us what we are doing and who we are, and we explain.

Our team is not selective at all. We allow anyone and everyone who is willing to give Parkour even a small chance. We don't charge fees or anything stupid. We went from a group of friends to a city group, and through the group, we have made new friends.

We use our team more to help get Parkour recognized in our area and help get more people interested than anything else. We rarely put videos on Youtube (I think we have maybe 2 or 3 actual videos, the rest are training snips from when Mountain Dew came out and filmed us).

I do agree though teams are not a necessity, unless you are a large group such as PKGens.

Hey everybody,

After searching the forum, I found nothing of help. I'm writing a research paper on a person, and I chose David Belle as my primary person, and Daniel Ilabaca as my secondary (secondary person is used if I can't find enough on David Belle).

I have to have 2 internet sources (no Wikipedia), 1 reference book (dictionary, encyclopedia, etc) and one book (either fiction or non-fiction).

Can ANYONE help me out? I spent all class yesterday (an hour) in our school library looking for either a reference book or a book (fict./non-fict.) to no avail.

-Collin
Olathe Parkour