American Parkour

Hey West Coasters,

Some NY traceurs are coming to visit Los Angeles from June 13th -18th. we currently have our flight tickets, but not really anything else planned. We definitely plan on hitting up the Tempest Academy, but would love to train with some local traceurs as well!

There are 7 of us coming: Me/ Thomas Dolan, Trevor Ray, Vertical Jimenez, Arfel Villanueva, Caitlin Pontrella, Jesse Danger, and Mike "Pyro" Araujo. All of us are athletes affiliated with NYPK, Sanjuu, APK, or Take Flight (or a combination of these). Aside from Caitlin, we all appear in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfc21rVkhM

If anyone has some room to spare we'd appreciate crashing- on the floor, in a tent, in the closet, whatever space you might have. We're traceurs, we're adaptable.

If you're interested let me know!

Thanks,

Thomas

Thanks everyone! Haha I just came to APK to post this only to see that someone else already had. Glad you're enjoying it, I took a lot more time to edit this than I do with most of my videos and hopefully that shows!

Steve, I think me and Mike (Pyro) were the only ones from NYPK at Hubbable. Hope to see you there again next year

Two weeks ago NYPK, a parkour group in NYC, held a BBQ and jam to celebrate it's 6th year of being around. We got some wooden vault boxes and our own set of scaffolding to set up and train on, which were a ton of fun.

I got some footage of the jam and put together this little video. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGYAQlXGIYo&feature=player_embedded

Well I know it's been spring for a little while now, but I finally got the chance to do some editing and put together a short video of some of my winter training.  Nothing spectacular, but I used the cold months to focus on control and on flow rather than on big movement, and I think the edit came out pretty well. Hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgj62WuoX9E&feature=channel_video_title

If this kid trains safely and conditions, he'll grow up to be amazing. He already has a ton of moves down, and his flow will improve greatly with time and practice. Looking forward to seeing this kid again in a few years.

Very nice man, would love to get to train with you one of these days. Hit me up next time you're in NYC!

Haha thanks Jordan. I thought the article came out pretty well, despite what you said about the mis-labeling. At least they described the difference between parkour and freerunning pretty well in the article! if you're ever on the F&M campus training, let me know.

And glad to see you enjoyed it Steve!

Hey everyone,

Here's an edit I put together of some of the training I've been doing this fall, mostly working on control and technique. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYFvyLnRZyI

"The gift of parkour is being able to train anywhere."  I forget where I heard that originally...I run with that same shuffle

This is really true, and is definitely what I was trying to show with this video... I've actually gotten some messages from people on youtube asking if I could make a video training with some other objects. And haha, apparently a lot of people run with that shuffle, it really is perfect!

Have to say I was really impressed! Haha the quality of the video may not have been great, but the quality of the movement more than made up for it. I'd really like to see some of your more recent movement, you must be even more beast now.