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CalTV reports on Cal Parkour, featuring SFPK members including East Bay Area Rep - Albert “lethalbeef” Kong and more!  Feel free to discuss and comment on the video on the community forum.

http://caltv.org/episodes/2010/calconnect-parkour

Check out the recent article “Flight Plans - A weekend spent in search of the art of parkour” in the Bohemian, featuring members from the SFPK and BApk communities such as AeroSFCity, Beretta, Adroit and more!  To discuss or comment on this article, please visit the related thread on the Community Forum.  Nice work guys!

SF Parkour is excited to be able to offer the Bay Area parkour community free movie passes to the screening of District-13 Ultimatum, starring David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli!  The screening is Monday, February 1st at 7:30 PM at the Metreon in San Francisco.  The passes gain you entry on a first come, first served basis so be sure to get there early!  (We are recommending ~1 hour before.)

To find out how to get your free passes, please visit the forum thread at - http://www.sfparkour.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3557

SacPK and SFPK Area Rep Victor Lo Forte are featured in the Sacramento Bee article “Parkour: The world is their training ground“.  Check it out at http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/story/2417458.html and you can discuss the article on the community forum at http://www.sfparkour.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3511 .  Nice work Simian Knights!

SFPK East Bay Area Rep Albert “lethalbeef” Kong is featured along with SFPK, BAPK and APK traceurs in the Contra Costa Times article “French-born parkour goes mainstream“.  Be sure to check it out!  You can also discuss the article on the community forum.

Brian “NoSole” Orosco from SFPK and Team Tempest will be on MTV’s Ultimate Parkour Challenge tomorrow night - Thursday 10/22 @ 10PM!  The show also features Daniel Ilabaca, King David, Tim “Livewire” Shieff and several others.  Definitely check it out!

As a brief intro, here’s Brian’s promo vid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpCWbNqAWg .

Check out this great promo video for the amazing Sacramento Parkour team, SacPK!  It’s a small preview of an upcoming documentary that’s being worked on.  Great job guys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5R9IqY-aOs

SF Parkour is pleased to announce that SFPK is now an American Parkour (APK) Affiliate.  For details on the Affiliate Program, please see the Guidelines here.

SFPK has been carefully considering the pros and cons of becoming an Affiliate, and in the end sees it as a great opportunity to forward our own agenda of creating an open, diverse community that is based on safety, proper training techniques, controlled progression, and collaborating with others.  It also gives us a stronger voice in influencing the national parkour community, and will definitely help create stronger ties with other parkour communities, both Affiliates and otherwise.

Read the official announcement on AmericanParkour.com
http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/4392/1/

“We are pleased to announce the latest (and greatest!) APK Affiliate… San Francisco Parkour! SFPK is an older and well established community, and they’ve done amazing things since it was started by two guys who wanted to start learning this new thing called Parkour. They’ve done work with Youtube, held major area monthly jams (basically like National Jams for the SF area) for over a year, and established an amazing and supportive community that works hard and trains hard.

Great job, guys, and looking forward to having you aboard!”

Many thanks to all the supporters and active members of the SFPK and APK  communities for making this possible!

Check out yesterdays Sacramento Press article “Parkour traces Sacramento” featuring the SacPK community!  Nice work all, keep growing strong!

Article here.

Check out the philly.com article “Your Town, Your Playground” featuring Mark Toorock from APK and Albert “lethalbeef” Kong of SF Parkour.  Great job Albert!

http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/CTW_health_20090206_Your_Town__Your_Playground.html

Check out local traceur BENNY’s video in American Parkour’s “Practical Parkour” contest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNhc4EmoyE  You can also watch it in High Quality!

Remember - don’t attempt this without proper training first!  ;)

A bit of news from SF Parkour for April:

Friday, April 3rd - GOAT Day!  Go Out And Train, as the forums will be closed (read only, no posting allowed) this Friday.  Learn more here.

Sunday, April 5th - SFPK Group Conditioning Session in Berkeley.
Saturday, April 11th - SFPK Beginner’s Class in SF.
Sunday, April 19th - SFPK Monthly Jam in Santa Rosa.
For more info on these 3 monthly sessions, please check the 2009 Schedule which has links to all these and more.

For other jams, conditioning and training sessions set up by community members all around the Bay, please visit the Upcoming Jams forum.

Also be sure to become a “fan” of our new SF Parkour Facebook page!

Keep training and we’ll jam soon!

For all you Facebook fanatics, you can now become a “Fan” of the official SF Parkour Facebook Page at - http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-CA/SF-Parkour/73882386553

Updates on jams and the latest news will be posted to Facebook Page, although the SFPK Community Forum, News Blog and YouTube Channel will still be the primary sources of info.  Jam soon!

2009 is off to a great start!  There’s a ton of jams being set up around the Bay, in addition to SFPK’s 3 monthly sessions.  Be sure to check out the “2009 Schedule for Monthly SFPK Sessions: Group Conditioning, Beginners, Monthly Jams” and get out there and train!

Sunday, Feb. 1st @ 12 Noon in Berkeley will be our 2nd Group Conditioning and Training Session, featuring a lot of conditioning through repetitive movements.

Formal, structured classes are available at gyms, as well as more informal classes available outdoors.  See the “Classes & Instruction” forum for details.

Last, we wanted to feature a parkour documentary created by SFPK community member Edgar Yudkevich titled “Art of Movement” which is a great vid featuring a few local traceurs.  Definitely check it out on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD3IN__Ve5I (2 parts), and feel free to comment and discuss it on the forum.

Keep training hard and safely, and jam soon!

Head over to APK (http://www.americanparkour.com) and cast your vote in their “Picture of the Year - 2008″ contest!  You can view all the entries at - http://www.americanparkour.com/gallery2/v/POTW/2008/POTY/

SFPK won last year’s competition with Azat Hojadov’s (aka Volfgan on the SFPK Forum) photo of ANDREY titled “Escape”.  This year, the SFPK community is represented again with another photo in the running:

“NoSole - Superman” of Brian Orosco aka NoSole, taken by Mark Madeo.

Be sure to vote for your favorite photo!  You can discuss this on the SFPK Forum at - http://www.sfparkour.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2341.  Good luck to all entrants!

http://www.youtube.com/SanFranciscoParkour

Check out SFPK’s parkour and freerunning demo from the recent YouTube Live! event, now available online at SF Parkour’s YouTube channel.  Please note that these are experienced traceurs and freerunners who train constantly to refine their skills!  For info on how to get started, please visit our Community Forum.

Check out the interview with Corndogg, co-founder of SFPK, now on Freerunnermag.net!  Corndogg covers his personal thoughts on the background and goals of SF Parkour, link between the parkour and freerunning communities, parkour in the media, competition, growth of parkour, and future plans for SFPK.

Article at - http://freerunnermag.net/live/?p=118

Please provide any feedback or comments you may have in this discussion thread.

http://www.youtube.com/live

On Saturday, November 22nd, SFPK traceurs and freerunners will be taking over the YouTube Live event PreShow area.  Starting at 2PM, look for Meatlad, ANDREY, GC_4845, Ascent, palu, Ninja and Tyson Cecka (a great, experienced traceur visiting from Seattle) and hopefully Lauren Stokes roaming around the grounds, performing parkour and freerunning movements on any and all obstacles!  With Corndogg stupervising and answering questions.  There will be a dedicated demo segment at 3:45PM, definitely come on by!

Then at 5PM for the Main Event, watch a short demo by lethalbeef, Dan Edwardes (from Parkour Generations), Austin and NoSole!

See you there… Live!

http://www.youtube.com/live

Cool article on FLYP Media about parkour and its growth in the US, with a map of some of the major communities - including SF Parkour!

Check it out here - http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/17/#5/1

Also features a few Mark Madeo pics of local traceurs Andrey and Brian aka Nosole.

She’s So Fly! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-z_NM50Epc

Watch in high quality!

With the help of YouTube and Virgin America (in anticipation of YouTube L!VE later this month) SFPK tore through the international terminal at SFO. Hot on the trail of two cute, but extremely evasive flight attendants, the trio of freerunners go no-holds-barred for the first shot at the ladies.

With access to just about every area of the airport, and a great cast and crew, this one took longer to shoot than we though it would, but was worth every minute.

For more info on how you can get started, check out www.SFParkour.com

Music by:
Talco - Il Passo Del Caciurdo

Also check out the featured SFPK member’s YouTube channels:

NoSole - http://www.youtube.com/user/NoSolePK
Austin - http://www.youtube.com/user/x3no
Albert - http://www.youtube.com/user/lethalbeef
SFPK - http://www.youtube.com/user/SanFranciscoParkour

Be sure to look up SF Parkour at YouTube L!VE on November 22nd as we offer up live pre-show demos and a performance during the main event!

Go to http://www.youtube.com/live

November SFPK Monthly Jam

Details on our 11th Monthly Jam have been posted.  This month traceurs from all over the Bay will make the trek to Santa Cruz for a jam on the UCSC campus.  See you there at 12 noon on Sunday, November 16th!  Beginners always welcome.

New Beginner’s Parkour Class at the Athletic Playground Gym in Emeryville

SFPK has teamed up with Athletic Playground to offer our first official Parkour Class.  Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 - 8:30PM at the Athletic Playground gym in Emeryville.  Learn from Brian aka NoSole, Austin and others in a controlled, padded environment, with the class covering conditioning, proper form of the basic movements, and more.

There are still several standing practices around the Bay, as well as private instruction available.  Please check the forum for more info.

YouTube “Live” Event

A group of 9 traceurs and freerunners from around the Bay have been brought together for a demo during YouTube’s “Live” event on November 22nd.  Check out www.youtube.com/live for details, and the forum for more info.  Be sure to catch this demo live!

For those interested in participating in various opportunities through SFPK, be sure to fill out a Traceur Bio.

New Resources and other Latest News

SFPK Area Reps - We are proud to announce the newly launched “Area Rep Program”!  This is a partnership with leaders in various parkour communitiesin the Bay Area to help grow and further connect those local communities, as well as create more stakeholders to provide more input on the direction of SFPK .  Area Reps also act as the main contact for newcomers to answer questions, and quickly connect them with local and Bay Area-wide parkour jams and training sessions.  For more info, please seehttp://www.sfparkour.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1746 .

SFPK Biz Cards - The SFPK Biz Cards, or mini-flyers, are now available in the Store.  Check out pics and learn more about them in the forum thread.  These essentially were created so that traceurs could hand them out to interested people, and connect them to learn more about parkour and the Bay Area community.  There’s space on the back to write your name and a personal note as well.

SFPK Gmail Accounts - We now offer SFPK Gmail accounts to community members.  Get yourname@sfparkour.com today!  To request a free sfparkour.com gmail account, sign up in the forum thread.

How to Stay Up to Date

Staying up to date with SFPK and parkour happenings is easy!  We have a main website, community forum, news blog (with RSS Feeds) and YouTube channel.  The forum is the main hub for connecting and organizing with others, and always has the latest jam, training, news and other info.  Come and say hi!

Local SF traceur ANDREY has a short video being featured at Clif Bar’s “Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival” in Berkeley, hosted by the Save The Waves Coalition.  Congrats Andrey!

Exhibit - Multimedia | October 23 | 5-9:30 p.m. | Clif BarHeadquarters
Location: 1610 5th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710

For more details, ticket info and more please check out the “Save the Waves - Film Festival featuring video by Andrey” thread on the community forum.

Recently, Team Tempest was invited to perform one of four segments on this upcoming week’s Dancing with the Stars Results Show. Acts include iconic dance routines from the 1930s, ’60s, ’80s, and future. Show producers gathered world renowned dancers to define those eras, and paired Tempest with B-Boys K-Mel and Casper to conquer the ’80s.  With three days of rehearsal, Tempest was able to put together an amazing display that is sure to impress.

SFPK’s own Brian “NoSole” Orosco joined teammates Gabe “Jaywalker” Nunez, David Elson, Paul “Diddy” Darnell,  Luci “Steel” Romberg, and Caine Sinclair as they blazed the stage thanks to coordinator Victor “Showtime” Lopez’s direction.

Tune in to ABC on Tuesday night (10/21) at 8:00pm PST to catch the action! You can also read more about it in its thread here.

SFPK member and local Bay Area traceur Austin is featured in the “Cine Parkour II” cinematic program in The International Experimental Cinema Exposition.

Read more in the Official Program for TIE 2008 in Paonia, Colorado, and check out the TIE website at http://www.experimentalcinema.org/

Nice job Austin!

Congrats Claudia!

SFPK has worked with Claudia Goetzelmann on a few photo shoots in the past, with one image appearing in the March 2007 edition of San Francisco Magazine.

Claudia has now won the “Web Sites and Digital Promotion” category in the 24th Annual PDN/Nikon Self-Promo Awards, with her shot of meatlad, NoSole, Max and ANDREY.  Nice shot!  Click on “Category Eight” at the bottom of the page to see the photo.

Congrats!

For more of Claudia’s photos with SFPK, visit her website at http://www.claudiagoetzelmann.com/ - then click on “Today” and the “Movement” category in the bottom right.