| >>> Gym Jam at CrossFit Marin Gym - Saturday 2/27 6-10PM! 02/25/2010 05:53 PM in Jams AeroSFCity is hosting their 2nd gym jam at CrossFit Marin Gym this Saturday, February 27th from 6-10PM. All levels of experience are invited to train, get some help and have fun. Entry fee is $15 and well worth it for the gym time! Please see the forum thread for details and signup info - http://www.sfparkour.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3640 |
| >>> CalTV reports on Cal Parkour 02/15/2010 05:48 PM in In the Media 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 |
| >>> SFPK’s February Beginners Class, Monthly Jam and more 02/07/2010 01:55 PM in General Upcoming SF Parkour monthly sessions for February: Beginner’s Class Monthly Jam The Monthly Jam is all about connecting with other traceurs, whether from other areas, cities, or communities around the Bay… and beyond! This is essentially a “National Jam” for the Bay Area. There are always regulars as well as new faces. Beginners are always welcome! Jams typically last 3-4+ hours, and while unstructured and open will still begin with a meet’n'greet and warmup, then end with a clean up time. Participants are encouraged to jam, condition, drill, have parkour-related discussions, get help from others, teach Beginners and just hang out. Other Info There are several weekly training sessions led by SFPK community members in San Francisco, Berkeley, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, and elsewhere around the Bay. Check out the Standing Jams and Classes & Instruction forums, as well as the 2010 Schedule for SF Parkour Beginner’s Classes & Monthly Jams for more info! We need your input! Help shape and grow the SFPK community by contributing ideas to the 2010 Planning thread. |
| >>> “Flight Plans - A weekend spent in search of the art of parkour” featuring SFPK and BApk members! 01/25/2010 05:29 PM in In the Media 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! |
| >>> Free early movie screening passes to District-13 Ultimatum! 01/13/2010 10:32 AM in Events 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 |
| >>> SFPK’s January Beginners Class, Monthly Jam and more 01/06/2010 05:14 PM in General Upcoming SF Parkour monthly sessions for January: Beginner’s Class Monthly Jam Other Info There are several weekly training sessions led by SFPK community members in San Francisco, Berkeley, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, and elsewhere around the Bay. Check out the Standing Jams and Classes & Instruction forums, as well as the 2010 Schedule for SF Parkour Beginner’s Classes & Monthly Jams for more info! For a recap of 2009 read the SF Parkour Monthly Jams - 2009 Year in Review and SFPK Year in Review 2009 threads. We need your input! Help shape and grow the SFPK community by contributing ideas to the 2010 Planning thread. |
| >>> Happy Holidays from SFPK + 2009 Year in Review 12/25/2009 10:39 AM in General Happy Holidays to everyone, may your days be merry and filled with cheer! Share your holiday wishes with the community here. The SF Parkour Community - SFPK Year in Review 2009 Well, it’s been another great year for the SFPK community! We’ve made a lot of great memories, a lot of friendships, and discovered many new places to jam at. As 2009 draws to a close and we begin to plan for 2010, it’s good to take a look back to where we started last year (point A) and where we finished (point B). If 2008 was a year of outreach and putting a public face on parkour in the Bay Area, 2009 was the year of strengthening connections between communities. There was a big contingent that traveled by train out to Colorado for the National Jam, and many in the community participated in the Massive West Coast Jam, the Washington State Jam and BEAST Coast Jam. Traceurs from all over the country and beyond came here to jam and stay with us. The SFPK community worked closely with APK to come up with APK’s updated definition of parkour. All the classes that were around in 2008 were still going strong at the end of 2009, and many new, free instructional sessions have been established all over the region. Through charity work and demos we have reached out beyond the parkour community to make some great connections with parks, gyms, local government and some nonprofits. Monthlies continue to grow, membership is on the rise, people are starting more projects on their own, and there’s lots of cool stuff on the horizon in 2010. We have a varied and diverse community, full of motivated and creative people bursting with talent and energy. It’s all of you who make the community what it is, and we hope you stop for a moment and reflect back at all the wonderful achievements you were a part of in the past year before looking ahead to what’s in store for 2010. We hope your path through 2009 was as fun as it was for us who tune the cogs at SFPK, and hope you will help make 2010 the best year yet for SFPK community. Happy Holidays, SFPK Admins & Area Reps P.S. A little housekeeping notice: Any accounts with zero posts that haven’t logged in within the past six months will be deleted, so come and say hi! Become a fan of our Facebook page and a friend of our YouTube channel. Also please contribute to 2010 planning thread – your ideas are important! |
| >>> SacPK featured in the Sacramento Bee! 12/24/2009 10:26 AM in In the Media 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’s December Beginners Class, Monthly Jam and more 12/09/2009 01:24 PM in Jams Upcoming SF Parkour monthly sessions for December: Beginner’s Class Monthly Jam Ongoing Weekly Sessions |
| >>> Parkour Gym Jam - Saturday, November 21st @ CrossFit Marin 11/19/2009 01:46 PM in Jams AeroSFCity is inviting traceurs to the first Parkour Gym Jam at CrossFit Marin this Saturday, November 21st from 6PM to 10PM. Cost is $15, and well worth it for both gym access and instruction if you want it. Please check out the details at http://www.sfparkour.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3403. Also, participants can also spend the night at the gym for the Monthly Jam on Sunday! |
| >>> Contra Costa Times article on Berkeley Traceurs 11/18/2009 11:31 AM in In the Media 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. |
| >>> SFPK’s November Beginners Class and more 11/12/2009 06:01 PM in Jams Upcoming SF Parkour monthly sessions for November: Beginner’s Class Monthly Jam Ongoing Weekly Sessions |
| >>> Vault Box - Construction Diagrams & Instructions - by SFPK 10/26/2009 03:11 PM in General SF Parkour would like to share our DIY vault box construction diagrams and instructions with the parkour and freerunning community. Brian “NoSole” Orosco designed the box and YouTube helped build them for the Live! event we did with them. They worked out great! You can see them in action here. Please download the “Vault Box Construction” pdf at - http://www.sfparkour.com/Vault_Box_Construction_by_SFParkour.pdf We welcome all comments, suggestions, improvements etc. that anyone wants to share. If we incorporate your tips we will add “credits” into the doc. We’d love to get feedback such as cost to build, time to build, build photos at each step and more. Help us improve this “how to” guide for everyone! Enjoy, and happy vaulting! |
| >>> SFPK’s “NoSole” on MTV’s Ultimate Parkour Challenge - 10/22 @ 10PM 10/21/2009 12:31 PM in In the Media 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 . |
| >>> APK’s new “What is Parkour” definition released! 10/13/2009 11:12 AM in General AmericanParkour.com has released their new “What is Parkour” definition! For more details on the official announcement, how this was created, and further discussion, please read the SFPK forum thread. What is Parkour? Parkour is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment.
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