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Gym Opening Media

Tyson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:40:20 +0000

From the moment you enter, it’s obvious that this is not your ordinary gym.

Well that went well! At least 60 people passed through the doors, with the adult clinic getting so huge we had to split into two groups and break out all 60 or so feet of precision trainers to balance on in line! That many people is a bit too much for the current gym space we’ve learned (until we can open up the second room) and we’ll keep events smaller in the future

Marc Ramirez from the Seattle Times was there and he wrote an awesome article that was featured in the paper today as well as photos from Alan Berner and an excellent video put together from Genevieve Alvarez. Our own Kellen Fujimoto spent some time grabbing shots as well, and we’ll update this blog post as more stuff comes in.

Update: Check out Tim Kahn’s video coverage of the event!

Read the Seattle Times Article

Parkour Visions Gym opening from Rafe Kelley on Vimeo.

Flickr Parkour Visions Jam

Tyson — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:00:53 +0000

Back in June we helped bring 8 of the coolest Seattle photographers together for a quick photoshoot at Gasworks Park of some of our instructors and younger students.

The idea was that any photos coming out of it would be Creative Commons licensed and cool for noncommercial use by the nonprofit. That way we get some awesome photos to use on the website and in printed materials (with attribution of course), and they get to shoot with some awesome traceurs and build their portfolio.

Well the first Flickr jam went great and you can see the results below or in our Flickr group at flickr.com/groups/parkourvisions

Featured photographers:
Paula: www.flickr.com/photos/gapey
Mark: www.flickr.com/photos/maginashun
Terence: www.flickr.com/photos/ttstam
Rachel: www.flickr.com/photos/packet
Brian: www.flickr.com/photos/bh88keys
Rick: www.flickr.com/photos/rickr_m
Paul: www.flickr.com/photos/swortz
Dave M: www.flickr.com/photos/davemcom

May’s Free Beginner Parkour Clinic

Tyson — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:03:01 +0000

Is on the 9th this month and will be hosted at Northwest Crossfit’s Seattle location -link to class page- The focus is as always on introducing new people to the fundamentals of parkour and what you need to build an individual practice. There’s a limit of 30 people at the Seattle location so email classes@parkourvisions.org to reserve your spot and be sure to show up a bit early if you haven’t been before to fill out the release (or bring it with you!) Minors need to bring their parents or grab the form beforehand and get it filled out. Come prepared with clothing you can move in and a waterbottle! See you there!

See more photos on the Parkour Visions Flickr group

April’s Free Beginner Parkour Clinic

Tyson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:31:40 +0000

Is on the 11th this month and will be hosted at Northwest Crossfit’s Seattle location -link to class page- -link to facebook event- We have new freshly made precision trainers to bring to this one to accommodate everyone in the balance warmup and the focus is as always on introducing new people to the fundamentals of parkour and what you need to build an individual practice. There’s a limit of 30 people at the Seattle location so email classes@parkourvisions.org to reserve your spot and be sure to show up a bit early if you haven’t been before to fill out the release (or bring it with you!) Minors need to bring their parents or grab the form beforehand and get it filled out. Come prepared with clothing you can move in and a waterbottle! See you there!

See more photos on the Parkour Visions’ Flickr group

Parkour classes at NW Crossfit a success!

Tyson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:15:59 +0000

When Parkour Visions first opened up classes at NW Crossfit we had an absolutely amazing first class with a lot people there. In the weeks that followed though we found that most of those people at the first class were our supporting friends in the WAPK parkour community who loved what we were doing but weren’t really interested in taking beginner classes themselves (they’d already gained most of that through the community).

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So class attendance was low those first few weeks but we kept pushing forward with our set policies of everyone’s first class being free and every second Saturday of every month having a free community beginner class. We built another vault box and several more precision trainers and painted them all a nice royal blue color.

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Well I still don’t think we’ve managed to raise enough money to pay our initial costs yet (about half of the class fees go to the Parkour Visions right now) but I’m calling the classes a success anyway. The reason being we just had another excellent free beginner class and this time it wasn’t filled entirely by our friends but by a bunch of awesome new people who were absolutely thrilled that we were running something like this. I was teaching mostly by myself this time as Rafe is in Nice, France but the format expanded nicely to fit the 20 or so people there and scaled to both the absolute beginners and our apprentice instructors quite well.

Not to mention that without really much promotion at all the classes have already been featured on TV through AOTS as well as online through the Seattlest Weekend Edition.

Photos from Flickr sets: NW Crossfit Classes, and Parkour Visions