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Parkour obstacle challenge at Seattle’s City Chase

Here's an interesting one: Tomorrow all day some few hundred people will be crawling, jumping, and climbing through a portion of Freeway Park downtown in a giant game of omg-the-floor-is-lava! We're laying down the challenge as a part of City Chase Seattle <http://www.citychaseusa.com/about/> where competitors have a series of crazy challenges spread out all throughout the city that they have to complete for charity. 

If you're in the event or want to check out the challenge, stop by the park to find us and say hello!

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ParkOurPark on KUOW

As long as nothing crazy happens in the news today tune in to KUOW (NPR, 94.9) on the Ross Reynolds show to hear a quick live interview with Tyson about the ParkOurPark proposal.
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Parkour playground on Madison chosen as finalist in plan to activate Seattle empty spaces | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle

Not long ago, it was a rare thing to find a city park with a climbing wall. In a similar fashion, a planned Capitol Hill park could be one of the first to be built specifically for freerunners to jump and climb up curbs, over tables and across walls.

ParkOurPark,” the brainchild of local non-profit Parkour Visions, was one of the 13 finalists selected in the city-wide Holding Patterns Initiative, led by the Seattle Design Commission. SDC developed Holding Patterns in response to growing concern over the growing number of abandoned or unused lots across the city, and sent an open call out into the community for creative solutions to activate those empty spaces.

We were recently moved through to the second round of the Holding Patterns Initiative and are starting to get some press about it! It’s sure to stir up some good discussions so please add your thoughts before we move to the next stage on the 20th.

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Fun fast route

Colin came up with this really cool route at open gym that I wanted to share. We only got a bit of video of peoples’ first few tries but the route is the real star – really fun!

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We’re on Yelp!

Cool! A previous student of ours has placed us on Yelp and wrote the first review. The page looks pretty bare and lonely though – head to http://www.yelp.com/biz/parkour-visions-seattle and…yelp stuff!

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Facebook | Parkour Movie Night!

Our own projector at the gym means first movie night on the big walls!

Free entry at the end of open gym, everyone’s welcome to hang out and watch some awesome videos :)

We’ll have some but bring snacks if you got em (no microwave yet though).

Showing:
T.RU Story
Jump Westminster
Parkour, Literally.

RSVP here! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126449574063899

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Classes 6/29/10

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Ladies vault; intermediates call each other poultry.

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Are you tired of just walking up stairs?

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Movie Night? New projector!

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A generous donation from one of our long time supporters Liz Tidyman has enable the purchase of a rather fantastic digital projector for our Kid's Night Out events! Hard to tell from the gym camera but it works rather well in the second room and is BRIGHT :) I'm sure we'll find some great uses for it aside from just playing the kid's stuff and we do have a B13 Ultimatum DVD to show – when should the first movie night be?

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Kids vault class. Everyone caught on very quickly!

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