After a year of service as our Interim Executive Director, Rebecca Brightly is handing off executive duties and advancing to a new opportunities. Rebecca is succeeded by Brady Romberg.
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At age 47, David still holds on to a playful inner-child. He spends quality time with his son training parkour, writes poetry and stories, plays music, and teaches himself how to work on cars for fun.
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Gaia is a go-getter. She works hard and takes initiative. Gaia started parkour through PKV classes in fall of 2021, and since then, she joined teen’s team, participated in community events, took Leap to Lead, the PKV coach training program, and started coaching parkour with PKV.
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Regina started parkour in 2021 with PKV’s Women and Nonbinary class and branched out to taking other classes, volunteering with PKV, and serving on the board. Recently, she is excited about introducing her partner, family, and friends to parkour.
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We have some exciting news to share: we've begun the search for a new Executive Director.
As your interim ED, I've been very grateful to serve the community in a time of need. Over the past eight months the staff and board have put in loads of effort to streamline and improve our operations. Now it's time to pass the torch.
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Over the season's final weeks, we tasked some camp students to work with their coaches to create and perform parkour lines, which would be pieced together into video edits. The kiddos did not disappoint! These videos are worth a watch. It’s amazing how much our students can learn in a few short days.
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After three years as executive director, Cordelia Hollingsworth informed the board that they would be stepping down from their position to pursue other career opportunities. We are grateful to Cordelia as they led the organization during a time of immense change and transition.
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Parkour Visions recently shared the design for Seattle’s first parkour park. Green-lit by the City of Seattle, this community-driven design is a huge win! For years, we’ve dreamed of a central gathering area for PNW parkour practitioners. We can now move forward with a park that will also provide a great playspace for our neighbors of all ages and abilities.
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We are one step closer to Seattle’s first parkour park! The City of Seattle has provided “conditional approval” for our community-driven design—that’s government-speak for a green light. Click to read more and see the designs.
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Portland Parks Foundation recognized the incredible benefit PKV and parkour bring to our community and provided a $2,000 grant for scholarships for Portland families. This grant helps ensure cost is not a barrier to lifelong healthy movement.
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Finally! PKV shirts and hoodies are back, and you can get them here. For our 15th anniversary, we've updated our vintage "arrow swarm" design. It comes in 9 different styles and a ton of great colors for youth and adults.
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Here in the Pacific Northwest, we get plenty of practice staying motivated when the weather turns rainy. Coach Jason Budd from our Portland branch created a video to share our methods. Here are his top 10 tips for training parkour in the rain.
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We received incredible support from new and returning community members and surpassed our goal! Thanks to a small group of matching donors, the grand total of our 2022 end-of-year campaign was $30,182!
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In September, we asked you to email the Seattle city council and urge them to fund the $7.7 million redevelopment of Garfield Super Block. Your efforts were successful! GSB was included in the budget, though it’s not yet fully funded. Read on to learn what’s next.
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As winter approaches, you may be on the fence about continuing to do parkour outdoors. I asked our Portland and Seattle coaches about their favorite gear for rain and winter. Their recommendations will help you gear up for cold and/or wet weather as we have in the Pacific Northwest.
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Winter is a special time for parkour. We are part of a long tradition of all-weather activities: hiking, running, mountain biking, cycling, team sports, and so on. Being active outdoors is one of the best ways to boost your mood and energy. Why stop in the winter, when it’s needed most?
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Have you ever struggled to enjoy moving and playing with your kids? Parkour games are the perfect way for all ages to tap into the joy of movement. Coach Jason filmed three videos this summer to capture some of our favorite parkour games we like to play in our classes. Watch the videos and read about how to play them below.
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Garfield Super Block, future home of Seattle’s first parkour park, is roughly one year away from breaking ground on the park renovation. They’ve raised half of the money they need for construction. To get to the finish line, they need our support.
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After nine months of hard work, we’ve served our promised amount of 400 youth in partnerships with eight different organizations, six of which were cultivated specifically through the efforts of this grant. In total, we ran 22 workshops and nine series of classes varying between 4–12 weeks in length over the duration of the grant.
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Parkour Visions has been trying for years to get a parkour park built in Seattle. Last summer, we connected with the Garfield Super Block Coalition and other organizations to help advance the GSB redevelopment project and support our mutual goal: creating more inclusive, all-ages community play spaces.
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