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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreGarfield 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.
Read MoreAfter 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.
Read MoreAfter receiving the Youth and Amateur Sports Grant (YASG), Dan Dye joined the PKV team to began to look at ways to use the YASG to connect with low-income and communities of color in Seattle. Check out some of the organizations we’ve collaborated with!
Read MoreExciting news! In September, King County Parks awarded Parkour Visions a $38,000 Youth and Amateur Sports Grant (YASG). This award will fund free parkour classes and events in Seattle, especially for low-income and youth of color.
Read MoreOver the past few weeks, we have seen an immense, long-overdue uprising against police violence. We witnessed our Black community members grieving the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and on and on—thousands of Black lives lost to police violence. And that’s only the tip of the 400-year-old iceberg of white supremacy.
Read MoreLast weekend was the 9th Annual North American Womens Parkour Gathering out in Washington DC, drawing 50+ participants over the course of the weekend from 15 different states and all ages. It is one of the only all women-organized and led parkour events in the world, each year changing cities in hopes of reaching new and different demographics.
Read MoreDid you know that we are most physically active at age 6? After that we start slowing down, and by age 19 we end up as sedentary as 60-year-olds. Yikes. I mean, by the time students approach the end of high school, almost TWO THIRDS (61-63.1%) don’t attend physical education classes at least once a week, and a majority of those who leave sports during that time often leave active lifestyles permanently….
Read MoreThere’s a lot to learn and unlearn in order to be truly inclusive, and anyone who wants to see the parkour world expand beyond just elite athletes and parkour enthusiasts needs to put in the time and effort. However, there are a few simple steps you can take right now that can create big change in making more people feel comfortable in a parkour environment.
Read MoreThe Penzer Parkour Park, designed by Colin MacDonald and the Parkour Visions team, was recently nominated in two categories in the prestigious 2018 B.C. Wood Design Award, which aim to honor excellence in wood-based projects.
Read MoreWe are so excited to announce that Colin MacDonald, our Design Director, was accepted to speak at this years Seattle Ignite! His talk, Swinging from the Lamp Posts: Designing for Play in the Modern City, will cover the incredible opportunities available to designers and communities for bringing play into the places they live.
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