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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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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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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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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This summer, Colin created three new scaffolding designs for our Waterfront events. You can now download these designs and build them yourself!
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I have been designing facilities for parkour professionally since 2014 and have completed indoor and outdoor projects across the US and Canada. There will never be one “right” way to design for parkour, but this handbook is my attempt to briefly outline how I approach parkour design.
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Bellingham, Washington has a new parkour park! The parkour area is just one piece of the surrounding Cordata Community Park, designed by the landscape architecture firm of Robert W. Droll.
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How to make precision trainers, rail trainers, and a portable pipe kit. This is the quintessential “floor is lava” play set!
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When you have the freedom to tailor the environment to a lesson that you’re teaching, or a challenge you are trying to overcome, you should take advantage of the opportunity as a coach, to create an even better class experience, or as a practitioner, to optimize your training.
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The 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.
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We 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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