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November 2008Parkour Generations Workshop in Glasgow
This Wednesday 19th November a group of coaches from Parkour Generations will be running a workshop in promotion of Mirror's Edge , a new game which heavily features Parkour.The workshop will be held at Bellahouston Leisure Centre from 6pm till 9pm. To try to make it as easy as possible for everyone to attend, Glasgow Parkour are arranging a mass meet up at Ibrox Underground Station at 515pm before the event - we will run from the station to Bellahouston at 530pm. You can find out more on the forums in this thread. Parkour Generations are the foremost teaching organisation in the world, and have been responsible for much of Chris, Zeno and BJ's training which is at the core of Glasgow Parkour Coaching's workshops and classes.
This is a great opportunity and experience for our community and we hope you can all attend!
September/October 2008Permanent Youth Workshops at the Tramway
With the success of the summer workshops, a permanent parkour class for young people is starting at The Tramway this week, with two sessions:Tuesday 14th at 3.30 -5pm and Sunday 19th 3-4.30. The sessions will then continue weekly on Sundays from 3-4.30 until mid December and then pick up again in the New Year.
To book, please contact the Tramway box office on 08453303501
These workshops are great progress for the Scottish Parkour community, as it is one of the first permanent youth classes in the country. Gravity Style/Prodigal Theatre visit
The Prodigal Theatre show and workshops at Merchant City Festival were a great success. Our thanks go out to The Urban Playground team for sharing their knowledge and creating a new and positive awareness for our community.The Glasgow Parkour community thoroughly enjoyed the workshops and many new people were introduced to Parkour over the weekend. We are extremely grateful for UPG's time. If you have found your way here as a result of these shows, feel free to browse around and check out the forums if you would like to meet up with like minded people. If you are interested in learning Parkour please go to glasgowparkourcoaching.com. Glasgow Parkour Youth AcademyAs a result of the workshops for young people in The Tramway over the summer, a permanent weekly youth academy is in the process of being set up and will hopefully be up and running by the end of October. A weekly class for young people will hopefully bring some new members to the community and allow them to learn in the correct manner.Keep an eye on this site for details - as soon as the class is ready to launch it will be announced here. August/September 2008Gravity Style/Prodigal Theatre visits Glasgow As part of the Merchant City Festival on September 27 and 28 Prodigal Theatre and Gravity Style will be bringing their show 'The Urban Playground' to Merchant Square in Glasgow, as well as running workshops and open sessions for the public and the Glasgow Parkour community. Gravity Style is the organisation ran by Malik Diouf and Charles Perriere, who were part of the original Yamakasi group. This is a good opportunity for recognition of our community and a chance to train with some of the orginators. Visit TheUrbanPlayground.co.uk for more information. Chris Grant and BJ recently took part in a promotional shoot for the show, which featured in the Scotsman, The Evening Times and on the BBC website. A short video promo for the Merchant City Festival can be seen here featuring footage from the shoot. Summer comes to an end....As summertime closes its doors, we encourage every member of the community to keep up their training and progress which has been exceptional over the last few months. Some real good progress has been made, new areas discovered and some great footage has emerged - check out the new videos which have been added to the 'media' section of the site.There's also couple of new articles that have been written over the summer by Mick McKeen and BJ Lang. Good reading for late winter nights! Check out the articles page As the winter kicks in, we're in for another season of testing discipline in training, and working hard in the harsh weather. Good Luck and Safe Training!
Glasgow Parkour Coaching Glasgow Parkour Coaching have had a good season with various youth projects taking place in the Tramway, Balloch and around various areas outside of Glasgow. The Tramway project in particular was a great success with numbers doubling in the classes in the space of 4 weeks and there are now wheels in motion to set up a permanent weekly youth class.
The adult classes are also now in full swing, with a good bunch of regulars progressing extremely well. July 2008Parkour Workshops at the TramwayFor the next 4 weeks(starting July 22nd) Glasgow Parkour Coaching will be hosting a series of workshops in the Tramway on the southside of Glasgow. Chris will be heading up the coaching.Workshops are free for young people and are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2pm-4pm and the adult class is on Thursdays 7pm-9pm. A small scaffolding structure is being built for the classes which should lead to some interesting movement work. The Tramway are dealing with bookings for the class, and details can be found here. June 2008Summer Training in full swingThe last few weeks have seen the community in Glasgow absolutely thriving and it's great to see a massive amount of people out training every week and exchanging ideas.There seems to be a real sense of progression among the Glasgow traceurs and the last few weeks have seen everyone really stepping it up. Enjoy the sun while it lasts, and don't forget to try and hold that same motivation when the Scottish weather returns to rain and wind.
At the coaching end, there has been growing interest from various communites and local authorities and Glasgow Parkour Coaching looks set to be spreading the word throughout the summer to places and people that can't be reached by the main community of traceurs.
More news on late summer events to follow....... April 2008Scotland-Wide Workshop Day a Success About 45 traceurs turned out in force last saturday for what was possibly the biggest gathering ever in Scotland. The workshop went really well, with everyone pushing themselves really hard and the coaches doing a great job communicating and exchanging ideas.
Two rough video edits from Zeno and Chris Grant's footage can be seen
here andhere. Thanks to all who came along, it was a great day and great to see the Scottish community training together. March 2008Scotland-Wide Workshop DayWe've decided to organise a workshop day in Glasgow using all of the Glasgow Parkour coaches to allow us to share our knowledge with communities from all over Scotland.The workshop will be open to anyone of any level - come along wether it's you're first day or you have been training for years. We will be designing a training programme to cater for everyone.
For full details click here and please read the information carefully!
To discuss or find out more also check out this thread on the forums. Borne Magazine
The Glasgow Parkour coaches recently took part in an article for Borne Magazine which has been published this month.The article can be viewed here and the whole issue can be seen at bornemagazine.com which also has a list of stockists if you want to pick up a free copy. National Theatre of Scotland Project comes to an end.This week Chris Grant completed the project with the NTS in Port Glasgow.The shows were met with an overwhelming response by the people of Port Glasgow and the wider Inverclyde community. Local community education officers and The minister for Culture were present at the shows.
The presence of Parkour within a high profile theatre company really gave our art some recognition and broke the misconceptions among the arts community. Chris Grant would personally like to express his thanks to all the pupils involved. They have really matured and developed some life skills through this work, and he is extremely proud of every individual involved.
Mick McKeen added to the Glasgow Parkour RepresentativesMick is an old school member of the community with a martial arts background who has really stood out over the past couple of years with his enthusiasm for exchanging parkour with new practitioners.Since joining the Glasgow Parkour Coaching apprentice class his skills have really started to shine through and it is with pleasure that he becomes an official representative of our community. February 2008glasgowparkour.co.uk revamp!As you can see the site has had a revamp, to coincide with the look of the newly launched glasgowparkourcoaching.com.
Along with the new look,a new articles and a new 'what is Parkour?' have been added to the site. The new 'definition' of Parkour is we feel what best represents the open views of the Glasgow Parkour Representatives and hopefully the community as a whole. Chris Grant glasgowparkourcoaching.com launchesGlasgow Parkour Coaching is an established group of glasgow traceurs who provide services to teach and display the true discipline of Parkour.As the demand for coaching around Glasgow and Scotland grows, glasgowparkourcoaching will be present to deal with the demand in an official capacity. Please check out glasgowparkourcoaching.com. |
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