WHO

Retailers: Foot Locker, Foot Action, Champs

WHAT
Experience FREE RUNNING, the hottest new sport sweeping over, under and through the nation. FREE RUNNING is the art of moving through your environment and overcoming obstacles using any means you choose, whether it be flipping over, rolling under, or diving through it! Join K-Swiss as they embark on a 7-city cross-country college tour to introduce the sport and the new FREE RUNNING shoe to the nation!

The K Swiss tour offers a full experience from performances to training clinics and the opportunity to try and win the new footwear all in a festival like atmosphere. Meet Mark Toorock and The Tribe as they perform and leap from scaffolding. Participate in a FREE RUNNING clinic and try out your new moves on K-Swiss's customized course. Don't forget to test the FREE RUNNING shoes and you may go home with your own pair that you win or buy on site.

WHERE
University of San Francisco March 6th 10am to 4pm
University of Southern California March 11th 10am to 4 pm
(UPDATED) University of Texas at Dallas March 19th 10am to 4 pm University of Houston March 27th 10am to 4pm
Florida International University March 31st 10am to 4pm
University of Illinois at Chicago April 9th 10am to 4 pm
NY Details TBA

Sherwin Williams Event

80/29/07

After an extensive audition process members Matthew Willis, Jereme Sanders, Joseph Flores, David Saucedo, Thomas Tapp Johnathan Tapp Have been selected to do a 2 day performance at the Dallas Convention Center in January.  A choreographer from New York will also be flown down for the event.  The performance will include a 2 1/2 min. routine on a massive stage which would make any Traceur envious. These members have work hard and I congratulate them all.  I feel that they will be able to accurately represent Texas Parkour as well as them selves individually.

Parkour North America Launches

10/23/07

We, a group of dedicated traceurs from across North America, have come together in hopes of building a new website that represents our community: ParkourNorthAmerica.com (PKNA).

Our primary goal in creating PKNA is to provide a site that is truly community based. Our goal is to help educate, inspire, and unite North American traceurs while remaining true to the original philosophy and methods of Parkour. We believe a traceur's goal is to improve within him- or her- self; to become stronger, more humble, more useful, more helpful, and more conscious. We believe that most thriving Parkour communities are built on this foundation. Our educational materials will be freely available, and subject to question and contest by the greater community.

We believe that Parkour is best kept local. Therefore, we endeavor to not interfere with local communities; we wish only to encourage them. PKNA will not be a commercial site, as we believe that that interferes with being community-based. Therefore, we will not involve ourselves with the sale of any merchandise. For the same reason, PKNA will not be affiliated with any team, talent agency or single fitness program.

Traceurs without a local community forum will have PKNA as an option for a place to discuss Parkour on a national and continental level. Those who are already part of a local community will benefit from the knowledge of other communities across the continent. By keeping open lines of communication between communities, we hope to maintain a positive image for Parkour in North America.

We believe that the Parkour community is strongest when we stand together, so we ask all the Parkour communities of North America to come together on this site to help forge a positive future for the whole continent.

Together, we seek to create a strong and healthy environment for all North American traceurs.

Exo - New York
Chris (kaos) New England
Amir (fellowsapien) South East US
Dan (pkdanno) Toronto
Rafe (Faelcind) Washington state
Cliff (cak010) California
Andy (Animus) DC

Media Event

8/15/07

Early next week TXPK will have the opportunity to do some shooting for a media crew. The core is going to be responsibile for all shooting for this event. This is going to be a big step for Texas Parkour. There will be a follow up on this event.

Current Projects

5/5/07

Texas Parkour has had many advances these last months. Joining CrossFit and also meeting up with news affiliates are just some of the great things that have happened. Some of our members had competed in CrossFits 300 challenge and our man Deft won 2nd, Congrats. This weekend there will be an CrossFit affiliate workshop and The Core will be teaching and drilling at the event. Texas Parkour had its biggest workshop to date on April 28th. We had 35 members attend and we plan on only increasing that total. The summer is starting soon and that means more jams and more time to devote to training parkour. Stay tuned to the boards because we are going to start open discussion concerning Methode Naturalle jams, Downtown Run Jams, Enchanted Rock, conditioning jams, and our Huge Texas Jam in July. Which will be a two day event. One day at Stellar Gymnastics and the second day in Austin at UT.

TXPK Joins Crossfit

3/24/07

TXPK has the great opportunity to be one of the few parkour organizations to team up with Crossfit and offer a free, parkour-associated workout in Austin on March 10th. For more information click here.

Project Parkour

2/9/07

Andreas Kalteis , in collaboration with several websites including Texas Parkour and Urban Freeflow, is heading up a great experiment called "Project Parkour." This project will take parkour-specific articles and spread them throughout the world via already existing internet resources for parkour material. Texas Parkour is one of the 8 or so websites that are currently under development in this project. This is a good step for Texas Parkour and its goal is to help others in every way possible. For submission of articles and general talk click here.

"Get Over It"

1/27/07

The Gym Jam went off without a hitch. Thank you all who came. Remember this organization survives when people gather in the name of Texas Parkour and share their true philosophy. Texas Parkour is getting involved with the community with a new event called "Get Over It." It is designed to show people in the fitness world a parkour-specific workout and the benefits from that. For suggestions or for more information go here.

New Website

12/21/06

The new website is up folks. Let's all thank Lauren for a job well done! If you have any minor things you feel the website cannot do without, please make your suggestions here. She worked hard on this and I think she did quite a dandy job. Rock on babe!