Parkour and Freerunning Groups

Hello, I have talked about many topics consisting of the moves of parkour and its history. Now that you know some moves and where it came from, you might be wondering if you can find groups or places to do parkour. Well you can, and in this post I will tell you about well known parkour/freerunning groups and places you can train.

First, I will talk about places for you to train. If you go to your local gymnastics gym, they should have a time for open gym. Open gym is when anyone can come and do gymnastics. Here you can train and practice your moves. Or if you get enough people they might let you have your own parkour open gym, which happened to my gym. You can also train if you have a trampoline at your home. While a gym would be better, a trampoline is still okay.

Now for parkour and freerunning groups. I will use Chicago Parkour as an example, but first you may be wondering you do in a parkour group. Well the groups frequently have jams. A jam is basically a group of people who do parkour that meet in a city or place where there are a lot of good spots to do parkour. Okay so that is one thing that parkour/ freerunning groups can do. Another thing that parkour groups usually have is a website with a forum. In a forum you can post videos of yourself and get feedback on what you can improve on. So basically, it is one large community that can help you, most of the time. Another thing that parkour or freerunning groups might do is make a video together. They will all meet in one place and film different moves. Then, they will put them all into one video and maybe add some effects. Finally, they will usually post it on a YouTube channel or some other place where they can present it. Also, sometimes parkour groups might enter a contest together. It could be by video or by going to where the contest is being held. If you want to know more about Chicago parkour you can go to this link here. A picture of all the Chicago parkour members is below.

Another parkour group that is well known is the APK (American Parkour). If you want to know more about that group you can click here. I believe that on their website they have a handful of tutorials to help you get started to doing parkour. A picture of the APK's symbol is below.
That is all I am going to talk about today. As always if you have any other questions just leave a comment. Thank you for reading and see you later.