Parkour involves using one’s body to engage in physical or mental activities through repetition and diverse skills like jumping, swinging and rolling. Regular exercise and movement is an important aspect of a child’s upbringing. Through parkour sport, your child’s physical literacy is guaranteed and this encourages and unlocks the child’s potential. The child can develop and grow as a fit, … Read More
Start a Parkour Gym
Image Source: Pexels How to Start Your Own Parkour Gym {A note from WFPF: Below is a comprehensive article written by Jori Hamilton about how to start your own parkour gym. WFPF offers many things which can help you in your journey to start and maintain your own Parkour gym including consulting, WFPF teacher certifications, parkour gym/program insurance (currently … Read More
Ways to Prevent and Treat Parkour Injuries
Image Source: Unsplash Ways to Prevent and Treat Parkour Injuries [A note from WFPF: A great way to help prevent injuries to to become certified as a Parkour teacher by WFPF! For more info go to: https://wfpf.com/in-person-events/ and https://wfpf.com/services/coachingjudging/ or both, for in-person (since 2012) and online (since 2020) Parkour instructor certifications because… Safety first!!} Over the years, parkour has … Read More
NAREK AVOYAN- North Hollywood, California, USA and ARMENIA
BEGINNINGS- Narek Avoyan was born in Armenia, in Yerevan City. Growing up he would always get into trouble for jumping off of his bed and jumping off of the stairs! Narek was as young as 10 years old when he first started jumping off of the garage roof and climbing up the building walls. He didn’t know anything about parkour … Read More
WFPF Parkour Academy! Start or Grow Your Parkour Program!
WFPF Parkour Academy and you… whether you are brand new or have a thriving Parkour program! “I believe Parkour is the next big sport and I wanted to get in early and grow with the sport. I did a lot of investigating and joined the WFPF Parkour Academy. Their curriculum is sound and progressive by levels like we are used … Read More
WFPF Parkour Pro-Am Championship- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas- April 1-3, 2016
WFPF Parkour Pro-Am Championship- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas- April 1-3, 2016 Announcing the WFPF Parkour Pro-Am- Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay in cooperation with the All Star Games, USA Parkour, USA Sports Productions, and sponsored by Know Obstacles, Adventure Combat Ops Las Vegas, HKPK Las Vegas, DGS-Deary Gymnastics Supply. SPECTATORS SPECTATOR TICKETS HERE : https://theallstargames.com/wfpf-tickets/ (scroll down to see competition schedule) … Read More
WFPF’s Willie “WilJay” Moore the new Parkour face of the American Eagle Outfitters Flex 4 Campaign
WFPF’s Willie “WilJay” Moore the new Parkour face of the American Eagle Outfitters Flex 4 Campaign People ask us all the time how to make a career in the world of Parkour. We tell them, that since Parkour is still a relatively new sport, that they have to be at the top of their game, not only as an athlete … Read More
Big Announcement!! WFPF Pro-Am Parkour Championship at the MANDALAY BAY, in LAS VEGAS!! SAVE THE DATE: April 1-3, 2016
IMPORTANT WFPF ANNOUNCEMENT- WFPF Pro-Am Parkour Competition at the MANDALAY BAY, in LAS VEGAS!! SAVE THE DATE: April 1-3, 2016 The WFPF will be hosting its first International Pro-Am Parkour competition April 1-3, 2016 at the Mandalay Bay in LAS VEGAS! Amateur categories from ages 10-17 and Professional category, age 18 and … Read More