Announcement! New Clothing!

For those of you who are interested, CafePress have now stepped their game up and actually started making Dark Hoodies, as well as Zip Hoodies too, in the respective colours.

This is great for all you guys, who didn’t want to buy White hoodies for fear of getting them (in Cobie’s words) “Dirtier than Tub Girl at a Thanks Giving” now, you have no fear! Great for the Winter weather actually, I personally have tried them on and found them extremely warm.

Enjoy

Lincs parkour in the city

London city that is! Here is a blow by blow account of this furious ordeal!

After several delays in train service in Lincoln, Spalding and P’borough Adz and I eventually made it to the kings cross station in the heart of London. Unfortunately the heart of London is not the heart of London parkour, instead we needed to head to the city’s south bank where all manner of famous spots used by Urban free flow and 3run can be found. the fastest way around London as you probably know is the London underground, so without further ado we jumped on board and were soon on our way too Waterloo station. On arrival we met up with none other than corks and balance Tim, who had been staying with a friend near London for the week, a nice surprise =). Within the hour we had lost him and did not see him again!

Heading to the nearest burger king we ate a hearty meal and were back on track for training, when suddenly DISASTER STRIKES! Adam had left his camera and MP3 at burger king and we were already 20 minutes away by the time he realised. Sprinting back there was no sign of the lost property. Hopeless, we left the burger king and trudged out of the station, but before we reached the station doors we were met by (Connor) Contrix, one of Urban freeflows sponsored athletes and an awesome guy. Explaining our predicament to him he ushered us back into burger king and demanded to the manager that we see the CCTV footage from that area. Apparently this sparked off something as the camera magically appeared in the hands of a cleaner in seconds, fishy? YES! A majhor relief? certainly! Training with Contrix until dark we witnessed some truly awesome tricking and in the undercover “Tramps kitchen spot”. After parting ways with Connor we found our youth hostel, got some eats and caught up on our sleep.

Cherry Willingham – Week 1

On week 1 of an 8 week course, we turned up to the school half an hour late due to the legendary Dan Hargreaves van ‘The White Knight’ dying before we set off.

so not an ideal start then, but after we arrived myself and Stuart  found that the school had an abundance of brand new gymnastics equipment, and a free-climb wall for us to use in our sessions. this got us motivated for one of my favourite classes to date.

Mary Knox – Week 1

This is the Mary Knox educational centre in Lincoln, its main aim is to help pupils who have been suspended or excluded from schools around Lincolnshire.

you would expect these kids to be rowdy and naughty, but when we got there we were treated with nothing but respect (except for a comment made about me being ‘emo’ – I don’t see it myself)

without any prior experience, the kids jumped straight in, focusing on the fundamental basics of Parkour.

City Of Workshops

Right guys, so on Wednesday 1st October, myself and Dale headed to The Priory City of Lincoln Academy to do a full days worth of workshop with every year in the school ! The day commenced at 8:30am with me and dale in an awesome gymnasium with more than enough equipment to our disposal,

The apparatus included:

6 Horses

Huge Climbing Frames

Wooden Wall Rails

Crash mats

Gym Mats

And plenty more

With these Items we both began too set up a three lane assault course. First it started it with a simple vaulting horse, Then onto the climbing frame with plenty of options to go through or over both sides of it, next up is the box jump to dive roll and then straight from the dive roll to the wooden rails again there were so many ways of moving through, over, or under this apparatus but what ever way of moving you may of taken you had to then be straight back to running to do a wall run to reach a certain point on the wall after this it was to then turn around vault again which led into a pop up on to a high vaulting horse once on top you would then drop of and roll then sprint right back to the queue, sounds easy enough now but it wasn’t by far you had to be pretty fit and agile to conquer this obstacle course!

With our first class coming in at 9:00am me and dale prepared ourselves by chatting briefly about what we would teach and how we would help the students learn to overcome the course.

Classes/Workshops

The thing that everyone wants to hear!

Open classes are coming back very soon, on the 11th October to be exact!

Novice

There will be a new structure to them, with set registers, and set numbers of people per week (no more turn-ups and drop-outs) which means in order to get into them you need to sign up soon.
I will not be running them any more (takes all the stress out) so I can just enjoy the teaching

They will be hosted each and every Saturday for novices, the new name for the beginners class.

Many new activities will be included in the classes and one main thing… AWARDS (bare with me here)

Awards and certificates will be handed out depending on specific criteria related to the discipline of Parkour (not just the physical side)

For more information on how to sign up for the Novice classes please contact:

Extreme NK on 01522 870 252

or Email: extremenk@leisureconnection.co.uk

Lincs Parkour Community Workshops

These workshops will be (thanks to MARS) held FOR FREE

These workshops wont be starting on 11th of October as of yet

For these particular workshops, to get in you need to sign up in the topic on our forum,as they will be run by the community for the community.
this means you get to choose the dates and the times of the classes, and thus how often you want to train indoors.

Information on these sessions will be posted here on the blog in the near future

To be part of the decision click HERE

Any questions just ask below, I will do my best to answer them all for you

Mars Refuel Funding

Brilliant news:
Lincs Parkour is RICH !!!
well not really rich per se, but rich enough to give away Parkour sessions for free!
read more below

NEW: Lincs Parkour Shop

Well its what you guys have all been waiting for The Lincs Parkour T-shirts are ready and up for sale.

As you can see there is now a new button on the home page that links to the Shop, which is based on Cafepress, an American company, which is renowned for being extremely reliable and having good quality products.

T-shirts cost around £10 each, if you convert the price from Dollars, which considering they are being sent from America is a very good price. Deliveries take a week to ten days.

I ordered a prototype top to test the quality and after receiving it the quality seems very good, after sorting out a few design issues, I have created the final design and they are now on sale.

Hope you enjoy wearing our Name with pride, and remember that’s Lincs Parkours name on the T-shirt, so respect it and don’t do anything that would send out a bad message, especially whilst wearing them haha, but i trust you guys to do well and represent Lincs Parkour well.

Hope to see you all in your LPK gear soon

Ben Christian x

Saiyans at Trace’08 – Video

I recommend clicking HIGH QUALITY in youtube to get the most viewing pleasure

could be the most awesome video made to date: JUST WATCH

Now don’t forget to keep checking their blog Saiyan Garden for updates/photos on the Saiyans Parkour Journey

(please note I am one sexy mofo!)

News Updates/Reveals

I thought i would like to keep everyone updated on the stuff thats going on behind the scenes that some people may not see, so here is a bit of behind the scenes/public info for you all

The Lincs Parkour community’s main page has been updated, and changed to a sweet new design by Ben Christian (Jammie) features links back to the blog, an updated portfolio, and a featured video section, for keeping up to date with the communitys video productions.

Trace: many of you attended the Trace Gathering in the Peak district, and if you were there you may have noticed that myself and Stuart have been introduced into the trace ranks. it is an honor to be held in such high regard as to join members of trace such as Jin, Blake and Cable, and Danny Ilabaca. I look forward to working with trace in the future, and all the exciting developments set to come in the future.

Clothing: we are looking into providing Trace Clothing direct through Lincs Parkour, and hopefully this could mean dicounts on the products, and eventually customised clothing for the community. (updates coming soon)

There are several new classes starting in september to add to the current classes in Christ Hospital School, and DeAston in Rasen. City School is aiming to have parkour classes hosted by us, and currently we are running summer classes in Sleaford. There are also classes to be introduced alongside gymnastics in Manby on the east coast and the Extreme Nk event in Sleaford on the 27th of August looks to be an exciting event with climbing, skateboarding, parkour and some inflatable water things.

A one off 2 day event is being hosted by Extreme NK, at the end of the month, for more info on attending the class contact extremenk@leisureconnection.co.uk

That’s all I have for now, feel free to comment, I will try to get back to everyone as quick as possible, keep checking back for updates for more info

PS: I hope you like Mars Bars

Dale.a