Gynastics Update

I apologise to everyone I forgot to put the address of the gymnastics/free run/tricking session we are having

Date: friday the 13th

Time: 4pm – 8pm

Address:
48 Westgate
Sleaford
Lincolnshire
NG347PN

for travel information click here

Map from the Train Station to the Gym

 

Hopefully that should have it all covered, if not feel free to get in touch with us on the forum or alternatively call myself 07983451339 or Stuart 07758807904

St Georges: Sleaford- Refresh

We are currently having an upsurge in class activity and I’m proud to say that St Georges school you are going to be graced by our presence once more.

Starting this coming Wednesday (11th November) parkour classes will be resuming at your school.

as it is an after school class it will once again be free to attend

they will be open to boys and girls of all year groups, and so if you are interested in the class tell your friends.
the more people the better.

See you next Wednesday.

Dale.a

Gymnastics for the masses :D

Lincs Parkour Has its very own gym!!!

We have been given free reign of the Sleaford Gymnastics club for a Parkour/Freerunning/Gymnastics day of fun.

This session will be on Friday 13th and run from either 3 – 7pm or 4 – 8pm (you will have to let us know which one you prefer here) The cost is £6 for all 4 hours so I think that’s a pretty good deal

This is a tester for a longer running session that would see us having the gym for a 2 hour session a week forever. We just need initial strong numbers to get it going really.

Equipment at the club :  A-bars, Ropes, Parallel bars, Trampoline, High bar, Sprung floor, Vaulting Horses, Tumble track, Beams, Air track , + (foam pit style mats), climbing frames and of course more crashmats than you can shake a stick at.

and the best part of the day is that you can use the equipment in whatever way you see fit, which means tricking, climbing, stretching, conditioning, general silliness etc.

Update:  if this damn blog would let me put the videos up i would show you what it looks like but for some reason it wont let me upload but hopefully soon you will be joining us there to flip trick and train at LincsParkour’s Friday the 13th Gym Session.

Dale.a

New Classes – Billinghay/Ruskington

We have 2 new mid week night time classes in the process of being arranged and we are pretty close to them starting up.

They are due to start on Tuesday the 10th at Billinghay Village Hall
and Wednesday the 11th in Ruskington Youth Centre and run each week through till mid december.

we will be using the recently purchased mobile equipment to offer the weekly sessions in conjuction with Extreme NK

full dates and venues will be posted up in the near future, just giving you all the heads up so you can make sure you are free on those days!

Dale.a

Extreme NK Skellingthorpe

after a very nice cycle ride along the Fossdyke Canal I arrived in Skellingthorpe hopeful of a day of parkour and sunshine.  but what i arrived to was less than exciting.  our mobile parkour equipment hadn’t arrived,  meaning we had to improvise. luckily thats what we are best at!

we started the session at 1pm, but no one was there because everyone was having fun on the free skate park supplied by Extreme NK,  but when the heavens opened,  people came flooding in to see what this ‘parkour’ was about.

the people who participated were aged between 6 and 12, and only 1 had tried parkour before,  so whilst stuart led them through the warmup, i discussed what parkour is and convinced them that its not just climbing up buildings and jumping off of them. after the warmup we took them through the very basics of parkour, with the roll and safety in movement taking priorty on this day.

the next thing we moved onto was pop vaults, encoraging them to gain as much height on the obstacle then roll on the other side. it worked well. everyone who participated picked up the skills very quickly, and made alot of progress with the joining of movements.

we then moved onto the basic arm jump, where we had set up the pop infront of it. which meant the children had to pop onto the obstacle take a moment to compose themself and take the two footed arm jump onto the ‘wall’. (when i say the wall i mean, a well secured football goalpoast hooked to the wall around 6 feet off the ground)
to make tings more fun as well as challenging/strength conditioning, we made them shimmy/climb across the goalpost avoiding a well placed mat.  this mat was described as “a shark tank, where the sharks swim in fire, and the lid of the tank is made of barbed wire, coated in poison” basically if you didnt complete the arm jump and climb, you would die.

this kindof imaginative thinking put the kids in the mood to challenge eachother to complete the mission.  and as we all know a friendly challenge and indirecly competing with your peers is what its all about.

we ended the session when the sun came out, as we were planning to go outside and teach them on the place parkour was made to be practiced, but people started backing out, so we gave in to (a small) demand for the art of tricking (free running in our case) and decided to help people complete tricks and flips in the relative safety of a gym hall.  we helped people to overcome front and backflip fears.

we then opened it up and offered the kids the choice of using the equipment in any way they wanted, and even with us offering support on the tricks, many of the kids opted for vaults and drops/rolls.

it made us realise that although alot of people think of parkour as the tricking side,  once alot of them experience the flowing movement of parkour and the feeling of bettering yourself,  tricking takes a back seat in their minds.

overall was a good session, it opened our eyes a little bit towards what drives us to do parkour and teach others.