Chris's Blog (4)

Recently I went to Sky High Sports in Santa Clara and I highly recommend it. It was only $9 for an hour of jumping which turned out to be more than I bargained for. I got on the trampolines and started bouncing all over the place continually. I went up and down as high as I could, did front flips, back flips, jumped off the walls as far as I could, and finally I was completely exhausted. I had to bend over and take a breather. My lungs burned, I… Continue

Recently a shoe salesman attempted to advertise on NEPK. I am not entirely opposed to ads. Some of you may remember that we had Google ads on the old site, and you can see that our new site has them as well. A problem arose in this case when the salesman attempted to advertise without asking first. That is a big no no. Advertisers should have the respect to contact a site's administrator before attempting to place ads. That is spam and it is clearly not allowed. When I politely told him that wa… Continue

Before beginning to train Parkour, you must consider your physical condition. You should not attempt any technique that your body cannot handle the consequences of. You need to either build strength, endurance, speed etc. before you start training, or progress at such a slow rate that your body is conditioned by your training process. There are many different ways to train Parkour, most of which are valid and useful depending on the practitioners intentions. One of the original methods of train… Continue

Our name is a little deceiving. We are called Bay Area Parkour, but in reality we have the best representation of active practitioners in the city of San Francisco. We have an amazing group. We help each other, we look out for each others safety, and we train together...a lot! Last weekend at the end of our session, we were roaming and jamming. I performed very technical and slightly dangerous cat leap. Dimitri, who is always eager and confident, gave it a try. He came up short being no worse f… Continue