Adult Parkour Classes (16+)

Central Hill Park, 81 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA | Get Directions »
$8.00

Parkour, also known as l'art du déplacement or freerunning, was born in the banlieues (suburbs) of Paris in the 1990s and has become one of the world’s fastest growing sports.  While often recognized from the fantastic images seen on YouTube, movies, or television, the sport/discipline/art form is actually a form of movement that has roots in a wide variety of physical disciplines including gymnastics, martial arts, climbing, and athletics. Practitioners, known as traceurs, train to develop strength, speed, endurance, precision, spatial awareness, dynamism, and creativity, in order to be as fluid, functional and liberated as possible in physical movement and to overcome physical obstacles.  Traceurs also develop a way of thinking based on rigorous self-discipline, autonomous action and self-will that allows them to overcome mental obstacles related to their movements.  

Classes are open to practionners of all fitness and experience levels (Beginners welcome!) but will focus on the basic techniques of parkour including vaulting, climbing, and jumping.  Classes will also include a number of exercises to improve strength and fitness levels to ensure the safe long-term practice of the sport.  For a glimpse of what to expect, check out this video from some of the Parkour Generations classes in London!

For more information and to reserve your space contact blake@parkourgenerations.com

Parkour Generations & Parkour Generations Americas

Parkour Generations was founded in 2006 with the goal of spreading the training and instruction of parkour/freerunning/l’art de déplacement while preserving the philosophy of the discipline as practiced by the original French founders.  Since its creation, Parkour Generations has grown to become the world’s leading parkour instruction company and teaches in a variety of mediums across the globe in addition to working with conceptual and architectural consulting, live demonstrations, education and research projects, media work and artistic representations.  

Parkour Generations Americas (PKGen Americas) was created as a subsidiary company of Parkour Generations to spread the philosophy and practice of parkour on the American continents with the same standard of excellence and commitment to the founder’s true spirit and philosophy.  PkGen Americas also seeks through the teaching of parkour to show how movement, and the holistic and functional use of the body, can be made a central part of a healthy lifestyle.