February 15, 2016
Parkour Game – Zombie Tag!
Well balanced parkour training has elements of planned, direct training as well as reactionary training: performing movements and techniques under situations where you don't actively get to plan out where you want to go. The best visualization of reactionary training is a game of tag. There's lots of different ways to play tag, but this one is one of our favorites! Game Mode: Zombie Mutation Tag Concept: Unlike other Zombie Tag varieties, the virus in this [...]
[Research Review] Implications for Neutral Foot Positions in Parkour Landings
Continuing our research into proper landing techniques, we found this recently published article that took 17 healthy collegiate males and had them perform drop landings from .35m (just over 1ft) using three different landing positions: Toes-In, Neutral, and Toes-Out. In the parkour coaching world, very rarely do we see people landing with a toes-in position, but it does happen on occasion. More often, we find students landing in a toes-out position. At RocPK, our go-to cue is to keep the [...]
November 10, 2015
The Impact of Parkour
a journey into the long-term repercussions of parkour training Authors: Charles Moreland and Nicole Suchy Estimated Read Time = 25 minutes Synopsis Parkour is a high-impact discipline wherein trainees apply themselves against environmental challenges at speed. We are constantly accessing new and unprecedented heights and pushing the boundaries as to what the human body can do. This article is designed to explore the possibility that maybe we’ve developed into a culture that all-too-often chooses to sacrifice long-term health for [...]
A New Beginning
Time goes by... Kind of amazing to see that the last blog post on our roll is from June of 2013. We got busy, and ultimately, I thought I had found my end with writing for a bit. Moves were made, decisions decided, challenges overcome, and new mistakes made. So much has happened since the Summer of 2013... Rochester Parkour has truly begun to establish itself as one of the leading parkour gyms in the country. Our approach is atypical, [...]