Closing Early – 6/24
Sorry for any inconvenience.
The Gym will be closing today at 9pm instead of 10pm. Please spread this message along. Classes will continue as normal.
New Community Forum!
Ever since Facebook took away the “message all members” function, communication has been pretty hit or miss. Hopefully, this move will stop that.
At the top of the menu bar you will find a new button that says “forum.” This is a direct link to the Rochester Parkour forum board. Please click on the link and register as a new user. If you have never used a forum before, it is simply a way of making communication between the community easier. Feel free to post topics and discuss as you wish. This greatly expands the community’s ability to create events on their own without the help of myself or others who typically initiate events.
There are no restrictions on access so anyone can join and chat.
Please make this transition smooth by joining and posting topics. It is only as useful and the members make it. That’s you.
Movie Night!
This Friday, June 17th, RocPK is hosting our first movie night!
The gym is located at 121 Lincoln Avenue
We’ll be closing off the gym, turning off the lights, and watching some fun parkour flicks like District  B13. Food will be ordered and we’ll be taking breaks to jam and have some fun as well.
Start time is 7pm and we’ll be running until midnight.
$5 to get in
$5 more for food
RSVP to the facebook invite so we know how much food to get, or, drop a comment on this article.
See you there!
Book an Intro Session!
Rochester Parkour believes in guided creativity. What does this mean? It means that we cannot teach you creativity, only guide you to it. We believe our style of teaching produces the best results, but we understand that it can be confusing your first day. To help this, we are now offering you the option of scheduling an Introductory Session.
An Introductory Session is a one on one private lesson that will last an hour to an hour and a half that will guide you through the basic movements of parkour and help get you self-sufficient enough to then go about and explore movement through your own means.
Introductory Session
Format: One on One
Duration: 1 hour to 1.5 hours
Price: $35
Send an email to info@rochesterparkour.com to schedule your session!
Sponsorship and Donor Program
Rochester Parkour believes that disciplined movement can change lives. Every day, our instruction helps change and mold people into stronger, well-disciplined, and multi-faceted human beings. You can be a part of this change by becoming a Donor or a Sponsor of Rochester Parkour.
Donor Program
Through hard work and dedication, Andrew Clocksin (age 16), can scale an 11 foot wall!
Becoming a donor is a wonderful thing. A donor is a person who understands the transformative power of parkour and movement. They are people who believe in Rochester Parkour and our commitment to the Greater Rochester Community. Donors donate money to Rochester Parkour out of the kindness of their heart and use that donation to say that they want to see us continue our growth and expand our outreach.
Donation money is used to funnel back into the community by funding our service projects, free workshops, and building projects that better serve members. Donations can be a private venture, but we’d like everyone to know who believes in us! Let us know if you’d like your name on our Donor Wall in the gym!
Becoming a donor is easy. Visit our homepage and donate money through Paypal or send an email to charles@rochesterparkour.com
Sponsorship Program
We teach respect for self, others, and for environment. Pictured here are members volunteering by cleaning up junk in Manhattan Square Park
The Rochester Parkour Sponsorship Program is geared toward local Rochester business that are proud of our community and want to give back and continue to nourish the youth in Rochester. Sponsors pledge money that will then fund a local high school student’s parkour and movement education – education that not only improves physicality and health, but also breeds strong-willed and strong-minded community members.
Parkour changes lives and you or your business can be an outspoken sponsor of that change. Help us make a difference in the lives of Rochester’s youth.
Sponsors will be published on our dedicated Sponsors page for the length of time their pledge lasts and will be allowed to write their name on the Sponsorship Plaque on the gym wall.
Contact Charles@rochesterparkour.com if you are interested in helping in this cause!
Plea for Support
To all members,
On the new frontpage of www.Rochesterparkour.com you will find a button on the right hand side that says donate. At first, this button was just added as a side project. Unfortunately, it is now the time where we need you, the community, the most.
The gym has now been open for almost a month and progress, as much as I hate to say it, is still slow. We’ve had a couple amazing successes which include the grand opening and the Ninja Warrior event, but we are still lacking in funds necessary to pay our rent.
This gym is not just a side project nor is it a method by which to steal or sink money. This gym is necessary for a wide variety of reasons:
1. This physical space is a testament to the Rochester community that we, as a community, are serious and proud about what we do.
2. Having a space speaks loudly to the worldwide community that we can band together and do something real and lasting. It puts Rochester on the map of known communities. I’ve actually been approached by several traceurs who have never been to New York, who know about Rochester Parkour and have an understanding that it is an amazing and dedicated community.
3. A space provides us with the means by which to enact lasting change on what parkour is and how it is viewed by the public. This is a place to denounce anyone who has shrugged us off as just another bunch of crazy and delinquent kids jumping off things for thrills.
4. This space is necessary for the dreaded Winter months that will inevitably come and make your training that much more difficult. The gym will be there for you.
5. This space is a community space much more than it is a “business.” We opened this gym for you so that you could further your progress but also have a space where others would go to socialize and hang out.
All donations will be tracked and you will get to put your name up on the donations wall in the lounge. Those donating $30 or more will automatically get unlimited memberships for the rest of this month. If you have no money to spend, send me an email at charles@rochesterparkour.com and tell me that you would like to help us out! We need volunteers for fund raising events.
If we lose this space, we lose all of our hard work for the last 4 months. This cannot happen. We must show the Rochester community that we are proud to be a part of this community and the greater Rochester community as well. We believe in ourselves and we believe in movement with a purpose. We can be a driving force of change. Help us help you be that change.
Sincerely,
Charles Moreland, BS, CSCS
Executive Director Rochester Parkour
Friday Night Challenge: Mr. (Im)possible
For those of you who haven’t been to the gym yet, we have quite an interesting list of challenges to test your skills with. Occasionally, completing a challenge might get you something!
Tonight, during Friday night Open Gym, anyone to complete the Mr. (Im)possible challenge will get half off their monthly membership. Come in tonight from 6-10pm and give it a shot!
Help Us Grow
There is a new page under “The Gym” tab in the menu. This tab, labeled “Gym Planning,” is a page to educate you on what new projects, small and large, RocPK is working on to make the gym as amazing as it possibly could be. Some projects can be completed tomorrow while others are long term. You can find this page here.
Please take some time to look over what we are working on. If you can, consider making a small donation to our efforts so that we can begin work as soon as possible. Every donation is put straight towards these projects, not operation costs (which is covered by memberships).
Remember, Rochester Parkour is a community organization with a dedication not only to the members, but to Rochester as a whole. A donation will help us expand our outreach to educate and inspire more at-risk youth and young adults.
Parkour Gym Grand Opening Success!
Wow, what a day!
It was a joy to see the hours of hard work myself and numerous other members of the community spent pay off. All in all, we had over 80 people show up to the grand opening! Mark’s Pizzeria donated 360 slices of pizza, Nicole made over 60 cookies, Dave Rapp made a large batch of brownies and after everything was said and done, I think we only had one sheet of pizza left!
All around people of all ages were playing and exploring. We had everyone from ages 5-60 show up! Rochester Parkour is growing and expanding, and you should all feel proud to be that driving force behind it. None of this would have happened without you.
I’d also like to thank the traveling traceurs that came out to join us from Buffalo Parkour. Definitely was good to see you guys again and hope to see you more in the next couple months. Buffalo is planning a Monkey Vault trip in May so mark off time on your calendars RocPK!
Hope to see you all having fun again in and out of the gym this week!
Charles Moreland
The Rochester Parkour Gym GRAND OPENING!
The day has finally come for New York’s first parkour facility to open its doors! Come and learn how to swing, jump, climb, and vault. Create your own course, set your own goals and challenges and work hard to conquer them under the guidance of Charles Moreland and other community members.
We will be kicking off the opening with three FREE workshops:
– Street self-defense, from Certified Combat Instructor Dave Rapp
– Stretching and mobility, from licensed massage therapist Graham Musler
– Beginner parkour techniques, from certified strength coach Charles Moreland
The workshops will rotate every 30 minutes allowing everyone the chance to partake in all activities for free.
After the events conclude, we will open the gym up to whatever free training you want.
Schedule of Events:
3:30 – 4:00pm – People arrive
4:00 – 5:30pm – Free workshops
5:30 – 8:00pm – Free open gym
Invite your friends, invite your family, come get involved! The gym is located at 121 Lincoln Ave, Rochester, NY.
*Due to space limitations, we may need to cap the workshops at 20 people each. Please come early to ensure your spot.