2nd Meeting of Female Parkour 2011 - São Paulo - Brazil

Part 1 

Sometimes it's hard to know how many girls in Brazil practise parkour. Organizing a meeting was a great 

reason to know the women, exchange ideas and experiences, and shoot some pictures for those who wanted to make a video in the future ... 

For some girls the journey was long, but it was definitely worth it. It was beautiful to watch doing Raissa do a difficult a cat leap. It was great to see new girls interested in Parkour, struggling and learning more and more. Who does not remember Tati doing her first climb up? Our Angelica (Chile's most Brazilian) and Lili, who  destroyed the obstacles in her path, with beauty and parkour, showing grit and energy. Nina carried out the physical training, brainstorming ideas with everyone there who were participating. Let us not forget the great presence of those on the day. Several boys also appeared at the meeting to give support, leading to hilarious moments when they put on women's dresses! JJ, as always, was around to help the beginners to understand the meaning of parkour and to give help on basic movements. The atmosphere was peaceful. The participants were scratched and sweaty, but everyone was filled with lots of good memories of the women's meeting. 

By: Tatiana Maria (adapted by JJ)

Part 2 

A woman doing Parkour is synonymous with courage, persistence, courage, patience, caution, joy, mental and physical growth, docility and brutality at the same time. And that's what we found on 2nd St. in EFPK  Paul, on 15 and 16 January 2011. Some were women beginners, others were more experienced, but each of us seeking the same goal, that of living one more day of parkour, the sport which is already part of our lives, transforming us and benefiting our own evolution which is undeniable that it will help society as well. Women who practise are in their own way beautiful. The participation of women is rapidly gaining momentum among men, which has encouraged more women to take part! And the personalities of the women practitioners enriched this meeting. Stretches, warmups, guided drills, free assisted practice and new training spots also helped to enrich this meeting which was also attended by many men who joined in to train and play together! As time passes, we hope that the number of girls practising this discipline continues to grow - Parkour is not easy, but it is very enjoyable! 

By: Julie Bianchi (adapted by JJ)

2º Encontro Feminino de Parkour 2011 – São Paulo – Brasil / parte 1

Bem, às vezes é difícil saber quantas são as meninas que praticam Parkour no Brasil. Fazer um encontro foi uma ótima razão para conhecê-las, trocar idéias e experiências, além de filmar algumas imagens para quem sabe um futuro vídeo...

Para algumas meninas a viagem foi longa. Mas, com certeza valeu a pena. Foi lindo assistir a Raissa de Curitiba fazendo um cat leap difícil. Foi muito bom ver novas meninas interessadas em Parkour, esforçando-se e aprendendo mais e mais. Quem não se lembra da Tati de Curitiba fazendo seu primeiro climb up?

Nossa Angélica (a chilena mais brasileira) e a Lili arrasaram com seu Parkour e sua beleza, mostrando garra e energia. A Nina puxou o treino físico, juntando idéias das que estavam ali participando. Não podemos esquecer-nos das ilustres presenças. Os rapazes também compareceram. Estes levaram irreverência (vestidos de meninas) e apoio. JJ como sempre ajudando as iniciantes a entender o que é Parkour e os primeiros movimentos. Tudo ocorreu na paz. Alguns arranhões, muito suor e milhares de lembranças boas ficaram no pensamento daquelas que tiveram a honra de fazer mais um encontro feminino. 

Por: Tatiana Maria (adaptado por JJ).

2º Encontro Feminino de Parkour 2011 – São Paulo – Brasil / parte 2

Mulher praticando Parkour é sinônimo de coragem, persistência, ânimo, paciência, precaução, alegria, crescimento mental e físico, docilidade e brutalidade ao mesmo tempo. E foi isso que encontramos no 2º EFPK em São Paulo, nos dias 15 e 16 de Janeiro de 2011. Mulheres iniciantes na prática, outras já muito mais experientes, mas cada uma delas buscando o mesmo ideal, o de viver mais um dia de Parkour, modalidade essa que já faz parte de nossas vidas, nos transformando em pessoas e civis melhores, para nossa própria evolução e quem pode negar que para a ajuda da sociedade também? As mulheres têm aderido à prática de um modo muito lindo. Elas vem conquistando espaço entre os homens que agora vem incentivando ainda mais a prática feminina! E essas características encheram o encontro feminino.  Alongamentos, aquecimentos, treinos guiados, treinos livres, ajudas masculinas, lugares novos de treinos também ajudaram para enriquecer ainda mais esse encontro que teve a presença de muitos homens também que se uniram pra treinar e brincar juntos! A cada dia que passa esperamos ainda mais que cresça esse número de meninas praticantes nesta modalidade que não é fácil, mas é muito prazerosa!

Por: Juliana Bianchi (adaptado por JJ).

Parkour Feminino Brasil 2010 Video

This third video of Brazilian traceuses was an initiative of Juliana from São Paulo. After many conversations on the web girls from various cities came together and filmed some of their training. In this video these girls show strength, discipline and passion for parkour.Thanks to all the girls who participated in this project and all who support female parkour in Brazil, especially JJ (who helped in the filming) and Hugo Oliveira (who did the video editing).

Esse terceiro vídeo das traceuses brasileiras foi uma iniciativa da Juliana de São Paulo. Depois de tantas conversas na web, meninas de diversas cidades se juntaram e filmaram um pouco dos seus treinos. Nesse vídeo essas meninas demonstram força, disciplina e paixão pelo parkour. Agradecimentos a todas as meninas que participaram desse projeto e a todos que apoiam o parkour feminino no Brasil, especialmente JJ (que ajudou nas filmagens) e Hugo Oliveira (que fez a edição do vídeo).

-Tatiana, Brasil

Italy Traceuses Project 2010 Video

The 'Made in Italy - traceuses Project 2010' was created with the aim to promote women in the disciplines of Parkour and Art du déplacement in Italy. The project was born from the union and collaboration of Italian traceuses, to encourage other girls approach to discipline without much hesitation, gender, and because parkour art du déplacement is open to all disciplines. For this reason we made a video in which show what practitioners have learned Italian in the year 2010. Soon we will hold a rally where you can meet us all, with the help of the Italian Parkour Associations, ADD Apki and Rhizai. Thanks for all the girls, cameramen, their membership groups, and who else supports them.

Enjoy! - Angelina

L'"Italy - traceuses project 2010" nasce con lo scopo di promuovere la presenza femminile nelle discipline del Parkour e Art du Déplacement in Italia. Il progetto nasce dall'unione e dalla collaborazione delle traceuses italiane, per incitare altre ragazze all'approccio alla disciplina senza troppe esitazioni legate al sesso, perchè parkour e art du déplacement sono discipline aperte a tutti. Per questa ragione abbiamo realizzato un video nel quale mostriamo ciò che le praticanti italiane hanno appreso nel corso dell'anno 2010. Prossimamente cercheremo di organizzare un raduno nel quale sarà possibile incontrarci tutte, con la collaborazione di alcune associazioni italiane di Parkour e ADD come l'Apki e la Rhizai. Ringraziamo per la collaborazione tutte le ragazze, i cameramen, i loro gruppi d'appartenenza, e chi altri le sostiene.

Buona Visione! - Angelina

Funny Holidays & FreeRuna: Videos Page Update

What a great summer, here are 2 amazing videos that have been very well edited, filmed and put together.. and then, there's what the girls are doing! Funny holidays from Russian Alexandra Shevchenko and Runa from Germany, it will bring a smile to your lips and put good new ideas in your head, so enjoy :)


www.girlparkour.com/page8.htm

End of summer Videos

The end of summer makes people do all sorts of funny things like wearing bedsheets with holes cut in it for eyes and men dressing up in school girls' uniforms and wigs, but mostly it makes people reminisce... and make end of summer videos :D Cheeky monkeys, mohawk monkey, glaswegian monkey and a bagful of playful canadian monkeys! Enjoy!
www.girlparkour.com/page8.htm

Female Parkour Youtube Channel : Hana from Japan

Neta from Poland wrote in about creating a youtube channel that compiles traceuse videos and asked if it could be linked on the Videos page. Neta says: 

"FemaleParkour channel was created to promote all traceuses who reached a high level by means of their work. 

I hope that girls' videos from all over the world would show that traceuses can be as good as traceurs. Women may also love parkour, have a passion, move effectively, train hard - and train safely.

Break the stereotypes!" 

It sounds like a great idea and we are very proud to have the youtube channel FemaleParkour part of the Videos page, starting with the talented Hana from Japan! Have a look!

http://www.girlparkour.com/page8.htm

USA, San Francisco All-Female Workshop 23 October, UC Berkeley Campus

Date: Saturday 23 October
Time: 1:00pm
Location : Campanile clock tower , UC Berkeley Campus
Cost: Free
Contact: akong@sfparkour.com Albert "lethalbeef" Kong, SFParkour Administrator
Website: http://sfparkour.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149362568436221

Ladies! Have you wanted to try parkour only to be discouraged by the overwhelming testosterone? Do you find it upsetting that parkour is a heavily male dominated community? Well here's your try parkour for the first time in a less macho atmosphere and make a dent in the gender imbalance in parkour.

SFParkour and the Berkeley Parkour Collective are hosting a free, all-female workshop where you and your friends can learn the fundamentals of parkour, focusing less on big moves and more on graceful movement. This 2 hour workshop will be designed to teach parkour with women in mind, emphasizing balance, gracefulness, footwork, progressive training techniques, basic strength conditioning, creativity, and exploration.

We will meet at 1:00PM at the Campanile, the clock tower in the middle of the UC Berkeley campus. Invite your (girl)friends!

Video page updated! About the summer that was...

3 very different videos from 3 ladies from Canada, Germany and Russia! One about the last flowers in Canada (not unrelated to the National Geographic), one about a full summer of fun, freerun and training in France, Austria, Germany (flips, wheatfields, Lisses and energy drinks) and one from Russia... which may require a bit of time as she pretends to fumble around for the first 1-2 minutes of the video.  


To the videos page!
http://www.girlparkour.com/page8.htm


Edit 10/10/10

Gala explains: "First part of video shows "the beginning" My idea was to show some kind of growth, just like "that's what I do every day" - I wanted to perform, that parkour is continuous moving & progress, & nobody should afraid of being a beginner =) Especially girls =) "


Thanks Gala!

Autumn Sale at the Shop! Shirts $15.90, Hoodies $32.90 + Shipping

Autumn Sale! 

Shirts $15.90, Hoodies $32.90

www.girlparkour.spreadshirt.com

Uppsala Girls Gathering 2010 Event Review

Road trip!! Hayley from New Zealand has written an Event Review with her distinct Kiwi sense of humor about the weekend when 42 female participants and 3 instructors converged onto the town of Uppsala Sweden. Training, techniques and wet weather bonding - read about it in the Event Reviews page ... Nu! ("Now" in swedish)
http://www.girlparkour.com/page4.htm 

You wanted it, so the Shop is now open: Women, Men, Kids and Babies! www.girlparkour.com/page38.htm

So the story behind this store is that there isn't a great deal of "parkour" themed clothing out there for women. Not only are we shaped differently, we'd like to have something designed for women in mind.

Read more.. 

or go straight to the US Store  www.girlparkour.spreadshirt.com 

or the Europe Store www.girlparkour.spreadshirt.net

   More pics here..

Videos page update: Australia, Poland and England

Some talented ladies coming out from all over the world. An unassuming Australian who is pulling off wall spins before blowing the candle on her 1 year anniversary, a Polish girl who is flipping out, plus one section was becoming the "Kirsty Hibbert video section... and the rest of england", so Kirsty was a good sport and her samplers have been reduced to a select few including "(Almost) Pure Parkour".  Enjoy the Videos.

Recorrido de cuadrúpedos 800 mts.

Domingo 25 de Julio de 2010

9:00 am, hora de encuentro en el museo nacional, al llegar la energia, ansias e inspiracion no se hicieron esperar, cada persona presente esperaba el momento para dar todo de sí a este recorrido y con esto apoyar a las otras personas presentes, esperamos mientras todos llegaban y a las 9:45 se nos explico la tecnica del recorrido, 3 variaciones de cuadrupedos (de frente, inversos y boca arriba) y el recorrido que se realizaria desde éste punto (calle 28), sobre la carrera Séptima, hasta el parque nacional (calle/diagonal 36) (de 800 a 850 metros), en tres categorias, de 15 años a 20 años, femenina, y de 20+, la idea mas allá que llegar a la meta en primeras posiciones, era realizar un recorrido a conciencia, con buen manejo del cuerpo, y llegar a realizar un homenaje también al método natural implementado por Georges Hébert.

Antes de empezar el recorrido, se realizo una sesión de calentamiento orientada por Richard Alvarez y Christian Rodriguez, muy necesaria por cierto para preparar el cuerpo.

Después fuimos a formar las posiciones, fue muy inspirador ver tantas chicas participando de esta actividad, con tanta energia y tanta inspiración para hacer el recorrido.

Durante el recorrido, el variar los cuadrupedos se hizo necesario ya que la mente se va aburriendo y el cuerpo se iba poniendo exhausto al ir avanzando, afortunadamente al cambiar de posicion se trabajaban diferentes grupos musculares lo que despues de hacerlo por varios metros, aliviaba los musculos ya usados y empezaba a sentirse el trabajo en los musculos que estaban en reposo asi como la complejidad y variedad de uso de musculos que este movimiento requiere. En este lugar al mismo tiempo y como de costumbre estaba abierto el recorrido de ciclovia por la carrera septima (un espacio en la ciudad que se abre todos los domingos en algunas avenidas principales de la ciudad solo para transito peatonal y de ciclistas) así que compartíamos este espacio con las personas que usualmente van a la ciclovía y fue muy bonito ver el apoyo de la comunidad común a nuestra actividad y cómo algunos se detenian un momento a ver y otros aunque iban pasando nos mostraban su apoyo.

Al llegar a la meta, pude sentir mi cuerpo detenerse en automatico al levantarme e hidratarme un poco vi que aun faltaban compañeros por llegar, y asi como me detuve automaticamente, me inspire para al menospor esa ultima cuadra apoyar a algunos que estaban aún en el recorrido.

Una comunidad, la comunidad de parkour apoyandose unos a otros al llegar a la meta, fue un gran punto de inspiracion para seguir aportando desde nuestro buen entrenamiento, constancia y disciplina a la difusion del parkour en nuestra ciudad.

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Isa, PKGIRLZ

Welcome to Czech Parkour Camp. This is the gate, we don't have the keys, so the entry requirement is to pop vault over. A review from travelling traceuse Hayley.

Ah Parkour Camp. What goes on in Parkour Camp, stays in Parkour Camp.. unless of course intrepid travelling traceuse Hayley Brice-Nicolson (who is a looooong way away from her home in New Zealand) writes about it for Girl Parkour !  Handstands, cereal in cups, murderous little boys in swimming pools..?? Read up lovelies :)

http://www.girlparkour.com/page62.htm

And while you're at it, have a read of Julia from Germany's trip in Sydney for 100% more tim tams and pies.