Parkour Coaching For Fitness Instructors

23^rd November 2010

Today was the launch of our Kinetix Parkour for Fitness Instructors. This new course is for qualified fitness instructors and teaches movement techniques, the basics of Parkour, strength & agility training, alternate plyometric drills, efficient movement and advanced bodyweight training.

The course was launched at the Lifehouse Health Spa in Thorpe-Le-Soken in Essex. All the fitness staff on site took part, feedback was positive and we look forward to rolling the course out to other centres.

www.lifehouse.co.uk

SHOKK Courses Launch!

25th August

Today is another exciting day!

Team Kinetix coaches Brad Wendes and Suzi Appleton are heading to Birmingham for the offical launch and first workshops in Parkour Fit and Circus Fitness courses written in collaboration with SHOKK - The Youth Activity People

Brad and Suzi will be teaching the courses to fitness instructors from the midlands in this pilot training day.

The courses are REPS accredited and qualifications awarded by Active IQ.

For more information on Parkour coaching contact the British Institute for Parkour Coaching or contact SHOKK for information on REPS accredited courses.

Live 'N' Deadly

19th August

Today was another exciting day for Team Kinetix and our students.

Kinetix coaches Brad & Thanda spent the day with a select group of Parkour students filming with a BBC film crew for the BBC1 show "Live 'N' Deadly".

The show features our young practitioners training in the gym as well as outdoors in both the built environment and natural environment.

Hopefully it will be a very positive piece on safe training and progression.

Thanks to the Woodland Trust for the use of Swan Wood in Essex, as well as Riverside Ice & Leisure for letting us use their facilities.

UPDATE:

Here's the final piece as aired on BBC1.

Our section starts 4:00mins into this video.

We're very happy with the end result, and exceptionally proud of our guys and girls!

Nondezvous 1

14th & 15th August

It's come around quickly this year. After all the international hype, Nondezvous 1 is here at last!

For those of you who haven't heard about Nondezvous, you can check out the Facebook Group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=140952782581406&ref=ts

Nondezvous was set up to allow practitioners from around the UK to come together and train in the capital FREE OF CHARGE with experienced coaches and practitioners on hand to show newcomers the spots and help with techniques.

What a weekend it's been!

Thank you to the 200+ people that showed up in central London for the largest FREE OUTDOOR Parkour / Freerun jam to date.

When the film's been edited I'll put it on here straight away.

For now, here's some photo memories.

SX Urban Games Brentwood

1st August 2010

Today was the second of the SX Urban Games events. This time the event was held in King George's Park in Brentwood. Once again Team Kinetix took over the event with our massive Parkour structure.

After a superb demonstration and performance featuring Team Kinetix and our good friends from Beds, Herts & Bucks Parkour, we ran Parkour, Free Running and Acrobatic workshops throughout the afternoon.

Once again we were overjoyed with the audience and number of our supporters that showed up to cheer on the main team and our students.

Looking forward to more SX Urban Games events!

Parkour Workshops in Burnham

27th July 2010

Team Kinetix Coaches Brad Wendes and Thanda Mutero ran Parkour classes for local young people at the Dengie Hundred Sports Centre in Burnham-on-Crouch.

The day was arranged by Maldon District Council to provide positive activities for local young people.

School Parkour Day

8th July 2010

Today Brad Wendes and Suzi Appleton are off to South Oxney for another day of Parkour PE at Greenfields Primary School.

The Team Kinetix coaches will be running Parkour PE lessons for all year groups all day.

School Sports Week

28th June - 1st of July

This week is National School Sports week, so to help promote active lifestyles Team Kinetix are running a full day of PE in a different school each day this week.

Parkour Coaches Brad Wendes, Suzi Appleton and Harry Murden will be at the following schools in and around Watford running Parkour workshops all day every day:

Holy Rood Primary School, Woodhall School, Francis Coombe Academy and St Meryl School.

If you're at any of these schools we'll see you there!

Team Kinetix at the Gilberd School

21st June 2010

Today Team Kinetix coaches Brad Wendes and Thanda Mutero have spent the day teaching students at the Gilberd School in Colchester.

Brad & Thanda have been teaching the fundamentals of Parkour and movement to year 8 and 9 boys at the school.

At the end of the day the group choreographed their own Parkour / movement sequence set to music.

Pupils and staff thoroughly enjoyed the day and the lads developed a lot of confidence thorugh their movements.

SHOKK Emirates Stadium

19th June 2010

Team Kinetix coaches Brad Wendes and Suzi Appleton joined up with the SHOKK crew at Emirates Stadium today for a day of fun free fitness for the community.

Brad, Suzi and the gang will be running free Parkour workshops, running SHOKK X-Treme classes and inviting passers-by to come and jump on the SHOKK dancemats.

The day was a massive success and we hope to run more events at Emirates Stadium in the future!

Half Term Sessions

2nd - 4th June 2010

It's the school holidays again and team Kinetix will be running free Parkour workshops around Chelmsford this week.

These sessions are run by Team Kinetix, Essex Police and the Chelmsford Partership to provide free, positive activities for young people in Chelmsford.

Sessions will be run at Meadgate Hall on the 2nd of June, Savernake Park (Westlands) on the 3rd of June and Melbourne Athletic on the 4th of June.

Sessions run from 1:00 - 4:00 and are completely free of charge.

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New Weekly Class

23rd May 2010

This week Team Kinetix are starting a brand new weekly Parkour class at Melbourne Athletic in Chelmsford.

Classes run from 5:00 - 6:30 at the centre and are free to all Chelmsford residents.

Get yourself down there for some free training under expert supervision!

Parkour Classes in Schools

26th April 2010

Another busy day for Brad Wendes and Suzi Appleton!

The Team Kinetix Parkour coaches travelled to High Wickham in Buckinghamshire to host a day of Parkour in PE lessons at the William Ramsay Primary School.

Once again we had 100% participation and excellent feedback from staff and pupils.