Were you listening to Radio Adelaide this morning? SAPA Director Travis caught up with Sean Butterworth, briefly discussing the history of parkour, the Adelaide scene and the ongoing battle against parkour’s appropriation into gymnastics. Catch the audio here:
A week-long facilitated Parkour experience for kids in Adelaide city and natural surrounds. Monday September 30th – Friday October 4th We are excited to announce this brand new program! This school holiday session will be 5 days of activities with qualified and experienced Parkour instructors. The week will be an authentic Parkour immersion of adventure […]
This weekend the team were bringing the moves to the Building Fitness Culture gym in Loxton. Thanks ABC Riverland for the great coverage!
Just a quick update to keep everyone in the loop. The majority of our classes will be starting in February, hopefully the first week or two. We’re taking the rest of January off for a handful of reasons: We’re running instructors through the new Australian Parkour Association qualifications, and this is quite time intensive for […]
It’s been a long time coming, but our core Parkour Classes – the Sunday outdoor city sessions – will begin on the 10th of July! Check the end of this post for the new meeting place and other class details. We have spent the last 6 months focusing on qualifying our people under the new […]
Holiday updates: All our classes are on break – Blackwood resumes with Term 1 of school. Point A Open Warehouse has a few cancelled days. Fundamentals and our Sunday classes will resume mid-January, however we don’t have an exact date yet as our first priority is to run our instructors through the new Australian Parkour […]
SAPA has entered a project in a new government funding trial called Fund My Community. This funding is perfect for us because it is not restricted to the typical categories that we tend to fall between and allows us to pitch exactly the kind of community project Parkour is best suited to. PLEASE take a […]
You think your knees are too creaky to safely jump off buildings? Think you’re too old, or too unfit to do what you’ve seen those crazy kids do on Youtube? You’re right! You might pass the first hurdle and hit the ground without breaking, but if you expose your joints to stresses that you haven’t […]
We’d like to take a moment to both congratulate and thank Toi Suriyasenee on his recent efforts. Toi is an assistant instructor and very active member of both the SAPA team and the Adelaide training community. He has just revealed that he has convinced his school to fund and construct a calisthenics ‘bar park’, thanks […]
Short version – we’re announcing a new 8 week workshop, in which each week will focus on a different aspect of Parkour training! Booking required. If you’re interested, read below, message us and join the group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/153699514839796/ Long version – Parkour has a strong culture which is built around common understanding of related ideas, philosophies, […]