PK in heroes!

Parkour was featured in the NBC tv show the other night: HEROES!

To watch the clip from season 2, episode 10, click here.


The awesome copy-cat girl with the ability to learn anything she sees using muscle memory completes some nice simple moves. She does a quick reverse vault to keep on running, and does a tic-tac against the wall whilst vaulting the rail one hand. Really nothing flashy - but her aim was not escape in this instance, it was breaking and entering. Glad to see no flips or unnecessary movements, but how might this demonstration affect us as the practitioners? Could this reflect badly? Well hopefully it wont!

The only question that remains is.. Who was the dude performing the parkour?


Over and out
Mike

Saiyans off to Germany..

Blake and Cable head off to Berlin, Germany on the 16th November to help teach at a parkour workshop alongside others.

More information and a brief write-up is likely to follow when they return!



Happy training
from Mike and all the Saiyans

Mike

Over the last year or so Mike has been training with us as much as he can, giving his weekends up as well as one mid week training night. Hes worked hard and shown a great attitude both for Parkour and Saiyan, and so at this point we welcome him into are little family.
He will be posting on the blog a bit more and hopefully on some of the boards as well as keeping up his training. Got a long way to go, wish him luck.
Cable

Channel 4 Shoot

Sorry to all who haven't heard from us recently, it has been a little quiet on the blog. Anyway here's a short update on one of the projects we've been working on recently.

On Wednesday 15th of August we did some filming work with Parkour Coaching in which we shot some innovative ident material with Channel 4 for The Discovery Channel in London. What was cool was that we were using POV cameras that allow the viewer to see exactly what the traceur sees as he or she moves.

Blake - What this meant was me having a camera attatched to a helmet on my head with a wire leading to a runner with a 20kg vcr on his back (I'm sure its more hi tech), then a wire leading to the director running along with a portable monitor. I then had to run while doing very simple parkour movements and try and capture all the other guys in the shot, without tripping over the wires or getting the crew in shot. Sounds mental but really quite fun. Keep your eyes peeled for some pk action on the Discovery channel in October!!

Thanks to all at Parkour Coaching Ltd, Chris, Dom and Ramon, and a big thanks to all the Channel 4 crew for your work. Also thanks to our boss Tim for letting us take the day off on such short notice.

Check out Parkour Coaching Ltd for more of their news, events and workshops!

Airwaves Parkour Night

Airwaves Big Box Parkour Night
29.08.07 | 30.08.07

“Always take a breath”, the motto guilty this year on the 29th and 30th August. David Belle the founder of the Worldwide Parkour movement in the capital of Germany.

Brief Event Info

When:
29. August 2007 - Airwaves Big Box Parkour Night, from 18:00 Pm 30. August 2007 - Airwaves Big Box Parkour Workshop, from 10:00 Am

Where:
Berlin, at the tube Station [in German: U-Bahnstation] Bundestag under the Reichstag

More information and details about the sequence of events will follow soon on the Homepages myparkour.com . Already you can secure you place at the evening event on the 29.08 and the Workshop on the 30.08. Just send an E-Mail (Just English or German please) to be registered (Minimum age: 14).

mailto: meeting@myparkour.com

In a breathtaking production, David Belle and his Crew in Cooperation with the Parkour Association Germany and the Austrian Parkour Association will make Parkour to never before seen experience.

Nut just the type of production will be spectacular. Many other Traceur’s will be in Action at the Airwaves Big Box Parkour Night.

The Company Wrigley together with the Parkour Association Germany chose the tube line 55 (still sleeping) under the Reichstag in Berlin for the Airwaves Big Box Parkour Night, this location will offer Traceur’s a wide range of new and interesting obstacles.

Find your way to Berlin!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

It was a year ago today that we decided to set up this quaint little blog we call the SaiyanGarden. It was our good friend Dale who encouraged us to get a blog saying "Think, in a year from now you can look back and so how far you have come." But its been more than that, its allowed us to keep up with Mogli's events in Austria, and its given us a place to have a moan without it being moderated. Its also meant we have kept in touch with all our good traceur friends around the country and the world and kept us just about visible on the parkour radar. lol
Anyway hopefully this next year we'll post a little more. If anyone wants to see what we've been ranting on about this year past; it's all there in the archives.
Hopefully see everyone soon
Blake
ps: Hi again to all the people we met at the Trace Gathering, if we didn't trade numbers there drop us a message and we'll hook up and practise.
Peace SaiyanClan

Parkour Coaching with the Yamakasi

It all kicked off on Sunday the 13th May in Kilburn at St Augustine's School, with the Parkour Coaching Seminar Hosted by Forrest, Dan and Stephane. It was the first time we've been able to jump on a bus straight from Edgware to practise with some of the top traceurs from France and the UK. On the way to the event, we met up with a good friend of ours, Thomas who was strolling along with Dan, Stephane, Kazuma, Laurent, Yann and also Seb Goudot and Cisco who we hadn't seen since our adventure to Lisses. When we arrived at the school we we're surrounded by familiar faces including The TCT, Blane, DC, The Brads from WWJ, Jason, Liv, and Bachelerius.
The day was packed with conditioning and drills which judging by everyones faces and the volume of sweat on the floor, was as killer for everyone as it was for us. Some of the highlights of the day were: Bobby and Kazuma sliding backwards while doing the splits under a gym horse, which was well fuckin cool; the circuit which consisted of underbars through the various levels of apparatus which we hadn't used since school days. Having some one on one coaching from Yann Hnautra and getting some insight into how he and the others train was really inspiring, but it was clear that they we're more accustomed to outdoor training, as Seb said there are limits to indoor practise.
The cool down at the end was tougher than the warm up, which gave us a sneaky suspicion that Forrest and Dan were intent on pushing everyone to their limits. All in all a brilliant day, well worth the bus fare lol.
Thanks to Parkour Coaching Ltd for setting it all up, and thanks to DC for the heads up. For a full wite up on the day click here.