Parkour in Glasgow
Glasgow Parkour Coaching
Be sure to visit the website and Facebook page of our mates at Glasgow Parkour Coaching, for information on the classes they run, women only and mixed, outdoor and in. While you’re at it, check out Zeno’s tumblr, for some ace photos.
International Women’s Day Parkour Clamjamfrie
Glasgow Parkour Girls is proud to host the UK’s first women’s parkour event. To find out more details, keep an eye out on the Clamjamfrie blog. Click here to buy tickets, t-shirts or jumpers.
Parkour in other parts of Scotland
As far as we are aware there aren’t many women’s only parkour classes in Scotland. However there are plenty of mixed classes and jams going on at which girls are of course welcome. There is a facebook group for Scottish parkour women (please only join if you are a woman interested in parkour in Scotland).
Edinburgh Parkour and Access Parkour
Edinburgh has had a long jam culture through Edinburgh Parkour, which you can find out about here: http://ed-pk.com/. As of January 2014, Access Parkour will be launching and bringing classes to Edinburgh. You can check them out here: http://www.accessparkour.com/
Fife Parkour Coaching(St Andrews, Kirkcaldy, Methil)
These guys run a series of classes for both youth and adults practitioners across Fife. Details can be found on their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FifeParkour
Frevolution Parkour Inverness
Plenty of classes going on in Inverness and you get to train at a castle which is pretty cool. They hosted a highly successful Highland Gathering in 2013, and there are plans to make it a yearly event. Details here: http://www.freevolutionpk.com/
Coatbridge Parkour
Again Coatbridge is also really busy with lots of classes going on and they also have a nice wee parkour park too. Check out their facebook page for information: http://www.facebook.com/CoatbridgeParkour?fref=ts
Northen Focus Parkour Shetland
Shetland has a really large female community and plenty of beautiful spots and places to train. They host the annual Shetland Parkour Experience, which allows practitioners a weekend of training with some of the best coaches in the UK, in an amazing location. You can find out more about them at http://www.facebook.com/groups/northernfocus/
Aberdeen Parkour
Aberdeen also has a nice community with regular youth and adult classes and also a conditioning class. They are, at the moment, the only other community with a girls’ class. Details here http://www.aberdeenparkour.co.uk/
Roots of Movement
This is an organisation that promotes and supports Parkour across Scotland, so visit their website and like the Facebook page too. Every year they run Scotland’s largest national gathering, also called Roots of Movement.
Other Links and people that we like
Glasgow Roller Derby – Support another female urban sport. They have regular bouts and training sessions and it really is the most amazing thing to watch
Crossfit Glasgow – A place where lots of girls are training to get strong in Glasgow
Girl Parkour – Probably the fullest and most complete resource of girls doing Parkour
PKG Women – A Facebook group for women training in London
A sport or athletic activity in which the participant seeks to move quickly and fluidly through an area, often an urban locale, by surmounting obstacles such as walls and railings and leaping across open spaces, as in a stairwell or between buildings.
Thanks! Interesting posting, and i’m total agree. Hope to see more 🙂