18th July '16: Summer Update!

Hi all, real quick update to restate the summer schedule details and add a little more information which will continue through/on to our social media sites and classes/booking page of the website shortly.

Please remember: During our Hadleigh Park Classes, the Parkour area will be closed to the general public for the duration of the class.

We have class changes/additions from the 23rd July with summer schedule officially launching on the 27th July: See below for details:

From the 23rd July:

Saturday: Adult (16+) Beginners Class at Hadleigh Park - 9am start 
NEW WEEKLY CLASS continuing past summer!

From the 27th July:

Wednesday 27th July:
Adult (16+) Outdoor Class - Southend -7pm - Meet at Southend Vic (As usual)

Thursday 28th July:
Hadleigh Park Sessions - Book via: www.hadleigh-park.co.uk (Booking available soon)

Friday 29th July: 
- Junior Beginners (8-15 years) - Hadleigh Park, 10am.
- Junior Foundations (8-15 years) - Hadleigh Park 12pm (Must have been invited by coach from beginners)
- Junior Intermediates (8-15 years) - Meeting at Southend Civic Centre 2:30pm (Must have been invited by coach from beginners/foundations)

From Tuesday 2nd August:
- ParkLives with Active Southend - "Parkour in the Park" - 10:30am - Chalkwell Park (Targeting ages 12-24) 
- Tiny Traceurs (5-7) Chalkwell Hall Junior School -  From 1:30pm - 

Except for our adult classes, all other classes will cease by the 3rd September and our Term Time schedule will start back up on the week commencing 12th September 2016

29th June - Summer, sessions and savings.

We've just sent out an important newsletter update with details regarding our summer schedule which is now available for booking and some other important news about a few class changes over this and next week.

Click here to view and read it online! - http://app.mailerlite.com/s2x7j5

Don't forget, you can save 15% on across our range of summer classes when booking 4 or more classes together via our website/booking system.

To summarise here's what summer is looking like so far:

July:

Wednesday: Adult Outdoor Class - 7pm - 9pm Meet @ Southend Victoria
Thursday: Parkour sessions as a part of Hadleigh Park's Summer Activities. Visit their website for info.
Friday: Junior Beginners - 10am - 11:30am | Junior Foundations 12:00pm - 1:30pm @ Hadleigh Park - Junior Intermediates - 2:30pm - 4:00pm @ Southend.
Saturday: Adult Beginners Class - 9:00am - 10:30am @ Hadleigh Park (From 23rd July)

August:

Tuesday: Active Southend "Parkour in the Park" sessions - 10:30am - 12pm
Wednesday: Adult Outdoor Class - 7pm - 9pm Meet @ Southend Victoria
Thursday: Parkour sessions as a part of Hadleigh Park's Summer Activities. Visit their website for info.
Friday: Junior Beginners 10am - 11:30am | Junior Foundations 12:00pm - 1:30pm @ Hadleigh Park | Junior Intermediates 2:30pm - 4:00pm @ Southend: meet at Civic Centre area.
Saturday: Adult Beginners Class - 9:00am - 10:30am @ Hadleigh Park

As a note to make all users of Hadleigh Parkour Park aware, during arranged class times delivered by Southend Parkour and Hadleigh Park, the Parkour Training will be closed to the general public with only lass students having access.

Changes this/next week!

There are no Junior Classes running this Friday 1st July due to the ParkLives Launch event taking place in Chalkwell Park, feel free to join us in an open training opportunity around the Chalkwell Park Skatepark and nearby areas. Tuesday July 5th's Junior Class will not be running due to the first ParkLives session taking place at Chalkwell Park. Apologies for these changes.

More to come!
We've plenty of other exciting opportunities and events lined up which will be shared via the website and our social media channels so again, don't forget to like, follow and subscribe!

25th May 2016: Hadleigh Parkour Park opening and tips for learning.

Ahead of the official opening of the Parkour Park in Hadleigh, I wanted to share a few thoughts for people who may be new or who have had little or no Parkour coaching. For many, this Park will be a first exposure to Parkour, so understanding more about the practice, it's training and how to use these types of environments, may help to learn safely, reduce risk and have fun.

In a positive learning environment; No-one would expect that because you have a bike and can ride it, you're ready to take the most difficult mountain bike route, on the same note, Parkour also needs time from its practitioners to learn, developing skills to prepare safely for the challenges ahead.

In order to aid safe learning and progression accessing the site, here a few points which should aid in keeping you safer and help you develop the fundamentals of Parkour movement: 

• Low: Staying lower to the ground greatly reduces the risk related injury. Working on moving under obstacles develops spatial awareness, hand-foot coordination and controlled movement skills, essential for all other movements.
• Slow: Reducing speed allows for you to have an ongoing feedback loop, able to learn and adapt your movement as it happens. Moving too fast, too soon often ends with movement with little understanding of what happened; reducing possible learning opportunities. As an example, running, jumping and swinging are high momentum and generally faster movements which automatically increases risk.
• Keep it simple: Parkour is about doing simple things very well, get from one point to another and work to make that more effective. Being able to do simple movements well and consistently will develop the physical skills and understanding to progress onwards safely. 

Each single effective movement may just last a second, but is made of hours and hours of high quality practice.

We will be working closely with Hadleigh Park to provide beginners coaching sessions to help those new and interested across all ages to learn Parkour, alongside content to help learning both in and outside of coached sessions, keep up to date via www.southendparkour.com/news and www.hadleigh-park.co.uk - You can also sign up to our newsletter for news straight to your inbox here: https://goo.gl/1RSkmW

Be safe and train smart and see you at the park!

9th May '16 - May changes and summer schedule to follow.

No classes will be running on Thursday 26th due to a training course attendance in London, apologies for any inconvenience caused. On Monday 30th May (Bank Holiday), no "Explore Parkour" classes will be running due to the Hadleigh Park Parkour opening! Visit www.fb.com/southendparkour for the event page and details.

Hadleigh Parkour Park - Grand opening! - Event link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1771255953104680/

If you are new to Parkour and looking to join our classes, from the 10/5/16 you will need to join our beginners session: "Explore Parkour" which will run on a Monday night from the 16th May 2016. This is to ensure each student has a good foundational level of movement and understanding before tackling our weekly foundations classes. Details can be found via the link below.

The schedule as it stands will be running up to the summer holidays and then our summer schedule will kick in at new locations across the local area. Details to follow.

Timetable and new weekly schedule from next week available via www.southendparkour.com/classes