Niko Pal is the Director and head coach at Parkour Vision’s Portland program. He started Parkour in 2010, began teaching in 2012 and has made it his career ever since. Niko earned his B.S. from Portland State University in 2015, where he dual

#067 - Molly Courtney | "If Parkour is For Everyone, Why Doesn't Everyone Want to Do It?

May 30th, 2023 10m 59s

Molly has many jobs and titles. She's a parkour coach, a business owner, a Certified Personal Trainer, a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and a mom of three! She started as a coach in training at a gymnastics summer camp 23 y

#066 - Justin Taylor | How to Run a Members-Only Competition

May 23rd, 2023 11m 54s

Justin Taylor is the Owner of Firestorm Freerunning, which has two gyms in Southern California. Justin, along side Summer Sampilo, runs the West Coast Parkour Championships, the largest Parkour competition series in the U.S. Justin goes by @P

#065 - Garrett Moore | Parkour & Politics

May 16th, 2023 8m 44s

Garrett Moore is originally from San Diego and brings experience training across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He finds peace and community through parkour, running, yoga, and rock climbing. Garrett is passionate abo

#064 - Eric Rossi | Preschool Parkour

May 9th, 2023 8m 45s

Eric Rossi is a parkour coach and preschool teacher in Hillsboro, Oregon. Eric began his parkour journey in 2005 and has since worked with many different organizations to develop his coaching craft. He helped develop the toddler and preschool

#063 - Charles St.John | Quick Wins for Business Online Presence

May 2nd, 2023 12m 59s

Charles St. John is in the fortunate position of combining is personal passions with his professional skills. Through the combination of his degrees in Digital Media, Communications, and Business Administration plus his long-time passion of c

#062 - Adam McClellan | Double Your Profits, Double Your Fun

Apr 25th, 2023 9m 33s

Adam’s business experience comes from his parkour journey, as well as his professional journey outside of parkour. In addition to being a Director at Parkour Generations Americas and the owner of Parkour Generations Lehigh Valley, Adam also w

#061 Jimmy Davidson | Inescapable Fundamentals of Business

Apr 18th, 2023 7m 42s

Jimmy Davidson is the Founder and CEO of Freedom in Motion inc. which has three parkour gyms in southern California. Jimmy began his parkour career performing live around the country in 2010. He's since shifted his focus to building a profita

#060 - Jesse Danger | Embrace Challenge

Apr 11th, 2023 8m 18s

Jesse Danger Co-founded the Movement Creative, an organization centered around helping people develop a healthier relationship to movement through the exploration of risk and the development of creativity. He is a coach focused on connecting

#059 - Elizabeth Cunningham | Self-Advocacy

Apr 6th, 2023 9m 44s

Elizabeth Cunningham started practicing yoga with her mom when she was 13. She loves yoga because it has been an opportunity for her to connect her mind to her body and challenge herself in ways other activities haven’t. She loves teaching an

#058 - Sam Mcfarlane | Art of Retreat LIVES

Aug 2nd, 2020 1h 12m

Sam Mcfarlane is a parkour athlete turned circus professional from Glasgow. Like many others he found Parkour back in the days of 'Jump London' and 'Jump Britain'. Since then Sam has made himself a career out of movement and has been a full t

#057 - Sebastien Foucan | Art of Retreat LIVES

Aug 1st, 2020 1h 13m

Sebastien Foucan was among the pioneers of parkour in Paris in the 1980s. As a teenager who struggled at school and had difficulties at home, climbing, jumping, running, playing and interacting with the landscape became an escape for him and

#056 - Damien Puddle | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 31st, 2020 1h 13m

Damien started training in 2008 after making friends with Barnz (arguably NZ's first practitioner) who was in the same Sport and Exercise Science degree. Damien turned his excitement for parkour towards his studies to make it more practical a

#055 - Kel Glaister | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 30th, 2020 1h 13m

Kelley Glaister has been coaching parkour since 2014, mostly in Scotland (her favourite place in the universe) and has been arguing with Hedge about incivility and diversity in some form or the other for even longer than that. She moved back

#054 - Charlotte Boenigk | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 29th, 2020 1h

Charlotte Boenigk is a yoga-loving, aerial-silks-dabbling, triathlon-trying, freerunning, weight-training girly-girl and the director of Free Your Instinct. FYI is a charity that helps those with mental health support needs by delivering park

#053 - Nina Ballantyne & Caitlin Pontrella | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 28th, 2020 1h 9m

Nina Ballantyne is Scotland's favourite Parkour Gran. She sometimes teaches Parkour for fun but mostly lobbies government(s) to make changes to social security, housing and employment, where they’re needed most. Nina’s a director at Parkour O

#052 - Craig Constantine | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 27th, 2020 1h 9m

Craig Constantine is a student of Art du Déplacement, podcaster, blogger, avid reader, casual mountain-bike cyclis, programmer, system administrator, and problem solver. It's clear that he lives a busy life. Craig is most famous in the parkou

#051 - Chris Keighley | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 26th, 2020 1h 17m

Christopher Keighley is a senior coach at Parkour Generations and serves as board member of both ParkourUK and Parkour Earth. With his extensive travels across the world, Chris is heavily involved in parkour internationally. He's probably bes

#050 - Mark Toorock | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 25th, 2020 1h 23m

Mark Toorock is the founder and CEO of American Parkour and a director of the United States Parkour Association. With an early career in finance and technology - Mark discovered Parkour while living in London in 2003 helping define the discip

#049 - Brandee Laird | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 24th, 2020 1h 16m

Brandee is a humanimal who has been practicing parkour since 2006. She has over ten years of teaching experience with the non-profit organization Parkour Visions and has led classes, seminars, and collaborated with parkour communities and org

#048 - Alan Tran | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 23rd, 2020 1h 3m

Alan Tran is a parkour coach and collaborator from Raleigh, NC in the US. At the start of practicing parkour in 2006, Alan knew he wanted to dedicate his efforts towards sharing the practice and its values. He immediately started an online fo

#047 - Barbora Red and Janne 'Jax' Laurila | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 22nd, 2020 1h 4m

Barbora Red is the operations manager for a large company in London as well as the operations manager for Parkour Generations London. With a decade of experience working in the world of business, she brings all sorts of lessons from the ‘real

#046 - Ševo Saša | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 21st, 2020 58m 50s

Ševo Saša is the founder of the world famous Skochypstiks brand. A handmade brand from Serbia. He has been a driving force of parkour / Art Du Deplacement development in the Balkan peninsula since 2005 and has dedicated his life to inspire, t

#045 - Christopher Grant | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 20th, 2020 1h 24m

How do we create strong and resilient individuals with parkour? Chris is from the first wave of UK parkour practitioners inspired by Jump London in 2004. He has been fundamental in the growth of parkour in Scotland and a champion of using par

#044 - Isabel Andrews & Caitlin Pontrella | Art of Retreat LIVES

Jul 19th, 2020 1h 10m

Isabel Andrews and Caitlin Pontrella explore public attitudes towards parkour and its practitioners using public spaces and how both art and play may relate. Tune into this episode for a conversation on art, parkour, and public perception.Isa