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3rd Female Parkour Meeting – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sol, calor e muitas mulheres mostrando o seu amor e a sua evolução no parkour. Dias de diversão e muitos treinos aos que participaram do 3° Encontro Feminino de Parkour,... -
Parkour: A love-hate relationship
By Therese Gunnarsson If you really hated an activity you were doing would you consider continuing? As many others I had a preconceived thought about parkour (read my earlier post:... -
How to balance 101
By Erica Nicole Madrid Hey, so I had a friend recently, Miss Taryn Nesbitt, who suggested to me that I make a workout and diet plan and put it up... -
Response to ‘Gender Binarism and the Wilful Abjection of the Traceur’
By Kelley Glaister I recently came across Andy Tran’s essay Gender Binarism and the Wilful Abjection of the Traceur, and decided to write a response to it. Considering several years... -
Invisible yet important
By Shi. We all do it, no matter our age, gender or nationality. It can change every second but often falls into a rhythm. It can be short, fast, long... -
Trusting myself
By Caroline Goes from ES, Brazil. One weekly training and one of those movements where your mind holds your body back. Yes, I was there without courage to try to... -
Being the only girl in a training group
By Hannah Johns. This article was taken from a post in a discussion about the gender imbalance in parkour. Here, Hannah shares her ideas on how to encourage more female... -
A preconceived thought
By Therese Gunnarsson, Uppsala Parkour, Sweden ‘I will never dare’, ‘I don’t have the strength’, ‘I’m going to be the worst one’ and the list goes on with excuses.... -
Making girls jam
The tales I tell to make girls jump and other assorted ramblings By Shi. As 2009 draws to a close, it’s been more than a year since I started Girls’... -
Getting involved in media work
What the parkour/free running athlete should be aware of when starting out in film production By Julie Angel, interviewed by Shi. One Sunday afternoon in Southbank London, I sat down... -
The Zen Discipline of Accepting Myself through Acts of Being Ballsy
By Cordelia Storm Bickford. I’m standing on the edge of the cliff. Sunlight in my eyes, waves crashing through my ear drums. I look below, thirty feet until Hawaiian... -
Traceuse stereotypes
As women in a male-dominated discipline, female stereotypes are a literal minefield that every woman has experienced. This quiz aims to get you questioning what defines the characteristics of a... -
Parkour and Preganancy – 2nd trimester
By Sharon “Sola” Merchant Edited by Shi The second trimester Well… 2 down and 1 to go. The second trimester is over and I think it can be best... -
Traceuse communities
Movement and strength in its many forms and manifestations is beautiful. Opposing qualities of movement, the push and pull, rise and fall, the advance and the retreat, are equally important... -
Parkour and the Female Practitioner
by Thomas Couetdic Parkour has been spreading like the wind to all the corners of the world – in a worryingly uncontrolled way some would say – but bringing together... -
Where to start
A conditioning article by Janine Cundy Run, tac, grab the ledge, muscle up. Repeat. Run, dive, kong, land, run, repeat. Run, jump, stick, repeat. All of these elementary... -
Parkour and Pregnancy 1st trimester
By Sharon “Sola” Merchant. As part of our Mums & Parkour series of articles, new mother and traceuse Sola writes about her personal experiences during the 1st trimester of her... -
Evolution
By Tania Sanchez “Ixek”. Today sitting here in front of my computer supposedly doing schoolwork, I paused to think about the article that I was writing right before this one... -
Girls and Parkour
By Ann Kaczka The decision to begin conditioning and training is an easier commitment for guys to make because, in many cases, they already have an armor of fitness... -
Gender Binarism and the Willful Abjection of the Traceur
By Andy Tran. Despite Parkour culture recognizing that Parkour itself is a means of locomotion for all able-bodied human beings, regardless of sex, there has been no attempt at deconstructing... -
Can women practise parkour?
By Sharon “Sola” Merchant In many countries around the world, the role of women both in society and sport has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. Women are becoming... -
Parkour: Issues of Gender
By Andy Tran. Introduction It is rather unfortunately true that Parkour, as of now, is a culture that is predominantly male in participation. While recent pushes toward equal sexual representation...