By Isa.
Location: Simon Bolivar Park, Bogota Colombia
The activity: simultaneous girls’ jam all over the country, Saturday, a sunny day fortunately. The places: in Bogota, the Simon Bolivar park, a place to find lots of obstacles from natural to urban ones; in Pasto, another city the children park and in Piedecuesta, in the Cataluña Park all of them with one purpouse: to live and to share the experience of training Parkour. familiar faces were approaching and new ones too, about 19 girls in Bogota, 2 in Pasto and 5 in Piedecuesta.
The main idea about it was to share our experience as girls and women who train parkour, and it was really done! I’m happy about it. We started the activity with the basic physical training exercises, moved the joints in circles (starting with the feet passing through knees, hips, wrist, elbows, shoulders and neck), then the stretching exercises (starting with the neck and going down until get to the feet).
Then we ran for about 10 minutes to do the cardio session and got ready for the warm-up session which started with squats. We always do 2 kinds of squats, ones with the feet together and the other with our feet shoulder-width apart and hold at the end of the series. After that, we made abs exercises with 10 reps of each kind (we made 5 kinds of abs’ exercises) then did the arm strength exercises.
Afterwards we continuted to the simulated warming session, it consists of making movements to warm the specific muscles that we are going to use during our specific activity. We started with the warm-ups for precision jumps where we made series of 5 calf raises and jumping to the next stair’s step to make 5 feet-together squats, after it jumping to the next step to make 5 feet shoulder-width squats and repeated it until we finished going up all the stairs’ steps, and when we had finished, made 20 reps of rope jumping. After it, balancing mixed with one-footed squats, and for dessert we did quadrupedal movements and saut de chat and speeds on the steps we were working on. We drank some masato (a delicious drink made with rice) to refresh ourselves.
Then we worked on basic parkour movements, so we look for the rolling technique. after it we made simple landing and then landing on uneven levels, we mixed the 3 movements jumping from a step then making a simple landing and finishing with a roll. We also worked on getting the most advantage we could on pops so we worked them running into a step and jumping on one foot and tried to not go directly forward, besides that we worked the idea of making a parabola through the jump so we could have a better landing.
After all these basics we went through the park stopping in different points to work movements as speeds, saut de chat, predisions, we learnt to climb up on a huge tree we found in the park ( trust me the complicated part wasn’t going up it was getting down 
) then we ate pop corn with guava juice (yummiii!!!) to recharge energies and keep training, then we went to the cascade, (ohhh it is such a place!!! ) we worked really awesome things on it: planches, pops, saut de bras, precisions).
Then a park’s watchman came to tell us that we couldn’t jump in there, that it was dangerous, and it wasnt made for it (if he practiced parkour I’m sure he really could realize about how awesome is that place for training). So we went to the park’s administrator to talk with the manager of the place… after 15 minutes talking we got to an agreement so we moved of the cascade and went to the parcourse and ate cookies and soda. We still had lots of energy after eating so we trained there too.
Finishing at 6 pm it was a really great experience to have, a much needed one to share, to orient, to learn. A starting point for some of the girls and a point in the evolution or other girls. Thanks a lot to everyone who supported it… to the girls who came!! To the boys who took pictures and told us jokes!! To the mothers who came to jump and to watch and to everyone in this parkour world and who knows that this is not a thing of night to morning, that it’s about knowing ourselves and to enjoy the evolution we are having as traceurs and traceuses and as people. More than 30th of May and more than the places we were training there were us, living and sharing.
PKGirlz is is a group to exchange, share and to tell traceuses’ experiences and a project of the FamiliaAire organization, the concept of it, is to work in cause of the women’s physical education about parkour and free running. The traceuses are young women of many ages, basing their training and philosophy in parkour and local groups as Legion Del Mandril, Monkey’s School and Familiare.
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