6 National Federations, including NZ Parkour – Tauhōkai Aotearoa, reached an accord on the 4th July 2017 to establish Parkour Earth as the International Federation for Parkour/Freerunning/Art Du Déplacement. We are excited to announce that Parkour Earth has now officially launched and we want to invite other national federations to join us in protecting the […]

Dear President Watanabe, On behalf of the New Zealand Parkour Association, we are writing to you in response to recent press releases from Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) concerning the ‘development of a related FIG discipline’ based on parkour. Please see the attached open letter that confirms our solidarity with the stance taken by Parkour […]

Recently I was invited to speak at the Agenda 2020 Action Sport Symposium at the University of Waikato. The symposium was hosted by Professors Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton (who happen to be my PhD supervisors). You can watch the whole video here. The focus of the event was on experiences and trends of action sports […]

Parkour Landing Research #2 The results of our initial research project showed that traceurs should continue to employ parkour style landing landing strategies (precision landings and rolls) rather than traditional toe-heel landings. We then wanted to find out what the differences were between traceurs and non-traceurs and do some preliminary investigation into the relationship between landing […]

The difference between policy and education* The Health and Safety Reform Bill is currently before parliament (see more here and here). This reform to the current health and safety in employment act is taking place in an attempt to reduce workplace injury and death by 25% by 2020. That’s a worthy goal, a goal that everyone should support. […]

Parkour Landing Research In 2013, our CEO’s first research paper – Ground reaction forces and loading rates associated with parkour and traditional drop landing techniques – was published in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. The inspiration for this research project was the experience of parkour practitioners in NZ and around the world; traceurs whose stories all […]

NZ Parkour Injury Research Injuries occur in all physical pursuits, especially those that are more dynamic, like parkour. However, the public often assume that parkour is very dangerous. The NZ Parkour teams personal experiences are not completely injury free, but we’ve not sustained the quantity or intensity of injuries that people presume we’ve had. We wanted […]

Expanding on our shoe reviews we’re looking at some specialty items that may or may not be suitable for use in Parkour. In this review we put an Orange Mud Hydraquiver to the test to see if it is adaptable to our style of training. It was designed for trail and endurance runners as an alternative […]

The 7th national parkour gathering is in Hamilton this Waitangi long weekend. You can find the official press release here.

We’re starting a new video series on our YouTube channel called Let’s Play. There are so many different ways to train parkour, and every time we train with a different group of people or train in a new city our eyes are opened afresh to new ways (or old ways we’ve forgotten) of training our bodies and […]