Happy New Year

How NOT to use parkour tonight.

We welcome the New Year as the dawn of a Golden Age for parkour in Southland. Have a safe and Happy New Year everyone!

Farewell and thanks.

After years of good service Martini Miller leaves us for the mean streets of Wellington. The community down South would not be where it is today without his gentle guidance. We hear Wellington has slightly more gradient (and resulting built-up area) than Invercargill so we assume the move will suit him to a 't'. Best of luck Martini.

We are pleased to offer you

We just mailed 10 letters informing members of our new management board that their job applications were successful. We already had a committee or Board of Directors and now we will have a second board of people to actually do the work!
Thankfully the fact that none of the positions come with a pay-check doesn't seem to bother any of them.

Instructor David Tressler running new recruits through some of the teaching techniques he learnt at national instructor training in Hamilton last week.

We're Official!

20 November 2012 marks an exciting day for Parkour Southland. We see it as a 'coming of age' of sorts, as we extend the gift of parkour to more and more Southlanders. New modes of operation mean new benefits and challenges for us (e.g. website hosting is now free for us but now we need to audit our accounts). We plan to throw a celebration in the coming week so keep your ears tuned for details.

Open Day success!

The high turnout of existing members and visiting regions (Te Anau, Dunedin, Gore) and families of traceurs made for a fantastic day, despite a mediocre turn-out from the public.
Many of those who walked in off the street, or were meeting us for the first time, followed through and attended Monday Beginners Class with Martini.
Big thanks to all of those who were involved.

Word around town is...

A red A1 poster promoting obesity beside 3 A3 posters promoting fitness.

Going Viral

7 of the 9 TeAnau residents leaving town for a weekend's parkour in the big metropolis of Invercargill.

I have heard mention of these guys training in their home by two separate lots of visitors within the past week, plenty of upcoming talent.

Come one, come all

Ever wanted to give parkour a go or watch someone do it in real life?

We would love to see you on November 4th

Email you queries to info@parkoursouthland.co.nz 

Website launched.

A brief, pilot version Parkour Southland site is live now, -enjoy.

Te Anau

Te Anau traceurs surveying the big city with their Invercargill counterparts.

We know of two centers in Southland that have active communities of parkour practitioners: Invercargill and Te Anau. If you ask what terrain they have to train on back home the reply is usually: "We have the rock, and the wall". Last week they hopped in their vehicle and came to bask in the obstacles Invercargill has on offer for a couple of days. Good times were had by all.

Social creatures

The Social Team ran a very successful get-together last Tuesday night taking over a dozen traceurs/traceuses in from the cold to watch Jump London featuring free-running figure -Sebastien Foucan. Good job, I'm already looking forward to the next monthly installment.

Dear Area Tactical Manager, cc: Area Commander

Olaf Jensen

Lane Todd

I am in the middle of writing these two fine fellows a letter requesting more mingling between our two organisations, theirs so well resourced, ours so puny. The theme is 'building a positive relationship'; looking very much forward to their response.

Tautuku Recreation/Adventure centre

Just waiting to hear back form the chairperson of a Curio Bay workgroup in regards to a fundraising/volunteering opportunity at a derelict obstacle course in the Catlins. I've been on it before, deep in the bush, and am excited about the idea of taking a van up for the night at Tautoko lodge to work on this.

Philosophy

The debate got fairly heated at some points.

Extra, extra! Read all about it

Karyn has been very busy behind the scenes and secured a reporter from the Southland Times to take an interest in our progress. Instead of us contacting papers willy nilly and hoping for positive reporting we could talk to our guy who would know our background and be less likely to write something damaging.

Whanau Brownies release date

One of our latest initiatives 'Whanau Brownies' is set to be released June 10th.
What is it?
Whanau Brownies is a 'you-scratch-my-back-i'll-scratch-yours' system to earn brownie points with our immediate communities, in particular our families, and build a great reputation.
A simple chart lets people know whats happening and keeps track of each persons time input to reward them fairly.
Basically your points build up the more often you help out; whoever has the most points each month has first choice of what we do (say, help their granddad tear down a shed) then their points are reset back to zero. You can play as big or little part as you feel like.
You can find it on our wikispace http://parkoursouthland.wikispaces.com

What's in a name?

We are pleased to announce Invercargill Parkour has been re-branded

Parkour Southland 

to better reflect our new direction.

Philosophy circle launched

This sunday marks the launch of one of Parkour Southland's latest initiatives; the Philosophy Circle where our best minds meet to advance, challenge and deepen our understandings. You can find details under the 'monthly events' section.

Online at last

Our new temporary website is being launched today you can find it at http://parkoursouthland.wikispaces.com 

*Note: this is not a draft for how the website will look at all.
*Note: this site is not for the public so do not refer those who aren't part of Parkour Southland here.

*Note: the content items are drafts at the moment. If you want to have your say on how these develop get on our google docs.

Congratulations

The first ever Council of Elders (supervisory board) was held on Thursday signaling a brave new era for Parkour in Southland.

David Tressler (our founder) has been elected as President (commonly referred to as Mufasa-Shakunga)

Ranan Feit has been elected as Vice President.

Terry Guyton has been appointed Managing Director

You made it here :)

Nau mai, haere mai.

This is it; the place where you can stay up to date about progress here at Parkour Southland