The Parkour UK Podcast

PKUK Pod #7 - Rich Cobbld & Callun Lavington

This episode is centered around Rich Cobbold, a father or two who discovered Parkour through his kids and has become extremely invested in the sport. He gives a fantastic sales pitch of Parkour’s benefits, from his personal health to providing a space for children with learning difficulties. Callun also speaks on his recent project of mapping out every Parkour Park in the UK and provides some key insights from his many years in the sport.
 
Callun & Rich's Parkour Gym: https://www.crawleyparkour.org/
 
Callun's instagram with his movement and informative Parkour content: https://www.instagram.com/callunparkour/
 
Jump over to our website for information on how to start Parkour and all the latest from our amazing community: https://parkour.uk
 
 

PKUK Pod #6 - Klaus Guip

As the leader of London’s most prominent Parkour team, Team Phat; Klaus gets into the nitty gritty of what it’s like to pursue a career as a Parkour team through coaching, content and commercial work. We also get into his impressive mindset around training, some funny travel stories and he gives some great tips for young athletes starting out.
 
You can find Klaus' movement here: https://www.instagram.com/klaus.phat/
 
And the Team Phat Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Phatofficial
 
Jump over to our website for information on how to start Parkour and all the latest from our amazing community: https://parkour.uk

PKUK Pod #5 - Beau Kendall

At nearly 60 years of age and still a weapon of an athlete, Beau tells the story of how he fell in love with Parkour in his late 40’s, was taken in by the young Run LDN crew as one of their own, and had the whole community rally behind a crowdfunder for him when he got injured recently and was out of work. Beau is an incredible example of a high-level middle-aged Parkour athlete and has made great progress in changing the way people look at the sport, as well as inspiring those who think they’re ‘too old’ for Parkour.
 
'The 47 Year old Freerunner' video on Beau from 2013: https://youtu.be/eqN5F2V3oCo
 
Jump over to our website for information on how to start Parkour and all the latest from our amazing community: https://parkour.uk
 
 
 

PKUK Pod #4 - Charlotte Blake

In this mental health awareness week episode, Charlotte Blake comes on to talk about her fantastic work using Parkour as a tool to support those struggling with mental health. We cover her work as the CEO of Esprit Concrete, and her recent PHD. Podcast Co-host Callun Lavington also shares some of his own personal mental health experience and what he learned from his journey.
Find out more about Esprit Concrete or book a session here: https://espritconcrete.com/esprit-concrete-method/
Jump over to our website for information on how to start Parkour and all the latest from our amazing community: https://parkour.uk
 

PKUK Pod #3 - Flora Labedens

In this inspiring episode Flora tells the incredible story of how she stopped training,gained weight and lost a lot of her self-confidence in a very difficult period of her life...Before turning it all around to become the most prominent female Parkour athlete in London!
 
You can find Flora's movement here: https://www.instagram.com/floralabedens/
 
Or her and Ellie's vlogs here: https://www.youtube.com/@fnlpk
 
Jump over to our website for information on how to start Parkour and all the latest from our amazing community: https://parkour.uk
 

PKUK Pod #2 - Jay Clark

From breaking world firsts and being invited to events around the world, to dealing with injuries and taking breaks from the sport. In this episode we had a lot of fun reminiscing with Jay about the height of his career and what it looked like to be pushing the limits as one of the absolute best Parkour athletes in the world. 
 
You can find Jay Clark here: https://www.instagram.com/jaydnclark
 
The old school RUN LDN videos can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@runldnDemo
 
Jump over to our website for information on how to start Parkour and all the latest from our amazing community: https://parkour.uk
 

PKUK Pod #1 - Supa XXL Squad

Four key figures from the SUPA XXL Sunday training group (the largest and most consistent regular Parkour jam in the UK) come on to talk about how their group became so successful, the YARD DIY undercover spot project and the SUPA XXL awards.
Come down to the SUPA Awards in London on the 15th of March!
All Supa XXL and awards info can be found here: https://linktr.ee/sundaysupaxxl
Jump over to our website for information on how to start Parkour and all the latest from our amazing community: https://parkour.uk
 

Parkour UK's Participant Survey Report | 2023/24

Over December 2023 and January 2024, Parkour UK's connecting communities team conducted a survey to gain some further insight into the UK parkour community. The idea of this survey was to gain insight into the interest the UK parkour community has on both coaching and competition.
The survey gave us some insight on age and geographic data.
It is worth noting that a sample size of 100 people is very small, and as such, we are not looking to generalise with this report.
The results of this survey have now been published, and can be accessed by clicking the link below.
Read the Report: https://parkour.uk/2023-participant-survey/
Watch the Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Ny_cM3qHk
 

Designing an App For PARKOUR! | The Parkour UK Podcast

In today's episode, we sit down with Matthew, David, and Andrew, who are the masterminds developing the "Spottmapp" parkour app. 
Spotmapp has already seen success this year, being involved in a number of takeover styled competitions that have been happening throughout the UK. 
In this episode, we talk about what Spotmapp is, how much it costs to develop an app, and what are the struggles the developers are facing?
Follow The Spotmapp Journey!https://www.instagram.com/spotmapp/
Follow Generic Parkourhttps://www.instagram.com/genericparkour/-Parkour UK’s mission is to serve, elevate, and add value to the parkour community. 
Hosted by Parkour UK’s digital team, Lynn Jung and Callun Lavington, A TO B with Parkour UK will feature news and updates about what the organisation is doing to serve, elevate and add value to the parkour community.
We will discuss ongoing and upcoming projects, as well as episodes getting to know the team behind Parkour UK and what their specific roles entail. -Listen on Spotify
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Meet The Parkour UK Team - Simon Vardy (Workforce Lead) - Ep. 12

In this episode, we sit down with our Workforce Lead, Simon Vardy, to talk about his history in sports coaching, and how he started his journey with Parkour UK.
Simon is a key team member at Parkour UK. In his role as Workforce Lead, he has overseen the CIMSPA accreditation of our Level 2 coaching qualification, as looks to further develop our Level 1 course in the near future.-Parkour UK’s mission is to serve, elevate, and add value to the parkour community. 
Hosted by Parkour UK’s digital support team, Lynn Jung and Callun Lavington, A TO B with Parkour UK will feature news and updates about what the organisation is doing to serve, elevate and add value to the parkour community.
We will discuss ongoing and upcoming projects, as well as episodes getting to know the team behind Parkour UK and what their specific roles entail. -
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/78XRdnP...
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