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2022 State of the US Parkour Industry Survey
Take our new annual survey of US-based parkour businesses and organizations that will provide a comprehensive look at the parkour industry.
USPK’s Year in Review: 2021
See what we’ve been up to this past year, and our vision for the future with everyone in 2022. USPK will be going into the new year with a full growth mindset.
Why World Chase Tag Is One Possible Future For Competitive Parkour
With millions of views per video, World Chase Tag’s (WCT) lightning quick, adrenaline-fueled matches of traceurs chasing one another around a cube of obstacles (the Quad) has officially gone viral beyond the parkour community. YouTube, the video-sharing site that provided a platform for parkour’s rise, has even featured WCT on its own daily highlight feed. With a new USA season only one week away and a new deal inked for it to air on ESPN, its U.K. founders, the Devaux brothers, may have found a way to highlight the beauty of parkour movements and turn it into a repeatable and extremely viewable sporting format. But is it technically parkour? And what does it say about the potential competitive future of the sport?
USPK – Resources – Sport Parkour Competition Rulebook v1.0 Release
United States Parkour Association is excited to announce the release of select rules within the USPK Sport Parkour Competition Rulebook v1.0. The rulebook is intended to provide an orderly and consistent administration of sport parkour events for our members and organizations. These rules are designed to set forth an organizational standard set of guidelines within which parkour athletes can participate in events and compete in a positive atmosphere of equal opportunity.
COVID-19 Resources for Competition and Event Organizers
United States Parkour Association has provided guidance on how organizers can take a risk-based approach from actions to preventing transmission between people to how events can be modified to make a safer environment.
USPK – Community – 2020 Winter Town Hall Summary
As a community leader I have a responsibility to speak out about something that has bothered me for years- the increasing lack of diversity and the trend towards the “gentrification” of parkour, especially here in the United States. When contrasted to the day-to-day safety and human rights of POC, parkour training spaces may be low on the priority list, but I hope that this can be a small step toward discussion and larger change.