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2022-10-14 – USPK Executive Director Transition

2022-10-14 – USPK Executive Director Transition

UNITED STATES PARKOUR ASSOCIATION USPK Executive Director Transition 2022 OCTOBER 13TH - - - Dear friends, members, and partners, We’re writing to you today to announce that Adam Kozy has resigned effective Thursday, September 1st.  Kozy joined us in 2020 as an...

USPK’s Year in Review: 2021

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

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?