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News Articles and PNWPA and Ramblings by Tyson — Sep 08, 2008 at 01:12 am

Just noticed this post over on the Chase Jarvis website. Apparently the Seattle Metropolitan Parkour article we did back in April 07 (or at least the photos for it) won a PDN Magazine “Best Of” in the Magazine Editorial section, which also got a New York Photo Festival nomination.

Nice job to Chase, Morgan, and Daetan who did the original shoot (and the excellent Ninja followup)! I’m a big fan of Chase’s blog as he is a ridiculously good photographer who’s very open about his work. Hopefully in the future we can get him out to shoot some more Parkour shots with us, possibly donated to the PNWPA…hint hint….

Ramblings by Tyson — Aug 07, 2008 at 08:31 pm

Snowball Fight

So what do you do in Colorado (the deserty place) on rest days when you get bored (after climbing mountains and training the few days prior)? You drive up above the clouds, have a snowball fight, and climb even scarier mountains of course! We need a little work on this whole “staying on the trail” thing. I also need work on remembering to bring my good camera

-See Levi’s picture’s here-

PNWPA and Ramblings and Travels by Tyson — Jun 05, 2008 at 01:20 am

Bullet Points

The Tyson news today comes to you in bullet form, fun!

Parkour Generations in Ohio was crazy awesome. Some random photos oh mine -here- and a full writeup soon.

The last Parkour class of five for Billings Middle School went great! I didn’t really blog about these because Christian was the main guy heading them up, but I joined in for the majority of the classes and he did a great job. The last class had a longer time slot and the ability to split them up between four instructors which made everything really smooth. These have a great story behind them, will be up here or http://pnwpa.com

I’ve trained hard every day since coming back from Ohio except for these last two and it feels great! Been transforming the local jams a bit as well, getting everyone to push through a hard conditioning warmup and finish with a challenge and cooldown. Sounds like people have been really enjoying that, hopefully it will stick when I’m not around.

I’m moving my YouTube account and am going to start using it more, the new one is -here- . The PNWPA also has one which is being updated as well.

The 1023 is finally (just about) done! All five billion pages of it! When submitted and allowed to cook for awhile this turns into an official 501(c)3 certification which instantly gaining us thousands of dollars in donations and grants! Ok maybe not instantly….

Meetings! Coming up: UW Outreach Committee’s first meeting, first Board meeting after Ohio, first follow up meeting with Seattle Parks and Rec after WRPA conference. Guess who’s going to all of them!

Travel! MOVNAT with Rafe and Erwan in Bellingham on 14-15th. NYC for training with friends and PKNY 16th-23rd. Washington DC for training and Tribe meetup 23rd-27th. Chicago for national jam 28th-30th. Cya there!

Ramblings by Tyson — May 08, 2008 at 03:28 pm

Pangea Day - May 10th

This is a huge event happening all over the world simultaneously through TV, mobile phones, theatres, and live showings in seven languages. The idea is simply to bring the world together to watch several inspiring and transforming films chosen from over 2,500 submissions to connect us all and get the world talking. Should be amazing as it came out of one of my favorite idea generators the TED conference. Check out the talk that started the project -here-

The program on Pangea Day, May 10, is a celebration of the power of film to unite us all. You’ll see films that are funny — sad — gorgeous — stark — powerful. Voices that have never been heard before. Things you’ve never seen. Scenes from worlds you didn’t know existed. A cross-section of our amazing, complicated, noisy, beautiful world. Tune in or find a viewing party to watch on May 10, 2008, at 11:00 AM PDT.

-Click here- to find the many ways to watch. I know there is a big thing going on at UW, should be easy to find a local showing to see with a group, or just tune in yourself!

News Articles and Ramblings by Tyson — May 04, 2008 at 10:39 pm

I’m a UW Success Story!

A few months back I was featured in a new project of the UW Career Center called myStory:

Ramblings and Teaching by Tyson — May 03, 2008 at 08:20 pm

Workaholic

Janine called me a workaholic the other day…and it’s weird because she’s totally right. I used to be the biggest slacker I knew throughout high school and college. I seriously had it down to an art, only putting the minimal amount of time into working as possible. That must have all changed big-time with parkour. I spend entire days (and nights) on the computer sometimes now, working on the never-ending amount of work that comes from running a nonprofit, moderating two parkour communities, working on APK/Tribe stuff, running promotion, learning video production, learning photography, and smuggling miniature chihuahuas across the border (harder than it sounds)…

Ramblings by Tyson — May 01, 2008 at 01:49 am

Parkour Generations Take Over Youtube - May 2nd

The global front page of Youtube this Friday May 2nd will be showing ONLY Parkour videos all day long. The videos will be hand picked by the fine folks over at Parkour Generations.

Hopefully it won’t take all day to watch them all Prompted me to clean up and add to my Youtube channel.

Known as a ‘Takeover Day’, this event will give incredible new exposure to the grass roots of the discipline and will bring it to a whole new audience. The videos have been selected to show the international nature of parkour and the day-to-day nature of practise as opposed to the media spectacle that is so often given the limelight, and the eclectic range of edits comes from many of the global communities that Parkour Generations has had the pleasure of working with.

News Articles and Ramblings by Tyson — Apr 30, 2008 at 03:29 pm

Parkour in Burien

Burien has been talking to the PNWPA a good deal over the past year as they are really excited to bring parkour into the city, and we’ve been trying to figure out the best way to do that with them. One of the first steps is getting more local exposure for the sport…and what better way than to jump over their goverment figures and make lolkours out of them? :

Sorry I just had to! This is actually a shot from a video the B-townblog is putting together from a recent visit that the mayor came out for. Be sure to check them out when the video comes out, and if you’re a Burien native wanting to get into parkour, hop on WAPK and introduce yourself!

News Articles and Ramblings by Tyson — Mar 04, 2008 at 10:02 am

WAPK in Seattle Metropolitan

I got an email from a woman who had read about us in the Seattle Met, so I decided to pick one up at the airport before I left. It’s always fun to be reading about something you’re intimately involved with on the plane, makes you feel so special (especially if you are then able to blog about it through your phone before taking off)

Ramblings and Travels by Tyson — Nov 02, 2007 at 02:53 am

Can’t Sleep

Man it’s getting bad now. I can’t sleep because I’m thinking about parkour too much again. It’s like I’m in withdrawals, a few days away from training and I can’t get it out of my head. Except nowadays I’m not even thinking about running, I’m thinking of the next parkour video we’ll shoot, or what GasWorks wold look like if we convinced the parks and rec folk to turn it into a parkour park.

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