The Parkour Spring Fling Workshop and Community Day took place on Saturday, April 6, at Winter Hill Community School. — Photos by Jackson Ellison

By Jackson Ellison

The Parkour Spring Fling Workshop and Community Day, an event where anyone in the community could give parkour a try, was held at the Winter Hill Community School on April 6.

Parkour is an activity where people go from one point to another, it usually requires people to navigate through or over different obstacles. Over the past few years, parkour has become a popular form of exercise in America.

The Spring Fling Workshop was put on by Parkour Generations Boston, a subdivision of Parkour Generations America that is based in Somerville, they hold different classes for people of all ages all around the Boston area.

Blake Evitt, the director of Parkour Generations Boston, says the workshop is a place where parkour enthusiasts, of all skill levels, can come together to meet and learn new techniques. “We teach classes in so many different places, like in Arlington, in Brookline, and in Boston, and people will take a class in one location, so this is an opportunity to come together,” said Evitt.

The Spring Fling workshop was open to all age groups, and people of any parkour skill level, from absolute beginners to people that have been training with Parkour Generations for years. “The goal is people get to come together and we build this kind of pop-up playground,” Evitt says.

Parkour Generations Boston host classes all over in cities like Cambridge, Arlington, Brookline, and Somerville.

Evitt says when Parkour Generations first started it was only two classes, one for kids and one for adults, every week and now the program teaches about 60 to 70 classes a week all around Boston with several workshops throughout the year. He says that the people of Somerville have really taken to parkour and that passion has helped the organization grow over the last several years.

The workshop was an all-day event, starting with a morning session for kids and then an afternoon session that was for adults. The workshops consisted of the participates going through drills with the guidance from multiple instructors. Parkour Generations runs workshops all around Boston in many different areas, “We do stuff in community centers, schools, we do outdoor classes,” said Evitt.

Parkour Generations America runs bigger events, like America Rendezvous, which is when Parkour Generations partners with the city of Somerville to put on a large community event revolving around parkour. “We do it just to get the community going and to have people have fun,” said Evitt.

The next Parkour Generations event will be a Kids Night Out on April 13 at Brooklyn Boulders Somerville.