Ambassadors
Parkour Earth is represented by a team of Community Ambassadors from all over the world.
The role of Community Ambassador is to act as a two-way conduit of information. They circulate Parkour Earth information to the global parkour community and in turn, gather and communicate local information back to Parkour Earth.
The Community Ambassador embodies the vision, mission, and values of Parkour Earth and plays a key role in ensuring transparency and open lines of communication between Parkour Earth and the global parkour community.
We are always looking for more people to join our team so head over to our Join In page if you’re interested!
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Jesse Peveril
Born in Canada and bred in Switzerland Jesse Peveril is involved with Parkour for almost 20 years.
Jesse took part in dozens of events and competitions, and has been an active community member from the early years of the first European wave.
Jesse still blows our minds with his strength and creative movement, and runs his own gym: Parkour Expo in Morges.
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Sam Ultima
Sam is a Parkour Artist based in Grenoble, France.
With almost 20 years experience, Sam shares his passion with soulful video projects and immersive outdoor theatre performances, expressing himself through his uniquely powerful and fluid movement.
Through Parkour Earth Sam aims to share his experience and participate in the development of our global Federation.
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Renae Dambly
Renae Dambly is a Parkour coach, community leader and event organizer from Colorado, USA currently based in Hamburg, Germany.
Renae is one of the leading ladies in the Parkour competition circuit and organizes the outdoor competition “Spot Destroyer” in Hamburg.
Renae wants to contribute to Parkour Earth as a voice between the Federation and her community as well as in the Competition Development project.
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Marc Busch
Marc is 31 years young and has been training parkour for about 16 years.
Originally Marc is from Frankfurt, Germany but since 2021 his winter base is in Portugal. The rest of the year he travels the world to visit parkour events, to teach parkour, judge competitions and to jam with his friends.
With Parkour Earth Marc hopes to lead our sport in a good direction for the future. He wants to be a part of this culture forever and help to make it grow in the best way possible.
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Max Henry
Max Henry has been practicing parkour since 2007. He started his training with the New York community and coached for many years with The Movement Creative before moving to Denver, Colorado.
Today, Max coaches occasionally with APEX Denver and runs Point A Parkour - parkour's first narrative production company - with his partner Sean. He is also way too into specialty coffee and cooking/eating delicious vegan food.
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Andy Day
Andy Day, known to some as Kiell, discovered the sport in 2003 and attended some of the first gatherings of parkour practitioners in the UK.
Having documented them with his camera, he went on to photograph regularly for Urban Freeflow and Parkour Generations and worked as a Researcher on the classic documentary Jump Britain.
Now a climber, Andy is an occasional practitioner (though a regular photographer) which allows him a critical distance from parkour. He has been moderating the Parkour Research Facebook group since its inception in 2012 and has worked for a number of parkour organisations in Europe and the United States. He’s spoken regularly at parkour events and continues to work on a longterm photographic project with athletes from the Balkans.
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Dan Savu
Dan fell in love with Parkour in 2011. He didn't care much about the cool movements or the big gaps we could see on the internet, the idea that captured his interest was behind all this... Liberty.
In 2014 he began his coaching studies and from then on every year he studied everything that could help him with teaching. From injury prevention, rehabilitation and powerlifting programs,
In 2017 Dan founded Xplore Parkour, a school of movement based in Rimini, Italy and in 2021 i founded Italian Parkour Games, the first Italian parkour competition made genuinely by practitioners, for the parkour community.
Dan believes that it is possible to have a positive mindset about competitions in Parkour while maintaining the purest values we all share. At this moment he is studying to get a Sports Degree for completing his personal studies
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Carles Vera
Carles Vera is the director and co-founder of Motion Academy and president of Valencia Movement.
Carles discovered parkour in 2007 and since then has been training, learning or thinking about it. As a Political Scientist and youth participation facilitator, he is interested in developing the parkour community at all levels.
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Ben Scheffler
Ben is from ParkourONE, an international Parkour school focused on holistic coaching with Parkour by TRUST.
Ben is based in Berlin Germany running the ParkourONE branch there. Also he is the owner of TraceSpace, a design office for movement spaces, as well as the founder of Springbox, a new player in the field of Parkour equipment.
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Tom Zheng
Tom discovered parkour in summer 2008 on Youtube and hasn't stopped jumping since.
He has a B.S. in Clinical Nutrition from UC Davis and worked as a marketing director and community manager for half a decade, and is passionate about helping share the skills he's learned doing so with others.
Tom is an advocate for mental health acceptance, especially ADHD/ASD, and is a huge nerd about any of his dozens of hobbies, including auto detailing, gaming, flashlight collecting, tea, dog training, drawing, and way too many others to count.
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Kel Glaister
Kel Glaister has been coaching parkour in Melbourne and Scotland since 2014, and believes passionately that parkour and movement are for every body.
Kel has worked for years to help dismantle gender bias in parkour, with several community organisations including Women of Melbourne Parkour and Glasgow Parkour Girls. She has also organised women-focused events like WamJam in Australia and the IWD Clamjamfrie, the first women’s parkour event in the UK. She has been on national-level governance in Australia and Scotland. She is a founding director of Melbourne in Motion, a parkour and movement-coaching organisation with a focus on inclusion, diversity and justice.
Outside parkour, Kel has a Master of Fine Arts from the Glasgow School of Art. She has exhibited as an artist and curator internationally. She has a scruffy dog and does not like shoes that much.
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Michelle Kan
Michelle began practicing parkour in 2013, an experience which saw them through particularly difficult period in their life. Their love of parkour saw them devote two years to creating MOVE (Flow Like Water): A Parkour Documentary, Aotearoa’s first feature documentary on the NZ parkour community.
Michelle’s own journey with parkour has been one of inner strength and self-development, and they find comfort and solidarity in the traditional Chinese philosophies within parkour’s ideals. From their own experience, they believe wholeheartedly in the application of parkour to help tackle mental health issues and personal growth, and hope to make it an accessible practice to other queer & disabled individuals and POC who may benefit from it as they have.
In nurturing a diverse and inclusive community with practitioners of all different backgrounds, Michelle believes that this will be the foundation on which parkour will flourish and thrive. -
Ahmed Matar
Ahmed is a Parkour legend from Palestine, currently based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Matar already left a contribution and legacy with his friends on the group Parkour Gaza. He is now a Parkour coach in Sweden and has recently opened an academy in Palestine.