What can I do So i can make a parkour/Freerunning Group,Club or Class at my HighSchool?
Make sure you know your stuff or that you have someone on board who does. Basic techniques, basic health and fitness knowledge – there’s lots of articles online (Parkour Generations, parkour.net static forum, American Parkour, fitness sites). Staff will look for someone they can trust with responsibility and knowledge of safety etc.
Organizing a one off event bringing in more experienced traceurs who have had experience of coaching will make a great impression. If the event is received well by staff and students, you have a great basis for a club.
Draw up a plan of what you hope the club will achieve, why it’s beneficial and how you will be safe. Get on the good side of the P.E. department (volunteering if possible etc). Show you care about the equipment you use. Enrol on a general sports coaching course if it’s possible.
Find some like minded people you can trust and begin small with a system for training that works (include warm ups, warm downs, discussions, spotters/coaches for younger people).
When this is successful and you’ve demonstrated it works to the powers that be, you can be confident of opening the club up.
Vary these ideas depending on how strict your school is.
Give me a pm if you have any trouble.
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propose it to your ASB
it would help to show that you will have plenty of members and have ideas for funds and how you’ll be covering those expenses
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if ur gona make a club ur gona have to the eather the principles approval or the school district.
umm ur gona have to get a lot of ppl to want to join it, or atlest show interest, and you might have to really explain what it is that you will do and say how its possitive
good luck
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You probably need a supervisor (a teacher/administrator, maybe the P.E. teacher?). Then you could go up to your office and ask the secretary about, and she’ll probably give you a big stack of papers that need a lot of signatures, and maybe even a specific number of potential club members’ signatures. Then you can get it rolling.
I think that’s a neat idea, and that your school’s admins will go for it. After all, my history teacher started a sword fighting club. It’s called the "fencing club" but we don’t fence, we circle and use daggers and all sorts of other stuff. And we aren’t a spoiled rich school. In fact, we are the poorest, most ghetto school in the district. We can bring swords on campus and beat on each other after school! It’s a lot of fun.
Good luck!
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Make sure you know your stuff or that you have someone on board who does. Basic techniques, basic health and fitness knowledge – there’s lots of articles online (Parkour Generations, parkour.net static forum, American Parkour, fitness sites). Staff will look for someone they can trust with responsibility and knowledge of safety etc.
Organizing a one off event bringing in more experienced traceurs who have had experience of coaching will make a great impression. If the event is received well by staff and students, you have a great basis for a club.
Draw up a plan of what you hope the club will achieve, why it’s beneficial and how you will be safe. Get on the good side of the P.E. department (volunteering if possible etc). Show you care about the equipment you use. Enrol on a general sports coaching course if it’s possible.
Find some like minded people you can trust and begin small with a system for training that works (include warm ups, warm downs, discussions, spotters/coaches for younger people).
When this is successful and you’ve demonstrated it works to the powers that be, you can be confident of opening the club up.
Vary these ideas depending on how strict your school is.
Give me a pm if you have any trouble.
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Experience coaching, running clubs