For those who know Yamakasi, you'll know this will be a special training session. For the rest who don't know them ... shame on you! (but fear not, I have some links where you can get the low-down) ;-P
Yamakasi have their history in Parkour due to the fact that both David Belle and Sebastien Foucan were in this group in the early days, but left due to differences of opinion. Yet Yamakasi carried on...
In 2001 they appeared in a film written by Luc Besson simply entitled - "Yamakasi - Les samourai des temps modernes"(the modern-day Samurai) and then later on in 2004 went on to be featured in the feature film: "Les Fils du Vent", which was directed by Julien Seri who also worked on the Yamakasi film with Luc Besson.
Click the link to view one of the recent projects entitled : Generation Yamakasi
Yamakasi (wikipedia link) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamakasi
Now for the news:
This weekend Yamakasi will be heading over to London, UK as guest trainers for an event organised by Parkour Coaching.
“Yamakasi, Johann Vigroux and Kazuma are coming over to join myself (Dan), Stephane, Forrest and Tracey for the inaugural Parkour Coaching Seminar in London. Will be from 1-4pm, cost £10 per head, and is limited to 100 places. Will not be a relaxed 'jam' session, but 3 hours of non-stop intensive workshops. Anyone wanting to book a place can email me at this address dan@parkourcoaching.com - first come, first served, payment in advance to secure a position.
The majority of the spaces will go to our Academy community, but we will keep some open for the wider London community.
It will be the first time the Yamakasi have ever taught in England, and should be an excellent day out."
So far I already know that members from Team Traceur, The Saiyan Clan, Sin Clan, Next Gen will be there to soak up the knowledge these guys have picked up over the years.
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