RETURNING SUMMER 2022
Location: Parkour Classes are now taught at Scarangella Park and Wingate Park and and are FREE
Time: 
Thursdays at 11 AM
and
Sundays at 10 AM
All WildRun Classes are 90 minutes long
Contact: Nadia at 718-486-6252 for more information.
About: All parkour classes are free and are created to engage students of all ages, fitness levels and experience safely.
Mission: Bullettrun’s free parkour program positively impacts not just our company members ( the majority of whom are young, black and men) but the public who meets and works with them. By presenting parkour performances and classes in public parks; Bullettrun's programing encourages new possibilities, and a dialogue of understanding
Parkour Class Description
Bullettrun’s parkour class begins with a warm up at local, Brooklyn parks located in Gravesend and East New York, Brooklyn neighborhoods. There, our trainer Shane “Sage” Samuel and his brother Brendon Samuel check in with students and assesses their fitness level and ability with basic stretches and calisthenics.
Other members of Bullettrun are also available to assist Shane and Brendon during class. This allows each student to receive one on one instruction if necessary. New students will be introduced to basic vaults and jumps during their first class, and will practice these skills alongside more experienced students. Over time, these skills* will lay the foundation for more complex movements and fun challenges.
By the end of class, students are encouraged to apply their parkour moves by traveling through an obstacle course with creative efficiency. Shane then leads the entire class through a cool down.
*See our parkour page to review a list of movement vocabulary we teach in our classes HERE.
Below are recent examples of a Bullettrun’s Classes held at Wingate Park in the summer of 2020.
2019 WildRun
Watch Bullettrun's beginners parkour class in action. This is the first day of class for these students. <h2>Special thanks to the Brooklyn Borough park's commissioner, Marty Maher and City Parks Foundation for their continued support of our WildRunparkour program in NYC parks. </h2>WildRun Parkour Program History, 2016-2018
Since 2016, Bullettrun's has offered free, parkour* workshops & performances through its WildRun Parkour Programing, conducted in NYC Kaiser and Lincoln Terrace Parks, with our community partners Partnership for Parks, and the Explorer's Youth Program.
Bullettrun activities positively impact not just our company members (the majority of whom are young, black and Latino men) but the public who meets and works with them. By presenting parkour performances and classes in public parks; with the help of law enforcement volunteers who run the Explorer's Youth Program, Bullettrun's WildRun programing encourages new possibilities, and a dialogue of understanding between disadvantaged emerging adults and the community, where almost none had existed before. In the process our program facilitates the creation of a local sources of beauty and adventure.
WildRun is needed because more resources must address the physical fitness & self esteem of the youth, and emerging adults residing in Coney Island & East NY communities. Bullettrun's artistic and educational WildRun productions will be collaborative, involving members of the parkour community who live in the Coney Island and East NY neighborhoods of Brooklyn. For many of these young men and women, the discipline of parkour is not just a form of self expression, it is a means to build self-esteem and emerge as leaders in communities lacking social, educational and economic resources. As much as possible, Bullettrun's WildRun activities will utilize educational and artistic resources in NYC public spaces. Importantly, we have demonstrated the capacity to turn these ideas into tangible results. However, funding is needed to sustain our progress.
Like last year, our WildRun parkour classes will culminate in a parkour performance in August, featuring Bullettrun company members, and the students who have successfully completed our WildRun parkour program.
*Parkour is a gymnastic art form and discipline, often described as "skateboarding, without skateboards". It was adapted by the French Military in the 1800s, and popularized by freerunner David Belle in the 1990s, before spreading throughout the world in the early 2000s until the present.
WildRun classes are held at Kaiser Park and Lincoln Terrace Park facilities in Coney Island and East NY Brooklyn.
Parkour Performances In NYC Parks
On August 23, 2016 artistic director Nadia GarcĂa-Lesy presented her choreography, in collaboration with her Bullettrun company members Sage Way, Christopher Falco Glover, Kareem Reap Small. Ridge Chery, Jose Torres, Helaman Garcia. Special thanks to D.j. Maximum for the music and Raudy Apk Ramirez for providing extra 2nd camera work. The show was presented during the 2nd Annual Explorer's Day Extravaganza, at Kaiser Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The event was a culmination of a series of rehearsals and WildRun parkour classes held at the park, in collaboration with Explorer's Club. Special thanks to Psychology Consultant Mani GarcĂa-Lesy and the Coney Island, Brooklyn community leaders; Ted Enoch from the NYC Parks and volunteer police employees who oversaw the Explorer's Club.