FIRST RESPONDERS & EMERGENCY SERVICES
PARKOUR PROGRAMS FOR MOVEMENT LONGEVITY AND INJURY PREVENTION
Improve your movement by improving your awareness. Prevent injuries both on the job and during day-to-day life.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
FUNDAMENTALS
ROAMFurther Athletics’ training programs instruct the fundamentals of Parkour to improve movement and enhance the quality of day-to-day life activities. Parkour is a discipline emphasizing movement efficiency and proprioception. It benefits functional movement, spatial awareness, and overall movement health.
PRACTICAL SKILLS
ROAM’s Emergency Services training programs introduce participants to ability-appropriate obstacle-based challenges and provides them with the practical skills—both physical and psychological—to overcome them. We articulate the aspects of Parkour that have to do with situational awareness, spatial awareness, risk assessment, and risk responsibility.
PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL BENEFITS
IMPROVED REACTION
Our goal is to improve a participant’s ability to safely and confidently navigate complex environmental situations as well as react with stronger skill-informed self-preservation in unexpected circumstances like an unanticipated fall.
INJURY PREVENTION & REDUCTION
Prevent injury both in the professional field and in day-to-day life. Through practice, repetition, and subsequent acquisition of muscle memory of Parkour skill-sets, improving the ability to assess and navigate physical risks in an environment as well as react to unexpected situations.
ENHANCED PROPRIOCETION
Proprioception is sight even in the absence of vision. Your sense of self relative to the space around you. A deeper connection to your environment and how you can best interact and navigate it.
HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE
More capability and less injury transitions naturally to a higher quality of general life. Increased scope of access to the world relative to newly learned and repeated Parkour skills and philosophies.
EVENT STRUCTURE
TRAINING ORIENTATION
Instructors overview expectations, set training objectives, and discuss intentions for the program.
PRINCIPLES OF PARKOUR
Participants will be provided a series of low-impact, low-intensity Parkour skills as both an introduction to the discipline and to prepare them for the evolution of the day’s training.
Transitioning from the warm-up, participants will be instructed on the fundamental principles guiding the movements of Parkour.
SKILL BREAKDOWNS
Training will center around learning functional movements and how to apply them to a variety of complex situations.
PRACTICAL SKILL EXAMPLES
- Safely and swiftly traverse obstructions both vertically (ascending and descending) and laterally.
- Proper landing techniques to help distribute impact and reduce vertical risk. Including both rolling and non-rolling weight distribution techniques.
- Navigate narrow or otherwise atypical spaces. Smooth low-to-ground movement with quadrupedal locomotion.
DISCUSSION 'IN MEDIA RES'
Open conversations ‘in the midst’ of physical activity that reflect on the current teaching and how to adapt them in professional, risk-intense situations, and in average day-to-day life scenarios.
REFLECTION & CONSIDERATION
A group reflection in ROAM’s event space focusing on:
- Discussing Parkour’s practical application to Emergency Services.
- Gathering a mutual understanding of needs in the Emergency Services professions and the ways in which Parkour can provide for those needs.
- Reinforce the importance of movement in both the professional space and in day-to-day life.
TRAINING FOR YOUR TEAM
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