For those who check the site before coming… The gym floor will not be available Sunday March 7th from 1-3pm because of a booking. Regular hours will be from 3-9. Sorry for this inconvenience.

On Sunday March 14th at 1-3pm, there will be another girls meet, in hopes of starting the one-a-month girls training sessions again we were doing last year. The cost for the training session will be 15, and you are free to stay as long in the space afterwords. The theme has not been chosen yet, but we usually go over 4-5 different skills, hand out a few challenges, and do some obstacle coursing. Most of the things we do will be scalable, so its a perfect fit for all and a nice intro to Parkour if you haven’t before. If you know of someone who would be interested in this, please pass it along! We ask that you please email us and let us know you are coming, so we can prep the lesson plan according to the numbers we get. See you all there.

This week Danno took part in a photoshoot for POORBUTSEXY magazine, which will be shown in it’s second issue. The theme of the picture was ‘falling’, and it portrays dan falling upside down from, well I guess were not sure, alongside a whole bunch of bouncy balls of different colors. Thanks to Thomas at Seed9 for contacting us with the cool idea!

For those who check the site before coming… The gym floor will not be available today from 1-3pm because of a booking. Sorry for this inconvenience.

The first phase of a new project with the Art Gallery of York University and Panama artist Humberto Velez has just begun. It will lead to a live art piece featuring Parkour later this summer somewhere in the city of Toronto. We’re really excited as Humberto has an very interesting and very real opinion on what we do, and it should end up being one of our most interesting live events displays yet. More news to come mid summer!

January has been a crazy month here at the MV with some of the highest attendance numbers we’ve ever seen. Thanks again to those that took advantage of the yearly passes, and we are reinvesting it to get some goodies for Feb! I personally love asking people in the training centre, “what do we need next!?” and I’m going to take this a step further by making a section on the site that mirrors a whiteboard in my office where we list off the top 10 things the space needs according to it’s users. Ropes, more gymnastic blocks, a vertical opening garage door (seems weird but YES!!) and a sign are on their way for Feb, well see what makes the list for March and April. As always, feedback is always welcome so if you think the MV needs something, let us know! Who knows you could be the one that points out something we don’t see, and, can’t grab and play with yet…

In order to offset some of the costs we go through during the beginning of the year, we are going to offer 5 discounted year passes for anyone willing to help us out. The passes will work from January 1st 2010 to January 1st 2011 and will cost $500 tax included. We think this is a great deal, especially for people who buy a lot of monthly passes (its like 50% off). These will be available first come first serve until they run out.

We have been getting a lot of emails this last week about our holiday schedule at the MV. We were going to keep hours the same, but then we realized there would be a few obvious times no one would show up. We are also opening a little earlier to emulate the summer schedule since most of our members are out of school. Also, if you or your friends can get together a group that wants to train during a closed time, please email us and we’ll see what we can do based on the group size. That being said, below is a revised holiday schedule:

18th Closed
19th 1:30-10:30
20th 2-8
21st Closed
22nd 1pm-9pm
23rd 1pm-9pm
24th 1pm-7pm
25th Closed
26th Closed
27th Pkto Dinner and Training (see pkto.ca website)
28th Closed
29th 1pm-9pm
30th 1pm-9pm
31st 1pm-6pm
1st Closed (May be open for a special workout, news coming soon)

Tomorrow (13th) there will be limited floor space again because of a group session taking place at the training centre. We have guests from the university of Waterloo coming back for their 3rd time (or is it 4th) and we need all the room we can get! Sorry for this inconvenience. The floor will be available the second half of the day during open gym time.

This weekend a 5 man team will be flying out to Calgary to put on a live show for WestJet’s end of year Christmas Party. There will be 1800 guests and multiple cameras displaying all the action on 3 massive monitors suspended in the room while we perform on scaffolding and some objects. The theme is ‘Arabian nights’ and we will only leave you guessing who is playing the role of ‘Aladin’.