What We Are About At Parkour East Texas

At Parkour East Texas we are focused on helping youth prepare to be successful in life (mentally, emotionally, and physically) by teaching valuable life skills and lessons through parkour. We view parkour as an opportunity to learn how to become a better person in all areas of life.

It is common for youth (and adults) to want to be great at something. It is uncommon for youth (and adults) to embrace being bad at something IN ORDER to put in the work needed to one day be GREAT and then AMAZING. We use parkour as a method to teach this. When a child starts in parkour, no matter their skill level, there is always something that they CAN do and there is always something that they are not able to do yet at their current skill level. Sometimes they struggle with balance, or jumping a certain distance, or a move they have never heard of before. As a student focuses on the physical goal of trying to gain a new skill, they must be willing to embrace messing up and failed attempts at the new skill. Our coaches are trained to guide students through this learning process by breaking down the challenge into obtainable progressions in order to build skill and confidence. Our coaches also help students learn to stay positive in how they talk and think and to see the struggle as good because it means they are getting better. Our program helps students learn that messing up is a GOOD thing because it means we are at the edge of our abilities and pushing ourselves to become better. If we are never failing or learning skills that scare us and take time and effort to achieve then we are not becoming the best version of ourselves we can possibly be. Always being great at what we do means we are not pushing to new levels that we have never been to. When a child learns this lesson at an early age they are unleashed to obtain incredible confidence and success in whatever they choose to pursue in life.