Welcome to Lady WFPF

Lady WFPF serves as a meeting place for women traceuses from around the world where they can interact through photos, videos, blogs and articles. Designed to help women encourage, support one another and arrange meet-ups, each of the Mentors' profiles link to their social account where they can be contacted. While some of the mentors are beginners and some are more experienced, they have been chosen because of their dedication to Parkour and because they have each overcome individual challenges and obstacles and so can inspire others to do so as well. The "Hang out" feature also links to a private group just for the ladies of the WFPF.

WFPF Lady Mentors

Rachel Scarbrough

Hi! My name is Rachel Scarbrough, and I am a WFPF Athlete Affiliate and Team Traverse PK member. I have become very passionate about Parkour/Freerunning, as it gives me a sense of freedom and has broadened my vision for what the body can do with movement.

My husband Micah is my best friend in the world and an inspiration. I am currently a gymnastics coach at an awesome gym here in Austin, Texas. I want to help other females get involved in parkour/freerunning, and bring awareness to the fact that it is a discipline for anyone and everyone.

In 2011, I was invited by the WFPF to be one of two women to compete in "Art of Motion" Detroit and was the only woman to perform at the NCAA Final Four WFPF show sponsored by AT&T. Also, make sure to look at my WFPF Affiliation Video below!

Be creative, Have fun, and God bless!

Kirsty Hibbert

Hi, my name is Kirsty Hibbert and I'm a WFPF affiliate Athlete from the United Kingdom. I have been training now for 4 years, flips for 2 years. I teach parkour now for a living to kids so have my dream job. I want to meet lots of new people from all over and get more involved in the community! add me and lets talk

Leigh Evans

I'm just, just, just getting started as a baby traceuse. I'm a founding member of Team Grue in Central Illinois. I use this site to blog my training progress and get in touch with runners from around the world. Talk to me, leave comments on my blogs, send me messages -- I'd love to hear from you! Keep reading, keep moving, safe training!

Amanda 'Panda' Voll

My name is Amanda ‘Panda’ Voll, I am 23 years old and I reside in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I have been doing Parkour for about 4 years minus a year I had to take off for physiotherapy and recovery from getting hit by a car in 2009. I sustained an injury to my low back in my L4- L5 vertebrae, a concussion with a brain injury and tendon and ligament damage to my left hip. I was shut down in the middle of my training after I had discovered the discipline and was unable to train for about 9 months to a year. A few months before my accident I had found out that my mother was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer and was given only a few months to live. So during my training and recovery as I started to improve physically and heal my mother’s health progressively weakened. On April 28th 2010 my mother passed away. So physically and emotionally drained I fell into a depression, the only thing that kept me going throughout everything I was going through was my need to get back to training in the discipline I loved so much. I started getting back into training by doing small balance techniques and different isometric conditioning to build my body back up to be at a level where I could train again. I have since the accident and my emotional pain, recovered myself to the point of surpassing my previous skill level and am still training 4 times a week for several hours at the present time. I am also the operations manager of a Parkour facility in my city and make many efforts towards promoting and growing the community here. Parkour is my form of meditation, it is the one thing that I can do that lets me live in the moment and not focus on the past or what is upsetting me at the time. I want to share my personal love for the discipline of Parkour and free-running with everyone. Also to show that it doesn’t matter how old you are or if you a man or a woman or what injuries you have experienced in your life there is a place for Parkour in everyone’s life.

Ann Kaczka

Ann Kaczka began her training in October 2007 in New York City with one of parkour’s founders, David Belle. Shortly thereafter, she went from climbing trees and training solo in Thailand, to scaling the boulders in Central Park and training on the streets of London and Paris.

Ann established New York’s first ladies' training sessions, and believes strongly in opening the line of communication and creating strong bonds between women training. She has had the pleasure of learning firsthand from many of the world’s leading practitioners and has made several videos documenting her journey in the discipline.

Sydney Olson

I've been interested in movement my entire life. I started with soccer at the age of four and absolutely loved it. Running and kicking a ball around gave me so much entertainment. So when I was seven, my sister started competing in gymnastics. I told my parents I wanted to join too so I could be just like her. They said no at first, so I practiced outside in my front lawn. I taught myself a back handspring, then connected two of them. I learned a round-off into a back handspring and then connected a back flip out of that. Everyone was so impressed because I had no experience whatsoever but I worked extremely hard. The gym found out about me and put me on the competitive team right away.
Ever since my first meet, I loved showing off and giving everyone something exciting to watch. Eventually, as I got older, I overworked myself and became tired of it. I continued with my gymnastics career until the age of fourteen and I decided that putting in 30 hours per week along with starting high school was too much.
High school began and I really was not doing much with movement anymore. Besides going to my fitness classes for school, I wasn't even exercising much at all. I was teaching gymnastics classes however and met someone very special to me. His name is David and he has taught me so much about life. When I was sixteen he started working at the gym. He told me I should stay for adult gymnastics one day and so I did, He explained parkour and freerunning to me and I was immediately fascinated by the idea. We went to Seattle one day and I decided that I absolutely adore parkour and the feeling of being invincible. I became used to the idea of flipping and falling on concrete and learned quite a bit. I also started tumbling in the gym again. It wasn't anywhere near what it used to be, but I was glad to be doing it again.
One month before competition season, my former coach asked me if I wanted to compete level eight, which is exactly where I had left off before. The challenge was accepted and I began my intense training. I hadn't done bars, beam, or vault in four years. I worked so hard and was able to acquire all the skills necessary. I became very strong and better than I ever was before. After that season, I decided I probably won't compete anymore and focused all my energy towards parkour and learning new gymnastics skills. Before I knew it, I began throwing double backs on the floor and full-in double backs on the trampoline.
I love how everything is going right now. I am part of a great team called Seattle Parkour (seattleparkour.com). I go to the ymca everyday and lift weights, we all go rock climbing at least once a week, and I of course put in tons of time towards the parkour and gymnastics. I cannot wait to see where this goes.

Rachael Johnson

My name is Rachael Johnson. I'm 20, live in Miami, FL, and have been training parkour at least twice a week for about a year now. I am a leading member of the Miami Parkour Community and have trained many other newcomers in basic parkour techniques. I emphasize safety in both my own training and in my teaching. For me, parkour isn't about taking unnecessary risks or showing off; it is about discipline and hard work. It is about developing both strength and confidence while dispelling fear and limitations. It is about training to be an everyday warrior. Something I want to accomplish through my training is to be an inspiration to girls who may otherwise never pursue parkour. I want to show other beginning traceuses that there are indeed women who are accomplished in parkour, that the number of female practitioners is rising, and that their training and hard work will pay off if they stick with it. Training young girls in parkour and seeing them begin to develop into talented traceuses is one of the most rewarding parts of my training.

I admit that I have struggled being one of the few traceuses in the Miami Community who trains regularly. I have struggled with comparing my technique, progression speed, and strength to my parkour brothers who often far outmatch me. However, what I have learned is that everyone has strengths and weaknesses that sets them apart, and that in parkour you can only really compete against yourself. I have also been fortunate enough to meet and begin training with more women in Miami recently, which has been amazing.

I still have much to learn and many more barriers to break. I have also realized that there is nothing more satisfying than measuring one's own improvement. I can honestly say that I have become addicted to my training; to becoming stronger, faster, and more confident than I was the day before. My parkour community is my second family, and I hope to grow that family even more here on WFPF. I aspire to be a mentor to anyone who could benefit from my experience or knowledge, and am excited to meet other traceuses whom I can learn so much from. I would love to hear from all of you. Safe training!

Featured Blogger - Leigh Evans

safe training

For the general public, the extent of interaction with their local freerunner is likely to be, "Hey kid! Get down from there before you hurt yourself!"... read more

falling

Parkour as a discipline is still so new to the public eye. Mainstream media reports stories of daredevil athletes and tragic accidents, painting practitioners as high risk-takers who make reckless leaps off of buildings... read more

grue-illa training

Saturday was just hanging out, late in the evening. Some of us Grues got together, and suddenly -- we're at the park with the castle, even though the sun is already down... read more

Featured Videos

Rachel Scarbrough -Parkour Power Girl!

Ann Kaczka - Documentary / First Year Training Parkour

Sydney Olson - 2011 Showreel

Amanda "Panda" Voll - Warrior Face