MAKE YOUR OWN PATH

Since 2011, Urban Movement (a.k.a. UMOVE) is the first and only Parkour and Natural Movement gym in based Houston, Texas. Our head coaches have been certified by and regularly train with the founders of each of those practices. We’re unique because we’re part of a very small group in the USA who are directly affiliated with the ADD Academy in Paris, France. ADD stands for Art Du Deplacement, it is the root discipline where Parkour and Freerunning come from, and it was developed by a group called the Yamakasi. We are also proud to be a MovNat Licensed Facility. MovNat is the education system for Natural Movement created by Erwan LeCorre.

UMOVE is integrated into the city of Houston with an excellent reputation. Our five star Google and Facebook reviews speak volumes to how focussed we are on developing the community and making quality connections. We’ve worked with neighborhoods, schools, museums, libraries, almost all the news stations in town, we have an NPR interview that replays every once in a while, and we teach a regular class at Discovery Green Park which is sponsored by Sprouts. Our coaches have taught all over the world, worked on movie sets, booked commercials and print, and we’ve even performed locally at the Wortham Center in Downtown, Houston.

Although it’s pretty funny, this isn’t “Hardcore Parkour!”, and we are not Gymnastics. We have fun, we play games and some of us do learn how to safely jump off rooftops and do backflips, but it’s more like a martial art where we earn our movement. A lot of our members just want to move better at ground level. We see it as a lifestyle. Our motto is, “MAKE YOUR OWN PATH”. Skills and techniques that you can expect to see in class range from crawling on the ground to scaling walls, from learning multiple ways to juggle to lifting and throwing heavy objects. We work on the full range of natural human movements like balance, running, jumping, climbing, vaulting and more. The supportive environment we create upgrades children and allows adults feel like a kid again.

Our mindful way of coaching makes movement accessible to any body. We’ve worked with students of all ages and all ranges of ability. Often times, it’s our classes that (re)introduce people to a general movement practice for the first time. Get started today!

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