Sheffield Parkour & Freerunning
About Sheffield Parkour
We’re Sheffield’s open Parkour and Freerunning community — a friendly collective with nearly 20 years of experience in movement and training across South Yorkshire. If you’re after one of the most exciting and rewarding activities to do in Sheffield, you’ve found it.
Since our establishment in 2005, we’ve introduced thousands of people across Sheffield, Rotherham and beyond to Parkour and Freerunning — from children and complete beginners to advanced practitioners. We meet to train together several times a week, and everyone is welcome: our community is diverse, friendly and open to all ages and abilities.
Our approach goes beyond jumps and vaults. Whether you want to get active, try something new, or simply find fresh things to do in Sheffield, we value community, useful strength and lifelong development — helping people move with confidence throughout Sheffield, Rotherham and the wider South Yorkshire region. Find out more about who we are or come and train with us.
What is Parkour?
Parkour is the practice of moving through your environment in the most natural and efficient way possible — running, jumping, climbing and vaulting to overcome obstacles. It began in France in the 1980s and has since grown into a global movement. At its core, Parkour is about useful strength, adaptability, and learning how to move with purpose.
Freerunning shares the same roots but takes a different approach. Where Parkour is about efficiency and practicality, Freerunning is more expressive — flips, spins and acrobatic tricks that showcase creativity as much as function. Both are branches of the same tree: one focused on flow, the other on flair.
In Sheffield and across South Yorkshire, Parkour and Freerunning have flourished for nearly 20 years. With its blend of urban architecture and green spaces, the city is one of the best places in the UK to train. At SPKF we’ve helped thousands of people — from children and beginners to seasoned athletes — discover the joy of movement, and everyone is welcome to come and train with our open Sheffield community.
Latest News
- The Best Places to Train Parkour in SheffieldOne of the best things about parkour is that your training ground is the city itself. Sheffield, with its hills, steps, walls and mix of old and new architecture, is a genuinely brilliant place to train — and after twenty years exploring it, we know it well. Here’s a look at some of the best
- 20 Years of Parkour in Sheffield: The Story of SPKFParkour has been part of Sheffield’s streets for two decades. As the city’s original and longest-running parkour community, we thought it was time to tell the story — how a small group of friends training on the city’s steps and walls grew into a movement that has introduced thousands of people to parkour and freerunning
- Join the Sheffield Parkour Community Discord
Join the Sheffield Parkour Community Discord to meet local people, arrange training sessions, share feedback and keep up with events. - New website. Who dis?
We’re working on some new things here. Check back soon for more updates. - Sheffield Parkour and Freerunning Community GroupSheffield Parkour and Freerunning Community Group Looking to get started with Parkour / Freerunning in Sheffield? Head on over to our local community group to see when we’re training and say hello! 🙂
- Chinatobymillington: There I was, bored shitless on my break at work, when Nye asked if I wanted to go to China, so naturally, I booked my ticket there and then, on my break at work. Fast forward 4 months and we’d just landed in Guangzhou, with no plans or arrangements and our possessions on our
- Help us demonstrate and teach at Cliffhanger 2015!This is super last-minute but we need equipment to train on for Heason Events’Cliffhanger 2015, at Millhouses Park, in Sheffield, starting tomorrow. We’re looking for anything suitable to jump to/from, including boxes, hay-bales, pallets, scaffold etc. If any scaffolding companies in the area would like to help us out with some sweet set up for
- Domain name woes, no more.To alleviate any confusion when trying to find our website, you can now access at http://www.SheffieldParkour.org, .com or .co.uk. Tell all your friends and, of course, shout it from the rooftops of Sheffield. Though, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably already found your way here and all these irrelevant to you now, so go train!