The two best options for your stay in Melbourne!
1. Nomads All Nations (2 Spencer Street)
Prices range from $26 – $32 per night.
Lots of avaliablility
Website is http://www.nomadshostels.com/hostels/australia/melbourne-all-nations-backpackers
2. Melbourne Connection Travellers Hostel (205 King St, Melbourne)
Prices range from $25 – $35 per night.
Have to book in groups of less than 6.
Website is http://www.melbourneconnection.com/
Book early, book together. If you have any questions please ask.
First and foremost let us get the important news out of the way. This year the National Meet will be held in MELBOURNE Victoria during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of OCTOBER.
Details for the cheapest and most suitable accomodation in the MELB CBD will be made available shortly. We recommend all traceurs intending on making the trip down all stay in the place/places we recommend because these are where most of the great friendships will be formed.
Now for the not so important stuff.
For those who have attended the National Meet before I kindly ask you to forget everything you know about them (Nat Meat, Nat Soc, Nat Conserve, Nat Jam) as this years format will be significantly different from the others. Of course there are some things that will remain the same ie, heaps of training will be done, many friends will be made, great fun will be had and rad t shirts will be on sale.
The decisions in regards to this years Gathering have been decided by the National Gathering Committee. The Committee consists of Rhys James, Chippa, Nipon Kittikhoun and myself Shaun wood. The Comittee was formed because members of the Parkour community recognised that from the current growth of parkour in Australia and from feedback the more recent meets ( http://forum.parkour.asn.au/index.php?topic=4478.0 ) that the current structure of the meet was no longer working to serving to community as well as it should be. This year committee members were self nominated, the structure and nomination of committee in future has yet to be decided.
The mission statement for this and all future National Meets will be as follows:
“National Meet is a yearly event which aims to bring together the Australian Parkour community in a host city, chosen by the community. Participants will experience an educational and social event, training with leaders from around the country and spending time networking with Traceurs from other regions. National Meet also aims
to promote Parkour positively to the wider community to ensure National Meets benefit everyone involved.”
Obviously we have broken our own rule in that the location was not choosen by the wider parkour community, but for the plans and aspirations we have for the new style of National Gathering and being a catalyst of change, it was important that the host city had the infrastructure (in terms of man power, community development, maturity and APA presence) to deal with the type of event we have planned, to which Sydney and Melbourne were the logical options. Basically one of our main goals with this years Gathering is to build a frame work and blue print for a great event that will be applicable to all capital cities in years to come.
Being the first year of the new style of National Gathering there will be many new and different things, some of which have not been tested. Our hope is that these changes are embraced by the community but also hope the community is never quite satisfied. We want to set a standard that will continually build on the foundations we have set to make the National Gathering increasingly better year after year.
For now this is all you need to know. More information will be available in the coming weeks so watch this space people!
