Parkour Gym Near Me in San Francisco: AcroSports Outback Classes by Kezar

AcroSports, a nonprofit founded in 1993, teaches parkour in the Outback room of a 1937 Art Deco gym at 639 Frederick St, San Francisco. Adult parkour drop-ins are $40 and new students get three classes for $75.

AcroSports is the one gym inside San Francisco city limits that runs regular, coached parkour classes from a fixed address, and it does it from 639 Frederick St, San Francisco, CA 94117, a block from Kezar Stadium at the southeast corner of Golden Gate Park. Adults can drop into a 60-minute parkour class for $40, and new students can buy a three-class intro pack for $75. Children train in weekly parkour classes split by age, from 6 to 17.

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A 1993 Nonprofit in Polytechnic High's Old Girls' Gym

The building is the story. AcroSports occupies the former girls' gymnasium of Polytechnic High School, the public school that stood on Frederick Street across from Kezar Stadium until it closed in 1973. The city demolished everything except the two gyms in 1989. The girls' gym dates from 1937 and the boys' gym from 1929, both in Art Deco style, and the boys' gym at 755 Frederick now houses the San Francisco Circus Center.

AcroSports itself was founded in 1993 by a local resident and community activist together with two acrobats from the Moscow Circus and a gymnast from Ukraine. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering gymnastics, circus and what it calls urban arts, and it says it serves more than 2,500 students a week in a 10,000-square-foot facility. The Board of Supervisors declared May 18, 2003 AcroSports Day.

The Outback, Where Parkour Lives

Parkour classes and camps use the Outback, the newest training area in the building, which has its own parkour climbing wall, parkour obstacles and mats on a sprung floor. That is separate from the main floor, where the 40-foot sprung floor, Tumbl Trak, rod floor, foam pit, Max Air trampoline, bars, rings, vault and a SkyNet with an aerial point and slackline handle the gymnastics and circus classes.

For an adult beginner the split matters. You learn precision jumps, rolls and wall climbs in a room designed for them, and when the coach wants you to practice a dive roll or a back tuck, the foam pit and trampoline are in the same building rather than across town.

Adult Parkour, Coach Derek and the Pass Menu

Adult classes run Monday through Friday, and parkour appears on the live booking calendar as a 60-minute evening session. The week of October 19, 2026 shows a Wednesday class at 7pm with coach Derek at $40. Drop-ins are $40, the three-class intro offer for new students is $75, a five-class pass is $185 and a ten-class pass is $350.

Regulars can switch to monthly plans: Silver at $155 for five classes, Gold at $240 for eight and Platinum at $375 for unlimited classes. Members' open training costs $25, or $220 for ten, but it requires staff approval, and beginners have to finish three classes before they are allowed in. A private lesson is $100.

Youth Parkour by Age and Level

The fall 2026 youth session runs from August 24 to December 20, with no classes from November 24 to 29, and winter 2027 starts January 4. Beginning parkour for ages 6 to 9 meets Monday at 4:30pm and Wednesday at 3:30pm and 4:30pm, and all three were full by mid October. Beginning parkour for ages 10 to 17 meets Monday at 5:30pm and Wednesday at 4pm and 5:30pm, and Intermediate for ages 8 to 11 meets Tuesday at 4pm.

Session tuition shows as $464 on the booking page at this point in the fall, and the site notes that online prices are prorated to the weeks remaining in a session, so the amount depends on when you enroll. Some Circus Arts classes for ages 6 to 9 also fold parkour into the hour, which is a useful fallback when the parkour sections are full.

Weekend Open Gym for Younger Siblings

Families with more than one child can use the weekend open gym slots while an older sibling waits for a parkour opening. Youth Open Gym runs Saturday and Sunday from 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Junior Open Gym for the smallest children runs Saturday at the same hour, and a Special Needs Open Gym is listed at $25. The gym says every coach holds CPR and First Aid certification, and it counts about 12,000 students a year across all of its programs.

House Rules Before You Train

Timing is strict. Adults who arrive 15 minutes or more late cannot join the class, while open gym allows 30 minutes. Cancelling within 12 hours costs $10, and Platinum members who do not show are charged $20. Adults check themselves in on the iPad by the second-floor office.

Children need close-fitting athletic wear with no zippers, buttons or rivets, no jewelry and long hair tied back. Everyone who steps on the floor signs a waiver, and that includes any parent who joins a child during a party.

Getting to Frederick Street

The N Judah stops at Carl and Stanyan, about a two-block walk from Kezar, and the 7 and 7R buses run to the stadium area. Drivers can try street parking, the paid Kezar lot at Stanyan and Beulah, or the UCSF Millberry Union garage at Irving and 3rd Avenue. Keep the white zone in front of the building clear, because it is for pickup and drop-off only.

A Kezar and Golden Gate Park Cool-Down

Kezar Stadium opened on May 2, 1925, and its track is right across the street, so a cool-down lap or a few stair sprints fit easily after an evening class. Walk west and you are inside Golden Gate Park within minutes, which is where many local traceurs practice outdoors on weekends once they have the basics from the Outback.

If you would rather eat than stretch, the western end of Haight Street meets Stanyan a few blocks north of the gym, and the strip of cafes, record shops and burrito counters there makes an easy stop on the walk back toward the Haight-Ashbury corner or the 7 bus.

Practical Notes

Address: 639 Frederick St, San Francisco, CA 94117. Email: info@acrosports.org. Adult parkour drop-in $40. Intro offer: 3 classes for $75. Class packs $185 for 5 and $350 for 10. Monthly plans $155 to $375. Private lesson $100. Youth parkour for ages 6 to 17, booked by session. Waiver required for everyone on the floor.

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