OUR STORY
Pinnacle Parkour Academy (PPK), founded in 2010, was the first facility on the east coast dedicated solely to Parkour & Freerunning. Since our humble beginnings, teaching in a small basement in Southern New Jersey, we have expanded to multiple 5,000sqft facilities, designed a nationally trademarked licensing program, developed a proprietary Parkour Instructor Certification Course, and assembled an amazing build team to design and construct obstacles for people across the country.
Our goal is to inspire people through movement. Our Parkour programming offers safe and progressive training methods, ensuring physical and mental advancement through the discipline of Parkour & Freerunning.
As a company, we are driven by culture and community. We work tirelessly to ensure our coaches, facilities, affiliates, programming, and obstacles change lives and impact people of all ages in a positive way.
OUR TEAM
Jaimin Gallagher
Co-Founder
Jaimin is one of the original PPK founders and started his training in 2005 after he researched the term “freerunners” and discovered the discipline of Parkour. Jaimin has a deep understanding of the theory behind Parkour viewing body as a tool for navigating the environment around him. He’s been creating class programming and running technique classes/workshops for PPK since 2010. Jaimin is the head coach and co-manager of our Princeton facility. He is also very fond of hooded sweatshirts
Gabe Arnold
Coach | Certification Director
Gabe is an original founder of PPK, has been training since 2006, and coaching since 2009. He is a standout coach with an extensive education and background in sports and all things movement. Gabe holds a Masters of Science in Human Movement Science, is a certified strength & conditioning specialist, holds an Apex Lv.1 and PKGen Lv.1 certification, and has also appeared on American Ninja Warrior. He is a longtime weightlifter, track & field competitor, and soccer player. Gabe once wrote an entire parkour-based novel.
Phil Pirollo
President | Founder
Phil has been teaching movement since 2003 and Parkour since 2010. He is the President and an original founder of PPK. Phil is a 10+ year fitness professional with a B.A. in Exercise Science. He also has appeared on American Ninja Warrior making it to the Vegas finals. Phil lives with family in South Jersey and is known for his big dreams, brewing his own coffee from whole organic beans, and liking his own posts on social.
Caleb Strohl
Coach
Caleb had always been very active and loved sports all through this life. When he was 11 year old, he discovered PPK after watching American Ninja Warrior and started taking classes here. A few years later and he’s now on the other side of class as a coach, teaching others what his coaches once taught him.