Kenneth Washington

I go by Kenny and most of the time I go by coach Kenny. Before my high school years, I began to start training a sport named parkour. It includes overcoming obstacles, physically and mentally. In learning parkour, I also started to learn freerunning, which is freedom of movement such as, moving creatively over, around, and off of obstacles. Flips off of benches, stairs, or over barriers are also linked into freerunning as well. The begining of my high school years were rough, because like every other teenager, I thought it had no purpose. While I was in high school I was trying to find out who I was and what I wanted to do. As I matured, I realized that I needed to do better in order to graduate and move on to bigger and better things. I started coaching parkour and freerunning by the end of high school and I still do now, three years later. However, while I began coaching more parkour and freerunning, I also began coaching girl's beginner gymnastics. I have found coaching to be one of my passions that I will continue to pursue for a very long time. After graduation, I was not sure of taking on more schooling, so I took a gap year to work full time and to save up to visit a foreign country for the first time. I have always had an interest in other cultures and languages. I enjoyed teaching myself basic to intermediate Japanese during my high school years. I also enjoyed learning Spanish in an academic setting. I have decided to pursue that area of interest along with a business background in order to experience more cultures and to see if I can impact the lives of other people from the knowledge I attain from my experiences.