Brad Wendes is one of the founding members, and artistic directors of Kinetix. Brad has been training in gymnastics from a young age, practicing Parkour & Free Running since 2004, and teaching Free Running since 2005.
Brad was one of the founding members of the British Parkour Coaching Association. As well as running Kinetix, Brad is a Parkour teacher and gymnastic coach at the East 15 Acting School.
Since Parkour and Free Running took off as popular performance skills, Brad has been successfully performing for corporate and public audiences around the world.
Highlights of Brad's career to date include:
- Co-writing, Producing and appearing in "Who'd be a Smuggler?" for Kinetix summer 2008 tour
- Appearing in the 007 Casino Royale online game by Sony - click here to play
- Performing at the British Fashion Awards 2008
- Holding 2 Guinness World Records in gymnastics
- Performing in front of Queen Elizabeth II at the 1999 Royal Tournament
- Appearing on ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007, and reaching the live semi-finals, viewed by 8.3 million people
- Leading Team UK to silver medals in the 2008 World Parcouring Championships
- Performing at the World Premiere of 'Sex & the City' the movie
- Featured role in the 2007 movie "28 Weeks Later"
- Performing at the 2008 Bread & Butter fashion trade show in Barcelona
Other notable clients include:
- Mazda
- Duracell
- Samsung
- Sony - click here for video of this job
- Caterpillar Footwear
- Victorinox
- K-Swiss
- Fujitsu
- Wrangler
- Budweiser
- Ministry of Sound
- Orange Communications
- British Fashion Awards
- JJB Sport
- BBC
Skills include:
- Parkour
- Free Running
- Acrobatics
- Gymnastics
- Coaching
- Acting
- Presenting
- Modeling
- Wire Work
- Stage Combat
- Circus Skills (Chinese Pole, Bungee, Rope & Static Trapeze)
www.bradwendes.com
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