Worldwide jam (magazine)

Infobox Magazine
title = Worldwide JAM


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image_caption = The original "intended" issue of "WWJ"
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language = English
category = Sports
frequency = Bi-Monthly, with an annual Holiday issue [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20051216111350/http://www.worldwidejam.tv/ Christmas Edition of WWJ] ]
editor = None
editor_title = Editor-in-Chief
firstdate = Online Magazine - November 2005,
Printed Magazine - TBA
country = United Kingdom, United States, Canada
website = [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/ Worldwide JAM Online]
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Worldwide JAM or WWJ is currently an Internet based magazine aimed mainly toward the Parkour community. The magazine itself features a multitude of articles ranging from the appearance of parkour in the media including when members of the street team appeared on an episode of the BBC's motoring programme Top Gear featuring a race between James May in a new Peugeot 207 against two traceurs (Daniel Ilabaca and Kerbie from Worldwide JAM's 'Street Team') in the city of Liverpool on 23 July 2006. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Re7Z4XlPs Top Gear Series 8 Episode 7 23 July 2006] ] or whenever parkour is covered by even the local media and readers are generally encouraged to report & send in any newspaper or television coverage they have received. [ [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/SCPK.1.jam.parkour.html South Coast Parkour appear in the Daily Echo] ] [ [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/upg.1.jam.parkour.html The Urban Playground] ] The magazine also features a number of parkour related equipment ("like body building gear") or clothing evaluations to show how a traceur can increase his efficiency in the discipline by perhaps using the reviewed items, while the Worldwide Jam magazine promises to be impartial, unbiased and balanced some of these "road tests" have actually been written up by the magazines readers although it can be argued that this kind of reporting helps them achieve their goal.

Back in November 2005, Issue #1 of the magazine was set to have its printing date set and deliveries started, With the first three issues being published bi-monthly and limited to 10,000 copies only, also the magazine was originally only going to be sold via specialist retailers or by subscription. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20051127015030/www.worldwidejam.tv/mag.jam.parkour.html November 2005 Archived copy of the WWJ website] ] Problems arose however in getting the magazine into an actual physical format when JedRed Media lost its clientele with UK parkour team Urban Freeflow. [ [http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/front_end_images/news_pages/worldwide_jam.htm Freerunning game on PSP and PS2 featuring Urban Freeflow athletes as playable characters ] ] Many members of the parkour community are still awaiting copies of the magazine or refunds after purchasing advanced subscriptions of the magazine, some even dubbing the magazine "Worldwide Scam". [proboards forum - WWJ magazine outstanding subscriptions] The WWJ website is currently displaying the following message when you click on its Magazine tab:

"23/02/07

DETAILS COMING SHORTLY"

as of July 18, the page remains and no information has been released.

Planet Parkour

[http://www.worldwidejam.tv/PlanetParkour.1b.html Planet Parkour] , is a program on the worldwide jam website that was put together by Chris Phillips and is an adaptation of the Hotspot Map found on the South Coast Parkour community website. [ [http://www.scpk.info/MemGooMap.html South Coast Parkour - Hotspot Map] ] The program itself is based on a Google maps API and displays on the map a parkour "hotspot" location, also it is possible for any traceur using the service to set their own personal location showing where they themselves are.

Global Connect

[http://www.worldwidejam.tv/linkspage.jam.parkour.html| Global Connect] or the International Crew Directory is another service offered by the magazine that enables internet communities or groups of traceurs "teams" to have a link to their own websites by sending in their "crew banner" which comprises a 185x60 pixel jpeg or gif image which normally depicts the teams logo. Along with the banner the team must include the crew's website URL which then after admin approval gets added to the main directory on WWJ's website. All WWJ require for this service is to have the crew wishing to be added to the directory place WWJ's own banner on the crew's website.

Street Team

The current street team members for 2007 are: [ [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/streetteam.2.parkour.html Worldwide JAM - 2007 Street Team] ]

*Philli
*Andi
*Daniel Ilabaca
*Chris Harbour (Prozac)
*Drunkmonk
*Curtis Smalls
*Brad
*Luke Markey
*Brad Moss
*Ashley Holland
*Stuart Palmer
*Rich Jones
*Boki

External links

* [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/index.html Worldwide JAM Website - [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/index.html]
* [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/linkspage.jam.parkour.html Global Connect - [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/linkspage.jam.parkour.html]
* [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/PlanetParkour.1b.html Planet Parkour - [http://www.worldwidejam.tv/PlanetParkour.1b.html]

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