Bachelor's Degree – Coach Education
Gazi University, Faculty of Sports Sciences · Ankara
Specialisation: Artistic Gymnastics.
About Herr Karaca
Science.
Experience.
Responsibility.
Mustafa Karaca is a sports scientist, international parkour judge, former Turkish national coach and educator with extensive experience in youth, performance and federation sport.
World Gymnastics ID 87299Coach & JudgeSpeed & Freestyle
Parkour · Education · CompetitionCareer
Expertise from
theory and practice.
Master's Degree – Coach Education
Sinop University · Research programme with thesis
Research focus: motor development and fundamental movement education in early childhood.
Government-employed Coach
Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports · Sinop
Artistic Gymnastics and Parkour coaching, from fundamental movement to performance development.
Parkour Technical Committee Member
Turkish Gymnastics Federation
Contributions to rules, competition structures, coach and judge education, and national-squad development.
Former Turkish National Coach · Coach · Judge
FIG / World Gymnastics Parkour
International experience in Speed and Freestyle. World Gymnastics ID: 87299.
Current work in Germany
From local clubs
to the world stage.
Current assignments and voluntary projects, presented without implying employment by DTB or DTJ.
German team competition support
Sporting support and coaching for the German parkour team at the FIG World Cups in Montpellier and Istanbul.
Parkour in schools
Contributing to the nationwide Bundesjugendspiele Parkour pilot and practice-based qualification for teachers.
Voluntary project work
Specialist and voluntary contributions to parkour, youth and international exchange projects connected with DTB and DTJ.
Regional parkour development
Professional collaboration on contemporary parkour programmes, structures and public communication in the region.
Volunteer coach & board member
Volunteer club and coaching work with children, young people and performance-oriented athletes, helping shape sustainable parkour structures.
Official credentials
Judging &
international certificates.
Selected official credentials issued by FIG / World Gymnastics and the World Anti-Doping Agency. Each original document can be viewed directly.
2025–2028 · Category 3
FIG Parkour Intercontinental Judge
Parkour Freestyle · Intercontinental Judges Course, Lausanne 2024
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2022–2024 · Category 4
FIG International Parkour Judge
Parkour Freestyle & Speed · Europe-Africa Judges Course 2022
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1 March 2026
Safeguarding for Coaches
World Gymnastics Academy · Required course and exam
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21 February 2026
High Performance & Anti-Doping
WADA ADEL · Coaches of High Performance Education Program
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Scientific background
Understand movement.
Shape development.
Master's thesis: Early Childhood Movement Development
An eight-week gymnastics-based movement programme for children aged three to five produced significant improvements in balance, jumping, throwing, catching, flexibility and speed.
National Higher Education Thesis CentreThesis No. 651329
Teaching & Qualification
Knowledge that
strengthens structures.
As an educator for the Turkish Gymnastics Federation, Mustafa Karaca delivered rules education, competition judging and technical development for coaches and judges, alongside Parkour coaching courses and specialist workshops.
Coach & Judge Education
Rules, D/E panels, Speed and Freestyle judging, age groups and video-based assessment.
Parkour Workshops
Competition perspective, choreography for age groups and practical methodology.
Coach Courses Level 1 & 2
Structured Parkour education for assistant and advanced coaches.
Collaboration
Expertise for your
parkour project.
From a first training group to a sustainable federation structure.