Prabu Mani

Prabu Mani

An Introduction to Parkour and Special Needs

When we first began exploring parkour across different capacities and art forms, we were introduced to the possibility of working with children with special needs by the UPG team that visited from the UK. While we didn’t have any experience…

Performance Parkour Trip Memories

While any parkour trip would be chock full of high flying images and aesthetic performance photos, our trip to the UK to perform in different locations is best captured in these two images. Our trip that started with the STEAM…

Understanding Parkour – Beyond the Movement

Parkour is the art of overcoming obstacles that one encounters in an environment. This overcoming is a process of climbing, running, jumping, rolling, swinging, spinning, turning, crawling, and many more such movements. While from a purely neurotypical perspective, one might…

Part 1: Learning to Enjoy the Fear

This particular incident that I am writing about, would be the best ice-breaker into sharing about what it feels like to be a female dancer training in parkour with Parkour Circle as their new intern. This was sometime in June…

Parkour Circle and Satya Special School

After the opportunity was created to work with special needs children during The Urban Playground’s (UPG) visit in January 2016, we at Parkour Circle have begun training the children using Parkour methodologies. Working with Special Needs Children It has been…

Are My Parkour Movements Efficient?

Prabu guiding a student to climb a wall during a recent parkour session on harrington road in chennai.

People often get confused between “efficient” and “easy”. Most people don’t even give enough thought about what the difference is. Practicing parkour does not mean just jumps and workouts and random things on a day to day basis. There has…