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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Parkour Circle can now happily say that you are welcome to join us in our Parkour training sessions on Wednesday Mornings or Saturday Mornings. Both sessions are at 5:30 am, and they are spread across the city. They are also…
For the last 9 days, Parkour Circle has been working closely with The Urban Playground Team. We have jointly conducted workshops for diverse sets of audiences, ranging from differently abled children, to educators, to men-women-children-grandparents of socially excluded communities, and…
Greetings, searcher for Parkour knowledge! Welcome! We are a Parkour training organisation based in Chennai, India. This is the blog. You can expect to see posts and updates about various projects, classes, and other parkour related topics. You will also…
Timothy “Livewire” Shieff is a Freerunning athlete who has recently been in the spotlight after he won the World Freerun Championships ’09. He’s also appeared in the MTV Ultimate Parkour Challenge alongside other well known athletes like Daniel Ilabaca and Ryan Doyle. Tim…