A Parkour thought process
One of the best things about practicing parkour is how our worldview changes over a period of time. As children we would have had this habit of seeing ourselves do things in the real world. that was our primary way…
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Simple training or intense training in parkour
A lot of times in parkour training the emphasis is on doing a big movement or doing a flashy movement that looks good on video. There have been instances where people have tried to do a move 15 to 20…
Injuries while training
One of the most difficult phases in any athlete or artists’ life is the time when injuries occur. I have had two surgeries in the last four years. One for my ACL and one for my foot when it had…
When the Vaults become the Obstacle in Parkour.
I have been practicing parkour close to 20 years now. When we started training we would try to discover vaults and find out what is being practiced by the founders on the other side of the globe. In 2005 and…
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?
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…