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News    Pk-Day Mumbai 2010 has been preponed posted on August 17, 2010 by NOS Parkour Mumbai's Parkour Days traditionally happen on the 3rd Sunday of November every year. Due to unfortunate events last year our plans were canceled at the last minute and we had to postpone the event. Unfortunately it seems, due to a strange stroke of good fortune this year (disregard my antonymous metaphor), we will still be unable to keep our appointment with the traditional day this year, and have to shift the date of the Pk-Day to Tuesday, Sep 7, 2010 from the previously mentioned date of Sunday, November 21, 2010. I know, I know, it is not a Sunday, and weekdays aren't exactly feasible for everyone to jam on, but you will have to bear with me this time. The tight schedule of some important guests visiting us mandated this change, we had to accommodate holding the jam according to their period of visit, and I don't have the resources to organize two large jams within a span of a few months. (speculators and conspiracy theorists - no, it's not 3Run again, that's all I will say for now). Anyway, we have decided to do a nature-parkour-cum-methode-naturelle-jam-cum-trek out in the wilderness of the lush Ulhas Valley just off Khandala. Since Parkour Mumbai have been to Ulhas Valley for a jam before, we can vouch for the location. It involves a steep hour-long climb down the rocky valley to a beautiful river bed and a dream Parkour/MN hotspot. We plan to leave Mumbai early in the morning of the 7th, and hope to be back to town by nightfall. Further details about the logistics are being worked out and will be shared consequently. Needless to say, since arranging for transportation for such a large group (Parkour Mumbai members do not yet even know of this jam, and yet some more guests from outside promptly signed up for it upon hearing the news from me, effectively doubling the previous number of guests we were supposed to entertain) is going to be our main organizational hassle, if you are interested in attending this jam, now would be a good time to register with us. Please drop us an email on the website for the same. I absolutely will not entertain last-minute sign-ups because this is going to be a logistical nightmare for me to pull-off. Any minors wishing to attend this jam need to bring along signed parental letters of consent. Please click the `Read More` button below to read up on further important details about the jam/trek.  Read more... Please Say No. Please Let Us Not Associate Parkour With Smoking posted on August 14, 2010 by NOS Mark Toorock of American Parkour just forwarded me a very disturbing piece of news. A Tobacco company is sponsoring a five-city `Parkour Rally` event in China in the name of charity, but what is clearly a veiled attempt at targeting youth and overcoming current promotion and advertising restrictions through conventional mediums on Tobacco companies. What is even more disturbing is the fact that these so-called traceurs decided to sell themselves out and prostitute our discipline for want of a little fame and money. Please show your support people. As a community we are still trying to figure out a good way to battle this, but for now, we are trying to raise as much awareness about it in the Parkour communities as possible, and to get the support of all traceurs. To voice your concern, post in our forum thread by clicking the `Read More` button below. Or alternately, you could post on our Facebook page here http://www.facebook.com/ParkourMumbai. Once we have a more clear-cut line of action defined, I will post back informing everyone what we have decided to do, and how you can help further. You can find the original article on the APK website here: http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/5676/1/  Read more... Be Careful of Parkour Trainers or Classes posted on August 3, 2010 by NOS We have been coming across quite a few cases of bogus parkour instruction springing up around the country of late, and Parkour India decided to come up with some guidelines for the general public in light of the same. Click the `Read More` button to read the full article on the Parkour India website.  Read more... Interviews, Interviews! posted on July 19, 2010 by NOS I've been giving interviews left, right, and center these past couple of months. Gabe Arnold, the resident American Parkour journalist, recently caught up with me for an interview on the scene in India, the country's only Parkour gym, and more. The interview can be found here: http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/5605/ A new online youth magazine, Whackk.com, also recently did a hilarious but interesting piece on me, and another one on Parkour itself. You can read them here: http://www.whackk.com/june-2010/traceur-bullet http://www.whackk.com/june-2010/move-meant Lastly, Hindustan Times published a news article on Parkour in its Delhi edition yesterday, for which I had given another lengthy interview. The original piece was supposed to be a comprehensive look into Parkour in the country, and was supposed to be published nation-wide. But despite all the well-intentioned reporter's efforts, an over-zealous editor screwed the entire piece up and the end result turned out to be very embarrassing, even going so far as to totally distort the meaning of all the things that we (the senior Parkour India traceurs) had said. So I'm not going to put up a link to that disappointment over here. India's first and only Parkour Gym just got better posted on May 30, 2010 by NOS We've just added some new fixed outdoor equipment to our existing gym setup at the Sports Authority of India center at Kandivali, and are on our way to getting a more permanent status for running our classes there. So that now gives us access to a huge mat covered gym with custom-made Parkour Mumbai indoor equipment for Parkour training, along with an outdoor free-standing scaffolding structure, a couple of weight training gyms, climbing ropes, and lots more indoors and outdoors training opportunities inside this vast facility on a more permanent basis - the makings of India's first and only full-fledged Parkour training facility. (Please do not mistake full-fledged as full-time, the training facility is not full-time for Parkour training, it is still primarily a SAI center and Parkour Mumbai has been given permission to train and keep their equipment there.) Grand Opening for the new scaffolding equipment took place Saturday and Sunday for students and select Parkour Mumbai/Team NUTs members. Most people to see the scaffolding structure immediately reverted back to their childhoods and it was a hard job dragging them away from it when it was time to leave. Pictures for the SAI training facility (which includes the scaffolding structure) can be found here. Seeing as we do not have any actual blueprints for any of the stuff we have made so far, we're releasing some `under-construction` pictures as well so that anyone looking to replicate this stuff may take cues and tips from them and not have to flounder around in the dark. You can find them here. Injuries!! posted on May 10, 2010 by NOS Injury season seems to be upon us. I'm really sad to inform you that in two separate events in the past two months, I have seen two incidents of shattered bones due to techniques gone wrong. In the first incident, respected French traceur Naim shattered all the bones in his forearm when he took a nasty fall from a height of 6 feet after bailing from a simple monkey, missing his landing and falling straight on his arm. A few days ago, Parkour Mumbai's very own Psycho bailed from a simple B-Twist, on the sandy beach no less, fell on his thigh and broke it in 5 pieces. In both cases the traceurs had to undergo major surgeries to fix their bones back together, including inserting several metal plates inside. We visited Psycho in the hospital, and were happy to see that despite such a nasty accident he still hasn't lost his spirit or his sense of humor. Reports from France also state that Naim is showing similar fortitude after his accident. Here's wishing both a speedy recovery, and hope that it doesn't dampen their spirit even after recovery and that we can see them back in action soon. I would also like to take this moment to highlight the dangers of practicing parkour/freerunning/tricking once again, and also point out the dangers of training on rooftops for new/untrained individuals, even though neither accident took place on the rooftops (thankfully, otherwise it might have proven fatal). Neither of these injuries took place because of a lack of conditioning on the part of the practitioner either, but because of a momentary lack of focus. This, and my own weight training accident from a couple of months ago serve to highlight the fact that we must NEVER lose focus of what we are doing whenever training, because a momentary loss of focus is all it takes for a major incident to happen. Delayed Start to the Summer Camp posted on May 4, 2010 by NOS We've got excellent news! The Parkour Mumbai Introduction to Parkour Summer Camp looks like it might happen after all, despite the delayed start. The Camp is going to be conducted from May 17 to Jun 16, and will run from Mondays to Fridays from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM at the Judo Hall of the Sports Authority of India, Kandivali (E). Please email us for further details, enquiring about the charges, and for registration. (Please do not contact the SAI office for details about the camp since they are not equipped to answer your queries about a Parkour Mumbai workshop, they are merely providing us with space to train.) We may have limited seats available for the camp this time, so we'll be accepting admissions on a first-come first-serve basis only. Register now!! Going Commercial posted on May 1, 2010 by NOS I have been putting this off for a very long time, but I think I will finally have to end up taking this step now. The costs of running this website, and Parkour Mumbai the organisation are too much, and taking up far too much of my time, and the returns negligible. I have always believed in keeping organisational websites free of external ads, and avoided putting up any sort of advertisements on this site since the day we opened. But I feel that the time has come now when I will have to start looking to tap into all the sources of revenue I can find to help keep us afloat. And putting up an unobtusive section of google ads in a corner of the website is one such thing. Hope you guys don't mind and keep showing us the same support as before. Although in retrospect I feel that despite having put up these ads here for a week now, they do not seem to be bringing in any revenue. So I'll leave it here as an experimental feature for a few months and see if it works. If it doesn't, then we'll go back to being the ad-free website that everyone knew and loved. Website Overhaul posted on April 21, 2010 by NOS I've finally gotten down to doing something I had been procrastinating about for a long time, and that is - a complete design overhaul of the entire website. Some design elements that you guys used to complain about might get fixed, some might not. Depends on how much time and inclination I have, seeing as I'm still doing this thing by myself and haven't got hold of an actual designer to help bail me out. I have already started by adding a nifty `Connect with Us` sidebar to all pages, something that should solve the `the site looks too dull, it needs more color` complaint that was most common with everyone. The purpose of this news item is to inform everyone that the design overhaul is going to be an ongoing process for the next few months, so I would request you guys not to worry if portions of the site seem out-of-whack, display wierd characters, look ugly (that is, uglier than before), elements show up in wierd places or do not show up at all, or if the entire website disappears altogether. If this happens, please do not panic, it's still all there intact, it only means I goofed up while changing some visual settings. If at any time the site itself is inaccessible and you wish to report any issue, you may contact us in our alternate locations at Facebook or Orkut (links available now to your left, you might want to consider adding yourselves to both pages now over getting completely cut off at a later date when I inevitably goof up on a setting and make the site unavailable for a while), or if you remember our email id, simply drop me an email. Team NUTs Gym Sampler 2010 posted on April 16, 2010 by NOS Presenting this year's new Parkour Mumbai training video, the Team NUTs Gym Sampler 2010 (although I don't think at 20 minutes runtime it has any right to be called a 'sampler', even trailers for feature length movies only run for 2-3 minutes, but I always felt that word felt kinda cool, so...). Once again, this video is not about the flash, but depicts how we at Parkour Mumbai take our training seriously and progress in a slow, safe and sure manner. Since the last training video to come out of the PkMum stables featured more of conditioning training with a little skill training thrown in, this one is more about skill training with a little conditioning thrown in. Hope you guys won't get bored by the loooong running length and will enjoy watching it through to the end it as much as I enjoyed making it. Here it is in two parts: Part I Part II We also uploaded another slow (and boring for some) video about a few PkMum traceuses climbing a tree a few days ago, if you're interested in watching it. Again, this is not a Parkour/Freerun video, and certainly not a flashy video, it is just to depict how girls are also actively participating in the culture of physical movement in Mumbai. Indian Traceuses - Official Ape Stamp Parkour Mumbai Parkour Summer Camp posted on April 11, 2010 by NOS Parkour Mumbai will be conducting a month-long Introduction To Parkour Summer Camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Sports Center at Kandivali (E) as part of SAI's annual Summer Camp program. Currently we are looking at holding these classes five days a week from Monday through Friday (with Saturday being our regular parkour classes (not included in the Summer Camp) and Sunday being off) from April 16, 2010 to May 17, 2010. Charges for attending the camp are Rs. 3000/- per head, all inclusive. The timings for the Summer Camp haven't been finalised yet, and will only be finalised by the SAI authorities on the 15th or 16th of April, and we may begin the actual training camp from the 16th or 17th onwards. But we are mostly looking at morning timings of either 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM or 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM, with sessions lasting two hours each. Please email us for registration and also for any enquiries you may have. Parkour.Net for Sale posted on February 19, 2010 by NOS Jerome, the webmaster of Parkour.NET, has decided to sell the website. He sells the domain name 'Parkour.NET' obviously, plus the databases and forum archives, a few other parkour related domains, and some miscellaneous stuff. You can find all details here - Parkour.NET is for sale Please do not contact Parkour Mumbai if you are interested in purchasing the domain, but get in touch with Jerome using the contact form provided on the page mentioned above. Interview with Livewire posted on February 10, 2010 by NOS Chennai Parkour did an interview with Timothy `Livewire` Shieff of WFPF recently, and have uploaded a transcript of it to their website. An exerpt: 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 graciously took the time (even though he's been working hard, and fighting sleep deprivation) to answer some questions that my buddies at Chennai Parkour had for him. Here they are, for everyone to partake in. Prabu asks `In the midst of the most physically demanding move, what runs through your mind? How do you build....` Check out this link or click the `Read More` button below for the full interview.  Read more... New Media posted on February 5, 2010 by NOS We've just uploaded a ton of new media after a long period of inactivity including a ton of new photographs, a few new photo albums and a couple of videos. Be sure to check out the updated older albums as well. http://www.parkourmumbai.com/mediaalbums.php Then for those that were waiting for visuals from the Hyderabad Pk-Day, you can check select pictures from that day in the album here, and the video of the jam here. The highly anticipated album of the Pk-Day Mumbai 2009 can be seen here, and the video (in 2 parts) can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ikgTC22dY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2Stb33cDU We have also moved some of our older videos over to our new Vimeo channel because of certain issues with Youtube, so anyone who missed seeing the good ol' days can find our older stuff on this channel. Pk-Day Mumbai 2009 - A Fantastic Trek posted on January 3, 2010 by NOS We have been holding these annual jams for a few years now. Every year at each jam we see a lot of new faces as fresh new blood comes in realising the joys of practicing parkour, a lot of the older ones disappear as they realise that maybe parkour is not for them after all, and then there are those few who are doggedly persistent and are a common sight at every jam. This year's jam was no different. But unlike last year's jam, there was no media present as this was more like a private gathering, and a few people with us this time weren't even traceurs/traceuses, but they were simply people who came along for the trek (though they didn't leave without us introducing them to the wonder that is parkour). But like every other year, we had a load of fun at the jam despite all that. This year saw us head out to Karnala Fort today for a Parkour-cum-Trekking expedition with a group of 20 people (this figure is getting to be a standard attendance figure for Indian parkour jams). Unlike in the past, due to low interest in actual Parkour jams this year (2009), we decided to bring a little change into the mix (after being inspired a lot from my man from Hawaii, Ozzi's nature parkour videos. Ozzi, I need to start writing you royalty cheques for all the recent different forms of inspiration you've been giving me), and went trekking to the fort with a lot of methode naturale training on wayward rocks and trees thrown in for good measure. The trick actually worked, and this was one of the most fun and memorable jams we have had at Parkour Mumbai so far. (Don't know how many people will be able to get up from their beds tomorrow and go to work though, please forgive me for that .) We have a lot of footage - both videos and pictures - from the event that I will have to shortly sit and sift through, although once again, I cannot promise a good video edit of our jam because the battery from our main handycam ran out of juice a short way through the climb (thanks a ton, Daredevil ), and we had to rely on low-quality digicam and cellphone footage instead. But we do have a lot of good quality pictures that will be going up on the website shortly, so keep your eyes peeled for both. We are also happy to announce that this being our first real outdoor jam out in the nature, we also followed APK's Leave No Trace, and although we didn't explicitly volunteer to clean up trash in our surroundings, we strove to make a conscious effort not to litter ourselves, and also cleaned any stray pieces of litter we came across. So what if the pk-day 2009 was actually held in 2010? We're still gonna hold the 2010 event later this year, hopefully keeping our date with the traditional 3rd Sunday of November. See all you guys next year this November. Older articles.

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