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…

Welcome to the Parkour Circle Blog

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…

Interview with Tim “Livewire” Shieff

Tim Shieff hanging off a parapet

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…