Parkour Classes and the Parkour Mumbai Gym.
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Parkour Mumbai boasts of the only Parkour Training Facility in the entire country, and also runs the only Parkour Classes in India at the same facility. (If you find any other people claiming to also run Parkour classes, please read this article before proceeding to get duped.)
We boast of a variety of infrastructure, some of it helpfully provided by the Sports Authority of India, Mumbai, to help learn Parkour in a safe and structured manner. The Sports Authority of India training center at Mumbai, especially its Assistant Director Mr. Virendra Bhandarkar, generously stepped up to the occasion and provided us with training space at their facility when no one else used to let us train anywhere, and we used to be actively chased away from our older hotspots. What we now have is a vast playground (which actually consists of multiple literal playgrounds) at our disposal in terms of their indoor and outdoor locations for training. This includes some good architecture in the layout of the facility, a couple of huge grounds, several indoor gyms with padded surfaces, weight training gyms, and more, not the least of which is an extremely friendly environment from the inhabitants of the place.
This also includes specific Parkour Mumbai equipment and obstacles constructed especially for mastering the basics of Parkour in a simulated environment where people cannot have access to actual outdoor locations or hotspots for a variety of reasons (which includes our ideal of no-trespassing, and is also partly due to a distinct lack of parkour-enabling infrastructure in the layout of Indian cities). So with this facility, our aim is to provide a ready training ground to those interested in learning this discipline but with nowhere to go to.
Please note that though this is a full-fledged Parkour facility, it 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.
Parkour Mumbai also boasts of years of teaching experience in Parkour, and conducts the country's only Parkour classes.
The growing sentiment within the worldwide Parkour community has been that newcomers should progress in Parkour through a systematic training routine rather than haphazard training methods trying to emulate half-baked tutorials and other things they see in online videos. This structured training methodology includes a sensible strength and conditioning program and intelligent programming of parkour skill training, applying slow and steady, step-by-step progression. Newcomers simply trying to go out and imitate videos almost always inevitably leads to injuries (both external in the form of accidents, and internal in the form of long-term joint damage), and also leads to certain negative manifestations of all the philosophies which we hold dear in Parkour - i.e. no trespassing, no rooftops, no stupid stunts or showing off, no competition, respect for your environment, respect for others, slow progression, safety and longevity, etc.
As a result, more and more number of practitioners worldwide opine that a newcomer should only attempt to learn Parkour under the guidance of an experienced traceur and should not try things on his own.
The Parkour Mumbai Parkour Classes run by NOS, one of the senior-most traceurs in India, brings together this vast experience in Parkour and knowledge of physical training to help you achieve your goal of becoming a good practitioner of Parkour/ADD, and at the same time progress in a safe and structured manner and learn the philosophies of the discipline along the way. We provide quality teaching in this discipline in line with established training practices adopted by international Parkour communities American Parkour and Parkour Generations/Majestic Force/ADAPT.
Our classes are conducted on weekend mornings at the Sports Authority of India facility at Kandivali(E). If you are interested in enrolling in the same, please send us an email enquiry.
More photographs of the classes and gym can be found here and here.
You can also find some select videos of training being conducted in our classes if you scroll below.
Learning Parkour is not all that difficult if you let an experienced instructor coach you in it.
Videos:
(although the videos below depict training in our class, they're more of 'lifestyle' videos, and instead focus on the fun our students have in class every now and then more than the training.)