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Parkour Mumbai

This is the memorial and archive of Parkour Mumbai, one of India's first parkour communities, and of its founder, NOS.

Parkour Mumbai is no longer active. The group came to a close in 2014, after NOS passed away.

The group

Parkour Mumbai was active until 2014. It is remembered as one of the groups that started parkour in India.

It ran classes, organised jams and workshops, and performed for film, television and live events. Its gym was at the Sports Authority of India facility in Kandivali (East), which NOS described at the time as the country's only dedicated parkour gym. Training ran through structured programmes there, including the Basics Bootcamp, a 12-week fundamentals course, and Practical Locomotion for intermediate students.

Parkour Mumbai also connected the scene beyond the city. It supported newer groups such as Parkour Nasik, hosted national jams that brought practitioners together from across India, and welcomed traceurs from abroad.

NOS

NOS founded Parkour Mumbai and was its mentor and driving force. He taught, organised, wrote, and built bridges between parkour communities around India and abroad.

At national jams he gave seminars on safety, injury prevention, progression and strength training, and he wrote at length about how to train well. He passed away in July 2014.

NOS was an intensely private person and did not share his real name widely. In keeping with his wishes, this site uses only the name he chose.

Timeline

  1. NOS discovers parkour and starts training on his own. History

  2. The first regular practice sessions in Mumbai, in New Bombay. The annual Pk-Day on the third Sunday of November traces back to this. History

  3. NOS trains with the New Bombay group and proposes a website for parkour in the city. Parkour Mumbai is born. History

  4. The Parkour Mumbai website launches. News post

  5. The first Parkour Mumbai mega-jam, in Nerul, brings the city's practitioners together. News post

  6. NOS starts India's first formal parkour class, at the Sports Authority of India centre in Kandivali. History

  7. parkourmumbai.com becomes the group's website. News post

  8. The first Pk-Day Mumbai draws more than 30 traceurs from across the city. News post

  9. New equipment at the SAI gym makes it what NOS called India's first and only parkour gym. News post

  10. Pk-Day Mumbai and the National Jam, attended by traceurs from across India and by members of American Parkour. Article

  11. The first Sledgehammer Challenge, an event NOS created. News post

  12. Parkour India National Jam, three days at the SAI gym with visitors from more than five cities. NOS reported it as the largest parkour jam India had yet seen. News post

  13. The seventh annual Pk-Day, held in Navi Mumbai. News post

  14. Classes are reorganised into 12-week Basics Bootcamps and intermediate training. News post

  15. NOS writes about the real-world use of parkour for Jet Wings magazine. Article

  16. NOS passes away, and Parkour Mumbai comes to a close.

Dates up to 2008 come from the group's own history; later ones from NOS's news posts.

Writing by NOS

NOS wrote at length about training, strength and how parkour should be taught. His articles from the original site are restored in full:

He also wrote 96 news posts between 2007 and 2013, covering the group's classes, jams and events.

The original website

Parkour Mumbai's website ran at this address from 2007. Much of it was saved by web archives, and we are restoring what survives here as a clearly marked archive.

Restored here: the group's history, NOS's news posts, his articles, how the group ran, its events, the press coverage and the photos. See how the original site looked.

After the original registration lapsed in 2016, this address passed through several unrelated owners, and content that had nothing to do with Parkour Mumbai appeared here. That content has been removed. The domain is now held by a friend of NOS, for this memorial.

Elsewhere

Parkour Mumbai (parkourmumbai.com) is not connected to Mumbai Parkour or the Mumbai Movement Academy (mumbaiparkour.org), which started around 2018.