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India's first and only Parkour Gym just got better

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.

From the original Parkour Mumbai website. This copy was recovered from a Wayback Machine capture dated 25 June 2012. See the archived original.