National Jam 2012 Report

On May 6, 2012, Parkour Mumbai successfully concluded the biggest Parkour Jam the country had yet seen, as visitors from over 5 cities across the country, (and even one visitor from overseas who landed up in Mumbai just for our jam) descended upon the Parkour Mumbai gym, along with many, many others from the city, for three full days of fun and games, and seminars. Sadly, I was pretty-much unavailable to witness most of it, since I had taken on the responsibility of jam organizer and host, and had to look into the accommodation and food arrangements of all the guests that were staying at the gym, which ended up taking my full-time attention. And I wasn't around in town to post anything about the jam, because I left town for a month-long trip the very next day after the jam.

All-in-all, we hit some pretty neat attendance figures, with the highest number of people ever at a Parkour Jam in India in a day, as well as the highest total number of people to ever attend a Parkour Jam in India spread out over all three days. In addition to that, we also held some very important seminars about Safety, Strength Training, and a Practical Barbell Training session, videos for which should be up in the near future. We would also wish to thank our guest speaker, Mr. Kaizzad Capadia of K11 Fitness, who gave a very highly informative four hour talk on the importance of Strength Training for sports and for Parkour performance, and remain grateful to him for this gesture. I daresay it ended up opening quite a few eyes in the country's traceur body about the proper way to train for Parkour.

Unfortunately no one clicked any photos of this stupendous, unprecedented event, but we do have two video edits of the same. Here's Parkour Nasik's version of the event, and here's a video edit by Parkour Kolkata.