Emotional parkour

29 October 2007
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Via Brummie of The Year nominee Pete Ashton comes news of this K-Swiss (you know like adidas pumps but more stripes) sponsored freerunning competition. It involves you doing a bit of parkour in designated spots in Brum (by the Bank of Scotland is a favourite it seems), not killing yourself or any of the mini goths that hang around there, and uploading the videos.

The prize is a trip to Lisses, Paris which is the ‘home of freerunning’, but a bit like winning a trip to Coventry (which I imagine is brill for this urban jumpy stuff), so I guess you’d really need to be into this to enter.

The site has a nice map of good places to jump off, over and through around the city centre, and some video of peoples doing their things.

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