<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Parkour Circle blog</title><description>Writing from Parkour Circle, Chennai, on parkour, movement education and performance.</description><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/</link><language>en-in</language><item><title>A Parkour Thought Process</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/a-parkour-thought-process/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/a-parkour-thought-process/</guid><description>One of the best things about practising parkour is how our worldview changes over a period of time. As children we would have had this habit of seeing…</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:53:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Simple Training or Intense Training in Parkour</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/simple-training-or-intense-training-in-parkour/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/simple-training-or-intense-training-in-parkour/</guid><description>A lot of times in parkour training the emphasis is on doing a big movement or doing a flashy movement that looks good on video. There have been instances…</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:46:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Injuries While Training</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/injuries-while-training/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/injuries-while-training/</guid><description>One of the most difficult phases in any athlete or artists&apos; life is the time when injuries occur. I have had two surgeries in the last four years. One for…</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:37:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When the Vaults Become the Obstacle in Parkour.</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/when-the-vaults-become-the-obstacle-in-parkour/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/when-the-vaults-become-the-obstacle-in-parkour/</guid><description>I have been practising parkour close to 20 years now. When we started training we would try to discover vaults and find out what is being practised by the…</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:42:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>An Introduction to Parkour and Special Needs</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/an-introduction-to-parkour-and-special-needs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/an-introduction-to-parkour-and-special-needs/</guid><description>When we first began exploring parkour across different capacities and art forms, we were introduced to the possibility of working with children with…</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:01:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Performance Parkour Trip Memories</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/performance-parkour-trip-memories/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/performance-parkour-trip-memories/</guid><description>While any parkour trip would be chock full of high flying images and aesthetic performance photos, our trip to the UK to perform in different locations is…</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:50:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Understanding Parkour - Beyond the Movement</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/understanding-parkour-beyond-the-movement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/understanding-parkour-beyond-the-movement/</guid><description>Parkour is the art of overcoming obstacles that one encounters in an environment. This overcoming is a process of climbing, running, jumping, rolling…</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:06:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Part 1: Learning to Enjoy the Fear</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/overcoming-fears/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/overcoming-fears/</guid><description>This particular incident that I am writing about, would be the best ice-breaker into sharing about what it feels like to be a female dancer training in…</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:00:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parkour Circle and Satya Special School</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/parkour-circle-satya-special-school/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/parkour-circle-satya-special-school/</guid><description>After the opportunity was created to work with special needs children during The Urban Playground&apos;s (UPG) visit in January 2016, we at Parkour Circle have…</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:40:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Parkour Circle</category><category>Special Needs Children</category><category>Satya Special School</category></item><item><title>Are My Parkour Movements Efficient?</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/parkour-movements-efficient/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/parkour-movements-efficient/</guid><description>People often get confused between &quot;efficient&quot; and &quot;easy&quot;. Most people don&apos;t even give enough thought about what the difference is. Practising parkour does…</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:27:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Now, Two Weekly Parkour Training Sessions!</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/now-two-weekly-parkour-training-sessions-chennai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/now-two-weekly-parkour-training-sessions-chennai/</guid><description>Parkour Circle can now happily say that you are welcome to join us in our Parkour training sessions on Wednesday Mornings or Saturday Mornings. Both…</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:53:16 GMT</pubDate><category>practice</category><category>parkour training</category><category>parkour sessions</category><category>parkour in chennai</category></item><item><title>Parkour Jam and Performance Parkour Workshop on 18th January, 2016</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/parkour-jam-and-performance-parkour-workshop-on-18th-january-2016/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/parkour-jam-and-performance-parkour-workshop-on-18th-january-2016/</guid><description>For the last 9 days, Parkour Circle has been working closely with The Urban Playground Team. We have jointly conducted workshops for diverse sets of…</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 03:53:57 GMT</pubDate><category>UPG</category><category>parkour jam</category><category>workshop</category><category>performance parkour</category><category>2pk</category></item><item><title>Welcome to the Parkour Circle Blog</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/welcome-to-the-parkour-circle-blog/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/welcome-to-the-parkour-circle-blog/</guid><description>Greetings, searcher for Parkour knowledge! Welcome! We are a Parkour training organisation based in Chennai, India. This is the blog. You can expect to…</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:37:42 GMT</pubDate><category>hello</category><category>Intro</category></item><item><title>Interview with Tim &quot;Livewire&quot; Shieff</title><link>https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/interview-with-tim-livewire-shieff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.parkourcircle.org/blog/interview-with-tim-livewire-shieff/</guid><description>Timothy &quot;Livewire&quot; Shieff is a Freerunning athlete who has recently been in the spotlight after he won the World Freerun Championships &apos;09. He&apos;s also…</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate><category>traceur</category><category>interview</category></item></channel></rss>