One of our ongoing projects is the Parkour Tour, a film making project where we take one skilled Traceur to the home city of a foreign Parkour community. We capture the journey, the movements and the local culture. In turn we produce a series of videos from each city, which highlight all aspects of the practice and really shine a light on communities that we feel are inspiring to us.
The first city I wanted to visit was Madrid. Having already visited Barcelona, I thought that the Spanish capital would be a very interesting choice, and wasn’t proven wrong! I asked our good friend Will Sutton to join the Tour for episode one because he’s a kind soul, incredibly talented and expressed interest to travel more in the past. A perfect fit for the new adventure ahead!
Madrid itself has some of the best spots I’ve ever seen, such variety in atmosphere and architectural diversity exists there. We trained atop a mountain, on an amazing wooden structure and around some of the largest single training areas I’ve seen yet.
The community is also first rate, a collection of friendly and welcoming people with a very high level to boot. I can honestly say that the solidarity I’ve seen in Madrid is inspiring and an excellent example of how practicing movement can bring people together.
Here are some of the pictures I took with my iPhone whilst we were exploring and filming, the first episode will be out very soon!
amazing looking spots. I’m excited to see the finished video
where be these spots pls