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Parkour is a physical discipline inspired
by human movement, focusing on fast efficient forward motion
over, under, and around obstacles in one's environment. Such
movement may come in the form of running, jumping, climbing, and
more complex techniques. The goal of parkour is to adapt one's
movement to any given obstacle.
New England Parkour (NEPK) was founded at the start of 2006 with
the goals of spreading the original ideals of Parkour in a
positive light throughout the northeast and building a
harmonious community. In order to follow those ideals we
maintain that parkour cannot be competitive, and attempt to help
our fellow traceurs whenever possible. We aim to be
useful, helpful and humble in our practice. We welcome people of all disciplines to join our community and come
train
with us. NEPK is dedicated to serving its members, and proceeds
from this site go back into the community. By helping our
members train and travel to jams, we hope to encourage them to
help each other and remain part of a healthy community
Although our average age over the 6 states is 17, we have had
people from ages 12 to 40 join our sessions. Our community welcomes
anyone willing to learn with open arms. Also, since there is
such a wide range of techniques to practice, weight and fitness
is not an issue. Parkour is great because there are no set
paths and no set difficulty level; it is fully scalable to
whatever you are capable of or however hard you want to push
your limits. You are not required nor pushed to do anything at
sessions and pending on what you want to do, you can be given small
tasks in order to build your skills up. All in all, you are free
to just watch the first few times as well while getting
accustomed to what we do. |
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