{"id":33764,"date":"2016-11-15T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=33764"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:22:34","slug":"freerunning-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2016\/11\/15\/freerunning-in-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping into freerunning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hitting the wall is not a problem when training in Cardiff\u2019s only freerunning academy<\/h2>\n

People are\u00a0running up walls and swinging from bars in\u00a0<\/span>Fluidity Freerun Academy<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0Cardiff\u2019s only freerunning academy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parkour, or freerunning, is a discipline <\/span>developed from French military obstacle course training, where practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment as efficiently as possible, without using any equipment. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Freerunning can be a very creative way of maintaining fitness. Craig Robinson, 29, co-director and head coach at the academy, stated that people who start learning parkour don\u2019t realise they\u2019re getting fitter and stronger, because they see it as a challenge rather than exercise. He says, \u201cYou keep going until you\u2019ve nailed the challenge and you feel good because you\u2019ve nailed it! So really parkour and freerunning is born out of challenging yourself.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Craig explained the academy started as a team of friends who wanted to practice parkour. They started doing media performances and coaching work, ultimately leading to their ambition of building a space to teach and practise parkour. They were able to achieve this, he explained, by starting a crowdfunder to create a bespoke training facility within an old trampoline park, making it the ideal place to train with freerunners.<\/span><\/p>\n