You're walking around campus and suddenly someone flips off a bench and vaults over a wall leaving you just standing there thinking "WTF!?!"
Well that is exactly what the Warwick Tricking & Freerunning society is about!
We don't care if you're a boy, a girl, a cat or a brick. Anyone can join and we guarantee if you keep coming to training you'll be able to flip or vault outside whenever you feel like it!
Honestly, you might be sceptical about your ability to do this and think: "It looks awesome but I could NEVER do that myself!"
WRONG!
Genuinely ANYONE can do this sport no matter what your shape or size.
We've seen 50 year olds with beer bellies consistently train until even they can flip!
We are a society catering to all those who wish to practice Parkour, Freerunning, Tricking, XMA and Gymnastics or just have fun! To help save on confusion here is a brief description of the differences between the sports:
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Parkour: Getting from point 'A' to point 'B' as quickly and as efficiently as possible. It is a non-competitive sport of traversing mainly urban landscapes using only your body. Skills such as vaulting, rolling, swinging and wall scaling are employed. No flips
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Tricking: A relatively new underground alternative sport movement which combines martial arts with gymnastics and any other medium such as breakdancing to create an "aesthetic blend of flips, kicks, and twists."
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Free Running: This sport is a hybrid of Parkour and Tricking, the only goal is to "enjoy the art of movement". It combines the efficient moves and vaults of Parkour with the aesthetically pleasing flips of Tricking. It is practised outside in urban areas and all manner of styles are used.
There is an adult freestyle class run at Coventry Sports Centre, Fairfax Street, Coventry CV1 5RY on Wednesday from 1pm - 4pm which is just £3! We are working on organising a society exclusive session at a different point in the week as well as classes on campus and occasionally train in Coventry which is an INCREDIBLE city to practice parkour and/or freerunning.
We train in association with the Star Gymnastics club and any information about them can be found at their site Star Gymnastics.
But we aren't all flips and vaults! In the 2011-2012 year we're looking to hold a lot more socials to get to know each other and of course drink in a quiet and responsible matter...*cough*
To get in touch with the society the best approach is to:
At the end of last year we had a session with a professional photographer around Coventry. Below is one of the pictures which is also a link to the album with the rest of the photos. We hope to have more sessions with him this year and get some more awesome hi-def pics!
Below is a video of some of our members:
Here are a couple of other videos on Parkour, Tricking and Free Running:
Parkour
(Every stunt in this video actually happens, no CGI or trick camera work)
Tricking
Free Running
(Skip to about 55 seconds in)
And for those that think you need to be skinny or muscular to do this:
And for any women thinking this sport is for men: