Introduce yourself.

This thread is a place to introduce yourself to the other members.
So i'll start.

Name: Tebbi
Age: 15
Location: Limerick, Ireland.
Occupation: Student.
What parkour/freerunning means to you: Freedom and flow.
How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: A friend took up freerunning and got me into it.


So get posting.

YAY
Name: Kate
Age: 18
Location: Coolock, Dublin
Occupation: Student
What parkour/freerunning means to you: Great friends, a life for once, great photos and art, a means of possible aid/escape
How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: My brother took me out to a jam one day, had fun, but came home with shins black and blue, but undetered so i kept it up, and now i'm good at it

Hi there.
My name is Isabelle aka Zaza
I'm 16
I'm from Belgium (=> Ghent) and practise Parkour since 13 January 2008.
I really like the idea to make a forum/site for traceuses.
Occupation: Student
How I started: An ex-boyfriend (still friend) practice Parkour, I knew it existed and I liked it, and I'm really happy I learned to know him.
I do Parkour 'cause I really like the freedom you have when you do it
But I can't really see what is writte where...with the colors.
I hope I can change that after a while.

Bye

sup girlies looks like I'm the oldest so far


Jessica aka Chimp
19 years wise
Living in NYC
I'm a full time student.
seen David Belle in commercials as a kid and he made me want to have the same/similar movements as he did I think parkour is the most beautiful art created.
Been training for 7 months
and.... not sure what else to say.

Hey, my name's Alissa. I'm from New York and I'm sixteen.
Been training for a couple of months now--real stuff since February, but I came across it seven months ago. I love parkour, and it's become a huge part of my life. I'm excited about a girls' forum! The female parkour community needs to expand

Hey I seem to be the oldest!
Name: Tania aka Ixek
Age: 20
Country: Mexico
Time training: about 2 years
Crew: Uban runners (www.urbanrunners.net)
I don't know what else to say just want to say I love parkour and study engineering

Name: Eveline
Age: 21
Location: Veldhoven, Netherlands
Occupation: Student.
What parkour/freerunning means to you: A chance to spend my energy, to calm my mind, to stand out from the crowd.
How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: Reminded by madonna's clip last year.... remembered I sooo liked that but wondered why I never started, so that´s when I did.

Name: Weronika
Age: 23
Location: Kraków (Cracow), Poland
Occupation: Student, translator/interpreter, tourist guide
What parkour means to you: ufff, too many things
How you got started doing parkour: accidental meet of spanish traceurs in one of Cracow's parks while running and... owned

Hey!!!

Name: Alkossis or Night Cat [ ]
Age: 20
Country: Spain [Malaga]
Time training: about 3 years, but now I stop for injure old year, and I comming soon training ^^
Crew: Spirit of Fluidity (www.soff.dreamhosters.com)


I´m desing graphic & web, and I study higt studies computer.
Parkour comprises of my life for a long time, that has taught to me not only to know my body and to surpass my fear, but also to appreciate better the nature and city.

PD: sorry for my english!

Name: Silex Kit
Age: 30
Location: Montreal (Quebec), Canada
Time training: I started in November 2004
What Parkour means to you: To be strong in every way
How you got started doing Parkour: I saw the movie Yamakasi and I decided to find people to train with.

Hi!

Name: Aleksandra (for friends: Alex)
Age: 17
Location: Łódź (Lodz), Poland

Occupation: student
(I'm going to bilingual high school and I have 18 hours german weekly. - so, my English is very bad now xP)

What parkour means to you: from some time is Parkour my way of life xD !

How you got started doing parkour: I saw treceurs on the street in my town. (Lodz)
xD That was Meeting. I talked with them and I started my parkour training am next day x)
(Then I meeted to Wero and I like her very much xP )

Time trainig: since August 2007

Crew: i'm not in any crew, but from some time i'm training a little with Arte Crew .

Another things x):
I'm:
riding horse,
making some computergraphic,
snowboarding (a little),
lerning much German and any English xP


//btw, keep training, girls xD

Alex.

Hi, I'am Catelijne(Katherine or Cat)
I'am 16 years old and doing parkour just a vieuw days, but really enjoying it.
I like the philosofie behind it, the freedom, the challenge etc.
I saw some vids on the I-net and got inspired, so that's why. I try to find some other girls in my place (Lelystad, the Netherlands) but they are hard to find.
Nevertheless I just go on

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Hi to everyone else

fortitudo wrote:

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Hi to everyone else

Hi, i'm also Zaza from parkour.nl


Zaza

hellooo everyone!!!!!
Name: Piarry
Age: 15
Location: NYC
Occupation: Student.
How you got started doing parkour:Met some cool guys in the park just jumping over stuff
I do parkour because its the only sport that ive been most interested in,and i love the way i feel whenever i do it =] i do it because it keeps me in shape...it also helped me get over my fears..it helps me to get to places faster..ive met so many awesome people and its so much fun ^-^
i think parkour is beautiful<33

Name : Monica
Age : 15
Location : Szczecin, Poland
Occupation : Student
What parkour/freerunning means to you : hmm... how said Tebbi - FREEDOM
How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: I don't remember :O

Sorry for all bugs, but my english is baaaad . Peace !

Name: Summer aka Alphfie (still have no idea where that nickname came from )

Age: 18 (legal time! )

Location: Memphis, Tennessee

Occupation: Freelance writer (I'm a bookworm )

What parkour/freerunning means to you: I love that it allows me to express myself with my body, and as nobody else has my body, that means whatever I create is all me and nobody else.

How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: I heard about it, quickly developed an interest, quickly developed a passion.

Name: Julia

Age: 17

Location: Peterborough, Canada

Occupation: Student

What parkour/freerunning means to you: ...everything. I've never found anything that fits who i am more perfectly

How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: I saw District 13...and then watched it like 3 more times in that week alone . I didn't know David Belle was doing parkour at the time i just thought he was amazing and wanted to see more of him, so i looked him up on youtube. That's when i truly discovered parkour and fell in love with it instantly.

I discovered it about a year ago and instantly started researching it, but haven't really been able to break free from my EXTREMELY lazy lifestyle. So I'm only really starting now.

Name: Aine
Age: 18
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Occupation: Student.
What parkour/freerunning means to you: For me free running is much more than freedom. it a way for me to be me. i express myself in countless new ways and my confidence is growing with every jam. i have met many people through parkour and they have become family to me, and the help me to move. i would not have it any other way. parkour is slowly becoming a huge part of me and i like it.

Name: Tamara

Age: 18

Location: Madrid (spain)

Occupation: student

What parkour/freerunning means to you: When I train parkour I feel good, free... I love a good training. Parkour to take up my free time, all my life revolve around the parkour. I am happy training, improving...

How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: I begun training parkour because my cousin doing parkour and he explained me, I saw that parkour was what I was looking for.

Name: Mandy
Age: 18
Location: Toronto, Canada
Occupation: Student (Architecture)
What parkour/freerunning means to you: Having fun and making progress. It also intertwines a lot with life.
How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: I asked a friend to bring me to a meet.

Happy training everyone =).

Welcome guys
Nice to have ye here

Name: brandEE
Age: 21.5
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
What parkour means to you: Movement with purpose.
How you got started doing parkour: Monkee see, monkee do.

name: Jenita

date of birth: 14-01-1992

location: Roosendaal, the Netherlands

Occupation: student

practise parkour sinds: juli 2006

what parkour means for me: i dont know how to say, just the freedom when you practise parkour. And making progess en having fun.

how i starting parkour: a friend of mine just found it on the internet, and says let go outside en try some things. And i like it

(i hope people understand me, my english isn`t very good )

Name: Jules

Age: 17

Location: Missouri

Occupation: (Working on being a) Student

What parkour/freerunning means to you: Freedom. A life without obstacles, physical or mental.

How you got started doing parkour/freerunning: A friend told me his brother and he were going to start training for parkour this summer and told me about it, so I looked it up and researched and such and found it absolutely brilliant, in physicality, mentality, and philosophically.