There's a parkour crew in Invercargill, it might surprise you to learn. You may have caught a glimpse of them but thought they were shadows sliding up a wall, or clouds skudding from roof-top to roof-top, across Invercargill's evening sky but had you looked closer (or had one of them slipped!) you'd have found that they were young gymnasts, using the city as their parallel bars, trampolene, climbing wall and vaulting 'horse'. Parkour is an exacting discipline and these athletic Southlanders have just that - discipline. They train and they train hard in order that they don't damage themselves as they perform their gravity-defying leaps, clambers, turns, spins and landings.Keep an eye out for the Invers crew while you're out walking in the evening and don't listen to anyone who might try to tell you that what you saw was just a cloud of bats.
*clue - look for a car emblazoned with scenes from the world of parkour .. and follow it!
What is Parkour? Try here
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I hear they are pretty sick. Beware habitual, rooftop sunbathers.
It's winter Bioneer!
Still ... we're a sturdy and robust tribe down here ...
Wait! What was that overhead?
Nah.
Nothin', just a cloud of bats.
Reminds me of the sport of buildering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildering
There was a buildering competition in Dunedin a few years ago - where pumpkins were placed in odd places to demonstrate the feat... hidden on the underside of bridges, in the lofty heights of univeristy building eves etc... you never knew where one would turn up next.
:-)
Anna! Buildering (like 'bouldering)! That's a new one on me. Don't tell Bioneer!
The pumpkin touch is especially evocative. One of our veggie suppliers called in here yesterday with claims of a 25 kg pumpkin grown here in Southland! I'd like to see one of your builderers lug that up to the top of a 10 storey building!
(I'll post a photo of the punky guy as soon as he brings it in).
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