Dresden has its first city parkour – Dresden

Felix is ​​37 and only started doing parkour when he was 20 – very late, he says. He is now one of four parkour trainers in Dresden along with Jonas, Lea and Daniel. This urban obstacle sport has a fan base in many big cities. It’s about not letting any element stop you from making your way through the city – doing what’s in it for you. Elegance and flowing movement are the goal.
The idea of ​​this “parkour” entered the French banlieue action films. Here, however, the communities are interested in spending time together, making fun moves, and enjoying movement. Features that are very important to Sebastian Hansel and his club Dresden ParkourOne. There are now four established training groups and one free group.
Recommendations within the community are the brick walls in the green corridor of Weißeritz, a wheelchair ramp with rails at the main train station and the university campus. More than 60 children, young people and adults now come to the established courses, and TSV Dresden also offers in-house sessions. The only thing that was missing until now was real parkour.
One day when Sebastian Hansel was standing in the office of the city area manager Christian Barth, he thought that the vision to build the first permanent parkour here was very good, but how could he have to develop directly through the interaction between the club, the city area. and the designers.
It is now created in Gruna, at the playground on the corner of Haenel-Clauss-Strasse and Hepkestrasse, where obstacles, climbing structures and balance poles invite you to overcome them in a way fun
The concrete area had been lying weak for a long time anyway, so the idea fits right there. The implementation was a little more difficult, as explained by the manager of the city area office, Christian Barth.
On the one hand, the district of Blasewitz had to raise the entire 335,000 euros because the city hall of Dresden did not contribute. On the other hand, of course, “laying down equipment” was not enough – fun concepts were needed and, in addition, old construction debris could be found in the ground. In this regard, the implementation went very quickly, Barth said at the opening.
Parkour athletes showed on the opening day what you can do between the steel bars and the concrete walls. Maybe it doesn’t have to be so surprising at the beginning and certainly one of the courses is a good idea for new techniques and new friends. Above all, this sport is a meeting of like-minded people.
The facility is suitable for ages eight and up, both for beginners and experts. Anyone who wants to train their fitness or complete their first bouldering exercises without parkour rules can also try it.

Parkour course

LÖBTAU: Wednesday, Weißeritzgrünzug
NEUSTADT: Thursday, Schanzenstrasse playground
PROHLIS: Freitag, Calisthenics Park Gamigstraße
GRUNA: Playground Haenel-Clauss-Straße, courses starting in the spring, all from 4:30 pm to 6 pm.

www.Dresden.ParkourOne.com