Parkour Mumbai
This community is no longer active.
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Website: parkourmumbai.com
- Social media: Facebook · X · Vimeo
- Established: 2007
- Original founders: NOS
- Focus: parkour, freerunning
One of India’s oldest and most prominent parkour communities, active from approximately 2006–2014. Together with Chennai Parkour, cited as one of India’s two pioneering parkour groups nationally. Ran classes, organised jams and workshops, and performed for film, TV, and live events. Maintained a registered trademark, and an official website at parkourmumbai.com, archived on the Wayback Machine from 14 February 2014. Gym was located at the Sports Authority of India facility in Kandivali (East), Mumbai; NOS described it at the time as the country’s only dedicated parkour gym.
Training ran through structured programmes at the SAI gym: notably the Basics Bootcamp, a 12-week fundamentals course, and Practical Locomotion for intermediate students. NOS also hosted an annual Pk-Day open jam. The earliest documented edition is November 2008; a video of it once lived on the group’s Vimeo channel before all uploads were removed (the 2008 recording was taken down in 2018 following a copyright claim). The site later announced a seventh annual Pk-Day in November 2012, held in Navi Mumbai, separate from the three-day National Jam at the SAI gym in May 2012.
The community played a national connective role, building bridges between regional communities across India and engaging internationally. Was instrumental in supporting Parkour Nasik and other regional groups. Hosted and co-organised multiple Parkour India National Jams, beginning with Pk-Day Mumbai / the National Jam 2010 in September 2010 (attended by traceurs from across India and by members of American Parkour, including Mark “M2” Toorock, Michael “Frosti” Zernow, Justin Ganguly, Knox Mannino, and Travis Graves), and the Parkour India National Jam 2012 at the SAI gym in May 2012, which NOS reported as the largest parkour jam India had yet seen, with visitors from more than five cities over three days.
The community ceased activity in July 2014 following the death of its founder and driving force, known to the community as NOS. NOS was intensely private and did not share their real name widely; that wish is respected here. NOS gave seminars at national jams on safety, injury prevention, progression, and strength training. In the final years of the site, Anuj Dubey served as Parkour Mumbai’s official spokesperson and helped organise the National Jam.
Note: Parkour Mumbai (parkourmumbai.com, NOS, est. ~2006) is entirely separate from the present-day Mumbai Movement Academy / Mumbai Parkour (mumbaiparkour.org, est. ~2018). They share no continuity beyond operating in the same city.