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Mujahid Habib

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Mujahid Habib is a traceur from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, and the founder of Leonine Parkour, generally called Team Leonine. He began training in 2007, copying stunts from Jackie Chan films, and the team formed around him about a year later.

He won the first parkour competition Red Bull organised in India, held in Mumbai and judged by the Kuwaiti athlete Mohammad Al Attar; the team’s site names it the Red Bull Indus Trial. Contemporaneous reports disagree on its date and size, and that discrepancy is set out on the Leonine Parkour page. Habib describes himself on Instagram as India’s first parkour champion, a formulation this site does not adopt: the record of national parkour events here begins earlier, with jams held in 2010 and 2012.

He studied architecture at Jamia Millia Islamia and has been based in Delhi since, and his Instagram bio names him founder of an architecture practice, ZM Architect. By 2017 Condé Nast Traveller found him training with team members in a disused parking lot in South Delhi, while still training in Rampur on visits home.

He appeared as an India contestant on the Netflix series Ultimate Beastmaster in 2017, and features in Fiona Caulfield’s 401 Reasons to Love Delhi. Man’s World reported in 2015 that members of Team Leonine had appeared in Ladies vs Ricky Bahl and in advertisements for Mountain Dew and Thums Up. Ultimate Beastmaster is the only title on his IMDb page, though stunt and background work often goes uncredited.

Habib has taught parkour in Delhi since at least 2015, when he ran a session for students at Lady Shri Ram College, and has since run workshops in Lalganj, Uttar Pradesh, and advertised classes in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. His YouTube channel carries most of Team Leonine’s published video and was still being posted to in 2025.

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