BY COACH DEMI

“Can you do a Backflip?” - it’s a rite of passage for anyone who trains parkour to be asked this question from excitable children or an onlooking group of lads. The dilemma that follows arguably calls into question the spirit of parkour - do I need to prove myself right here, right now? Firstly, why are we asked this in the first place? How closely are flips and parkour associated with each other? There is a controversy about flips in the parkour scene, where one school of t