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Name: | Gareth Randle |
Age: | 21 |
Year of the Fix: | 2014 |
Location: | Chester-Le-Street, County Durham |
Campaign: | To challenge negative attitudes towards parkour |
I got involved in parkour, or freerunning, three years ago. It has increased my confidence and generally made me more positive about life.
Unfortunately, many people view this form of urban gymnastics negatively and often think participants are being anti-social.
In actual fact, a lot of dedication and practice is required to become a good freerunner, which is something we want the public to understand.
My team and I are working with Fixers to challenge misconceptions people may have of parkour.
Hopefully, they’ll learn to appreciate the sport as a form of artistic expression and not see it as young people being a nuisance.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with this Fix:
Andrew Walker | Mark Holland |
Brooklyn Landers | Matthew Steel |
Chris Kilburn | Ryan Smith |
Jack Duffy | Siobhan Hinton |
Jessica Roberts | Thomas Dixon |
Kyle Davies | Thomas Rayman |
Laura Lewis | Chris Watson |
Jordan Wilding | Bhavik Damani |
Depti Damani | Beth Johnson |
Andrew Herkes | Charlotte Moore |
Rachel Haray | Callum Liddell |
Jacob Collins |
South Durham Gym
The team at South Durham Gym support our Fix. They allowed Fixers to film us training there.
Durham University
We were given permission to shoot scenes for our Fixers film at the university.
April 2015
We were able to show our Fixers film to a PE class at Windlestone School. We then offered two parkour workshops, firstly to students in the PE class, then to all students after school. We received some really positive feedback - you can read a few of the comments below.
'The video was very good and very interesting. Parkour is really fun to watch too!'
'This has been an excellent session and we've all really enjoyed it.'
'I've really enjoyed this class and have learnt a lot.'
Timothy Cranfield
Becky
Chelsie Brown
Ben Simms
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Shak & Natasha
Meghann
Fixers
Macauley Collinson
Shannon Rawlings
Shano
Jack H
'Ben'
Becky Thorn
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Hannah Baker
Sam Barakat
Fern Lulham
'Kate'
Ethan Mcinally
Olivia G
Lauren Taylor
Liam Thomas
Tilly and Bella