1parkoooor.jpg Cody Veenvliet practises parkour on Brighton beach before heading to the first New Zealand national competition this weekend. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERYDunedin youngsters are going flipping crazy for parkour. Classes at the Dunedin Gymnastic Academy are bulging with youngsters eager to learn how to spend time upside down. This weekend, five of Dunedin’s Pro-Motion parkour team, led by Mr Pearson, will be at New Zealand’s first national parkour and freerunning competition in Auckland. Fellow competitor Cody Veenvliet (16), of Brighton, is another former gymnast who wanted a challenge and saw the ‘‘parkour guys doing cool stuff’’.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 20, 2017 18:11 UTC