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Windex

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As some of you know, I'm involved/interested in Parkour and Free-running. Last summer I started work with my friend Matt on building the nations first Parkour/Free-running Gym/Training Center. 1000$ later we had a good start. Matt's boss let us use the 3rd floor of an old industrial building he owned to get us started (Free electric/utilities but no heat or AC either).

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Sometime in November he decided to lease it out to an office furniture company and down came all of our obstacles and hard work we put into the place. I almost cried.. Seriously.. haha

 

I've been in financial hell due to my previous job screwing me over.. thanks to them I'm out $3,900.00 so needless to say leasing a new space for the gym wasn't in the budget. Paying the late house/car payments was the priority. So I'm not without a gym and set further back than I planned.

 

Then I had an Idea! I saw a while back MTV had an Ultimate Parkour Challenge TV show. The gears started turning. I figured with shows like "Made" "Fantasy Factory" "My Sweet 16" etc that I'd e-mail one of the exec's behind the Parkour Challenge and Pitch them an Idea.. Granted finding the exec's e-mail was a pain in the behind I managed to dig my way through the crap and reach who I was looking for. Turns out he wasn't the right person but he responded with 30 minutes of seeing my e-mail and wrote me back as well as gave me the contact info for the woman I needed to speak with and also copied her on the e-mail. With any luck they'll give me a call if they like my Pitch. Wish me Luck!

 

*THE PITCH: (Brief version) A follow up special/series on the Parkour Challenge Themed around building the first legitimate Parkour Gym in the United States. (Denmark just spent 1 Mil on an outdoor park!) See Jiyo Park for more info - The finale to the show would be the next Ultimate Parkour Challenge and be held at the Gym/Training Facility. - The nearest Parkour specific gym is MonkeyVault in Toronto and is extremely small.

 

Monkey Vault although small attracts a lot of big name international tracuers (parkour practitioner) Which means if my gym is as diverse and nice as I want it people will travel from all over to appear on the show and also train on the gym. Reward for winning the challenge? A on-site apartment and help me run the gym. Plus MTV Prize

 

The extremely quick follow-up along with being put in contact with the correct people gives me high hopes of this becoming a reality!

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The only parts I have left from it are the crash mat and the inward ladder climber that I built :( Gotta rebuild a lot!

Oh and that smaller vault box

 

*Mav - Donations are kindly accepted, all money orders can be made out to Matt Peveley PO Box.. lol

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