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Running, rolling, swinging, and vaulting

over every obstacle in your path.

It looks like something out of an action

movie, but this is parcour.

Defined as the act of getting from point

a to b as quickly as possible.

Youtube videos like this one have gone

viral reaching over 74 million hits.

But how do professionals get to this

level? By going to places like the Monkey

Vault.

Monkey Vault is Toronto's primary

parcour gym. It's been open for two years,

attracting parcour athletes from across

Canada.

Cody Marshall traveled all the way from

Winnipeg just to practice at the Monkey

Vault.

"My friend Mark, he used to live in

Winnipeg. I mean in

Toronto, and he came out here and trained

and

he introduced me to Daniel. It was really

cool and then once we did this

parcour summer meet, it felt like home.

Everybody thinks that, oh he's hanging

from a

crane. He's jumping from building to

building, that's what they must do.

But no one sees like, the progress that

we take

to get into things like that and we take

years and years of training just to do

something that big

but at first glance that's what

everybody sees."

Monkey Vault has everything a parcour

runner could need including structures

to swing from,

walls to climb,

and even a foam pit to practice flips.

Devin Kennedy, an instructor at the

Monkey Vault says the gym is designed

for a variety of lessons and workouts.

Primarily we focus on parcour and

general movement. There are a couple

levels of that. We're looking to add more

of them into it but

we focus on parcour and movement as its

own

special brand and then flips and

acrobatics are down on the side back to

play stuff for kids.

Just general workouts play and

all over kind of parcour exercises but

more geared for fun right." But the fun

isn't just for adults.

Kids 9 and up can play and take lessons

at the Monkey Vault too.

"So i just like to have this because it's

really fun

and you get really strong

from doing all the push like you gotta

get up there and stuff so you gotta

climb."

Lisa Savajari

has an 11 year old daughter taking

lessons at the Monkey Vault.

She says the lessons have helped her

daughter feel more confident and safe in

more traditional sports.

"I find that what they are learning here

at parcour really blends well with a lot

of different sports

more traditional sports that you'd you'd

be doing so

when I look at what it brings to her

skiing ability is it's going to give her

a lot more

confidence and and a better feeling for

her body and space

if she's you know going off a jump she's

going to be

a lot more aware of how to land. um

You know the the unfortunate side of

skiing is you're going to fall so

you know learning how to tumble and roll

um is really critical and the core

strength that they gain from something

like this

is is really good and just confidence

playing confidence is

goes a long way. Do I want to see my

my daughter vaulting off of tall

buildings and or

jumping between buildings with big gaps

not really but but what i have learned

from

watching them here is that there's a lot

of training involved and there's a lot

of calculated risk

and, and you know if she's ever going to

do something like that I'd, I'd like

to know that she's at least trained in

doing it."

Well there's no set safety policies at

the Monkey Vault,

Bristol Ren Warren says getting hurt is

part of the learning process.

"You're doing this kind of sport, you kind

of expect it to like get hurt,

but what you want to do is like try to

like know how to like bail it I guess.

But you try to save yourself."

"If i don't feel it or all the time...

control it".

Indoor parcour gyms like the Monkey

Vault are a great way for people to

practice their skills in the winter

before they go outside in the summer. The

Monkey Vault has plans to renovate but

for now that's under wraps.

I'm Robin Fiordan, Ryerson TV News.