Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Angela Martin, 22, parkour practitioner and teacher.
“In my classes, I work with a lot of people who don’t have any movement background. I’ll show them basic bear crawls, crawling on the floor with hands and feet and nothing else touching the ground, keeping your back low and parallel with the ground. Then I’ll show them some simple vaults. How to take a landing. Small jumps. As they start to feel more comfortable with the movements, we take it further.
