That’s the thing about the Internet: I wasn’t sure that these people were real, or that they weren’t mass-murderers! I regretted it and regretted it. Then Jump Britain came on the TV, and it had me bouncing up and down on the settee. That weekend I was down on the South Bank, and I’ve done it every week since. Everyone was amazed to see a girl doing it.
Is it that much of a male sport?
It really is. The ratio must be 200:1. I think it’s because Parkour is about high-level danger. You can die! It’s not something that turns many girls on. Lots of girls do gymnastics, which has an element of risk, but there are soft landings, coaches and structure. Parkour is an unstructured sport in an unforgiving environment where if you get it wrong, you die. Then you’ve got the Internet, which I think is still a male thing. All the guys upload their videos to promote themselves online. It’s very tech-y.
Space Chase won’t be your first time in front of the camera.
I was on Perfect Match, which was a reality dating show. It was all good clean fun… and some not so clean fun. I just prayed that my granny wouldn’t see it!
Later, when I was with Marketing, I was sometimes called on to be a talking head for documentaries and absolutely loved it. I’d love to be a TV presenter.
What are you looking forward to on the shoot?
They’re going to rig us up with cameras so we can do Parkour with the cameras on. It’ll give the audience a feel of what it’s like to actually do it. A lot of parkour films don’t do it justice, but we want you to see what it feels like to dive head-first off a wall onto a concrete floor.
Matt Croft is a freelance writer and journalist
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