Saskatoon parkour athletes leap to next level of competition
Josh Lynn | CBC News | Posted: August 24, 2017 7:32 PM | Last Updated: August 24, 2017
Pair hopes to qualify at the North American Parkour Championships in Vancouver
After honing their skills at River Landing a pair of Saskatoon parkour athletes will see how they stack up against some of the best talent on the continent.
Tyler Harder and Jordan Westad are heading to Vancouver this weekend for the North American Parkour Championships. They're hoping to flip, roll and leap their way well enough through NAPC qualification events to enter the competition.
"It's a pretty big deal, especially for us," Westad said in an interview with CBC Radio's Saskatoon Morning. "Like, Saskatoon doesn't have a lot for stuff like this, so going somewhere big is going to be really cool. The NAPC is held in high regard, the judging there is going to be top quality,"
For Harder, the fact he and Westad have a shot at competing in the NAPC is a sign of Saskatoon's maturing parkour scene, a scene they helped create.
"It's better now than it ever has been," Harder said. "For the longest time I was one of the only people training, but now we have a huge, diverse community of younger athletes and coaches as well we kind of fostered over the years."