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It’s hard to talk about me nowadays without talking about parkour. There is some bland professional info at the bottom of this page, but I’ll briefly go over some general things before getting into the meat of what drives me.

My name is Tyson Cecka if you hadn’t figured it out already, I’m 21 years old and I live in Seattle Washington (and absolutely love it). I consider myself to be an explorer in the loose sense of the word, my specialty lies in not specializing and I am generally willing to give anything a try at least once. That’s the way it’s always been for me with sports, with philosophies, and with opinions. Let the best float to the top and discard the rest, but always give each new experience and thought the same treatment as your first. Overall I feel like this has made me a well-rounded and open-minded person, you’re cool with me unless you’re harmful to others.

Parkour

Parkour – The Beginning

Four years ago parkour seized a hold of my being, and it hasn’t let go since. In fact it has gotten much worse. At first it was simply a natural progression. As a kid I loved movement of all kind and had been shifting from sport to sport, always looking for something new to learn. Everything from gymnastics, to raquetball, to polevaulting, to rock climbing, I loved it all. When I discovered parkour I at first tackled it simply as a set of new skills to learn, with ever more tricks to master.

The Change

It wasn’t until about a year and a half ago that I realized that parkour was so much more than I originally thought. It had already incorporated itself into me at that point, I could be found vaulting and scrambling over things wherever I went. But it wasn’t until I started to really research where parkour came from and think it about while training alone at night, that I discovered the underlying usefulness and mind-altering power of parkour. That epiphany struck me very powerfully and changed how I look at the world forever. Parkour to me was no longer just a fun new thing to learn and use, it became a major part of my life and how I live it.

The Effects

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The mindset and positive benefits of parkour are too vast for me to get into here, but watching them form in me and in my friends convinced me to start teaching. I wanted to spread that realization around to more people and do it in a way that was safer than how I first started. So I began to teach a parkour class at the Puget Sound Community School here in Seattle, Washington. I absolutely fell in love with the students and the philosophy of the school, which led me to take my passion even farther.

I applied for and was granted a Mary Gates Leadership Endowment for parkour through the University of Washington and used that to launch a nonprofit that we call the Pacific Northwest Parkour Association or PNWPA for short. It’s still getting its bearings currently, the possibilities are so vast it’s hard to know where to start. But it definitely opens up some new avenues for giving back to the community and spreading parkour positively.

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Somewhere along the way I also fell in love with how beautiful parkour looks and it has opened an artistic side of me that I didn’t even know existed. I’m having a lot of fun learning all about photography and have even launched a video production company with a friend of mine called underscore_FILMS. It’s even heavily affected my future career, I always wanted be a stuntman as a kid, and now since joining The Tribe that dream is coming true and I’ve been given the chance to travel the world doing the things I love.

The Result

Professional Info

  • Gender: Male
  • Age: 21
  • Height: 5′ 10″
  • Weight: 165 lbs

  • Gymnastics – 5yrs: flips, freestyle, tricking, tumbling, falls
  • Parkour/Freerunning – 3.5yrs: obstacle coursing, chase scenes
  • Martial Arts – 4yrs: karate, kung fu, stage combat, bo staff
  • Classical Fencing – 4yrs: foil, èpèe, saber, rapier, two weapon
  • Rock Climbing -4yrs: bouldering, buildings, cliffs, solo and top-rope

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