Chronicles of women living with traceurs practicing Parkour. Conflicts and compromises on the choices of life training in suburban concrete jungles: a struggle between marvel, fear and passion. The wonder at the juvenile potential, the astonishment in witnessing the danger, the subtle edge of adolescence and motherhood on the verge of overcoming the ‘limit’. Mothers, wives and girlfriends, who support them despite their choices, are inquiring the boundaries between marvel and fear, risk and awareness, selfishness and passion… While young athletes will never stop training and challenging the limits in concrete jungle, we’ll ponder over safety, legality, conflicts and the need of let them go. A female gaze at new streetculture phenomenon to share and understand their compelling urge from within.

Here are our women: Maxine Ilabaca, mother and manager of Daniel Ilabaca; Paola Manfrini, girlfriend of Laurent Piemontesi; Peng Jiang’s mother; Mrs. Peach, grandmother of Daniel Ilabaca, and his former girlfriend Laurell. 

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