BAGUIO CITY – A group of athletes using a training discipline that utilizes movements developed from military obstacle course training had Maximove 2k17 competition at the Rose Garden, Burnham Park, here, last March 26, 2017, and exhibited what their sport is all about.
Maximum – parkour and freerunning group organized this event that featured practitioners of the sport to get from one point to another in a complex environment without assistive equipment and in the fastest most efficient way possible. It includes running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement and other movements as deemed most suitable for the situation. It is a non-combative martial arts sport.
At the end of the competitions, the judges bestowed Abdullah Samporna (pictured above) and Nassef Macarasam the title as champions for the event. The duo’s great and amazing flips, jumping, running and fast movements during the competition convinced the judges to hand them the title.

The champions started engaging in this sport last June, 2016. Abdullah is a grade five student of Josefa Cariño Elementary School, while Nassef stopped studying because he is helping his mother in their business. According to them, the picked this sport because it is a great way of exercising their body. They like the challenge how to let the skills they learned get analyzed in their minds and letting the physical body put it to action.
According to Vanaran Jacinto and Jerson Estorco, the leaders of the group, they have created this group because they are motivated to let interested participants do what they have experienced doing. In the five years of handling the group, they generated 28 genuine members and a lot of jammers. The oldest in the group is 28 years old and the youngest is 12 years old.
Further, they named the group as Maximum – parkour and freerunning because they wanted to bring out everyone’s maximum potentials. Their team requires no smoking, no bad drinking habits, and specially no illegal drug use for they aim to give inspiration to the youth instead of adding to the already long list of bad influence entities.
By: KAREN KIETH O. PONSECA