Ninja the parkour dog.
Ever heard of Barkour? That’s how people named parkour for dogs. Ninja is a parkour dog since his first day in Berlin end of 2017. He got thrown into a lifestyle that takes part outside most of the day, every day and he was surrounded by people who think jumping from one wall to another one is a normal thing to do. Ninja got trained based on the Philosophie and ways that I teach parkour to my students. Facing his fears was most important to become the self confident dog who can learn anything if we want to. To be fair at the moment I am learning more from him then the other way around and it changed the way I am teaching my human students.
Coach and athlete.
Name is Dominik Arend, just call me Dodo.
I wouldn’t say that I have one thing that I am brilliant in but many things that I am very interested in like Parkour, communication and coaching. More or less I am quite good with dogs and somehow I found my niche. Dog training specialized in movement, tricks and behavior. Also I think I am funny some times and tend to talk to much. I worked in a bank, traveled around, founded the Parkour Akademie, became an expert in coaching parkour and all that jazz to end up thriving through the streets of Berlin with my dog on my backpack. (Just a joke, he walks of course)
What’s Parkour.Ninja?
I started writing this section a couple of times now and everything I wrote felt wrong. Sentences like: “We want to inspire” or “we want to make sure that dogs are having a better life” are thoughts that are in my mind but it would be not right to sell those as our motivation behind parkour.ninja. What we think is that the world is a fun but cruel place which is waiting to be adventured. Parkour.ninja is our way to travel around and accept new challenges. We want to escape that boring 9 to 5 routine and wo what we love. Whatever that is.
We do social media because it is simply the easiest and most promising way to reach our goal. We never planned for it but somehow grew bigger and bigger (haha please help us grow more, its along way up) and realized that there’s a huge community of people who like what we do and jumping on the train of ”barkour”, “urban agility” or “pawkour”. It’s fascinating to see that interest while it is nearly frightening to see millions of people watching our videos and see our content as something amazing and unique. It’s frightening because we do nothing else then sport in an urban environment but it seems to be something so unusual to do that I’d is getting so much attention.
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