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Published Date: 23 February 2010
STUART Andrews has come up with a novel idea for Teries to escape the seemingly endless amount of roadworks in the town – free-running.
Also known as parkour, it involves turning an everyday town or cityscape into an urban playground, with the idea simply to move freely and get past obstacles such as walls, stairs and railings in as fluid and graceful a manner as possible.

And that would certainly be easier than driving around the town at the moment.

All that is required is a decent pair of trainers and a distinct lack of fear.

Stuart, or Speedy as he is known, is originally from Edinburgh, but moved here in November with his fiancée Kerry Potts.

The 29-year-old, pictured, said: "It's basically about going from A to C in your everyday environment, like your Jackie Chan movie kind of thing. Getting from one place to the other without just walking, by using walls, stairs or railings. Like a stuntman."




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  • Last Updated: 23 February 2010 11:59 AM
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  • Location: Hawick
 
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Stuart Speedy Andrews,

Hawick, hawickfreerunning@live.co.uk 27/02/2010 11:00:55
Hey guys, thank you for a great article and a friendly photographer, i enjoyed the photo shoot that day and since then recieved good feed back and been asked to start workshops in Jedburgh with the co2 youth project, im also now training full time 7 days a week(even in this snow lol, Sat 27th Feb 2010) i also now have a few teenagers joining in with my training, i am willing to train more people from 13yrs + and would like to get older people involved in training including females, i am also looking to get a hawick local sponsor involved as i would like to get a few t-shirts with hawick free running logo on them etc (it would help promote our discipline/look more orgnised and also let the local people and police know the difference between hawick free runners and people messing around) if you or someone you know can help please email me at: hawickfreerunning@live.co.uk
members of the public can show there support etc by adding us as a friend on our facebook and bebo address which again is (hawickfreerunning@live.co.uk)

many thanks
Stuart "Speedy" Andrews
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