Stefanos: I will make a comparison for you with martial arts. Imagine that someone is practicing martial arts. He does not kill people, in order to practice but he learns how to defend himself. Those techniques can teach him how to kill but he will not go outside and do it. So if we need to do it – if we are on a roof and there is no other way to get out of there, because a helicopter brought us – imagine how unbelievable this is (laughing)…we would do it. But imagine if you are missing the bus and you need to run fast and you need to overcome an obstacle on your way. This is what we learn – more useful things.

Hristos: It is like learning to drive a car – you learn, so you can go around and not to drive like a crazy person with 200km/h.

 Is this the use of this sport? To catch a bus?

Stefanos: You can gain a lot by practicing parkour. This is also part of the philosophy of the sport. The goal, of course, is to become better, to have better results and to become faster.

How do you protect yourselves from injuries?

Stefanos: As stronger you are and as self-conscious you are, the sport is safer. First you need to check the place where you are practicing...to see whether something can break during the jump.

Do you practice around the city – for example to start from Syntagma and to get to Monastiraki as fast as you can?

Stafanos: What you are saying, we have done and it is called a route. If it is really necessary…

Why do you say “if it is really necessary”?

Stefanos: We are like ants. When we are in the city and we like a place, we can stay there for 30 minutes ot an hour, so we can have fun. Everybody thinks we are just stupid things but it is not like that. after that we will continue until we like another place.

What is the best place you have found?

Stefanos: I can imagine that the best place in somewhere around the Orient but I have never been there. For me the best place is at the University.

What is your relationship with the police?

Stefanos: There were cases where they had made a remark and then we stop. We would never go to an archeological site to practice. We are trying to discover places, where there would be less reasons for someone to tell us to leave. For example stairs – there you can do 5-6 basic exercises and it is hard for someone to tell you to leave.