Parkour and Embracing Identity with Sara Mudallal

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Sara Mudallal was 20 years old when she decided to try parkour. She also decided to start wearing a hijab as an expression of her Muslim identity. Over the years, plenty of people told her to stop practicing parkour because of her gender or her faith. But Sara has kept her head up, found success in the world of parkour, and inspired thousands of people to stay true to themselves.

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0:00.0	What adventures, big or small, are on your bucket list?
0:05.9	Have you or someone you know gone after a wild idea that we should know about?
0:10.9	Send an email to podcasts at REI.com and let us know we're always looking for more stories
0:17.8	about bugging the norm and going after wild ideas.
0:22.5	I love hearing about wild ideas that bring people outside in unexpected ways.
0:36.8	For Sada Moodalal, video games in anime were a gateway into outdoor athleticism.
0:43.0	As a kid who was always jumping on the furniture and swinging on the monkey bars, she was
0:47.7	inspired by acrobatic characters in her movies and games.
0:52.3	When she was 20 years old, she decided to try parkour.
0:56.1	She also decided to start wearing a hijab as an expression of her Muslim identity.
1:01.8	Over the years, plenty of people told her to stop practicing parkour because of her gender
1:06.6	or her faith.
1:08.0	But Sada has kept her head up, found success in the world of parkour, and inspired thousands
1:13.6	of people to stay true to themselves.
1:16.4	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production.
1:25.9	Parkour is a unique sport that involves using acrobatic and gymnastic movements in urban
1:32.0	environments.
1:33.3	You might have seen videos of people who scale walls or jump from building to building.
1:38.7	These athletes move in ways that somehow seem both effortless and impossible to pull
1:43.7	off.
1:44.7	Sada Moodalal proves that with hours of training, focus, and plenty of perseverance, anyone
1:52.0	can learn to practice parkour.
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