PICCADILLY Gardens will be taken over by a James Bond star, freerunners and freejumpers this Saturday to celebrate the opening of Oxygen Freejumping’s Trafford Park trampoline park.

Founder of Freerunning and considered an early developer of Parkour, Sebastien Foucan and his team of freerunners will be challenging Mancunians to get involved as part of Oxygen’s push to create hundreds of hours of free PE for schools in the area.

Sebastien, along with the fleet footed crew from Northern Parkour, will perform their best skills and tricks to passersby near to Wellington Statue on June 4.

They will also be joined by gymnasts who will bounce through the crowds at Piccadilly on a giant tumble mat to give spectators their first taste of what Oxygen will offer at the new trampoline park, which opens next week.

Frenchman Sebastien, who played Mollaka, a freelance terrorist and bomb maker in Casino Royale, said: “What’s really exciting about working with Oxygen Freejumping is that it’s meant that we can create a new experience of Freerunning. Myself and Oxygen have the same ambition of creating an environment where people can feel a sense of freedom and that’s exactly what we’ve done.”

The trampoline park, based in Trafford Way, Stretford, will open to the public on Friday June 10.

For every booking made ahead of next week’s launch Oxygen will in turn provide an hour of Freejumping free of charge for local school children.

When the same challenge was set in Southampton, 500 hours of free trampoline PE was generated.

Throughout the summer more activities will become available at the park including fitness classes, dodgeball tournaments, school of trampolining, Foucan Freerunning Academy, and DJ nights.

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