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Daniel Dressen, the German sports architect who designed actor Akshay Kumar's elaborate parkour home fitness studio, had no idea who his client was until he flew down to Mumbai.

"I must admit I hadn't heard of him before," Dressen says.

The Bollywood superstar has been a serious 'parkoficionado' for some time, having first flaunted his parkour skills in the popular Thums Up ad. The actor's dream parkour gym, realized by Dressen and his team at Camp Ramps, has helped Akki maintain his lean, mean mojo over the last few years.

Watch this video of Camp Ramps setting up Akshay Kumar's home fitness studio.

Featured in the video is Daniel Ilabaca, a celebrated parkour athlete from Liverpool, who was invited to try out the studio and is rumored to have trained Bollywood's favorite action hero.

Le Parkour

Le Parkour, also the Art of Moving in English and similar to freerunning, is a French-origin sport that requires the traceur (athlete in parkour speak) to get through various elements of an urban landscape, like walls, poles and railings, as fast as possible. Jumping, running, climbing and other forms of movement that help the traceur navigate his way efficiently to Point B are adopted. 

It's a street sport with just a few thousand followers, most of them in Europe, and Kumar's parkour gym is one of the few private parkour studios in the world. Even for an architect like Dressen, who has designed many parkour installations for public use and events across Europe, a customized, studio-for-one was unusual.

Inside khiladi Kumar's studio

The main parts of Kumar's parkour gym were custom built and pre-assembled in Germany.

Dressen and his team flew down with the gear to Mumbai and took a month to convert the celeb's three-story apartment in Lokhandwala into a fully functional studio.

Among other elements, the facility has a 26-feet tall climbing wall that works on Kumar's sinuous appeal. On the third story roof terrace, there are three platforms for the actor to practice the quintessential action-film move -- jumping from one roof to another.

For its aesthetic and innovative combining of fitness and parkour elements, the gym won an international sports architecture award last year, alongside other, more large-scale sports setups like the Beijing Olympics Tennis Centre.

Only for 'burban stars and SOBO industrialists?

Citing customization, Dressen refuses to give us specific numbers, but says his company can offer, "Parkour solutions for budgets of all kind."

Even if one has the bank, most Mumbai apartments are shoe-boxes. Can your Bandra 1 BHK accommodate a parkour gym?

"The size of the apartment is not very important and the studio can be adapted to the given space. Older buildings can even generate a certain atmosphere for the studio. But honestly, the bigger the space, the better the possibilities for an interesting personal parkour gym," says the German sports architect.

After Kumar, other actors claim to have tried their chiseled bodies at parkour, including Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi and Kunal Kapoor. But none of them, Dressen says, have dialed his digits yet. 

You say 'Jump!' I say 'How high?'

After his experience with Kumar, whom Dressen describes as an intelligent man with great physical strength, he is eager to fly down to Mumbai again.

Referring to a film set, presumably in Goregoan, as 'Bollywood," he says, "We went to Bollywood with Mr. Kumar. The whole area and everything taking place there was very impressive." 

If you can't afford an award-winning celebrity sports architect to design your parkour studio, don't sweat it.

"Le parkour is a free sport, which everyone can practice nearly everywhere. In fact, Mumbai is a perfect city to practice the sport due to its landscape and architectural obstacles," Daniel graciously admits.

Did he miss the open manholes? Tetanus threats? Exposed live wires? Kamikaze rickshaw drivers? Building a jungle gym at home is infinitely safer.  

For more on Le Parkour visit CNN.