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Piratpal Singh, also known as Lavish, is a 22-year-old calisthenics athlete taking Hong Kong’s rooftops by storm

By Tara Sobti

Piratpal Singh has adrenaline junkies across the city fixated on his athletic abilities, which have seen him perform harness-free, gravity-defying stunts atop of some of Hong Kong’s most famous rooftops. His Instagram page isn’t for the faint of heart: photos of him performing pull-ups from skyscrapers near Kowloon Peak, climbing beams at the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter and leaping between high-rise ledges near the Hong Kong Space Museum populate his @youngdreway feed. Combining panoramic views of the city with fitness has become a passion project for Singh, whose love for athletics began at secondary school in Tseung Kwan O. Describing himself as a “very skinny” teenager with a fast metabolism, he started practising calisthenics, a form of strength training largely based around bodyweight exercises, at the age of 15. “When I…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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