Dan
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Impact can and should be a positive stressor for the body, promoting bone growth and improved density and creating healthy levels of athletic tension and responsiveness in the nervous system. Parkour practitioners develop joints that can manage significant loading forces across multiple planes and directions. How do we do this? Through good landing biomechanics, the…
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What’s the cardinal principle of all training? The single most fundamental element of making progress in any field of personal development. Consistency. If you want to get good at something, consistent practice is the only way. Yes, progress happens at different rates for different people for a multitude of reasons; you can always train smarter and refine…
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It is important to remember that not always is your own mind your friend. In fact, the mind is the most slippery of opponents, and the most cunning, and the most persistent. It will use every trick in the book to encourage you to give up the fight. It knows you better than anyone; your…
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Play will help refresh your mental processes, giving your mind a much-needed break from daily routines that can become all too monotonous and repetitive, slowly eating away at your resolve and enthusiasm for life.
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It asks you difficult questions; probes your weak spots; identifies the parts that are broken. Then it demands that you fix them..
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the greatest practices humans have yet created are those which train the entire individual, not just the athlete in us.
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An inevitability of positive, intentional adaptation is that you will not initially see what the solution to a problem will be. If you could, the adaptive principle would not be necessary…
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Too often we are taught to break apart the body and look at it as a series of problems; to fragment it in order to make the complexity of human movement more manageable, and injuries more fixable. But we pay a hidden and enormous price for this…
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The idea of alchemy is that of consciously-driven change from one state to another: a positive process of willful improvement. And chemical change requires the, sometimes explosive, interaction of elements..
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Assuming you are wrong, about everything, is a highly effective way to ensure constant learning and continual improvement.
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Your journey will be unique, and no one knows your body and mind better than you, if you take the time to listen and understand. Go at your own pace. Forgive your own errors.
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There’s a moment in every jump we take in parkour, a point of no return when we decide to commit and trust our ability, training and experience to see us safely to the other side…
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The floor is a hard, unforgiving taskmaster. But the floor never hits you – you hit the floor: so learn to control the contact and it will soften dramatically.
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The best training programmes must be tailored for the recipient, and the best coaches will make sure this happens…
Dan Edwardes 