Had a great chat with Michael Boll of 21st Century Learning about why parkour is the perfect antidote to inactivity and disengagement with physical education…
Continue reading → Why Parkour is Perfect for Schools – 21CL Interview
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so - Hamlet, William Shakespeare If you're naive enough to believe you can get…
One of the topics we focus on in our education programme, ADAPT, is the importance of analysing and developing your own philosophy of coaching. Coaching…
CUE-JUTSU #6 When it comes to cueing for coaching movement you've got to get it right. And there's a lot to get right! I'll…
Arguably the most important element of training for any discipline, goal or task is to be able to carry out the requisite movements with as…
The very best coaches understand this simple truth: what you say and how you say it matters. A lot. Good cueing can get fast, accurate,…
Continue reading → Cue-Jutsu: Six Vital Pointers for Cueing as a Movement Coach
It's a very cool title isn't it: Extreme Sports! Often seen with a dropped 'E' so you get some form of X-treme or X-awesome or…
What I have learned over the years of training is that no matter how you evolve your body it really means very little unless you…
One question I’ve been asked countless times over the years by fitness professionals, physiotherapists, sport scientists and general public alike is how do you (parkour…
The deconstruction of movement in the fitness industry is rife. I've encountered so many 'experts' and methods that reduce what are the most natural and…
The buzzword 'functional' has become so misused that it now means next to nothing, and for effective training I favour practical movement over functional fitness any day of the week.
It is quite common for us as practitioners of parkour, I think, having broken a new jump or mastered a new movement or overcome a…
You ready for this? You need to stop exercising. And you need to start moving instead. What do I mean by that? Well, when we…
Continue reading → Move Like a Human: Why You Shouldn’t Exercise.
Parkour – that explosive visual spectacle of superhuman movement feats you now see in every Hollywood action movie and TV commercial around the world. At…
Athletes call it ‘the zone’; Maslow named it ‘peak experience’; the martial arts of Japan dubbed it mushin or ‘no-mind’; most recently it has been…
Continue reading → Finding Flow: Parkour, Risk and Optimal Experience
