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
I made that jump to find out who I was. And in that process of self-discovery there is growth, there is improvement, there is transformation. I know now that the person who landed was different – subtly, but significantly – from the person who took off. I had gained something, understood something about myself on an experiential level.
Occasionally we get asked why the ADAPT Qualifications are so physically demanding, when in principle they are only coaching qualifications? It's a fair question, I…
1. States Parties recognise the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of…
For the last two months the PKGen UK team has been ensconced in East London at a mysterious location, hammering, painting, designing, heaving, dragging, assembling,…
We live in a strange world. If you want to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a shaper of people's minds in a school,…
Coaching is a hard thing to do well. That’s something we’ve learned over the last decade or so of passing on the principles, methods and…
Recently I had the distinct pleasure of chatting to Abel James for his number 1 health and fitness podcast show out of the United States,…
Continue reading → The Fat Burning Man Interview – Chatting to Abel James
This past week has seen us introducing parkour in various ways to one of the world's largest annual professional fitness events, the Idea World Fitness…
Continue reading → On Functional Movement: A Review of the Idea World Fitness Convention
It was the final Q&A session following a talk I'd given to a corporate group on personal growth and risk-taking, illustrated with examples from my…
Continue reading → A Question of Principle (or How to Resist the Red-Bullion)
For as long as records have existed, people have found ways to improve their movement abilities. Indeed, the human drive for physical self-exceeding is so…
Continue reading → Parkour and the Development of Human Potential
How often have you stopped simply to listen to the world around you? Indeed, how often have you actually listened to yourself? Admittedly, against the constant…
It is often thought that the one true bane of all parkour practitioners is rain. Most, especially beginners, will grimace at the sight of dark clouds…
Continue reading → The Eye of the Storm: Training in Adverse Weather Conditions
Much has been made of the importance of warming-up before beginning a training session, and yet in general most people underdo or even skip entirely this…
Continue reading → Fire it up! The Importance of a Good Warm-Up
It is the little fears that quietly steal our lives. The grand concerns – death, loss, the meaning of existence… these things, by and large,…
