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‘Fitness’, I believe, is an almost redundant term. When you think about it for any short amount of time, you will soon come to realise it is too broad, too vague, to be of much use. Are we talking about health, or performance, or resilience, or longevity, or the original Darwinian meaning of ‘fit for
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Parkour has involved quadrupedal locomotion patterns, or crawling drills, since its inception over 25 years ago. Anyone who has ever come to one of our classes, workshops or events will be familiar with just how challenging, demanding and sophisticated this form of training can be, as well as how fulfilling it is to become proficient
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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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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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At the start of 2020 I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Sports Insider podcast, and had a great chat with Duncan Jenkins there on all things parkour, movement, physical literacy, fitness, health and more. Check it out and give them a follow: Sports Insider Podcast – Episode 16 Parkour
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Honoured to be featured by the USA’s 24Life Magazine recently as part of their Project Summer / Game Changers series. I’ve always enjoyed collaborating with 24 Hour Fitness and have run some education and courses for them as well as contributing to their 24Life Magazine this year with a monthly series on movement training. This
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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 much efficiency and as little stress on the body as possible. This is known as biomechanical fitness and is the ability of your entire system (bones, fascia, ligaments, tendons, muscles)
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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, desired results for both you and your learners. Bad cueing can confuse, impede learning, and waste time – for both you and your learners. Here are just six starting points
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I was lucky enough to be featured in London’s Islington Gazette this past month talking about our annual Winterval Training Day event at Parkour Generations. The feature focuses mainly on why it’s important to brave the elements and keep training outdoors even in winter, to keep body and mind sharp! The cold is just another obstacle
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So it’s coming – we’re bringing the incredible Hero Round Table event to London in May this year! I first spoke at the Hero Round Table Conference in Michigan, USA, in 2015, and then again in the Netherlands in 2016. It inspired me so much I initiated London’s first Hero Round Table with HRT founder
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What does it feel like to be a hero? Who out there ever wakes up in the morning and thinks to themselves ‘Yes, I am a hero’? Probably none of you. Hopefully none of you. Because there is no ‘hero feeling’. Talk to anyone who has done something truly heroic and ask them if they
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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 x-whatever, because hey, doesn’t that make it even more hardcore, even more cool, even more rebellious? That’s sticks it to The Man, for sure, right? X’s are just bad-ass! But
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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 also evolve your mind. We are quick to want to change the body, to strengthen, improve, shape, tone, build… But how easily or often do we attempt to change the
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It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by the amazing Dr Alessandra Wall for the fantastic Life in Focus podcast out of the USA. We spoke about all manner of things, particularly about why seeking purpose is far more effective than seeking happiness, and Dr Wall’s insightful questions and comments are by far the
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Fear is an edifice we build within ourselves. Unless you’re inhuman, you know fear. It’s natural. It’s healthy. It’s a survival mechanism designed to warn you against very real dangers and guide you safely through times of risk and uncertainty. But, if you’re like most people, the mechanism has got out of hand and grown
Dan Edwardes 