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Without a doubt the best training for parkour is more parkour. However, this is not to say that the odd injection of alternative training methods can’t help speed your development in specific aspects of physicality relevant to the traceur. Sprint training, weightlifting, acrobatics… all can bring great benefits to what we do. Far from being
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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 practitioners) not break things, explode joints and generally cripple yourselves taking all those impacts from jumps? And looking through the lens of many recent models of human movement – typically
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Mobility. Strength. Flexibility. Power. All wonderful attributes of a healthy body: but what’s the point of having these things, indeed of having these amazing bodies, if they aren’t then being put to good use in enabling us to lead lives of wonder and adventure? For me, physical fitness and even movement skill itself are only
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art – Leonardo Da Vinci I recently had the distinct honour and pleasure of being invited to teach at the world’s first Barefoot Training Summit, held in Delhi, India, by the fantastic Dr Emily Splichal of Evidence Based Fitness Academy, alongside some truly brilliant
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When the manager of our still-new London training facility, the Chainstore, asked me to write a retrospective piece for the one-year anniversary of the building opening I of course agreed instantly and, being busy with jumping off stuff and all, left it at that. A few days later when I came to begin the cat-herding
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Having confidence in our skills and abilities is vital in the practice of parkour, and yet this is certainly one of the most difficult attributes to develop and maintain. When questioned, most professional or elite athletes will attest to the fact that mastery of their particular discipline – whatever it may be – is 10%
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Movement is like language: to be able to utilise it you must understand the alphabet, know how to organise letters into words and then how to combine those words using grammar and syntax to create sentences. The letters alone are useless, only sentences enable fluency and function; equally, ill-formed and incomplete sentences, poorly spelt and
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Parkour, stripped down, is the use of space. It’s how we fill space, how we move through it. It’s a process. And it has often struck me when training and moving that the vast majority of that space is filled with what most would consider to be ‘unspectacular’ movement: that is, the gaps and distances
Dan Edwardes 