Jumping is not bad for your joints; jumping badly is.
Impact can and should be a positive stressor for the body, promoting bone growth and improved density and creating healthy
The Cardinal Principle of Training
What’s the cardinal principle of all training? The single most fundamental element of making progress in any field of personal development. Consistency.
Your Mind is not Always Your Friend
It is important to remember that not always is your own mind your friend. In fact, the mind is the
Play is Serious Business
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.
A Warrior’s Art
It asks you difficult questions; probes your weak spots; identifies the parts that are broken. Then it demands that you fix them..
Train As An Individual, Not Just An Athlete
the greatest practices humans have yet created are those which train the entire individual, not just the athlete in us.
Embrace. Adapt. Overcome
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…
Become a Learning Organism
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…
Personal Alchemy: Why 2020 Didn’t Suck
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..
Assume you are Wrong
Assuming you are wrong, about everything, is a highly effective way to ensure constant learning and continual improvement.
Longevity in Movement Practice
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.
The Point of No Return
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…
Put in the Groundwork
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.
Programming for Humans
The best training programmes must be tailored for the recipient, and the best coaches will make sure this happens…
Motivation is Temporary
Motivation will get you out the door, but it fades over time…
Dan Edwardes 