Dan Edwardes

Building an Academy: Parkour in Process

For the last two months the PKGen UK team has been ensconced in East London at a mysterious location, hammering,

Have you noticed how more and more of your life is managed, and managed by someone or something else? Managed

We live in a strange world. If you want to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a shaper of

Coaching is a hard thing to do well. That’s something we’ve learned over the last decade or so of passing

Recently I had the distinct pleasure of chatting to Abel James for his number 1 health and fitness podcast show

Movement is like language: to be able to utilise it you must understand the alphabet, know how to organise letters

This past week has seen us introducing parkour in various ways to one of the world’s largest annual professional fitness

It was the final Q&A session following a talk I’d given to a corporate group of a few hundred people

For as long as records have existed, people have found ways to improve their movement abilities. Indeed, the human drive

How often have you stopped simply to listen to the world around you? Indeed, how often have you actually listened to

It is often thought that the one true bane of all parkour practitioners is rain. Most, especially beginners, will grimace at

Much has been made of the importance of warming-up before beginning a training session, and yet in general most people underdo

Don’t let the little fears steal your days…

How do you view your city? Does it feel constricting to you? Restrictive? Is it full of cold, lifeless structures?

Parkour, stripped down, is the use of space. It’s how we fill space, how we move through it. It’s a