Why Extreme Sports Aren’t Extreme
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…
Undoing the Architecture of Fear
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…
Stop Deconstructing: Start Moving!
The deconstruction of movement in the fitness industry is rife. I've encountered so many 'experts' and methods that reduce what are the most natural and…
Practical Movement over Functional Fitness
The buzzword 'functional' has become so misused that it now means next to nothing, and for effective training I favour practical movement over functional fitness any day of the week.
No Easy Jumps
It is quite common for us as practitioners of parkour, I think, having broken a new jump or mastered a new movement or overcome a…
Move Like a Human: Why You Shouldn’t Exercise.
You ready for this? You need to stop exercising. And you need to start moving instead. What do I mean by that? Well, when we…
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ADAPT: Earning the Right to Teach
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…
Parkour & the Play Paradigm
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…
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, painting, designing, heaving, dragging, assembling,…
Learning the Language of Movement
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…
On Functional Movement: A Review of the Idea World Fitness Convention
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…
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A Question of Principle (or How to Resist the Red-Bullion)
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…
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Parkour and the Development of Human Potential
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…
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Stealth: The Art of Making Silence
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…
The Eye of the Storm: Training in Adverse Weather Conditions
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…
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