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 […]
Tag Archives: parkour generations
February
15
Why You Need To Mind Your Movement
posted by Dan
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 […]
January
23
Undoing the Architecture of Fear
posted by Dan
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 […]
September
23
Practical Movement over Functional Fitness
posted by Dan
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.
September
23
Turning Point | Parkour Generations Documentary
posted by Dan
One of the best documentaries made on parkour, the Turning Point is a fantastic TV series produces in the USA which seeks to highlight pivotal moments in the development of an organisation that works to better the world in some way. This documentary follows the lives of three young people in London, detailing how parkour […]
June
05
Move Like a Human: Why You Shouldn’t Exercise.
posted by Dan
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 think of exercise we typically imagine high frequency, low variety repetition of consecutive and limited movement patterns. You hit the gym or the sports ground or the running track 3-5 […]
February
13
Building an Academy: Parkour in Process
posted by Dan
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, redesigning and generally working like never before – all to create the UK’s first dedicated Parkour Academy centre. It’s known as The Chainstore, after the official name of the building […]
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