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.
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Turning Point | Parkour Generations Documentary
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…
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Breaking the Line: A Parkour Documentary
Documentaries on parkour typically showcase the extreme elements of our discipline and focus solely on the movement spectacle that results. The guys behind Breaking the…
Keynote for Dance UK | Pushing Physical Boundaries
Being asked to deliver the keynote talk for the fantastic Dance UK organisation in London was a real honour and a great pleasure, and gave…
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Interview with Parkour Generations Korea
A little while I ago, during one of the trips to South Korea to run an ADAPT certification course and a couple of workshops, I…
Nature’s Athletes: Adapt or Die
Here’s a truth I want everyone who doubts their physical and mental potential to keep at the forefront of their mind: beneath the shell of…
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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The Natural Born Heroes Tour
Several years ago the world of running experienced a seismic shockwave that was the emergence of barefoot running, which has gone on to spawn the…
Well Rounded Athlete Interview
My good friend and colleague at Parkour Generations, Chris 'Blane' Rowat, and I had the pleasure of being grilled by Justin Goodhart of Well Rounded…
Elite Training Programs Interview
This was a great discussion with Wes Kennedy of Elite Training Programs, a USA based strength and conditioning group of coaches who really know their…
Stop Chasing Pain Interview
It was a real pleasure to be interviewed by the hugely knowledgeable and downright likeable Dr Perry Nickelston of StopChasingPain.com about the natural movement principles…
SpartanUp! Podcast
One of my favourite chats so far has been with the team behind the phenomenon that is the Spartan Race, and their Spartanup! Podcast. Joe…
Parkour: Primitive Sophistication
Parkour – that explosive visual spectacle of superhuman movement feats you now see in every Hollywood action movie and TV commercial around the world. At…
Finding Flow: Parkour, Risk and Optimal Experience
Athletes call it ‘the zone’; Maslow named it ‘peak experience’; the martial arts of Japan dubbed it mushin or ‘no-mind’; most recently it has been…
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