I’m a big picture kind of guy. I like the details, but ultimately if you can’t relate the small things back to the big thing you’ve lost me. Case in point: Weight training for parkour. Why the heck is anyone doing it? And if you’re doing it how much are...
The Numbers Game For as long as I’ve practiced parkour I’ve had an obsession with numbers. I’ve kept track of my own statistics: height, weight, a multitude of basic jumps, squat, deadlift, kong, wall-run, dyno, etc. It’s a love hate relationship because the numbers don’t always get you what you...
The inspiration for this post originally came from seeing This Post published by Urban Freeflow. I was intrigued by the title, but ultimately found that the article is written with a pretty heavy bias towards the authors own ideals, and has little to do with defining anything unique about parkour. The article is a...
In Part 1 of this series I presented the idea that parkour training is incomplete without an organized training plan. The majority of parkour practices follow the theme of seeking out new challenges. High frequency of activity such as this, that is both intensive and specific equates to an increased chance of...
Parkour was introduced to me, like most people, through the internet. A friend introduced me to a few parkour videos in 2007. My first training session, a 1:00am blitz through a nearly abandoned college campus, was the catalyst for what would become an obsession with movement and challenge. I received...
The lack of organization for training by the majority, if not all parkour athletes, is an epidemic. Much of this can be attributed to the constant divide in parkour philosophies, which makes it difficult to determine training goals. The sport/culture is still very very young, but sport science is not,...
