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The Genuine Uncertainty
Chris Keighley, a parkour tutor, did a thousand muscle-ups in one day and came out knowing that when things got awful he could keep going. Keighley puts the value somewhere other than the size. A strong man banging out pull-ups he knows he can do discovers nothing; someone falling off a balance for an hour…
From the archives: Colin MacDonald
Somewhere between sculpture and playground sits the parkour park. Colin MacDonald talks about parks like Rose Park in Boise and Penzer Park in Langley, what landscape architecture school is teaching him, why materials matter, how a good park serves people who never train in it, and the distance between the parks he dreams of and…
Hard to Find Walls
A woman climbing a school wall in Seattle told Kyle Koch, who leads people through experiences in nature, that walls were hard to find there. He asked whether she had considered trees. The supply of terrain was never a property of the neighborhood; it belonged to the person looking. When Koch unlocked a tree he…
From the archives: Sam Sweet and Ben Klein
Partner acrobatics has a friendly start — beginners find themselves in poses that look advanced almost at once — and then it gets harder for a long time. Ben Klein and Sam Sweet talk about the fear of being upside down and off-balance, why a strong solo practice can make the partner work harder rather…
Named After the Shoe
Jessi Stensland, a former professional triathlete, has banned the word barefoot from her own speech. It names a foot by what it lacks, and what it lacks is a product. Asked on a trail whether she runs barefoot, she hands the qualifier back: she runs, and you run in shoes. Nothing about the run changes.…
From the archives: Chris Keighley
A thousand muscle-ups began as an argument about whether it could be done at all. Chris Keighley talks about what happened when the argument became an event — what it takes to keep going once the exhaustion sets in, why the people standing around you decide how far you get, and how to find the…
What the Reading Is Against
Put your arm behind your back. What tells you where it is? Adam Dipert is a physicist and circus performer who trains movement in weightlessness, and there the answer stops arriving. The tension in your shoulder is not a fact about your shoulder but about your shoulder and gravity. Remove the background and the reading…
The Countable Part
Michael ‘Frosti Fresh’ Zernow does not defend competition by saying it makes people move better. He argues it makes the practice readable. Basketball can be priced because it reduced early to a countable event: ball goes in hole. Movement has no such atom, so one gets manufactured from whatever a stranger can read in ninety…
From the archives: David Wilson
David Wilson explores how internalized ageism shapes our willingness to move, take up space, and try new things—and why letting go of rigid goals and perfectionism opens the door to curiosity, playfulness, and a movement practice that can keep growing at any age.
Different Answers
Selene Yeager’s training stopped working. It did not get harder; it stopped answering the way it had for decades, and no one had told her this was coming. The change was never the problem. Absent a name for what is happening, the evidence gets filed under character: you did not lose capacity, you lost your…
From the archives: Nina Ballantyne
Jam spaces have no walls, no membership, no door to walk through — and that turns out to be its own kind of obstacle. Nina Ballantyne and Craig talk about what makes an open space welcoming or intimidating, why the absence of formal rules leaves newcomers reading unspoken ones, and how a historic Edinburgh church…
The Fourth Way Up
Architect Jade Amber Ragoschke noticed that spaces designed for people with disabilities are among the best parkour spots. Nobody drew that ramp for you; a code required it. Stairs, ramps, and elevators are the three sanctioned ways up, and parkour is a fourth nobody put on the drawings. The two are cousins by premise, both…