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What gets atrophied
Movement culture celebrates the override—pushing through pain, fatigue, fear. Brian A. Prince points at a cost the celebratory story leaves out. The capacity to ignore the body’s voice, practiced for decades, doesn’t just override the signal. It trains the receiving channel itself to go quiet. After filming Predator, his partner could see his distress before…
From the archives: Janne Laurila
When Janne Laurila started parkour, movement was constant exploration aimed at improvement. Years in, the relationship has changed. The point isn’t getting better at the movement; it’s how the movement changes the way you see a challenge in the first place. The shift is from improvement to adaptation — and the deeper one is the…
Calmness or nothing
Most physical practices let you lie about how you feel. You can run scared, lift distracted, train through anxiety. The body cooperates with whatever you bring. Tori Kubick chose contortion, which doesn’t. The tissue won’t lengthen if she’s anxious. Self-deception collapses on contact with the floor. The practices that meet you where you are will…
From the archives: Anna Bezuglova
For Anna Bezuglova, there’s no real boundary between official practice and the rest of life. Driving, talking with her husband, teaching, walking — all of it carries the same dialogue of sacredness she brings to physical practice. The shift isn’t about adding ritual to mundane moments; it’s about noticing that the distinction was never really…
Why we want to share
Joe Boyle doesn’t share what he knows—not because he’s withholding, but because the urge to share isn’t only generosity. The giver of unsolicited wisdom is also collecting: a small affirmation that they’re useful. The student has to ask. Until they do, the share lands on dry stone. What gets dignified isn’t the sharer’s good intentions.…
From the archives: Joe Boyle
Joe Boyle is interested in a question most communicators skip past: when to offer help and when to withhold it. Sometimes the more useful move is the harder one — letting someone find their own way through. Joe’s broader instinct points the same direction: “Anything that, sort of, gets you out of the rigidity of…
With, not on
Movement vocabulary keeps the human in charge and the matter passive. We jump from rails, land on concrete, push off walls. Then there’s Nika Jankovic talking about the floor: friends, caress, melt, relation. The floor isn’t receptacle—it’s interlocutor. When the floor stops being something you act on and becomes something you act with, what kind…
From the archives: Ryland Lanagan
Ask Ryland Lanagan what gets adults into a parkour-based fitness program and the answer is fun. But fun isn’t the first thing that happens — permission is. Permission to falter in front of strangers, to put yourself out there. Once you’re willing to do that, Ryland says, a whole cascade follows. The pitch is movement;…
Who you’d have to stop being
When Alex Lukens describes the hardest part of his work with high-achievers, he doesn’t talk about programming or recovery. He points at identity. The person doing the overdoing isn’t separate from the overdoing. ‘Just do less’ assumes the person trying to do less is the same person who’ll be doing the less. A different person…
The third word
Asked for three words about his practice, Janne Laurila lands the first two easily—curious, compassionate. The third is stranger: incomplete. Not a posture but a premise. If completion is permanently unavailable, missing it stops being a failure. But the question won’t sit still: did Laurila choose this foundation, or did his life simply make every…
From the archives: Kyle Koch
A gym doesn’t cut it for Kyle Koch. His movement is guided by being outside and responding to his environment — what he calls a sit spot. You go outside, get curious, follow what draws your attention. See an interesting tree? Could you climb it? Will you? The trees you can’t yet climb become the…
What grief uses
Six months after losing his brother, Eric Rubin ruptured his Achilles. He doesn’t draw a straight line between those events—and neither should we. But the injury surfaced a question movement culture rarely sits with: training doesn’t just process emotion. Emotion uses training. Solace and avoidance can look identical from a distance. An injury is sometimes…