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The fuel that works
Nobody says this about training driven by self-loathing: it works. Kel Glaister knows because she lived itâyears of visible progress powered by the conviction that doing more would make her good enough. The fuel burned clean enough to keep the engine running. It just happened to be dissolving the chassis from the inside. The difference…
The harder thing
Movement culture has words for people who keep going: dedicated, brave, committed. It does not have a good word for people who stop on purpose. Elet Hall walked away from American Ninja Warrior after a near-miss forced a reckoning with his own motivation. Strength of character, it turns out, is less about what you can…
From the archives: Steven Low
Overcoming Gravity author Steven Low approaches physical training as an evolving problem-solving practice, not a fixed program. His book underwent massive revision because new research reshaped his understanding, mirroring how climbers and gymnasts constantly adapt technique to individual limitations. Low sees teaching self-sufficiency as the real goal â giving people frameworks to troubleshoot their own…
The Permission Slip
Ask what gets adults into parkour and the answer is fun. But fun isn’t the first thing that happensâpermission is. Permission to falter, to look incompetent, to be the oldest person in the room doing something poorly. Adults spend years constructing an identity that doesn’t require them to be beginners. Fun is what you discover…
Before memory
Ask Dan Edwardes how he stays motivated and you get an answer that dismantles the question. The stories he absorbed as a child didn’t inspire him to trainâthey became the operating system through which he experiences everything. He doesn’t decide to train each morning any more than he decides to think in English. The foundation…
Just the seasoning
Soisci Porchetta learned through deep apprenticeshipâcompetitive jiu-jitsu, Thai boxing, intensive workshops. Now she tells most students not to do what she did. Treat her as a supplement, she says. Go hunt your own meat. But the generalist prescribing breadth is herself the product of exactly the kind of depth she cautions against. The paradox doesn’t…
From the archives: Sandro Widmer
Sandro Widmer brings a philosopher’s rigor to parkour through ParkourONE’s TRUST concept â a framework built on respect, modesty, and courage, visualized through the fingers of a hand. His master’s thesis investigates how a coach’s personal philosophy shapes their teaching, a question that resists easy measurement. The conversation moves between structured systems and simple wisdom,…
The sound of mastery
Josh Nierer spent years chasing power in parkourâbigger jumps, more impressive moves. Then he saw a video of someone moving in near-silence. Sound doesn’t lie: a slap against concrete announces a body that arrived before it was ready. Silence means readiness was already there. Mastery might not look impressive. It might sound like nothing at…
The first meeting
On day twelve of walking the Camino de Santiago, Evelyn Higgins heard a priest describe three meetings every pilgrim encounters. The sequence matters: the meeting with yourself comes first. Not as the prize at the end of transformation, but as the prerequisite for everything that follows. Sustained, unavoidable simplicity surfaces whatever you’ve been avoidingâand clears…
Coaxing readiness
Movement culture celebrates the overrideâpush through, commit, send it. Bane, who trains parkour alone in Belfast, describes the opposite. He coaxes readiness out rather than forcing it, returning to the same challenge across weeks or years until his body and mind genuinely align. Solo training reveals whether your readiness is yours or borrowed. What it…
From the archives: Mandy Lam
Mandy Lam’s journey through movement communities around the world comes back to one constant: the people. In conversation at Ăvry Move, she reflects on the Yamakasi, what makes communities thrive, and the value of solo training as a counterweight to collective energy. She also opens up about a major concussion that reshaped her perspective. For…
Something worth playing for
Sean Hannah can guide anyone through rebuilding an injured bodyâbut he can’t manufacture the reason to bother. The exercises aren’t secret. The protocol isn’t the barrier. The barrier is that remodeling takes months of slow, painful work, and nobody endures that without a spark: something they love doing that’s disappearing. What happens to the people…