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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…
From the archives: Iron Gump
Iron Gump slows a squat down until it becomes meditation. He calls it meditative strength training: alignment and breath turned into awareness that holds while you move. Barefoot running over rough ground trains the same sensitivity. Slow a lunge enough and it exposes the weakness you have been hiding from yourself for years.
Too Busy to Pose
Photographer Viktor Andersson’s first obstacle isn’t your nerves — it’s your mask, the rehearsed version of how you think you should look. Stillness lets it assemble; movement strips it away, because a body busy not hurting itself has no attention left to pose. The real person shows up not when you compose yourself more skillfully,…
From the archives: Alyssa Serpa
Alyssa Serpa flips a common assumption about training. Most practitioners treat playfulness as the off-ramp from serious work — a break before getting back to the real practice. She sees it the other way. “There is a lot of creativity, but also progression, that happens in the space of being playful, goofing around, and not…
Weather, not savings
We treat skill like a savings account. You learned the precision jump in 2019, so you have it—deposited, yours to draw on. Brandon Sandén replaces that picture with something colder: practice is a mirror of who you are right now, this body, this sleep, this week. Yesterday’s wins don’t deposit. But there’s a mercy hidden…
From the archives: Marcus Lincoln
For Marcus Lincoln, parkour isn’t about the moves you can do or how fast you learned them. “It’s more about the process of learning them.” That same orientation runs through his organizing of Texas Winter Jam, his coaching, and his travels — including the adventure of picking up new languages. The challenge mindset isn’t about…
Care made physical
Movement culture frames pain as enemy, teacher, or adversary—something happening to you. Sarah Mohr names a fourth frame. A body producing pain is a body still tracking the injury. A body that has stopped reporting—through override training, dissociation, nerve damage—has lost a channel of contact with itself. The absence of pain about something that should…
From the archives: Galo Alfredo Naranjo
Galo Alfredo Naranjo poses a quiet challenge to the way most people relate to coaches: “How do we mitigate injuries? How do you get in tune with your body? Versus just like, Hey, Coach, what am I doing today?” The point isn’t to fire your coach. It’s to notice when you’ve outsourced the questions you…
The wrong way around
Adults try to figure out their bodies and outsource their feelings. Phil Lombardo names the inversion: a biomechanical assessment requires technical expertise you don’t have. Your emotional state requires expertise no one else has. The therapist who tries to name your feelings is overreaching. The friend who tries to assess your gait is amateur. The…
From the archives: Christian Anderson
Christian Anderson’s practice spans parkour, weapons, music, drawing, and blade-smithing — but the through-line is what he sees in children. “You don’t have to tell a kid to play, to jump, to climb. There’s a lot of innate understanding of movement that I think children have.” His coaching is built around remembering that — and…