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What grief uses
Six months after losing his brother, Eric Rubin ruptured his Achilles. He doesn’t draw a straight line between those eventsâand 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…
What control sounds like
Martin Svenselius doesn’t want to be calm after training. He wants still-mind during itâmental quietness while the body works, not as a reward for exertion but as a discipline maintained through it. He trains without music because a loud landing is information: the gap between plan and execution made audible. Mastery, in his framing, is…
From the archives: Joan Hanscom
Joan Hanscom has built an entire career inside bike racing â competing, organizing, directing â and her vision for the Valley Preferred Cycling Center comes down to one word: fun. From Pee Wee Pedalers to masters racers, she wants the velodrome to cultivate lifelong enjoyment of the bike. But beneath that simplicity lies serious work…
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…