Tyson Cecka explores what drives creating and refining parkour spaces and objects, and how personal and communal experiences influence this process. He unpacks his design process for building obstacles, where he finds inspiration, and why he doesn’t consider himself a great artist. Tyson shares experiences with depression and how it’s affected his life. He emphasizes… more →

Sean Hannah explores adapting Parkour principles to improve seniors’ health, mobility, and confidence. He discusses curriculum development, research methods, games’ importance, and audience-specific design. Sean designed the PK Move Study curriculum with Marymount University and shares coaching advice for adults and seniors. He emphasizes that Single Point—standing on one foot—remains Parkour’s best training tool, seriously… more →

Thea Rae explores how diverse physical practices and creative disciplines inform and enhance each other for personal growth and adaptability. Minds bent on problem-solving inevitably seek challenge. She discusses her movement background, coding, and stunt work, unpacking connections between art, movement, aerial circus, and programming. Her varied interests—stunts, circus, cycling, climbing, ice skating—demonstrate why cross… more →

Renae Dambly explores how movement and community experiences influence personal growth and life perspective. After moving to Germany, she shares how parkour fits into her life and self-care practices. She unpacks her self-perception versus others’ viewpoints and publicly representing parkour. Dambly discusses climbing, injury, competition, painting, and plateaus. As an athlete making a positive public… more →

Teresa Vazquez-Dodero explores parkour’s impact on personal transformation and navigating motherhood’s challenges. She describes motherhood’s changes and sacrifices in body and mind, her initial parkour experiences, and how the community drew her in. Teresa discusses defying stereotypes, her unique perspective on risk, and multiculturalism studies. She calls parkour the most liberating relationship with her body… more →

Frank Mejia explores how World Chase Tag participation influences training practices, community dynamics, and professional development. World Chase Tag transforms traditional playground games into high-stakes global sport. It feels like three-dimensional chess at rapid pace—because of the other individual, you receive feedback regardless of their actions. more →

Andy Pearson explores how coaches ensure students surpass their own skills and preserve parkour’s essence across generations. Considering himself a failed coach, he questions his ability by asking whether any students became better than him. If not, is he failing? Because if those students become coaches and repeat the pattern, parkour’s meaning will gradually dilute.… more →

Charlotte Miles explores what motivates deep engagement in coaching, creativity, and physical training shaped by personal struggles. She discusses energy, emotional recovery, personal struggles, mortality, and grief. Charlotte examines how parkour affects her life, her definition of success, real life superpowers, and finding purpose. Being strong offers no reference point—no “I once was” to return… more →

Kasturi Torchia explores integrating psychology and movement practices for mental wellbeing and personal growth. She describes her role with Parkour UK, her journey into mental wellbeing studies, and the Esprit Concrete method she developed. Her encounter with Parkour came at a crucial time when she needed something to jolt her into seeing things differently and… more →

Damien Puddle explores how Parkour evolved into a subject of academic research and its broader cultural implications. Discovering a significant research gap, he became so interested in Parkour that he tried spinning every project toward it. There was hardly any research written about it at all, prompting his focus on the culture, practice, and academic… more →

After weeks of movement events with every minute scheduled, sitting for meditation was sublime—ten to twenty minutes of simply sitting and breathing. The constant activity was exhausting; stillness became recharging. What was missing from recent travels was equanimity. Often described as producing stillness, equanimity is actually a mobility of mind—a countercultural refashioning of self-definition, disarming… more →