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. more →

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… more →

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… more →

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… more →

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… more →

Rasa is Indonesian for “taste” — and also for the heart’s discernment of feeling. Andrew Suseno’s Moving Rasa initiative takes that double meaning seriously: just as you have a sense of what something tastes like, you have a felt sense of your relationship to a picture, a book, a friend, a value. Movement becomes the… more →

Most parkour conversations treat competition as either the goal or the corruption. Michael “Frosti Fresh” Zernow holds a different view: competition is a doorway. It’s how the outside world finds an understandable way into a community most people don’t know exists. The trick isn’t to refuse it. It’s to be involved in it on terms… more →

Most movement narratives about fear treat it as something to overcome. Bryan Riggins doesn’t. “Fear has a place always,” he says. “If people think that it doesn’t exist or that they don’t have it, they’re lying to themselves.” His parkour practice — particularly his work on descents — is built around being honest about what’s… more →

At eleven, last in the morning run and arriving to find the breakfast gone, Andy Fisher made a decision: “I wasn’t going to be defined by my condition, and I could grow.” Decades later, that refusal threads through his teaching, his passion projects, his ongoing work on efficacy. The connection between his unconventional pursuits and… more →

Cara-Michele Nether unexpectedly inherited an Aikido school and took it in stride, bringing the same approach she uses in acupuncture. Her philosophy goes against the harder-better-faster grain: “Nobody wants to do something that they feel awful about. So you have to make it easy and smooth for them and give them small reasons to celebrate.”… more →

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… more →

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… more →