Something came up in coaching this evening that I thought I would write up into a blog post: the Power-Technique Feedback Cycle. This has been part of my way of thinking about and teaching complex movements which is almost intuitive, and I thought might be useful to write down and share. Introduction What I’m talking…
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Coaching: Working With, Not Against
It’s in the nature of coaching that we have an idea of what the student should be doing and our aim is that they do it. But there are two paradigms for how we go about this: the most common one is one I call ‘working against’, but instead I think coaches should shift to…
1:1 Session FAQs
Where would the session be? A suitable location near central London. I live near Waterloo, so anywhere that is within distance for me on a bike (up to 10km is no problem!). Depending on where you are, we could find a suitable place locally — somewhere with a couple of walls, some steps, benches, or…
Anyone can do Parkour
Public Misconception of Parkour Imagine all you had ever seen of running was the 100m sprint in the Olympics. Parkour is a non-mainstream, not-very-well-known discipline. As such, it hasn’t been understood all too well by people in society in general. The media loves spectacle and sensation, so they portray parkour as a daredevil stunt discipline. The parkour that’s made…
Creativity, Parkour Vision, Adaptability, etc
Take a look at the set-up in the photo. What do you see? Consider what you could do here – make a mental list of all the different movements or things you could do here. Compare it to any experience in any sport you have, or even to what someone might do in a fitness…
Parkour’s Variety
Over the years, I’ve tried out a whole load of different sports, games, exercises and movement disciplines, and enjoyed most of them. As a teenager I started out with sprinting, also doing non-competitive longer runs, joined the rugby team and basketball team shortly after, and started going along to a karate club my friend did…
Taking the Stairs
“some quote about humans being meant to move” Exercise is good for you, right? (If you aren’t in agreement so far, then probably stop reading now. That’s kind of an underlying premise of this whole post.) The way we view ‘exercise’ or ‘move’ in our society is a bit odd. It’s been allocated to…
Playing while I’m Waiting for a Train
The below video shows me playing while I’m waiting for a train. (Note — this is from 2015). It’s a fairly pure video: I put my phone camera on a tripod and filmed myself waiting for a train for twelve minutes. Filming can mess with the purity of something, as you are now performing for…