Parkour for me seemed to be the thing I was waiting for in life. When I discovered it I couldn't contain my excitement and started on a journey to learn more. I am still traveling on this journey and don't think the learning will ever come to an end.

As I lay face-down in the Central Park mud, trying – but mostly failing – to complete a diving-monkey push-up, I remember thinking: “Well, this is new.” I had done some conditioning. I had done some jumping. But these push-ups? I had never done anything like these before.

As I have recently started teaching weekly classes in Southern California, I have received similar questions along the lines of

“How can I get myself to do a jump?”

It happens to every practitioner at some point....because of a botched landing, not paying attention to your step or sometimes overtraining...snap! You have an injury. Unfortunately for us traceurs/freerunners, who are involved in a high impact activity, we're quite prone to injuries. Small twinges and sprains are a part of our lives, they come and go, you get used to it.

Hi, I’m Fizz and all very new to blogging so please bear with me as I have lots of experiences to share and would love for you to stick around to read, learn, laugh (probably not so much), empathise and gain something from what I have to write.  I’m currently on a round the world trip and am training as I go.  It’s a trip of a lifetime that is broadening my knowledge and skills in Parkour and life in general, totally cliché I know! 

A couple of weeks ago I met up with Blane and Bruno for a quick training session over in Elephant and Castle, and to show them a spot that I'd recently discovered in the area. When we arrived, there was a slight that caught our collective eye: Set on a slight hill, there was a set of trees that had been severed into plinths standing around 5 to 6 feet tall, all surrounded by an arrangement of small boulders.

"The most important motivation in Art du Déplacement, in my eyes, apart from becoming as strong as San Goku (Dragon Ball) …, is to try and be a good human being in life.”

Hello friends! I just want to say quickly a big thank you to everyone who said something nice to me about my last blog post - it's highlighted to me how much of a widespread issue self-comparitive negativity is, and it's super nice that people appreciated my advice to basically not worry about it. So with that in mind, let's move on to another thorny topic...