Our feet take a pounding, plain and simple. The tight shoes, repeated impacts and poor mechanics all contribute to this. If you can't run or jump without foot pain (of any kind) then you can't train at the edge of your capacity, thereby increasing it. Any pain you may have will only contribute to further problems as you inattentively set up compensatory patterns to work around the pain (it is quite common for people to complain of medial knee pain after a recent ankle sprain.

This article has actually been written for a while but I wanted to post it now to try to give a few rays of warmth to those cold winter days...

So after a few weeks at home I returned to London.  While this was done under the general premise of continuing my research into parkour, I also wanted to attend some key events, most notably Rendezvous.  I arrived in the city just in time to catch the tail end of the instructor’s meeting at Elephant and Castle.

Intelligence can be measured in many different ways. For most of the 20^th Century, and often still today, this took the form of IQ tests which normally involved analytical exercises. But in the 1970s and 80s some psychologists began to challenge the concept of what constituted ‘intelligence’. Howard Gardner, a professor of developmental psychology, proposed that there were multiple different types of intelligence.

Back to the Homeland – A brief trip to North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C.

Parkour and freedom. To many in the community these words sit well together. Watch a video on Youtube and see the comments, ' You really are free', 'You look so free', 'Your movement is really free' with thumbs up all over the place.

Whenever I see/ hear this I can't help but think WTF?! Really? Where is the freedom? Show it to me? This is a video (usually) of the result of someone's training. I don't know what freedom is, but Parkour it isn't.

Work hard and be kind

Work hard and be kind is one of few life rules I try to live by.

Both move you forward.

But when life gets hectic, one of them can fool you into feeling it’s the only force you should feed.

Be strong to be useful. For sure. For that I have to work hard.

And being useful is many things, one of them being kind.