Do you wake up feeling like you want to shake things up, change the way you train and the world around you? Here’s 5 ideas about how to be a parkour revolutionary.

1. Invent new ways of training

Risk, and our society's increasing aversion to it, is becoming a hotly debated topic these days. And rightly so: there is no doubt that knee-jerk reactions of statutory bodies in many countries to the perceived risks of disicplines like our own has contributed to an ever-expanding system of restrictions placed on the freedoms and, consequently, potential of individuals the world over.

Most practitioners who haven't attended a PKG session assume it is some sort of fitness bootcamp with Parkour thrown in. With its reputation for militaristic mantra ('start together, finish together', 'to be and to last' etc. designed to bring loyalty and comradery with your brothers and sisters in arms) and emphasis on physical conditioning it is easy to see why this perception may exist.

Over the past four months I have been privileged to have been involved with Steps Youth Dance Company on their major season project of Try Hard. Artistic Director Alice Lee Holland, performance psychologist Shona Erskine and Sofie Burgoyne spent six months conducting workshops in schools across Western Australia to see what is affecting young people in the 21st century.