Parkour, stripped down, is the use of space. It’s how we fill space, how we move through it. It’s a process. And it has often struck me when training and moving that the vast majority of that space is filled with what most would consider to be ‘unspectacular’ movement: that is, the gaps and distances that exist before, between and after the obstacles we fly over and through, around and under.

For the past 30 years, I have been lucky and privileged enough to be involved in several sport activities and some of them at the highest level of competition. I mixed with a lot of sportsmen/women and among them I met just a few athletes.