THERE IS ALWAYS MORE

What is the value of formal systematic training.

So I speak to a lot of parkourist who never had any formal training. They say, “you don’t need all that stuff to do parkour” meaning, indoor classes, quadrupedal movement, weightlifting, gradings etc.

I myself started training parkour on the streets so I know that you don’t need to do parkour. But there is more to life than jumping.

I find that a lot of the super skilled parkourist have amazing abilities but everything else in their life is a mess. They find it hard to hold down a job, they don’t know how to turn their interests into a meaningful career or a way to support themselves financially, and they would like to do so.

Formal training helps to develop the ability to:

•       listen to others,

•      discipline yourself,

•       push through hard times (even if you love what you do there will be times when it is not fun),

•       work in a team,

•       follow instructions,

•       be patient,

•       take ownership / personal responsibility,

•       complete a task you set out to accomplish, resilience

•       accept different ways of doing things.

Many of the things we do in the class are subtle, but work on developing soft skills... We simply call it mindset training.

People are different

I have also noticed another thing. The type of person who walks out of their house, goes to a street corner at age 12 and trains with a bunch of strangers, does not care about looking weird to passers buy and does not care about breaking bones or cuts and scrapes are not the same type of people who seek out classes.

Many people who even try to start outdoors simply quit, the people who stay are almost a different breed of human. Almost a Darwinian natural selection.

One of my aims in my classes is to be the guide to help people understand how a parkourist thinks. What kind of mind set makes some one capable to jump off walls and keep training.

Balance

What is the point of becoming a god in skill if te rest of your life is a mess. But also, those that do seek out guidance need to learn how to step out of their comfort zone, not held back be fear and doubt.