On Sunday morning I was at my computer, surfing the web and doing some programming. I kept an eye on Twitter, noticing that Dave Gorman was tweeting about the radio show he was broadcasting at the time (Absolute Radio). The theme of his show was people's odd routines & rituals; things they do all...
A short film produced by Paul Maunder of Northern Parkour, based on the music video for Michael Jackson's Thriller. We rehearsed the dance routine for a long time and threw together the script and filmed the other bits at some training sessions.
I've had a weekend full of training, which followed two days of programming with parkour training in the afternoons, and today is my rest day. Thursday I went out training as a break from Java; Friday I met up with my good friends Gordon & Scott for some afternoon parkour in the sun; Saturday I...
This is the new parkour documentary. It was produced by two good friends of mine; the legendary Paul Maunder and written by the Chairman of the British Parkour Coaching Association, Dave Sedgley. This is truly the greatest parkour documentary we have seen to date, in terms of its content (the words...
Yesterday was officially my last parkour jam in Sheffield. I'm moving to Manchester next Saturday so I told the guys that it would be the last time I'd be training with them all before I go away to uni, and we had a great day of training in Sheffield, starting at the university and working our...
Last week you saw the revival of the Sheffield Parkour Diaries. This week I'm bringing you a parkour special edition of the recently-revived diaries with episode 15, edited by yours truly. It contains 90% parkour and just 10% silliness and promises to be entertaining and inspiring. This is a...
Trace is a Parkour gathering in the peak district organised by Jason Matten and Dave Sedgley. The first proper one was last year (Trace Gathering 2007) and we had a smaller one the year before called the Northern Parkour Gathering 2006. I came back a few days early from my trip to the...
It all started with an email from Jamie Coulson. He asked if I could set something up to film parkour for his programme, Inside Out, for the BBC. I told him about the (then upcoming) Trace Gathering and he was very interested, so I arranged with Jason Matten, the organiser, and arranged for Jamie...
I'm currently sat in a pub called The Eagle, it's round the corner from King's College Chapel of the University of Cambridge, I'm waiting for the food we just ordered. I'm writing this blog post on my new mobile phone. Damn right – I'm on Blogger on my phone. I love technology. Anyway, here's...
For those of you who don't know, Lisses is a suburb of Paris and it is where Parkour began. David Belle, the founder of the French discipline, lived there and began to develop the art of movement from his background in gymnastics, athletics and martial arts. Me, Danny and Scott met up in Sheffield...
Danny and Paul went on their Lisses (France) trip last week and had promised to leave me a sign of some sort that I would see or find when I go next week. Danny told me that he had left something written on paper in the tunnel part on the Dame Du Lac, and that I would have to know where it was to...
This week, Fieldhead Campsite in Edale in the Peak District held host to 115 or so traceurs for the Trace (or TRACEur) Gathering 2007. An absolutely brilliant few days of hanging out with over a hundred people who live for parkour – camping together, talking about parkour, and training in the most...
On Thursday afternoon I received an email from Luke Markey from TT, who was meant to be standing in for Daniel Ilabaca to present the parkour films and do a talk on parkour at ShAFF – the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (Daniel couldn't make it as he's currently filming in India), anyway, Luke...
Saturday 3rd February - training and filming in Manchester with Hat Trick Productions for a Channel 4 programme called 'A Slice of Life', which is not a programme about parkour, rather it is made up of sections, parkour being one for them. I'm not sure when it'll be broadcast, I'll keep you...
Here's a video I made purely using the content from my msn Recevied Files folder. It mainly consists of parkour, tricking and kayaking. The song is 'Polkarama!' by Weird Al Yankovic (sent by Sam Oakley). That was fun to make. There's some weird/funny stuff I've been sent in my time...
Had an absolutely brilliant time in Manchester this weekend. Will, Dez and I saw Motion City Soundtrack at the Manchester Academy, and they totally rocked, supported by OK Go, who were pretty cool too (they even did a dance while we were waiting for MCS to come on!) After the gig finished, we...
This is just a video I made up of some clips from training yesterday morning on Rother Valley. I was just on this little playground doing some precisions and stuff, and using the bars and that sort of thing, and decided to test the camera out. I haven't used video editing software before, so this...
Thursday in Sheffield It's Thursday night now, I'm about to go to bed ready for tomorrow's day in the Peak District. Today was a brilliant day of parkour; Will and I met up with Jin, Jason and two other traceurs from Cambridge, we trained from 1:00pm till about 8:00pm, it was fantastic. The four of...