• How Sergey*, 39, Sedentary Programmer, Mastered Parkour in 10h

    Do you think you are too old, geeky or tall to train parkour? You err! Why? Hear me out! Today I want to tell you the story of how sedentary programmer Sergey learned parkour. He was 39 years old when I met him, father of two 1.93m tall and “underweight” according to his own words.…

  • How to Learn Parkour as a Weak Fat Adult Geek

    You often see frequently asked questions like “am I too old to train parkour, I’m [insert any adult age here]?”. Then you will also find the same question but instead of “old” they will ask “am I too fat (overweight), tall, weak” etc. etc. etc. The short answer to all those questions is a resounding…

  • The Obstacle is the Path

    We live our life in transit always looking out for the imaginary point in the future when we will be happy. We overlook the actual place and time we are at. What would happen if we’d reversed that approach? Why not admit that the obstacle is the path?

  • Learning Parkour Photography with Andy Day

    In case you have seen some good parkour/freerunning photos in the past you probably looked at Andy Day’s work. Andy has offered a parkour photography workshop in Berlin. That’s how I went about learning parkour photography.

  • Parkour is for Wimps

    Reading the bio’s of many well known parkour practitioners or freerunners you start wondering whether they were simply born for this and you weren’t. Freerunners seem to have some superior genetic predisposition for scaling walls and jumping off roofs. They obviously don’t have the genes for fear, weakness and laziness while they have the ones…