About Obstacle.love, Yopada.com and Tadeusz Szewczyk (Tad Chef)
About Tad
I Am/You are the universe/As above so below. Call me Tad. Blogger, vegan, ecstatic dancer, dances with walls. Join me! Yopada.com
Why? For dancing with the walls and eliciting flow states beyond the mind or simply embracing obstacles in general.
How can I help you? With yopada flow movement, the love of obstacles or parkour!
P.S.: My full Polish name – Tadeusz Szewczyk – is so cumbersome.
On the Web I’m know as Tad Chef. Just call me Tad.
That’s just the short form version of my name in English.
Obstacle.love
Yes, I can just show you yopada or teach you parkour.
Yet I can also make you overcome your fears and stay calm despite challenges.
You may discover that obstacles are opportunities – both on the street and in real life.
This is the essence of obstacle.love – originally a Zen and parkour inspired self improvement journal.
Now it’s a more holistic consciousness and movement publication.
So how to begin loving obstacles instead of shunning challenges?
Yopada.com
You can start literally “dancing with (the) walls” with me.
Why? My yopada practice is also heavily influenced by conscious or ecstatic dance and transformative movement techniques.
The yopada flow practice is a real life movement approach that allows you to reach flow states instantly.
It’s not a discipline with rigid rules or moves.
You don’t need equipment or secret knowledge.
Everybody can practice it everywhere.
As of now (June, 2025) Yopada.com is just a short link that redirects to obstacle.love/yopada
It’s the short Sunday meet up description in German and English.
What others say about Tad
Let’s see what others you are more likely to know say about me:
“I’ve seen you dancing. You dance better than me.”
Itay Ganot, Modern Mystic Arts – during the The Field on freedom.
“thanks for your courage brother!”
Naftali of MediTanzion – below my post on grief+gratitude sessions
“Thank you again for the training… had me truly exhausted for peaceful sleep tonight” [translated from German]
Nora Mansmann, parkour/movement teacher at Flux – after Yopada session
How can I help you?
You may change your mindset from using the path of least resistance to choosing the obstacle as the path with me.
Let’s move joyfully and improve
- mental
- physical
- and even spiritual
strength and well-being.
I live in Berlin, the capital of Germany.
You can find me, move and train parkour with me where Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Treptow meet.
It’s right where the Berlin Wall used to be for decades.
Overcoming walls thus is a great tradition in Berlin. Why not embrace it now?
I did when I was in my mid thirties and suffering from
- obesity
- weakness
- pain
and chronic migraines. That was more than a decade ago.
Then I trained parkour for a 12 years until I got really sick due to jawbone inflammation.
So I had to evolve my practice to make it easier and more rewarding faster.
That’s how my unique mix of flow movement evolved!
It’s much easier and rewarding than regular parkour. Especially compared to the “superhero” the type of parkour you see online.
There is no right or wrong to move intuitively.
You already know what fist you best!
I just help you rediscover your true self.
Now (at 50) I still fit into the same pant size I did as a teenager again.
The image on top shows me at 48 after a both exhausting and energizing 2h training.
You can contact me by mail and writing to onreact at gmail.com.
Or call me at 0176 301 309 45 in Berlin, Germany.