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The most fundamental benefit of parkour, is the study of our own fear! It is not a practice of becoming fearless. It is a practice of mastering the relationship with fear. It is a way of turning [...]

Parkour and Rock climbing are intimately related as obstacle focused explorations of human locomotive ability, many movements popular in parkour were used by rock climbers before parkour was [...]

Once upon a time a friend of mine, Jeff Schoenhard from the SF bay area, was quoted in a local news account as describing parkour as a combination of dancing and running from the police. I was [...]

Lewie West recently introduced the idea of lateral vs vertical skill development in a podcast with well rounded athlete. The simply idea here is that without increasing the power, strength or [...]

A few days ago we touched on the idea of lateral creativity. The next day this video popped up in my feed, its a collection of phone clips but contains some of the some of the most interesting [...]

Ido Portal released a new video sunday. It’s very worthwhile to watch for movement inspiration. If you have been following the Evolve Move Play blog for awhile you will know the admiration [...]

Evolve Move Play sees human movement as being more or less derived from fundamental capacities that have always been important to us, at the center the most fundamental movement practices are [...]

In 2005 I was introduced to parkour and one of the first events, the nascent parkour community of Seattle, got together for was a viewing of Tony Jaa’s Ong Bak,which featured some of the [...]

One of the fascinating things about locomotive movement is that the very deep basics of it, putting together running, jumping, climbing and crawling has prior to parkour never really been the [...]

Of all of the places I have traveled to train, the place with the highest concentration of great trees to move in I have been is actually the Bay area. One particular place I have deeply wanted [...]