In which I discuss jogging and the sort of thing I do instead of jogging. “Alex, you make exercising less shitty.“ “I sweat a lot more than on a normal run but come back feeling like I’ve had a great time.“ A Lengthy Introduction Read this if you want more background to what I’m about […]
This is the second post with my reflections on an incident during which I got punched in the face and had a tooth knocked out, story to be found in part one of this article. Written on August 13, 2014, so not true for how I currently feel about it! Fear after the Event Even […]
If this were a buzzfeed article, it would be called “You won’t believe why this man got chased down the street (twice!) and beaten up to steal his phone.”. But that would be a misrepresentation: I didn’t get beaten up, and it’s only unbelievable if you get stuck in the idea that the world ought […]
It’s the 26th of June soon, which for some people has meaning as being an anniversary of the day I was born. Traditionally, people give and eat cake on their birthday, but not being a blind follower of tradition I’ve decided that I’d prefer other things. Being “healthy” (I don’t think about it that much, […]
Having in the first part looked at our sheep behaviour on a small scale, I’ll here look at a bigger scale, including dabbling in psychology (anyone who knows more, please feel free to correct me!), about how the concept of “normality” affects our thinking and how the bias is damaging and dangerous to us. Written […]
Here, about how we often act doing what is normal without thinking. Written in my usual slightly tangential style. Some things we do consciously; others unconsciously. Buddhism/Yoga/Parkour “philosophies” teach doing everything mindfully, with awareness, if for different reasons. I had a conversation with a friend once where I said that from parkour thinking of high-quality […]
Take a look at the set-up in the photo. What do you see? Please, take a minute to consider what you could do here – if you “do parkour”, make a list of all the different things you could train here (and I mean all the ideas you have); if not, think about it anyway. […]
This is a list of some books which I have read over the last year or two which I strongly recommend, to the point where I think everybody SHOULD read them. If I were a teacher or lecturer I would put these books on the reading list ranked among the actual topic I was teaching, […]
Seems like parkour is featured in this one another couple of times, as I go back to Bonn via home and a parkour coaching conference in London. Home Continuing from having just arrived home, having been in Leeds. I slept a bit and planned the next bit of my journey and packed my bag again. […]
In this part I write about three different cities I visited – visiting a friend in each and doing some other things while I’m there. Again, I’m telling thoughts I have based on things I did including gender, mass surveillance, learning, fear, etc. Bristol Following home, I set out on the next stage of my […]