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Exercise/Health/Food

Instead of Cake: Kugeln and Marzipan.

20th June 2014

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, […]

Life Philosophy

Sheeple and Normality, Pt 2: Question ‘Normal’.

25th May 2014

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 […]

Society/Culture

Sheeple and Normality, Pt 1: Mob Behaviour

24th May 2014

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 […]

Life Philosophy

Creativity, Parkour Vision, Adaptability, etc.

19th May 2014

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. […]

Life Philosophy

Books I Very Strongly Recommend

15th May 2014

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, […]

Travel Blogs

Travel Blog 3, part iv

15th May 2014

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. […]

Travel Blogs

Travel Blog 3, part iii

18th April 2014

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 […]

Travel Blogs

Travel Blog 3, part ii

13th April 2014

Part i can be found elsewhere on this blog In this one I’m in Oxford and at home and I talk about what I did while in these places. Parkour gets mentioned, but so do a few other things like national security and democracy and similar important topics. As with all my travel blogs, I […]

'Politics'

Corrupt Politicians, or Corrupt Politics?

10th April 2014

Maria Miller Facts: Maria Miller has now resigned, following an allegation of dodgy expenses from a Labour MP. She was initially told to repay £45,000 by the independent Parliamentary Commissioner, but this was later changed to £5,000 by the a committee of MPs which has ultimate responsibility. As well as the excessive claim, she was […]

Travel Blogs

Travel Blog 3, part i

7th April 2014

Travel Blog 3 is about what I did during five weeks of my Semesterferien (non-term-time, it doesn’t seem right to call them “holidays” anymore); even though I was in England it still felt like travelling because I only spend 5 nights at home over three different parts, and I was living out of my backpack […]