'Politics'
Despair
29th October 2015

So… in this backdrop of terrible stuff going on, I find myself with some despair. Big problems in the world, and as an individual I feel powerless. It’s a bit tricky to find much meaning in the normal life, in what society tells you to do (study well, get a good job, have a family, don’t worry about these issues because they stop you being happy), knowing this is going on. Hence despair.

Life Philosophy
Why I Write
20th September 2015

 

In which I write about my reasons for and approach to writing. Meta, I know. Also slightly funny as I haven’t actually published anything else in 2015, and this is the first post in my restarted blogging.

Exercise/Health/Food
Take the Stairs!
3rd September 2014

“some quote about humans being meant to move” – many people in the fitness industry, evolutionary biologists, paleoanthropologists, etc.  Exercise is good for you, right? (If you aren’t in agreement so far, then probably stop reading now. That’s kind of an underlying premise of this whole post.) The way we view ‘exercise’ in our society […]

Life Philosophy

The Parkour Generations (PKGen) coaching group run a weekly interview on their website, in which they ask different parkour-people some questions. They’ve been doing it for a few years now and have worked their way down the list to eventually get to me. The version on their website was the shortened version, but here’s the […]

Life Philosophy
09/06/2014 pt II
13th August 2014

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 […]

Life Philosophy

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 […]

Life Philosophy

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

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, […]

Life Philosophy
Facing a Fear
22nd January 2014

This post is my attempt to explain one of my parkour experiences with words, to try and convey what goes on inside my head when I did a particular jump. Standing two metres high on top of a wall, I glance down to the ground below me, and then rub my hands on my thighs […]