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It’s a catchy title, but when I say ‘size’ I really mean ‘size and/or ability’. And even that should come with a ‘vaguely’. Really, this post is about how training with others who are similar in size, strength, and overall ability can inspire you in ways that training with people very different from yourself often […]

Hi Nina, can you tell me a little bit about what High Heaven is all about, the who, what and where? High Heaven’s first feature is a worldwide event mapping tool with which users can find and post their next adrenaline adventure. We have events in 23 different action sports and we list both events […]

Hi Charlotte, can you tell me more about the PhD you have been accepted on? What will you be doing? What do you hope to learn? The PhD will be looking at the use of parkour as a treatment intervention for mental health. Physical activity is now widely recognised as an effective management tool for […]

How to encourage and broaden participation. There’s no ‘one size fits all’ solution to the question of how to broaden the demograghic of who is training. Local contexts matter, what worked in one place may not work elsewhere but some ideas maybe worth thinking about and trying. In my experience it is the entry point […]

We act as though our own learning process is shameful. I’m as guilty of this as anyone else. More, maybe. I watch other people train, but I don’t like it when they look at me, because I can’t do anything impressive. I don’t think I’m alone in that. I have seen other people (mainly women) […]

Under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture in Gaza, The Italian Centre for Cultural Exchange (VIK) facilitated a week long festival of exchange with local associations in Gaza. The festival offered five days of workshops in a range of disciplines including parkour, art, graffiti, media , animation, circus and acrobatics. Five Italian parkour practitioners […]

‘You can’t be what you can’t see’ was a phrase repeated a few times during the Women in Adventure Network event organised as part of ShAFF 2015. It resonates well with the idea underpinning Julie’s See&Do project, and I felt good to find myself among like-minded people, representing See&Do. The event kicked off with a […]

All photos by Laura Polischuik. Instagram @laurallisonpo Let me start by saying this: I don’t like labels and I try to avoid them, however recently in an attempt to express two sides of my training and bring awareness to the fact that women can be strong, graceful, feminine and badass all at the same time. I […]

On this day, a year ago I broke two ribs. Very stupidly, doing a (very small) precision jump from a tree to a tree. I lost my balance at landing and, instead of bailing, I tried to grab hands of the person who was there with me. Well, that didn’t really work out so I […]

Here’s a situation… Why wasn’t I pleased that everyone cheered for me?   Because nobody cheered for anyone else so it made me feel different. It made me believe that before completing the wall run, nobody has expected me to complete it. Which made me realise the following… I believe the biggest obstacle to women […]