And how do you sort of do a recce and know that actually I'm going to be able to make this jump and I'm going to walk away and it's all going to be fine?

That's a great question.

I think parkour is much more methodical and stepped out than people think.

You're not just going there thinking you can do it and trying it straight away.

There's so many more parts and pieces.

The original part is training at ground level, learning intuitively how far you can jump, how much you can control impact and land in a very safe environment with a lot more structure laid into it.

And as you get further and further into that progression chain then you start to implement small measuring tools such as your feet or your eye line or a rough estimate before attempting things and then that builds into when you're doing larger scary challenges like you'll see me do on the internet there's probably 20 minutes or half an hour of lead up to that 1.5 seconds of challenge where it's warming up physically, warming up mentally, going and checking the landing surface, going and checking the takeoff surface, all the ins and outs, everything you could think of, something they would do with like safety mandatory regulation in a movie or a film, very similar to that.

So you can still find it even though, I mean, you're not old by any means, but in the sport, is it a young person's sport?

Yep.

And from my training in performing arts and ice skating, I kind of understood the potential or how hard you would have to work to achieve something in those sports or in those fields.

And, uh, Yeah, it really took me probably a couple of years of doing small performance work, building my skill set up to realize that at that stage in parkour, the industry probably wasn't at a stage you could sustain an athlete full time.

Well, there's very few slots going and I was quite young.

So I traveled to Thailand, tried to join a team, but I was too young, ran out of money.

So how

it's very

easy to get distracted.

And how do you sort of do a recce and know that actually I'm going to be able to make this jump and I'm going to walk away and it's all going to be fine?

That's a great question.

I think parkour is much more methodical and stepped out than people think.

You're not just going there thinking you can do it and trying it straight away.

There's so many more parts and pieces.

The original part is training at ground level, learning intuitively how far you can jump, how much you can control impact and land in a very safe environment with a lot more structure laid into it.

And as you get further and further into that progression chain then you start to implement small measuring tools such as your feet or your eye line or a rough estimate before attempting things and then that builds into when you're doing larger scary challenges like you'll see me do on the internet there's probably 20 minutes or half an hour of lead up to that 1.5 seconds of challenge where it's warming up physically, warming up mentally, going and checking the landing surface, going and checking the takeoff surface, all the ins and outs, everything you could think of, something they would do with like safety mandatory regulation in a movie or a film, very similar to that.

So you can still find it even though, I mean, you're not old by any means, but in the sport, is it a young person's sport?

But for you, honestly, do you have fear at all? Like, were you kind of like, oh, I've still got to be careful? Or are you just so comfortable with it that you don't even really think about these things?

No, I absolutely experience fear.

Fear is a very, very good... uh response mechanism to have when you're putting yourself in danger but it's about like training yourself to be comfortable and rationalize that fear and be able to approach things you know not with that overwhelming adrenaline or overwhelming fear just getting it calm and knowing that you can do it

And you did, you obviously would, I think you, do you coach people as well? Because I could sort of tell that you were quite experienced in where you were telling me to put my feet and telling me

where to put my body.

Yeah.

I have coached in the past.

It's something I still do regularly, but like I'll do workshops and intro to parkour sessions for people and stuff like that all the time.