600

We recently hit 600 facebook friends, which is completely awesome. As you long-time supporters know, whenever we hit another 100 friends, we release a celebratory video. This time around, we wanted to do something a little different. The majority of our focus, both on the blog and in our videos, is on the movement and Parkour elements of training - indeed, that's the core of our curriculum. But, I fundamentally believe there is more to being a skillful athlete than just movement/gymnastic abilities. So, for this video, we wanted to showcase some combative stuff in a way that made it look challenging but fun - and not super "ultimate fighter-y" Enjoy:

Thanks so much for all of your support - it's amazing and you are amazing. You can help speed us on our way towards our next video by telling all of your friends about Fifth Ape, get them to join us on facebook, and, if you're in the Triangle area of North Carolina, bring them out for a class.

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Last time, I referenced some Big Things that were in the works. Well, we look like we're on track to deliver the first wave of Big Things next week. You should probably be excited. Or afraid. Or maybe both? Personally, I have a hard time distinguishing between fear and hunger, but that's just me. Anyways, the Big Things are coming...

Office Hours #18

We're back with another episode of Parkour Office Hours! This time, we take a look at a case study on rolling and talk about how to transition into rolling on hard surfaces. I originally posted the rolling video to the MovNat trainer community and received some interesting questions, which I tried to answer. We finished by answering a question about catpasses I received last week.

If you have a question about Parkour, fitness, or anything having to do with natural movement training, send it our way and we'll answer it on the next webcast!

Office Hours #17

After a long hiatus we're back with more Parkour Office Hours! In this episode we discuss wall passes and then talk about athletics. (Remember, you can use the playlist controls to easily navigate to the HD version of our tutorial segment!)

During the show, I mentioned a recent article by my pal and all around amazing athlete/coach Clif Harski on athleticism - you should read it.