UNESCO’s best kept secret

Published April 26, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 26  ·  

I was recently made aware of a UNESCO document known as their “International Charter for Physical Education and Sport”. I’m quite sure not a lot of people even know of its existence (and most certainly not within our community). This document contains some of the most beautiful thoughts and ideas on physical education and sport that I have ever come across, and what is more interesting, a lot of them seems to be identical with what we believe is good, beautiful and right with our chosen discipline of parkour/freerunning/ADD.

~ Mikkel Rugaard from, UNESCO’S Best Kept Secret

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Creating habits that stick

Published April 25, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 25  ·  

Rather than try to force myself every day, I simply created a “micro-habit” that I knew would lead to the intended behavior. A micro-habit is a single, tiny action that necessarily leads to a bigger action.

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But here’s the trick: Once you perform the micro-habit enough times, it becomes much harder NOT to complete the entire habit than to simply do the whole thing.

~ Maneesh Sethi from, How to Create Habits That Stick

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New toys

Published April 23, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 23  ·  

This entry is part 15 of 72 in the series My Journey

So many people have been talking about rings recently… we are upping our push-up game with new toys! Yet another great use for a pullup bar. Also. wow, this is tough…

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Low-carb adaptation

Published April 22, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 22

This entry is part 15 of 25 in the series M. Eades' Blog

There is an adaptation period that takes place when starting a low-carb diet. Someone who has been on a high-carb diet–the standard American diet, for example–has to metabolize a lot of sugar. All metabolic processes require enzymes to carry them out. Our DNA codes for these enzymes, but we don’t make them unless we need them. And when we do need them it takes a while for them to get brought up to the necessary levels. So, when we’re on a high-carb diet, we’ve got a lot of sugar-metabolizing enzymes kicking around, ready to metabolize sugar. All the sugar-metabolizing pathways are working efficiently.

~ Michael Eades from, «http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ketones-and-ketosis/lt-frederick-schwatka-and-low-carb-adaptation/»

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Switch to slow mode

Published April 21, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 21  ·  

Being in Fast Mode leads to constant switching, and constant busy-ness. It leads to overwork, because when do you switch it off? It leads to exhaustion, because we never give ourselves breathing room.

Learn to recognize when you’re in Fast Mode, and practice switching to Slow Mode now and then. It’s essential to doing all the things that are really important.

~ Leo Babauta from, The Brain’s Fast Mode

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Rooting for your country to fail is un-patriotic

Published April 19, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 19

But there’s a line between legitimate partisanship and lack of patriotism, and this is where it runs: After a decision is made, after it is upheld as constitutional, after America has decided to do something, you don’t root for your country to fail — and you certainly don’t take action to make your country fail.

~ Doug Muder from, Rooting for Your Country to Fail is Unpatriotic

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Copper and low carb diets

Published April 16, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 16

This entry is part 14 of 25 in the series M. Eades' Blog

Zinc and copper are absorbed through the same ionic channel, and when there is an overabundance of zinc it gets absorbed instead of the copper. […] Certain elements in their ionic form get absorbed through the same channel. As long as these elements present to the channel in a specific ratio, they get through in that same ratio. If, however, there is an overabundance of one, it occupies the channel, preventing the other from getting through and can create an deficiency of the other despite an adequate intake.

~ Michael Eades from, «http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/uncategorized/low-carb-diets-and-copper/»

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Parkour bones

Published April 15, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 15  ·  

When training Parkour we learn a lot of different movements, jumping, rolling, running, swinging, pushing, pulling and so on. Sometimes we also learn how to fall without getting injured.

This is a skill, really. A skill that consists of awareness, reaction ability and the understanding that you need to keep the momentum, distributing the force through out the body. This is somewhat amazing to look at. And people, who train bail-techniques often, can become extraordinary at falling.

~ Marcus Grandjean from, PARKOUR BONES

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Why peak oil predictions haven’t come true

Published April 13, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 13  ·  

It seems to me, though, that a third outcome is not only possible, but is what is actually happening.

3. Diminishing returns from oil limits are already beginning to hit, but the impacts and the expected shape of the down slope are quite different from those forecast by most Peak Oilers.

~ Gail Tverberg from, WSJ Gets it Wrong on “Why Peak Oil Predictions Haven’t Come True”

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Our 24th anniversary

Published April 12, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 12  ·  

Today is our 24th anniversary! So excited and happy to be able to play outside… what a way to celebrate an anniversary!

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