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 is it so hard to be nice, polite even? →

Published April 14, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 14  ·  

The bulk of the advice can be summed up with “don’t be a dick.” Don’t be late, don’t be rude, don’t place your immediate convenience over the feelings and efforts of the person you’re interacting with.

~ Peter Welch from, Etiquette Lost

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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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Five simple rules →

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

Five simple rules for happiness:
1. Free your heart from hatred
2. Free your mind from worries
3. Live simply
4. Give more
5. Expect less

~ unknown

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Metabolism and ketosis →

Published April 10, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 10  ·  

This entry is part 13 of 25 in the series M. Eades' Blog

If you read any medical school biochemistry textbook, you’ll find a section devoted to what happens metabolically during starvation. If you read these sections with a knowing eye, you’ll realize that everything discussed as happening during starvation happens during carbohydrate restriction as well. There have been a few papers published recently showing the same thing: the metabolism of carb restriction = the metabolism of starvation. I would maintain, however, based on my study of the Paleolithic diet, that starvation and carb restriction are simply the polar ends of a continuum, and that carb restriction was the norm for most of our existence as upright walking beings on this planet, making the metabolism of what biochemistry textbook authors call starvation the ‘normal’ metabolism.

~ Michael Eades from, «http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ketones-and-ketosis/metabolism-and-ketosis/»

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Stop. Right. Now. →

Published April 9, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 9

Our brains are the most bug ridden pieces of junk since Internet Explorer.

To replicate one common bug, try telling your brain to “go to the gym”. Most brains will respond by updating their Facebook status, and watching cat videos. This is not the desired behaviour.

~ Oliver Emberton from, Our brains are the most bug ridden pieces of junk since Internet Explorer.

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The forsaken art of pedagogy →

Published April 8, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 8  ·  

In other words, you actually belong to a wider group: you are one of the increasingly commonplace factions of society that takes pride in not bothering to make yourself understood. You feel entitled to let others worry about what you really mean, and even revel in the tribalism of `being in the know’ rather than letting others into your secret world, as if playing the role of an ignorant tourist in a foreign country.

~ Mark Burgess from, The Forsaken Art of Pedagogy

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Lofty goals (part two) →

Published April 7, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 7  ·  

The difficulty, for we who seek it, is that as an art does grow and change this jewel can become harder to find in the confusion, the noise and the bright lights. Indeed, it can become so buried that newer generations, new audiences, who never experienced the idea in its raw form, may not even know it exists. That, to me, seems a great shame as that rough-hewn gem at its heart is the real gift of parkour – or indeed of any good art-form.

~ Dan Edwardes from, The Athletic Philosophy

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Spring! →

Published April 6, 2015  ·  All posts on Apr 6  ·  

Sun is out… just sayin’

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