The Takeoff | A Parkour Podcast

Hey y'all, welcome back! After a week off, we've got a phenomenal chat with Chris Keighley (@charliepapazulu) - head of coaching at Parkour Generations and one of my favorite educators in the parkour space. This chat was prompted by a workshop that Chris gave at MoveNYC and subsequent conversations around the fine line coaches need to strike between freedom and exploration in parkour. It's a line...

Welcome back! This week, we have Georgia Donati Clarke (@strengthwithg) on to chat about her experience learning parkour from some of Laurent Piemontesi's first students, becoming a leader in the UK scene, and her recent release of "The Female Parkour Programme," an online training program tailored specifically for female practitioners. I found this one incredibly insightful from both a coaching a...

This week's guest is Adam McClellan - a longtime friend and fantastic coach/gym owner from Lehigh Valley, PA. Adam has been a fixture in the US parkour community since the mid-2000's and brings a calm, professional vibe to the scene that I've always respected. His most recent project - Parkour Professionals - aims to help other parkour business owners find a working mix of stoke and professionalis...

On this week's episode we have Nico Vanhole of Leuven, Belgium chatting about life, the state of Hal 5's parkour scene, and why there may be no such thing as a bad spot. I finally got to meet Nico in person a few years back and since then he has been one of my absolute favorite people in the community to train or hang with. In addition to being one of the ultimate "parkour athlete's parkour athlet...

Welcome back to The Takeoff! In this week's episode, we're digging into plyometrics with The Plyo Guy @mcinneswatson himself. It was such a cool experience to dive into all things plyos with Matt while coming at it from slightly adjacent angles - myself from (obviously) an extensive parkour background with a decade plus obsession with track/plyometrics and Matt being someone whose plyometric-speci...

This week, we sit down with Dylan Polin - owner of @HUBPTC and one of the minds behind Sport Parkour League. Dylan has run the East Coast's most successful and influential parkour facility for almost a decade now, and after expanding into two new locations in the past year is making a run for the United States' top parkour facility. In this episode, we chat about creating a community that has help...

Hey y'all, I hope you are managing to make it through what has been an incredibly rough week here in the parkour community. I address all of the recent revelations regarding Callum a bit in the intro (and have shared on Instagram as well) but want to let viewers know there may be mentions of him or his book in this and the following episode, which were both recorded before this information about C...

On this week's episode we have Kevin Franzen (@kevinfranzen01) of ⁨@KIPAMAGAZINE⁩ fame. This may be my favorite conversation I've had so far on the podcast and it's one that has the potential to totally shift the way you look at training. If you're not familiar with Kevin, he is a phenomenal competitive parkour athlete and regularly in the conversation of the sport's top innovators. He blends top...

This week, we are catching up with Lynn Jung ( @LynnJungAthlete ) - one of the most influential female athletes in the history of our sport and a lovely human being/friend. Lynn has recently stepped away from the athlete lifestyle to take on new challenges in athlete management and marketing, and I wanted to chat with her about her professional experiences - both in front of and behind the camera...

In today's episode, we have parkour athlete and movement mentalist Flynn Disney on to chat about the relationship between our training, our emotions, and our internal narratives. Despite nearly 1.5 hours of runtime I feel like we barely scratched the surface of Flynn's training insights and I think more than anything it indicates how much attention to detail he puts into his coaching, guidance, an...

On this week's episode, I have Ihab Yassin (@little.parkour.hulk) on to chat about accessibility in parkour and his mission to help raise visibility for athletes with disabilities in the parkour community. Ihab has been training parkour in Germany for over a decade and achieved an incredibly high level. He also has dwarfism - and has used his platform to advocate for more education, accessibility,...

On today's episode of The Takeoff we have Davis Vasconcellos - one of my best friends in the sport and "Uncle Davis" to my daughter. Davis, Sean, and I spent the past 3+ years shooting the next long format piece for Point A...which I have been working a ton on over the past month. With that in mind, I wanted to bring Davis on to talk about what the process of filming was like for him and get some...

Today, we've got Denali Siruno ( @denali.siruno ) on to chat about style, aesthetics, expression, and how we define novelty and creativity in parkour. Denali has an insanely technical style that draws heavily from tricking and has competed in most major style comps, including SPL and KOTC. He is also known for being willing to share some good-natured hot takes online regarding style in parkour and...

This week, I'm chatting with Sam Coppack - lead coach at Nova City and early days UK practitioner - about the recent Project Underground 13 comp, his perspective on the UK's growing gym/youth parkour scene, and what we may be neglecting when it comes to delivering the best possible parkour experience to the next generation of practitioners. This conversation was an absolute pleasure and (as you pr...

After a short hiatus, we’re back with a big one - a brief (ish) dive into parkour’s history with Callum Powell, nerd supreme of all things parkour. Callum just released his first book, “What is Parkour?” which covers parkour’s culture, history, and practice through hilarious anecdotes from his own training and adventures alongside STORROR. I had the privilege to proof-read quite a decent chunk of...

On this week’s episode, we have Jimmy Davidson - owner of Freedom of Motion in California and one of the minds behind Motion Mentors. He is also the author of Million Dollar Parkour Gym, a book that aims to help parkour gym owners create a space that is not only fun and authentic but also runs on all cylinders as a thriving business. Whether you own a parkour gym or not, I think you’ll find this e...

In this episode, Marcio Filipe ( @hgmrtgiv ) walks us through both his terrifying bail in Portugal and how handling the recovery has helped him answer some of the toughest questions parkour athletes ask themselves during their training. It was amazing having Marcio on to share both his story and his absolute love of parkour. He's a true parkour nerd, and we dive into some of the content that helpe...

Robbie Corbett is the co-owner of WFPF and main brain behind both the WFPF coaching certification and USA Parkour competition circuit. In this episode, we dive into his parkour origins story and how that led him first into the stunt industry and then into his current role with WFPF, and what WFPF is up to in 2026 - including the upcoming USA Parkour Cup in Austin, TX. As always, thanks so much for...

Alec Blenis is one of the biggest voices in the hybrid training space right now. In addition to holding the record time for Murph and boasting a 2:40 marathon time alongside some really impressive strength numbers, Alec Blenis is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the current state of evidence-based training. It was a blast getting Alec on to chat about the fundamentals of running faster, trai...

On this episode of The Takeoff, Sydney Olson and I dive into everything from parkour competitions to identity in sport to building a healthier relationship with commitment. As a multi-time SPL Style and Red Bull Art of Motion winner, ‪@SydneyOlson‬ has had a phenomenal competitive career in parkour and is also a highly successful stuntwoman in Los Angeles. Additionally, she hosts the Collecting Sc...

Giles Campbell Longley has been behind the scenes for many of parkour's most iconic moments - from capturing some of parkour's early days in the UK to filming Roof Culture Asia and starting The Motus Projects. These days, Giles is helping refine what has become parkour's biggest and most successful brand - Storror - from your experience buying merch to the emails you get over the holidays. We jump...

In this episode of The Takeoff, we dive into Chloe Reynolds' unique style and journey to parkour from the world of professional ballet. Chloe (@chloegreynolds) has really taken the online scene by storm over the past year, innovating a creative and dance-adjacent style that emphasizes unique spot use over scale or traditional parkour "technique." I was curious to hear who inspired her, how she bui...

Welcome to 2026! After a short break for the holidays, we're back with episode 6 of The Takeoff...this time featuring Ruby Romero of The Movement Creative. I've known Ruby for a long time and seen how pivotal she has been in helping shape The Movement Creative as a community-first parkour organization. In this episode, we dig into that development and the lessons she's learned working with Brown G...

In this incredibly wholesome episode of The Takeoff, I dig into all things community with David Ehrlich and Alec Reduker of The Commons. If you're unfamiliar, The Commons ( ‪@ thecommons.boston ‬ ) have been evolving parkour media and culture for the past three years - pushing the boundaries of how we see jams while providing the first paid platform for parkour media. I wanted to know how much of...

Darryl Stingley (@iamwavezilla) is known for his impressive competitive parkour record, viral short form content, and insightful parkour films like Trials Morales. In this episode, we dig into how his history as a comic book nerd and childhood in the Bay Area helped shape not only his creative voice but his incredibly physical style of movement. We also get pretty deep into the technical weeds bre...