BY COACH DEMI

It’s a conscious choice of mine to have this interaction whenever a parent signs their child in for an open session at Fluidity: “Are you training too?” I am often met with a scoff or laugh as they order coffee: “Oh no, not me, I can’t do any of what they can”. Often, what follows is a heart-dropping statement: “I’m too old for that” Put bluntly, this is complete nonsense. Let’s talk about it. Why do we, as we age, begin to limit ourselves? This is the war against interna

“Can you do a Backflip?” - it’s a rite of passage for anyone who trains parkour to be asked this question from excitable children or an onlooking group of lads. The dilemma that follows arguably calls into question the spirit of parkour - do I need to prove myself right here, right now? Firstly, why are we asked this in the first place? How closely are flips and parkour associated with each other? There is a controversy about flips in the parkour scene, where one school of t