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For many of us, this article won't discuss anything new, but I just felt the need to write it in light of recent discussions and utterings.

Something that is sure to make me angry is someone’s expression of boredom. Don’t ever be bored, and if you ever find yourself there, don’t let me hear about it. Boredom seems to be something that just plagues up the lives of children and some teenagers. (Click "Read More" to continue reading)

This is a topic I first started thinking about around the time Bao wrote his blog post entitled “Get Money, Get Paid.” That phrase struck me, as it seemed to me to contain everything that parkour is and should be- a wholly capitalist statement. Why, then, do the practitioners of the discipline seem to condone such an attitude of altruism in their social interactions, while promoting an opposite attitude of individualism in their personal endeavors? Does such a duality exist, or is it merely an illusion? This is my opinion on the matter after MUCH thought. Please note that this is basically my attempt to reconcile my two main philosophical beliefs, which before now had seemed to contradict each other: Capitalism and the parkour philosophy of “altruism,” which can essentially be boiled down to: “be strong to be useful.” If you’d like to point out flaws in my reasoning, please do. I have no doubt I’ve overlooked some things.

“Altruism (from Latin: alter: the other) is the deliberate pursuit of the interests or welfare of others or the public interest.” - Wikipedia (Click "Read More" to continue reading)

Every second of every day we make choices. Your moods, your behavior, your words, your motions, your emotions, every move your body makes, every thought you have, etc.... all CHOICES (Click "Read More" to continue).

“So what I’m saying, actually, you see, it’s a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. If you have one to the extreme, you’ll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man, no longer a human being. So it is a successful combination of both, so therefore, it’s not pure naturalness or unnaturalness. The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness.”
- Bruce Lee (Click "Read More" to continue reading).