Movement DNA
YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO, AND YOU DO WHAT YOU TRAIN
Health, capability, functionality, mobility - without these things life is tough, and limited.
All true movement practices - from dance to martial arts to climbing to acrobatics to parkour - share some very simple underlying principles, and this is not mere coincidence.
These principles are what make them work, consistently producing the most capable human movers across the ages.
Movement DNA
NO FIXED PATHS
The best movers do not follow fixed paths.
Limit yourself to fixed patterns in training and, sure enough, those patterns will become your limits.
We will explore how and why some movement practices create truly adaptive, dynamic and coordinated individuals while others tend to limit practitioners to fixed patterns of movement that lack the ability to vary and adapt themselves to new challenges
Movement DNA
BODY + MIND
Your body is complex beyond your imagining.
Trying to impose your will upon it, to force it to work in mechanical, unnatural ways, will only lead to injury, pain and gradual breakdown. And it will limit your potential.
You must learn to work with your body, to be guided by it, to listen to its signals and to follow its adaptive process. Only then will you find harmony of body and mind, which leads to health, resilience, longevity and, perhaps most important of all, the capability to explore your potential.
This is the way of Movement DNA.
DAN EDWARDES
Dan has been central to the world of parkour education and practical movement training since 2005, combining lifelong elite-level studies of fighting arts, movement disciplines and health practices.
He has learned directly from many of the world’s best, including training with the founders of parkour for many years, spending 5 years at the oldest school of martial arts in Japan, learning from Olympic athletes, renowned movement experts, Special Forces operators and more.
Dan has a deep interest in understanding the holistic nature of true transformative practice, focusing on the importance of context-based training methods and how we can tap into the innate adaptive strengths of every human being, both in physical and mental terms.
Dan's journey across the world has seen him train and teach thousands of people in the skills of practical movement and natural health in more than 40 countries, from Europe to the USA, Asia, Russia, South and Central America, Africa and Australia.
Founder of Parkour Generations, the multi-award winning parkour coaching organisation, Dan went on to create the globally recognised A.D.A.P.T™ parkour coaching qualifications, as well as the Parkour Fitness Specialist™ certifications, and the worldwide Parkour For Schools Programme. Dan was also central to the creation and success of the world’s first National Governing Body for the discipline, Parkour UK.
His education programmes have been accredited by numerous international bodies and focus on the science and art of coaching and movement, and on the integration of body and mind to achieve any goal.