034: Dan Edwardes | Parkour, Fear & Life

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As superhuman as skilled parkour practitioners appear, Dan Edwardes reveals a very different view of the sport he helped popularize. Through running, jumping, crawling and climbing it brings us back to our roots, the functional ways that humans were meant to move, quite apart from the desk jockeying and couch denting now common. According to Edwardes, Parkour is a metaphor for life: one person's obstacle is another's stepping stone. As he proves, this amazing sport has the ability to completely flip flop your frame of reference. www.SpartanUpPodcast.com/034

Lessons:
1. Treat fear like a cowardly friend--it's advice might be right some of the time, but you wouldn't want it to rule your life.
2. Obstacles are really stepping stones we can use to better our lives.
3. If you are content on the path you have chosen, then you are successful no matter the opinion of others.

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything
0:04.4	required to create it. We interview people from all over the world that are
0:08.6	successful no matter how they define it. We are here Spartan Up Podcast.com. We've got Johnny Waite on my right,
0:21.7	we've got Seffra Johnny Waite on my left.
0:24.6	She runs out.
0:25.6	I'm out.
0:26.6	All right, she doesn't run a lawn service, but she knows how to take care of a lawn
0:30.6	if you have...
0:31.6	I don't really agree with lawns actually.
0:33.0	They should be gardens.
0:34.0	Good point.
0:35.0	But let's move on to Colonel Knight.
0:36.0	She's a wilderness expert.
0:37.0	We were just busting her chops.
0:38.0	And then we got Colonel Nye who really is a special operations decorated colonel who retired who could take care of
0:46.2	business if you need business taken care of. Dell our international
0:49.7	correspondent right the redhead that we all like I did a great interview with
0:55.8	why you know this awesome I have said where this park yeah about park
1:02.1	or and I didn't I didn't know if par I didn't know what parkor was did you I'm excited with this. Park. Yeah, yeah.
1:03.0	I didn't know what Park was.
1:04.0	Did you guys know what Parkor was?
1:06.0	Yes, a big fan as well.
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