Advice by Tyson — Dec 05, 2007 at 03:30 am

If I could give only one piece of advice to someone in order for them to stay in shape, to be a well-rounded person, or to keep their mind sharp, it would be to challenge themselves to learn something new every single day.

This is how our mind and body are meant to work in my opinion. We are by nature inquisitive animals with a great power of adaptability. The more you challenge yourself to do something difficult, the easier it becomes and the better you get at it. The more you stick to doing the things that are easy, the less adaptable and active you become.

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Training and Travels by Tyson — Nov 11, 2007 at 12:19 am

Great night of training and exploration today. I was all by myself but had lots of time to explore all around Northeastern and Wentworth Universities. Well, not all around since there is always a ton of stuff that you miss, but I covered some good distance and am definitely sore now. Here are my favorites of the night:

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Teaching by Tyson — Sep 27, 2007 at 02:08 am

It’s a little early to call, but I’d say the new idea I’m testing out for parkour classes is working out very well. So far there have been three classes of it through PSCS and one class through WAPK, and the students are really picking up on the idea quickly and enjoying the hell out of them.

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Training by Tyson — Sep 23, 2007 at 10:52 pm

As much as I love teaching and jamming with new traceurs, it’s still a hell of a lot fun to meet up with old friends and go redefine what’s possible.

And that’s what we did today for a very long session at UW. Rafe and Dane came down from Bham, as well as Alex, Morgan, and Daetan coming out to train as well. Most of it was me showing them the challenges of my new balance line, but we also spent a lot of time on several year old problems I had almost forgotten about, plus a ton of new stuff that I would probably never decide to try on my own.

All in all another great day, and I got some great new things to start working on ;)

Advice and Teaching and Training by Tyson — Sep 01, 2007 at 10:09 pm

I had an excellent day of training a few days ago at the Thursday UW jam. There is an area where I used to some balance challenges next to a hallway somewhere over on south campus. I had always glanced over to the hallway looking for possibilities but I always figured it was rather bland and there wasn’t much there.

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