Teaching

Ramblings and Teaching by Tyson — May 03, 2008 at 08:20 pm

Janine called me a workaholic the other day…and it’s weird because she’s totally right. I used to be the biggest slacker I knew throughout high school and college. I seriously had it down to an art, only putting the minimal amount of time into working as possible. That must have all changed big-time with parkour. I spend entire days (and nights) on the computer sometimes now, working on the never-ending amount of work that comes from running a nonprofit, moderating two parkour communities, working on APK/Tribe stuff, running promotion, learning video production, learning photography, and smuggling miniature chihuahuas across the border (harder than it sounds)…

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Teaching by Tyson — Oct 02, 2007 at 12:39 am

How would you like to be hired to travel to Lisse and train under the Yamakasi, Stephane Vigroux, and Seb Goudot? Sounds like a beautiful dream right? Well my fellow Tribe member Ryan Ford (Demon) was given that opportunity a few weeks ago for a documentary on parkour by ESPN. And he wrote the whole thing up very well as a featured story on American Parkour, excerpts below:

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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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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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