Dan Edwardes

Dan is a founding member and CEO of Parkour Generations, the multi-award winning international professional organisation for the dynamic movement discipline of parkour / freerunning. Dan has appeared in numerous high-profile media projects as a performer and choreographer for Hollywood movies, TV commercials, live shows and public displays. He has also produced a considerable body of literature on parkour which has been translated into several languages and published across various media, including the original Handbook of Parkour and Freerunning. Dan has studied practical movement and physical fitness his entire life, with an elite background in fighting arts before he discovered parkour in 2002. In addition to establishing the world's largest professional organisation for the discipline, Parkour Generations, and the world's first recognised National Governing Body, Parkour UK, Dan also created the A.D.A.P.T® parkour coaching certifications which are now the globally recognised coach education for parkour having been delivered in more than 30 countries, as well as the groundbreaking Parkour Programs® and Parkour Fitness®, now the recognised certifications for fitness professionals to access parkour movement and fitness knowledge, and the Parkour For Schools Programme. His programmes have been accredited by YMCA Awards, 1st4Sports, ACE, NASM, AFAA, FIT and more, as well as being the centrepiece for events such as Ideafit and Paleof(X) in the USA, Fitpro Live, World Power Show, Elevate and Leisure Industry Week in the UK, Asian Fitness Convention, Barefoot Training Summit, IFEX and more. Following degrees in history and Japanese at Cambridge University, Dan embarked on a lifelong journey into practical skills, applicable philosophies, fighting arts and movement training, and has delivered courses, workshops and presentations to tens of thousands of people in more than 30 countries, helping many go on to become certified parkour or fitness professionals themselves through his programmes. His articles have been featured in publications ranging from The Telegraph and The Times to Men's Fitness, GQ and Timeout, and he has appeared across numerous world-leading podcasts such as FatBurning Man, Barbell Shrugged, SpartanUP and more, and presented at hundreds of conferences, summits, expos and events. Dan travels extensively helping others learn how to coach and to move, and regularly gives keynotes, presentations and seminars around the world with a particular interest in encouraging a holistic approach to living and training through integrated paradigms that engender flow and mindfulness and encourage positive engagement with fear and risk to understand and improve the self.