STORROR Podcast

A little backstory: Since February 24th, 2017, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (aka FIG) have been engaging in a hostile takeover of parkour’s sovereignty, with the intention of offering our sport to the International Olympic Committee as a new gymnastics event. In doing so, they also make a claim to being our international governing body, which in essence, imbues them with power to govern our sport however suits them. Despite a large kickback from the parkour community and several open letters from national governing bodies around the world, concerns fell upon deaf ears. There have been many international and national competitions held by FIG since 2017 (which initially offered money merely for attending competitions), and although early on, you’d have been viewed as “public enemy number 1”, now more and more cowing to FIG for the chance of winning the highest prize money we’ve seen in our sport’s history. Parkour Earth is a federation that spawned shortly after FIG’s initial announcements in 2017 in an effort to safeguard the sport’s autonomy against FIG’s unlawful encroachment. Parkour Earth is comprised of several existing national governing bodies and seeks to represent the parkour community through a sound democratic process. But they certainly face an uphill battle waging war with FIG, which is an established, over one-hundred-year-old federation with deep pockets and deep ties to the International Olympic Committee. The whole situation has become somewhat polarising. The global parkour community seems either vociferously against FIG and its governance along with its poorly representative competitions, for FIG on the basis of believing their resources can be of great use to our professionals and boost funding and participation in our sport, or entirely indifferent – those who don’t care because it doesn’t affect how they train in the street. This includes those who don’t know or care about the risks who are engaging with FIG by attending their competitions for a chance to win some prize money. Arguing for FIG, we have their head judge, Nicolas Fischer. Arguing against FIG, we have Parkour Earth CEO, Damien Puddle. Hopefully, this informal discussion helps bring some clarity to the community and allows people to make more informed decisions. If you’d prefer to watch the video, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube. Instagrams: Nicolas Fischer - @nicolasfischertf Damien Puddle - @dpudds

Capstone just released its third iconic project, Swarm, which features a mixture of the teams from both previous projects, Capstone Australia and The England Project, as well as some new special guests. In this episode, we have some of the athletes, as well as the brains behind Capstone, Phil Doyle and the Aussie duo Sam Carter and Justin Louey. In the second half, we do a director and cast commentary while watching Swarm, so if you’re a joiner on the Storror YouTube, it’s best to watch there for images up on the screen, so you’re not just guessing what we’re talking about. Instagrams: @scartah @justinfuckinglouey @_philydee @joescandrett @jannis_schauer @drewftaylor @sachakpowell @callumstorror

Harrison Gabriel is a parkourist, FreeG (freestyle gymnastics) competitor and a FIG judge. He reached out to Callum after the last Cavemen Parkour Punditry podcast, offering to clear up any misconceptions, fears and inaccuracies. After a back-and-forth of voice messages, Callum offered to come on the podcast to add a little nuance to the debate as there is very little clarity about the FIG situation and the rest of the community who aren’t involved seem very much left in the dark. Instagram - @harry_gabe If you’d prefer to watch the video, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube.

The Caves are back! In this episode of parkour punditry, Max, Benj and Callum talk about recent events, including the team’s recent trip to Taiwan, Cavemen 5, Big Wall Open and other recent street events, SPL1, Storror Awards chat, and of course, the hot topic that is the recent FIG World Championships and gymnastics’ ongoing hostile takeover of our sport. Oh, and there’s a late guest appearance from Phil Doyle in the last 20 minutes! Phil’s Instagram - @_philydee If you’d prefer to watch the video, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube.

The Storror Podcast’s first-ever guest makes his second appearance one year later for a catch-up. He fills Benj and Callum in on the long list of injuries and everything else that’s gone on since then. Instagram - @domtomato If you’d prefer to watch the video, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube.

Unknown Project is a group from New York, and our event, Big Wall Open, was graced by three of its fine members, Joseph Rizzo, Laine Cammarata & Vincent Vinciguerra. In this episode, the boys and Callum kick back and talk shop about everything that had happened over the past weekend at the event, some nasty encounters on NY roofs, our recently deceased head of state, Queen Elizabeth II (not to be taken seriously pls!), the recent competition in Vancouver and a whole load of technical stuff about strength training to supplement parkour. (NOTE: Apologies for the occasional spikes in volume when Vincent talks. He's a real piece of work!) Instagrams: Team - @unknownparkour Joseph - @mr_rizzo Laine - @unknown_snowflake Vincent - @ponderingmacaque If you’d prefer to watch the video, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdPui8EYr_sX6q1xNXCRPXg/join

In this episode, Callum is joined by Lynn Jung to interrogate Katie McDonnell. For the last 10 years, Katie has been one of the leading female role models in the parkour scene. In more recent years she has been busy making a name for herself in the stunts industry. Katie Instagram - @katiemcdonnell YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/KatieMcDonnell Lynn Instagram - @lynnjung

In this episode, Callum talks with Marcio Filipe from Porto, Portugal. He is someone who is at the very forefront of pushing freakishly large but pristinely controlled precision jumps. They dive into Marcio’s recent run-ins with speed step to precision over the infamous gap at IMAX, how to stay grounded with a rational process with mental challenges rather than extrinsically motivated trophy hunting, and competitiveness when training. Instagram - @marcio.filipee

In this episode, Callum talks with René Scavington about the upcoming Sport Parkour League event, SPL1 taking place in Vancouver, Canada, on August 19th-21st. They also cover many topics surrounding the competitive parkour world, including the travesty that are FIG comps and the potential future implications of their competition formats. René is a long-time gym owner, coach, and general parkour nerd. On top of this, he has consistently aimed to set the gold standard for parkour competitions since 2012 with the North American Parkour Championships. SPL1 Pay-per-view - https://www.sportparkourleague.com/spl1ppv#clip=dhq0fgsn67ks Tickets to SPL1 - https://sport-parkour-league.myshopify.com Instagram: @resorigins @sportparkour

Recorded on the 27th of April 2022 (sorry for being shit and slow getting the backlog of episodes out. It's not all horrendously out of date). In this episode, we have two of the UK's, if not the world's, top parkourists, shooting the shit and talking about plans and goals. Ed Scott  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/EdScottProductions Instagram - @edscott1 Travis Verkaik Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCts9Ba0wiIYUUz-Shfh3RGA Instagram - @verky02