Welcome back to The Takeoff! In this week's episode, we're digging into plyometrics with The Plyo Guy @mcinneswatson himself.

It was such a cool experience to dive into all things plyos with Matt while coming at it from slightly adjacent angles - myself from (obviously) an extensive parkour background with a decade plus obsession with track/plyometrics and Matt being someone whose plyometric-specific content I have mined for years and incorporated into my training regularly.

We cover the differences between plyometrics and parkour, trends we are seeing in the GPP space with how plyometrics and "parkour"/play are being incorporated, why it's important for athletes to create a clinical space to isolate plyometric work, and what parkour can ACTUALLY contribute to the broader fitness conversation.

Check out Matt's work at https://www.plusplyos.com and follow him on socials at @mcinneswatson and @plusplyos

Catch you next week! - Max

This week, we sit down with Dylan Polin - owner of @HUBPTC and one of the minds behind Sport Parkour League.

Dylan has run the East Coast's most successful and influential parkour facility for almost a decade now, and after expanding into two new locations in the past year is making a run for the United States' top parkour facility.

In this episode, we chat about creating a community that has helped produce phenomenal athletes like Brandon Hooper, Will Hess, James West, Z Zoromba, and others...all while making space for parkour to be a fulfilling hobby to many children and adults who don't want to make it their lifestyle.

Dylan has a ton of great insight to add to the ongoing conversation around what a parkour gym should look like moving forward - particularly when it comes to embracing competition and integrating it in a healthy, positive way.

I hope you enjoy this episode and thanks as always for tuning in!

Dylan's Recommendation: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Hey y'all, I hope you are managing to make it through what has been an incredibly rough week here in the parkour community. I address all of the recent revelations regarding Callum a bit in the intro (and have shared on Instagram as well) but want to let viewers know there may be mentions of him or his book in this and the following episode, which were both recorded before this information about Callum was known.

On a lighter note, this episode with Camila was a joy to record and I hope you enjoy it. You may notice a few pauses or cuts - Camila was having some storage issues during the recording and I had to splice around it once or twice.

My apologies to anyone that finds it distracting and I hope it doesn't stop you from finding this episode as fun and informative as I did!

If you aren't already, go show Camila some love on socials: ⁨@CamilaStefaniu⁩

Camila's Recommendation: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Thanks as always for listening and I'll catch you next week! - Max