Dan Edwardes

Dan is a founding member and Executive Director of Parkour Generations, the world's leading professional organisation for the dynamic movement discipline of parkour / freerunning. He is also a founding member of Parkour UK - the world's first National Governing Body for the activity. His training began in Japan, where he was living in pursuit of a lifelong study of fighting arts and functional movement disciplines, and he has spent many years training and working with the French founders. Since his return to the UK Dan has helped establish the largest and most successful parkour teaching framework in the world, running the Parkour Generations Academies and teaching regularly both in the UK and internationally. He is a co-founder of the global A.D.A.P.T qualification programme, now recognised as the international standard for coaching parkour/freerunning, and the groundbreaking Parkour Fitness Specialist certification programme. Dan has appeared in numerous high-profile media projects as a performer and choreographer for 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 three books and the entry for parkour in the latest Sports Encyclopaedia, and regularly gives presentations and seminars on parkour around the world.