Keith Mylett is the head instructor and owner of Precision Parkour Hawaii. On top of owning a business, he is a high school teacher at Kalani High School and a family man as well.
In this episode, we talk about the history and training of parkour, how parkour trains you to overcome obstacles and barrier in life as well, how a dog bite and staff infection led Keith to take the leap into starting a business, and the mastery of teaching.
Just to give you an idea of what Parkour is, check out this video of The FAM JAM event Keith organized out at Ala Moana beach.
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Strength Quote of the Day:
“If you turn the world into your playground, you don’t have to work to attain mental and physical health.” – Keith Mylett
Important Links
- Connect with Keith Mylett, Instagram, Facebook
- Precision Parkour
- American Parkour
- Parkour Hawaii
- APK Certification
Show Notes
- Turn health and fitness into not an end goal of not doing because you want to be happy but doing it because you actually want to do it.
- Simply, parkour is running, climbing, and jumping, and playing on stuff
- Roots in military style obstacle courses but creating your own obstacles in the urban environment
- Moving efficiently and creatively in your environment
- There’s a saying when asked, “When did you start parkour?” to reply with, “When did you stop?”
- Shoulder injury that set him back from training
- Started Keiki Parkour and while it was catching on he was bit by a dog and got a staff infection
- His time of healing and recovery allowed him to stop and set goals
- Parkour trains to overcome barriers and translates over into your life
- Keith’s personal story of getting started in Parkour
- Took a leap to start something, you never know if it’s going to work unless you try
- Experience a lot of negativity on why his idea would fail, and questioned his skills as a Parkour Instructor
- Difference between athletes coaching and a coach coaching
- What made all the pieces come together that what you are doing is right?
- Parkour Fam Jam at Ala Moana
- Jam in Parkour terms mean when a bunch of people come together and play
- What goes through your mind while your parkour?
- Parkour term, Flow, letting your body take over
- You can start Parkour at any time, you just have to get started
- Parkour teaches you to overcome fear
- Paralysis by analysis can lead to injury
- Parkour is going to revolutionize fitness and health
- Who can benefit from Parkour? (31:28)
- Build core strength and spacial awareness
- Police officers, fire fighters, and military should train Parkour
- First learn how to fall and land, because you will fall
- Kids playing on a playground is Parkour
- “Level up in real life”
- How do you instill strength in others? (35:15)
- Motto..”if it were easy, it wouldn’t be awesome.”
- Accepting that someone is better than you because it’s part of life.
- Instill strength by making it known that they have limits
- The graphic novel, Invisibles, inspired by the Matrix
- Founder of Parkour said, “Be strong to be useful.”
- Being healthy leads to happiness, feeling good leads to building confidence
- Do it for yourself, for your family, and for the community
- Focus on the amount of people you influence and reach out to
Books Mentioned
- Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck, by Thug Kitchen
- Heart of Darkness
- The Invisibles
People and Places Mentioned
- Travis Graves
- Precision Parkour
- Kalani High School
- David Belle
- Shaun T, Insanity
- Hawaii Parkour
- Mark Toorock
- American Parkour DC
- Kakaako
- Kamehameha Schools
- Ala Moana aka The Mecca of Hawaii Parkour
- Neil Stephenson
- Shakespeare
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