STORROR Podcast

Max and Benj talk you through Cavemen 5 with a running commentary, including breakdowns of lines, stories from filming and an insight into their process for making this series. (Commentary segment is definitely better with visuals on our YouTube Join page!) For the first half an hour, we speak about the 2022 Storror Awards in hindsight, addressing some oversights and criticisms we received. If you’d prefer to watch the video and see some added clips relevant to the conversation, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube.

It’s the same deal as last year. Before heading to the studio to film the awards video, all of us get together to hash out our decisions for all 18 categories after a year of watching the parkour community with a close eye. You already know who won, but here’s a little insight into our decisions and how chaotic the process is! If you’d prefer to watch the video and see some added clips relevant to the conversation, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube.

Lynn Jung is a trailblazer and a longstanding fixture in the parkour world. She was a member of Storm Freerun from 2015 up until they mysteriously fizzled out in 2020. She’s got more professional parkour work experience than most parkourists. With her unique experience and perspective, she has a load of knowledge to give and a load of dirt to dish. Instagram: Lynn Jung - @lynn_jung Tom Taylor - @movementpower If you’d prefer to watch the video and see some added clips relevant to the conversation, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube.

Pete Whittaker is a professional climber. We recently collaborated on a video to see if he could out hang the whole Storror team, relaying one after another, hanging from a bridge over icy cold water. You probably saw already that he thrashed us! Holding on for a full 25 minutes! In this episode, we chat about Pete’s introduction to parkour and how he’s freakishly above the level you’d expect to see after three days of training. We talked about Toby’s adventures rock climbing with Pete in Norway as well as some of the similarities between parkour and climbing and how parkourists could benefit from introducing some bouldering to complement their parkour training. Instagram - @petewhittaker01 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@WideBoyz If you’d prefer to watch the video and see some added clips relevant to the conversation, you can access it by becoming a YouTube join member on Storror’s YouTube.

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