I want to take a minute out of your undoubtedly busy, adventure filled and sexually charged lives to remember fondly a fallen friend.

I am talking, of course, about our recently lost but forever beloved Monday night east London indoor class at OLF.

In my view, one of the greatest things about Parkour is that you can incorporate pretty much any movement into your style. With no competition there are no rules. We're not fussy about this; there have already been a wide selection of breakdance, gymnastic, strength training and general dance movements added to our repertoires. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but Mum's nowhere to be seen here.

Over the past four months I have been privileged to have been involved with Steps Youth Dance Company on their major season project of Try Hard. Artistic Director Alice Lee Holland, performance psychologist Shona Erskine and Sofie Burgoyne spent six months conducting workshops in schools across Western Australia to see what is affecting young people in the 21st century.

Most practitioners who haven't attended a PKG session assume it is some sort of fitness bootcamp with Parkour thrown in. With its reputation for militaristic mantra ('start together, finish together', 'to be and to last' etc. designed to bring loyalty and comradery with your brothers and sisters in arms) and emphasis on physical conditioning it is easy to see why this perception may exist.

Risk, and our society's increasing aversion to it, is becoming a hotly debated topic these days. And rightly so: there is no doubt that knee-jerk reactions of statutory bodies in many countries to the perceived risks of disicplines like our own has contributed to an ever-expanding system of restrictions placed on the freedoms and, consequently, potential of individuals the world over.

Do you wake up feeling like you want to shake things up, change the way you train and the world around you? Here’s 5 ideas about how to be a parkour revolutionary.

1. Invent new ways of training

I’ve never been much of an actor so it was strange to find myself as part of the cast for Secret Cinema’s latest production back at the beginning of December 2011. I had been given the role through my work with PK Gen and was told that I would be doing a Parkour chase scene live in front of a theatre audience each night. I didn’t know much else until I did some research after accepting the role.

Most of us take the ability to practice parkour against a relatively stable political background for granted. Though space is often contested in dense urban areas, and training perceived to be damaging to the built environment can be discouraged by authorities, we can freely train with the aim of crossing boundaries. Those boundaries can be as much mental, challenges in the mind, as they are physical, the literal boundaries of walls and obstacles.

Ask most people what physical activities you train in parkour, and most of the time you'll get the same answer: running, jumping and climbing. If you look at the training of most people, though, you'll see a whole lot of running and jumping, but not very much climbing. If you are one of those people who train parkour but doesn't climb very much, go out of your way to start climbing more.