Red Bull Art of Motion London 2011 – Prep Day

I awoke today to glorious sunshine. The weather in London was exquisite, and after breakfast I made my way over to the venue. The course of course, looks spectacular as you can see in the images below. This year, the lengend that is Nico Wcleck designed the course and its fantastic. Bars, gaps, multiple levels […]

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Redbull Art of Motion London 2011 – Arrivals

So I arrived in London today to rain. It was soggy, grey and generally pretty standard for England. Nevertheless, I found my hotel with a little walking, set up and bumped straight into Jan Barcikowski in the foyer of the ‘Mad Hatter’ hotel no less. Throwing 30+ of some of the most talented athletes into […]

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The Cutting Room Floor

Last Winter, Wiliam Spencer (most known for the video Hollorado) stayed in Moreton at the Ilabaca Family House for a few weeks. During this time, there was a wealth of snow and ice so both Parkour and Skateboarding was difficult. It was cold, the days were short and we got bored. So we decided to […]

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Halloween Parkour

Halloween is always a big event in the Parkour calendar. Along with it being halloween, it also falls on the birthday of Alex Daggett, thus it ties in a birthday jam and a general gathering into one large event. Parkour tradition is to spend the whole day training in costume, with varying levels of extremity […]

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Behind the Scenes of Constant Motion

Constant Motion was the culmination of a winters worth of footage, mostly collected in Moreton. Daniel Ilabaca and myself sought to produce a film which featured Parkour-type movements, but which also explored other realms of expression. Skateboarding, Blading etc were all things we decided to film, but as we continued to film, we found that […]

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Ampisound 2.0

Welcome to the new blog! Its taken far too long, far too much trouble and far too much learning, but we’re here. This will serve as the (hopefully permanent) homepage for anything that happens in respect to Ampisound for the indefinite future. I’ve been secretly posting content here as I’ve been working on the site […]

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Parkour with Austin

Austin Phillips has lived two doors down from my house since before I can remember. We’ve probably known each other more than ten years, and in that time we briefly tried skateboarding, bmxing, martial arts, the whole lot. I fondly remember playing Hide & Seek around my home areas with him and a lot of […]

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Behind the Scenes of Longhair

The wildly successful film Professor Longhair, Big Chief was filmed over a period of two weeks in June 2010. Due to the summer heat, we would tend to only film ten or twenty seconds a day. Not least, because the movements in the film are challenging but more so because the places that we planned […]

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Two Thousand Backflips

ew Foundations is a Cambridge based registered Charity ( Reg No 1100698) providing evidenced based Primary Care Health programs to rural communities in the Niger Delta since 2003. Their mission is to raise up local Health Care Workers, educate, remunerate and work in respectful partnership to deliver quality health care, free to all, without condition […]

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