The Commons

Alec (@riqbic) sat down for a brief chat with Logan (@lognfrdy):

Alec: Logan Frady… the chilliest man on earth.

Logan: Bro I’m primed for this interview right now, *gesturing* got my sandwich… beer…

Alec: Let’s get this stuff out of the way… tell us your training history. When did you start? Who were your mentors?

Logan: Yes… yes…

Logan: …

Logan: Oh yeah I’m Logan Frady!

Logan: I’m 22 now so I believe I’ve been training since I was nine so thirteen years or so. I’m from a very rural part of Colorado, but somehow a parkour gym started up there. I started training flips and movement when I was eight or nine because I LOVED WWE. Jeff Hardy was my goat. I just wanted to be like Jeff Hardy, but that transformed and I fell in love with parkour. There was this little parkour program from a little gymnastics gym that was kinda on the edge of town. My parents took me there cause I was doing flips off the roof, and they were like “man, I think we need to get this guy into some sort of training where he can progress with this”. I did not dig gymnastics. Eventually a gym named Move to Inspire opened up, where I had a handful of mentors and homies to start training with.

Alec: When you were starting to actually look into the scene, who were your goats? When you were 13 who inspired you to train?

Logan: Slight sidetrack… When I was at JOD 6, and we were having a break from the premiere, I was smoking with Valtteri (@val.aho)… and I was like “bro… you don’t even understand — this is ridiculous to me”. If you had told thirteen-year-old Logan that he would be smoking outside a sold-out theatre with Valtteri he would probably piss himself. And Valtteri saying “dude, I’m stoked to see your video”??? *sighs, sips beer* Definitely him. Also Dante Grazioli (@dantegrazioli), Christopher Hollingsworth (@parkourchris), Chad… something or other? I can’t find him or remember him. You can even throw Ross Allen (@rossallenpk) and Tryhard Collective (@tryhardcollective) for sure, please get that in there. So young arc… definitely those guys.

Jeff Hardy, Logan's parkour mentor.

Alec: Maybe some commenters can help us find the missing Chad. The video is finally done, how do you feel?

Logan: Oh my gosh, I am just overwhelmingly stoked that me and Egg were able to do this, and that you guys gave us the opportunity, and that it all happened. I don’t have a single gripe, everything went perfect to me and I’m so pleased with what we’ve done. There’s not a thought in my mind of a clip that I wanted and didn’t get, *swigs beer* and like the editing was so banging, and you guys are so goated to me, so to answer your question this is a dream. Perfect.

Alec: Oh perfect logan… that was exactly the byte that I needed. (Commons shill).

Alec: So you also skate a lot, and you obviously have a lot of tricking influence in your movement. Two part question here how does skating affect your parkour, and can you also try to put your style into words?

Logan: I have two good answers

Logan: So first, skating has been overall quite impactful for how I move and how I think of movement. At first I utilized parkour a lot to learn now to skate. It gave me control, how to move my body comfortably, and bailing — that was a big part of it. So at first parkour influenced skating, but once I got into skating enough to develop a style, it gave me a good gauge of what things in parkour I want to do. Some days I realized on the board I was just less comfortable with it, sometimes it made me realize things about parkour that I forgotten because I had been at it for so long. Sometimes I would realize “today I don’t want to be skating this, let’s go somewhere else. With parkour I had lost track of what pushing myself was, and what forcing myself was. That’s how I had my last big injury, which was an eye opener for sure. Now I’m like “man… I could just not do this right now.. I’m just not feeling it. I know that I could but am I enjoying this right now?”

Logan: I think sometimes people categorize their style too much, I do parkour, I do freerunning, I do tricking, I just like to move how it feels good. If I’m doing a descent or massive jump or kong pre or I’m busting a combo on a non-spot it all just feels good. I view them as all the same.

Logan: A lot of the stuff on Instagram is easy to film, self filmed, little tricking stuff, but I DO PARKOUR. Coming in to movement I just never saw the difference, I’d always be asking parkour heads if they know trickers, and they never would. I just didn’t even realize they were two different mediums.

Logan: I’m influenced by every corner or parkour, freeruning, and tricking media. It’s just like… I dunno. I would just describe it all as parkour, I’d say just moving in general is my style.