Systema For Life

Systema For Life


Episode 121: Rafe Kelley

December 25, 2020

Merry Christmas, to all who celebrate it!

This week, an energetic conversation with Rafe Kelley - martial artist, movement expert, natural parkour pioneer, and founder of Evolve.Move.Play. Rafe is legendary in natural movement circles, and seemed a great person to banter with about aspects of movement development, exercise, and play.

Here, we touch upon:



  • Rafe's path from anthropology to gymnastics and parkour
  • The connection between movement, meaning, and well-being
  • The limits of machine metaphors, as applied to human bodies
  • The value of constraint-based teaching and learning
  • Why efficiency is more important than novelty in training

...and a great deal more.

Hope you enjoy this chat as much as we did.


Find out more about Rafe's work - and start your own explorations of natural parkour - at https://courses.evolvemoveplay.com/foundations