Ever see people free-running — treating the urban landscape as some sort of personal obstacle course that must be conquered in various athletic and risky ways — and wonder where they learned to do it?

I mean, people just don’t suddenly start jumping from rooftop to rooftop, and up and down bridges, do they?

Of course not. That’s why there’s the Tempest Freerunning Academy.

Photo of a man wielding a mace made from pillows by Matthew Borgatti.
Webcomic is UpUp-DownDown, by Khon, Sheflin and Ewington.