Parkour Safety : Rolls

Video Transcript

"What I am going to show you a little bit now is the safety because safety is the number one thing that you need to understand aside the mind set when doing parkour. There are different types of landing and rolls that you want to do. You want to learn it on the grass, gravel, cement, whatever you can do and you want to try and do it as sufficiently as possible. Another thing is the flow. With parkour, it's not about doing one simple movement. It was invented to try and overcome different kinds of obstacles to try to get to an injured person originally or to save someone or yourself the fight or flight method and what I am going to show you now is the roll. This is really important. There are different techniques but I will show you my technique here today. What you are going to do to practice your roll is you are going to crouch down to one knee and then you are going to use your hands and you can even roll right on the side of your arm. The most important thing of the roll is you are going to roll from one shoulder to the opposite hip so that you cannot connect any part of the spine because this will cause problems on cement, on grass and other things like that and you do not want to injure your spine. So first of all you want to when you are coming into a roll, you are going to put your hands down, put them behind you or wherever you want but generally you are going to just put it down and roll and you are going to come up just about like this to get up; just like that. When actually doing the roll, you do not want to put your knee down in any time of the roll so you are going to use your hands just to brace a little bit and you don't want to collapse into your roll. You want to stay strong in your roll, strong in your roll just enough to take a little bit of the pressure off of a jump a gap, anything you might be doing. It is going to be quick and efficient; just like that. "