The Back Fall Move in SAMBO Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Stephen Koepfer at New York Combat SAMBO in New York city, and today I'm going to be demonstrating beginning SAMBO. In this clip, I'm going to demonstrate how to do a basic back fall. This is important if you end up falling backwards and you need to protect your head, legs, lower back, arms, your whole body. Basically, we're going to start from a kneeling position. In the beginning phase of learning how to do this, you're going to simply roll backwards. Tucking your chin to your head, slapping your arms palm down on the floor at a 45 degree angle to your body; not up higher. You simply roll back. Make sure your lower back is off the floor tucking your chin. When you feel comfortable, later on you can jump up and make it more of a fall. I'll do it once fast. "