Hey everyone, not sure if i'm hijacking the thread or not but i'm having some roll pain in my shoulder:

the part in red is where it hurts.  My roll is smooth and most of the time correct(roll from shoulder to hip) but i guess i must be hitting my shoulder on the way into it. I can try to describe to you how i roll but i'm not very good and describing things but basically i get down into position put my left hand where its supposed to go then i push my self forward while my right arm doesnt even touch the ground instead it sort of goes to my left knee thus curling my up to a ball.

Anyone else experience this pain?

ah yeah thats what i thought too, i guess i just need to roll more before my shoulder touches the ground. thanks alot

hmm, i think i might have fixed it actually. The way i do it is the scoop technique seen here: http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/264/305/

On the third picture one will notice how his right arm is scooping under his chest toward the other leg.  I do that but see how his palm is up facing his chest?  Well, i didn't do it that way, my palm always faced the ground.  It may be my mind tricking me or what, but once i faced my palm up to my chest i haven't had any more problems (ive only done it twice however so we'll see)

Yeah, I'm hurting in the same spot. I have a feeling it involves the unusual pressure that is suddenly placed on a mostly-unused muscle group. With time, I'd venture a guess and say that the muscles in the shoulder will strengthen to a point of painless resistance.

Iv completely ditched the method of rolling from one shoulder to the opposite hip in favor of rolling more directly down your back, as shown on the tutorials page.

You are taking too much initial impact with your upper body, if your shoulder and back hurt, but not your hip. You need to use your arms more to take the force, so that by the time your shoulder touches, there's hardly any impact going on, just a transfer of momentum. Extending your legs and 'diving' forward a little, like in Levi's tutorial might also help you spread it more evenly outward.

U WERE PROBABLY DOING A GYMNASTICS ROLL. I DO A MARTIAL ARTS ROLL WHICH IS ROLLING ON UR SHOULDER. TRY  LEARNING AN M.A. ROLL.

We all basically do martial arts roll, Monkey, but thanks.

Brandon, it's common, but not good, especially on cement. Keep on drilling them, work on making your body shape more round, and play around with the position of where your shoulder touches and hip pushes away. Over a couple of years I have tweaked my roll so that I can land 8 feet on cement and not feel a thing (most of the time, there's always that bad one every so often). Once you find a roll that feels the best, drill it over and over so it becomes muscle memory. But try your best to get rid of that discomfort. Over time it'll start to not be good.