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Offline Jake the Albino

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How Do You Roll?
« on: January 17, 2011, 05:08:02 PM »
How do you roll? i was told by my TKD master to NOT roll over your spine but i can 't do it. i go right shoulder to left hip.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2011, 05:20:03 PM »
Quote from: n992zt on January 17, 2011, 05:08:02 PM
i go right shoulder to left hip.

Lol, that's how it's done. :) Or left shoulder to right hip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I1J0zmE7U
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2011, 05:21:35 PM »
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2011, 05:28:10 PM »
One tip: use the search bar. There are plenty of articles on this site dealing with roll techniques, in addition to plenty. of. tutorials on YouTube.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2011, 05:29:32 PM »
i want to know how you do it it doesn 't have to be the right way.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2011, 05:34:46 PM »
Quote from: n992zt on January 17, 2011, 05:29:32 PM
i want to know how you do it it doesn 't have to be the right way.

The right way, or the 'proven-to-be-effective' way is the most efficient way, and is therefore the way that we all should strive to roll. It causes the smallest amount of concentrated pain/stress on the body, and is the quickest and simplest way to transfer vertical momentum to horizontal momentum. It's not a fact of not rolling over your spine, but avoiding a clean somersault, in which you roll down your spine. As long as you roll across the back and spread the pressure evenly using correct technique, you should be fine.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2011, 06:02:41 PM »
And pain during the roll usually means you're doing something wrong
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2011, 04:35:40 PM »
Quote from: Hazim Salem on January 17, 2011, 05:20:03 PM
Lol, that's how it's done. :) Or left shoulder to right hip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I1J0zmE7U
r u supposed to scratch yr shoulder 
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2011, 04:52:18 PM »
Quote from: urbanboy on February 24, 2011, 04:35:40 PM
r u supposed to scratch yr shoulder 

No, your body should have enough forward speed and rotation so that your shoulder doesn't have to start the rotation. What do I mean by that?

Imagine that you have a ball. You want to roll it on the ground.
You can do two things:
1. Throw it low without rotating it. If you do that, the ball will hit the ground and grind against it, friction between the ball and ground will start the ball's rotation, then it will keep rolling without much friction.

If the ball's exterior is weak, and you do this for a while, the ball will get scratched up really bad.

2. Place the ball on the ground first, rotate it and let it go. If you do that, the ball has enough rotation, so it doesn't need that much friction to keep rotating.

No matter how weak or how often you roll it like that, it will remain intact.



As I see it, you're rolling like the first scenario.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2011, 03:46:55 PM »
Quote from: Jake the Albino on January 17, 2011, 05:08:02 PM
How do you roll? i was told by my TKD master to NOT roll over your spine but i can 't do it. i go right shoulder to left hip.

Thank you!! I had one that told me I SHOULD roll over my spine. I did not go back
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2011, 02:22:29 PM »
thats a very vague question for such a specific move.

but, yeah roll from your shoulder blade meat to your opposite hip bone meat.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2011, 01:10:44 PM »
i go left shoulder to right hip because i spin to my right for twisting tricks

i used Ryan Doyles Parkour tutorial for the basic fundamental roll
then i used Levi's advanced parkour roll technique which introduces 'reverse blocking' and what i like to call the 'skateboard effect'

Skateboard effect: a skateboarder ollies down 20 stairs and rides away smoothly without taking any impact, if a skateboarder ollied off of a ledge the same height of the stair case, and only went like 2 feet out, his skateboard would break, because he would only have downward momentum, with the staircase, he has upward momentum, and can continue the forward momentum and take hardly any impact at all

Advanced roll concept: The more forward momentum you have, the less downward momentum you will have, resulting in less impact on the ground.

Ryan Doyle - Parkour Roll Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPd29MlHpg

Levi Meeuwenberg - Advanced Parkour Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JoBLxFKkbM
WARNING:Master the basic parkour roll before using the Advanced Parkour roll
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2011, 05:05:49 PM »
These are three tutorials that REALLY helped me perfect my roll. Urban Current's helped me with progression and gave me technique ideas. APK brought sense into the complex move.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tJAyNxig_A  <- Urban Current Basic Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I1J0zmE7U  <- Urban Current Advanced Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbs7wDqViY4  <- APK Advanced Roll
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2011, 07:05:20 PM »
Quote from: Jake the Albino on January 17, 2011, 05:29:32 PM
i want to know how you do it it doesn 't have to be the right way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I1J0zmE7U

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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2011, 06:17:48 AM »
Quote from: Adam McC on August 16, 2011, 07:05:20 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I1J0zmE7U

Like this.

Well at least your tutorial hasn't been linked four times by four different people in this thread...
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2011, 06:23:11 PM »
Quote from: Jordan Strybos on August 17, 2011, 06:17:48 AM
Well at least your tutorial hasn't been linked four times by four different people in this thread...

If I could "like" this.. I would.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2011, 06:03:15 PM »
Quote from: Jordan Strybos on August 17, 2011, 06:17:48 AM
Well at least your tutorial hasn't been linked four times by four different people in this thread...

Why is your foot touching in your avatar?
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2011, 03:43:44 PM »
Quote from: Kevin Williams on August 19, 2011, 06:03:15 PM
Why is your foot touching in your avatar?

Check your personal messages. Please stay on topic.
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2011, 05:37:30 PM »
Quote from: max eisenberg on February 26, 2011, 02:22:29 PM
thats a very vague question for such a specific move.

but, yeah roll from your shoulder blade meat to your opposite hip bone meat.

What if I don't have hardly any meat in either place? I'm really skinny honestly, so should I wait until I muscle up there? How would I do so for the hip? Or am I just doing it wrong??
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Re: How Do You Roll?
« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2011, 08:36:34 PM »
Quote from: Adam McC on August 16, 2011, 07:05:20 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I1J0zmE7U

Like this.
Hadn't seen that vid. Thanks for posting. I roll left shoulder to right hip and when I come out of it, my left foot tends to hit the ground very hard. I guess I should just be fine tuning it until I can get my feet under me better right? I also have a problem where, at the point where my spine is on the ground, I basically skid a little bit. How should I enter the roll so that I don't have all the extra momentum causing me to skid?
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