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Roll Pain
Ben Krueger:
--- Quote from: Ninjacookie on March 16, 2012, 10:59:32 PM ---I have pain on the right shoulder of the very back, and pain at the back of my hip after I roll.
Is there anything that could help me? I could show a video if needed
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That video definitely does help. I from the sounds of it, you are rolling too straight. I've always found that rolling on a the line from right below my shoulder to right above my hip works better and hurts less that the usual advice of rolling from shoulder to hip. This way you will be a little bit more sideways but in my experience it really works out. Let me know if this helps!
Logan A. Tatom:
haven't read ALL of the replies yet, but here is my advice that I generally give my friends when they are wanting to work on their rolls.
practice indoors, on padding or carpet for the first step:
start from a standing position, and go down on your left knee to a 90 degree. place your right palm on the ground and roll over your right shoulder, across the mass of your back, to your left hip. have your left foot meet the ground when you finish the roll to help boost you back up into running again leading with your right foot.
alternate lefts and rights evenly and often as not to become lopsided in your balance and execution.
practice the rolls from a standing position until you can do the roll efficiently and almost like water. then practice from a standing jump, same instructions. when you get accustomed to the roll and timing, then try on harder surfaces or from higher locations.
Paul:
Might be the long amount of time I've been doing rolls, but a roll on any surface shouldn't hurt. I'm fairly thin, not much muscle bulk or tough skin, but when I roll it doesn't even feel like I leave my feet. I just bend down, feel motion, and then I'm standing again; no pain, no discomfort, just a natural, fluid motion.
I've gotten to that after 12 years of rolls, but I'm sure someone actively training for parkour from the get go could get it much faster, say a year or two. Keep drilling the simplest of movements, even rolls, until they become just like walking.
Austin Morrow:
When I first started rolling, it took me a while to find what a lot of my friends consider their "Sweet Spot" also known as the roll that feel nice, smooth, easy, and has no pain whatsoever. For me, I tuck my head to the left like I always do, but as I start to go half way through the role, I change the degree of my body so that I don't come out straight, but at an angle, this helps eliminate rolling straight through the back.
James Mellen:
the roll. contrary to the majority, there is different types of rolls. 1st'ly, theres the standard roll that we all use from the height of a crouch to the height of, say, around 1 story (building type story). then theres the really advanced one that you see the founders doing when jumping from great distance and height. this one is very similar yet highly more effective for those extremes. it takes years to build up the entire body's resiliance to these kinds of energy alone and even more to develope the reflexes to be able to properly do these, since you land, bend knees not past 90, then you jump horizontaly into a roll. thats the basic description but you'll have to study David Belles jumps on your own. for instance, this type is really noticable in David belles manpower gap. this all might be a little off topic (or alot). but my point is that pain in the more basic roll is due to poor technique and little experience. there should be no pain, no discomfort what-so-ever, and most importantly of all should be fun to do whenever you want to do it, not just a means to absorb impact. and the roll should be so perfected that if you trip at waist height blind-folded, you'll still do it perfectly. we all do parkour for various reason's, but the fact is, we all do it because its fun, the roll should be no different.
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