This is the basic start for a parkour roll. Once you master this you can start transitioning into landing rolls. Check out advance roll tutorial by Adam • Advanced Parkour Roll ...
Great tutorial! I have an instructor that has not taught me so well so I re-injured my shoulder. This tutorial helped me understand that your arm kind of acts like a rail that slowly allows the body to roll on it in a diagonal form.
you tutorials are old and explained by written text.. But these are the amazing tutorials on the whole RU-vid.. amazing guys ... I just don't learn anything from these new tutorials... your one is step by step amazing guide...thanks ...waiting for more tutorials
I have watched numerous roll tutorials, and couldn't get down the form from the ground. This video instantly helped me! Thank you so much, now I can really start parkour!
you guys do gr8 tutorials very easy to understand and clear the way they are, what would make them even better than they are is a little talking awsome tutorials
I love urban current. The first tutorial on parkour I watched was this video, 2 years ago. My roll has been good and bad at times. Finally on a whim I come back to this video for the memories. I had been having trouble with my hand placement, and when I saw Ozzis, I decided to try it. WOW I can't believe that worked! A few more months and it should be perfect. Thanks so much urbancurrent!
Thank you for this video, I have been having trouble with my rolls. I watched a bunch a Roll Tutorials this is the only one that helped me. THANK YOU!!!
When you roll, you're not rolling forward, you're rolling from your main hand (Let's assume right)'s shoulder to the opposit hip. Once your head gets tucked, use your off-hand to press off of the ground so that less weight is on your back. That may help.
he i saw your site.. its awesome.. wish i was ter with you guys in hawaii.. in india no one is even heard of parkour.. i as a kid was jumpin of walls.. climbing 8ft high walls wen i ws 13yrs.. din even knw wat it was called.. i called it adventures.. he he.. way to go..
Thanks for the great tutorial, I was trying to learn the roll, but it just wouldn't work, but then I watched this video, and it totaly got me to learn the roll. Thanks a lot!
When I have started training rolls I couldn't understand how people can use them for landing from so big heights because they were painfull for me, even had small arm injure(!). And today after I watched this tutorial I saw what mistakes I have done before. Now everything is all right and I'm surprised that it works so well :D Thank you very much, it is very helpfull :-)
Thanks! A colleague of mine sent me the link to this vid. I've been having problems with rolling for the last 2 weeks and this'll help my training a lot. Thanks! Be well!
thanks for the great tips! I knew how to roll but I always came up with some sort of stinging pain in my Hips Shoulder or Arm area... I thought I was just too skinny but I'll try and improve my technique using this video!
cement doesn't hurt as long as you don't hit your hip bone, if you hit your hip bone it will be bruised for like 2 weeks, other thank that its pretty simple
I kinda started using more of my arms to absorb/take my body weight when I roll. it certainly saved my shoulder from the land of hurt. I think the hip thing is caused by how *straight* the roll is. In short I think the shoulder ache is caused from bad entrance to the roll and the hip pains probably from the bad angle. I have yet to test that theory though.
@PedroPaulo744 I had that problem too. Just really work on tucking your head into the shoulder opposite the one you're rolling over. It should keep you from bumping your head at all.
Great helpful Vid. Me and my friend are actually practicing free running and this will help us out a lot, thanks alot for posting this video on tips on how to roll out. Thanks again and please do more videos!
Yes, bend your legs! You want to absorb some impact with your legs, while dispersing the majority of the energy into forward and rotational energy. Watch some pros, or other tuts, I recommend Jesse La Flair's but I know there are a couple others that were helpful that I watched when I was having problems with this.
i thought i could do it a lil bit on grass and stuff but i wasnt doing it right i was just going striaght right on my spine this has been ver helpful thx ill be sure to try it
@TheTagStudios Heh, yeah I have this problem too, I bruised up the top of mine trying this stuff. I believe the key is where he mentions collapsing your arm on the side that you are rolling, when you bring your arm closer towards your opposite knee, you lessen your chances of landing on the top of your shoulder blade and you end up rolling over the back of your shoulder instead, which is what you want. Hope this helped.
Wow! Before watching this tutorial, I always got hurt in like 3 different places in my back and arms even though I was rolling on carpet, but now I rolled really smoothly! Well, I didn't roll properly from the right shoulder to left hip, instead I rolled from the right shoulder to right hip, but I'm sure I'll get it soon! ;)
That was happening to me a lot. I have been fixing it by keeping my legs in tighter, so I have more forward momentum, and don't fall sideways. Touching the elbow is undesirable to the best of my knowledge, it seems like something could get wrenched out of place on a hard roll.
i had that problem i got a big bruise on my shoulder but I can do it now. make sure both palms are facing in the floor and your hitting the BACK of your shoulder. NOT the top.
After watching this vid like 50million times(Well, like 3 times) i finally figured out what i was doing wrong. When you place your hand on the ground(The shoulder you're going to roll on), don't collapse your arm too much.
no, now i know how to do it just jump from a low place and make ur face on the left and put ur hand as far as u can put it and push strong with ur leg so ur shoulder dont touch the ground on the part below ur shoulder and if u get up and ur body faces the left part after u did the rolls then that is good, if u did it every day maybe 2 or 3 days ur back will hurt but after that ur back will be stronger , good luck try and tell me what happened
@patrikdensmarte land from your jump with your weight forwards of your feet. DONT bend and absorb when dropping from height. Instead use your legs like springs and shoot yourself forward into the roll. This is call reverse blocking.
I've used this and Ryan Doyle's vid to help me learn the roll. Thanks for the great tips. Today was the first day I actually did a smooth roll without any pain (from jumping off a 1-story building no less!) But aside from that, I always get the wind knocked out of me and have some pain on my back/shoulder. Any tips? Thanks.
@homegrove123 Yeah, I have practiced and mastered the roll. :D What I was doing wrong was diving and rolling to early on my arm, I kept trying and got it. Diving completely over the shoulder until it is the rounded part, and then rolling diagonally across to my hip. :)
@blubablubahumbug I finally learned to roll man, I kept on practicing like hell, I did it on the floor in my room, I practiced with like blankets rolled up on the ground n when I did it I didn't feel pain anywhere on my body I was like ok now its time to do it on the floor....n did it and it didnt hurt!! I made my roll really round like 90 degrees and make it really really fast, maybe rolling on the grass for more than 2 sec is okay but the ground u need 2 do it fast!! Don't give up, keep trying
@whitefang514 Your shoulder should not even touch the ground. Put your hand on your back. Do you feel that patch of padding? that is what you should be landing on. If U don't, you will mess up your shoulders for real. And U aren't really supposed to land on the hands per se. Rather more on the side area of the palms and roll along the length of the forearm to the patch on your back. I hope this helps U a little.
@onimotoko Oh alright that clears things up, I couldn't figure how to roll on that part of my back with out having my shoulder touch the ground first. Thanks alot :]
ive always been told to place my arm inside the area and by this vid i see it get out side and idk how to do it this way :/ i learnd one way but its very difrent from this one in a few tecnics
@Jaksmooth456 Well yes, the scapula is the term for the entire shoulder blade, I was mainly referring to that arch, or "dune," that runs diagonally across the scapula.
half of the time, i can get the roll correctly without my shoulder or spine getting hurt, but the other half of the time, when i roll from the left shoulder to the right hip, it hurts where it crosses the spine. I don't exactly know what i'm doing differently in order to prevent my spine from hurting.
While rolling from right shoulder to right hip, I consistently kept hitting my right hip (hip bone's higher than waist? :O), but then I focused on keeping my right shoulder on the imaginary straight line that I'm supposed to roll on, and voilá, nothing hurt! :D That way I rolled from the right shoulder to LEFT hip. I automatically use right hand's elbow in my roll, but sometimes I hit it a bit too hard on the carpet. *Imagining hitting it on concrete*, ouch.
you cant jump off a building and dive onto your arms the kenetic energy from your bodyweight will make u smash your head, you land with your feet and go straight into the roll that takes the pressure off your legs. jump....land on feet and take the impact and then roll straight away.
Make sure that you are not bending your knees more than 90 degrees. chances are if your hiting your hip you need to take more wieght on your arm. your just slamming the rest of your body down too hard. Almost think of the roll as rolling completely sideways. But don't really roll sideways lol.
tihnk like that and u will think positive wen u roll loiek i can do it and u will,also wne u 1st start rollin it will hurt it used to kill my shoulder rollin on concrete but on grass u will be fine and u will eventually get used to it hope this helps ;)
do the motion with your arm a bit faster not to fast otherwise you will roll too much on the downside of your shoulderblade (it works on grass i dont roll on concrete the often ) sorry for bad english im german :)
Well, My first time rolling on concrete was when me and my friend were doing parkour tag and he was chasing me. I came to a 13 foot drop, and the landing was concrete and the andrenaline was pumping through me, and I jumped without thinking about what I was doing. Bad idea. I hurt myself bad because I was used to grass. on grass you throw your body harder because it's soft. start off rolling on concrete from your knees. Then standing up. Then take a hop and then roll. And build up higher.
