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HI there, I'm a practicioner of Parkour, which is a discipline that involves training to allow yourself to pass any obstacles simply using your body.
One of the movements which we use is a roll, designed to aid landing from height.
As I understand it, the basic idea is that the roll disperses the force exerted on your body from the impact and prevents the force being focued on a specific place and causing damage.
Basically If I was wondering if anyone could offer a more full explanation of why this roll is a much better way to take the impact of a drop than simply land.
A few guys on my parkour forums don't seem to buy it into it, whereas it's use seems obvious to me. I figured if I can get some scientific evidence they might start to understand it's use.
This is a video of footage of rolls performed by one of the originators of the sport, as an example:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rekmYbFRbK0
(as a quick disclaimer, the drops etc in this video are really huge - this guys has been doing parkour for 20 years - I don't perform movements that high!)
This is my local parkour website, if you would like any more details:
www.glasgowparkour.co.uk
Thanks for any help,
Chris Grant
One of the movements which we use is a roll, designed to aid landing from height.
As I understand it, the basic idea is that the roll disperses the force exerted on your body from the impact and prevents the force being focued on a specific place and causing damage.
Basically If I was wondering if anyone could offer a more full explanation of why this roll is a much better way to take the impact of a drop than simply land.
A few guys on my parkour forums don't seem to buy it into it, whereas it's use seems obvious to me. I figured if I can get some scientific evidence they might start to understand it's use.
This is a video of footage of rolls performed by one of the originators of the sport, as an example:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rekmYbFRbK0
(as a quick disclaimer, the drops etc in this video are really huge - this guys has been doing parkour for 20 years - I don't perform movements that high!)
This is my local parkour website, if you would like any more details:
www.glasgowparkour.co.uk
Thanks for any help,
Chris Grant
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