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What I am going to show you a little bit now is the safety because safety is the number
one thing that you need to understand aside the mind set when doing parkour. There are
different types of landing and rolls that you want to do. You want to learn it on the
grass, gravel, cement, whatever you can do and you want to try and do it as sufficiently
as possible. Another thing is the flow. With parkour, it's not about doing one simple movement.
It was invented to try and overcome different kinds of obstacles to try to get to an injured
person originally or to save someone or yourself the fight or flight method and what I am going
to show you now is the roll. This is really important. There are different techniques
but I will show you my technique here today. What you are going to do to practice your
roll is you are going to crouch down to one knee and then you are going to use your hands
and you can even roll right on the side of your arm. The most important thing of the
roll is you are going to roll from one shoulder to the opposite hip so that you cannot connect
any part of the spine because this will cause problems on cement, on grass and other things
like that and you do not want to injure your spine. So first of all you want to when you
are coming into a roll, you are going to put your hands down, put them behind you or wherever
you want but generally you are going to just put it down and roll and you are going to
come up just about like this to get up; just like that. When actually doing the roll, you
do not want to put your knee down in any time of the roll so you are going to use your hands
just to brace a little bit and you don't want to collapse into your roll. You want to stay
strong in your roll, strong in your roll just enough to take a little bit of the pressure
off of a jump a gap, anything you might be doing. It is going to be quick and efficient;
just like that.