Wow, yesterday was one of the longest training days I’ve ever done. I was out at UW from around 12:30 to somewhere close to midnight, minus a few hours here and there for the requisite intake of food of course. Mostly just jumps, rolls, and more balance/precisions.

Think I found some good advice for roll training. First of all, if it doesn’t hurt than move to something harder, when it doesn’t hurt on concrete that means you are doing something right. To improve the roll in general and get more speed out of it, you have to make it smaller and curl more into a ball. I find myself extending my body more with the more momentum I have coming into it, and that tends to flatten it out and make it slower. Normally for low jumps into rolls I would land with my legs split to enter into the roll easier. But now, to avoid flattening out I’m trying to land all high momentum rolls two-footed while leaning forward and pushing/jumping directly into a tight roll. This is closer to how David Belle does his and I’m making some good progress.