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.
Related Posts (automatic)
That video with some of David Belle’s rolls was excelent! Never saw that before.
Sometimes when I do a roll, my shoulder hits on the ground and that’s not nice. Now I had some tips from that video-clip. Gotta try new techniques tomorrow.
Thanks for sharing that video!
And keep going!
Yea, I just noticed that as well. You kinda compress after landing
and then you go into a roll. Like the amazing leap in FloShizzle
around 50 seconds.
Also, what does your training repertoire look like sans-PK movements?
Pretty much just a bunch of everything. I stick to bodyweight exercises a lot of times and just experiment, I then do what I find hard.