These lads need to learn some break falls

dent

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5895440828066301840

Dragan

jump of a high thing and try and land on your legs eh????

makes sense :eek:

yomchi

That window jumping could be handy some saturday night night outside Macari's.. beats standin in the Q

Vicarious

Wow. Those guys are insane!

Millionaire

does break falls work on cement like a pavement???

Anytime I do break falls on a mat, I would what is the point...
how can they work... slapping concrete full blast would break
my hands???

dent

Millionaire wrote:

does break falls work on cement like a pavement???

Anytime I do break falls on a mat, I would what is the point...
how can they work... slapping concrete full blast would break
my hands???

Well you should not slap with your hands. Its usually your forearms that you use take some of the impact and only in cases where you would crack your scull otherwise. The main thing is to relax. You see that approach with Kimura vs Gracie when Gracie knew he was going to be throwen so he just shifted his weight and relaxed.

It also includes rolls etc. If you google for Parkour you see they use rolls when they are landing from a great height.

Baggio...

I like the old WWII way myself. As you fall back you roll into a ball, tuck your head and arms in and veer to the side slightly.

B.

Roper

I like the old WWII way myself. As you fall back you roll into a ball, tuck your head and arms in and veer to the side slightly.

Then get up with your sten gun and have a pop at jerry? Then it's home with the lads on the next transport to blighty for a pint of ale having given Fritzy what for?

Dragan

Roper wrote:

Then get up with your sten gun and have a pop at jerry? Then it's home with the lads on the next transport to blighty for a pint of ale having given Fritzy what for?

You been reading those Biggles books again bro?:D

Baggio...

They might have talked like that.....

Millionaire

Millionaire wrote:

does break falls work on cement like a pavement???

Anytime I do break falls on a mat, I would what is the point...
how can they work... slapping concrete full blast would break
my hands???

To be fair there is more to breakfalls than slapping your hand. It's about transferring momentum more than anything else.

goo

Yeah, I'd prefer to break fall onto cement than just fall onto cement.

Odysseus

Baggio... wrote:

I like the old WWII way myself. As you fall back you roll into a ball, tuck your head and arms in and veer to the side slightly.

B.

Could'nt agree more with you mate. I had to do a PLR after a malfunction once:eek: Hit the groud with quite a thump, but it saved me from serious injury. It worked then, so I believe it would work in a street confrontation.

Roper

Odysseus wrote:

Could'nt agree more with you mate. I had to do a PLR after a malfunction once:eek:

Malfunction? This parachute talk? Explain further please.

Odysseus

Roper wrote:

Malfunction? This parachute talk? Explain further please.

Hi, yeah made a bad exit, ended up with my legs caugh up in the lines. Managed to deploy about 700ft. This type of hight is very low to deploy, and a reserve chute is smaller, so you come in at a different angle and faster, hence the thump when I landed. But as they say any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Hope that explains.

Roper

I'd say that was a hairy moment!:o

Nice survival job fella!

dlofnep

Why would anyone want to do this? Just why?

Odysseus

dlofnep wrote:

Why would anyone want to do this? Just why?

Because it can be done, it adds a bit of interest to life, why not?;)

goo

Now are you talking about parachuting or jumping off a roof, because I think he's talking about the video?

Odysseus

Hi,

Maybe a bit of both, don't think I would try that now, but twenty years ago I was more open to suggestion:D I would like think I'm a tad more mature now. But each to their own eh?

pma-ire

Roper wrote:

Then get up with your sten gun and have a pop at jerry? Then it's home with the lads on the next transport to blighty for a pint of ale having given Fritzy what for?

Ah! Reminds me of the Victor comics!!

Don't why my uncle (who was a staunch republican) bought me comics about British at war??

But bloody good show old chap!!