Jiu-jitsu 101. I am going to show you how to do a forward roll. It's also know as Mae Ukemi or forward roll. There are lots of different falling techniques in Jiu-jitsu. You also see the Aikido and Judo and lots of different martial arts. It's really important to know how to fall and how to roll. If you don't, and if someone throws you or you receive a fall, just put hands out like that, it's good way to break your wrist, or arms, just damage yourself. So all of my students and all Jiu-jitsu classes they teach how to do forward rolls and receiving technique.
Now what I do when you are starting to do forward roll in class, I always start my students on their knees, if they are not used to doing it. You place one hand out. The other hand is going to tuck underneath. Now you notice that I am trying to put my ear down to the mat here. As I do that, my leg starts coming up, it's the opposite leg. What I am trying to do is really tuck underneath here, forward roll. So I place my hand out, I tuck underneath. I am tucking my chin to my chest, and I am rolling.
Now the whole key to when you are doing a forward roll is you are trying to avoid having your head hit the mat at all cost because if it's concrete, you would hurt. So here, I am rolling with the side of my shoulder, the larger muscles in my back, when I do it, and it's again, to absorb that impact. Now you can do it from a standing position. We just start out here, rolling down, and up and then down and up.
I will suggest that when you start doing forward rolls again, just start from this position, one, two, and three. And then you can get that forward roll.
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