tuck and roll instructions please

i think, typically you try to hit first with a foot or two, then
probably use your knee lightly to transition onto the hip and you can
continue up the shoulder , by then you will probably be stopped :-)
just imagine tossing yourself over onto the ground and trying to roll
out the inertia without getting scraped too bad, or better yet, go try
it on some carpet. essential skill once you get the hang of it, i
learned this automatically out of neccessity from skateboarding :-)

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You're basically doing a somersalt - the difference being you're not
doing from stand-still, but while moving (with various degrees of
control).

Just last Thursday I had to "tuck and roll" out of a crash. The day
after, I only had a small sore spot on the back of my shoulder where I
initially touched down. Other than that, not a scratch. I would have
probably mangled my arms, knees and possibly my chest had I not done
that forward roll.

The unfortunate part is that usually when a situation happens that you
need to do one, you have no time to think about it. So if you're not
prone to doing them anyway (they just come naturally to me), you're
going to have to practice to get it down and get the motions to be
second nature.

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The easiest way I found to think of it was to go with the fall, dont
fight it so much, fall with it and avoind hitting important parts such
as your face 😉

Edit: Ohh you also asked if anyone landed it, Ive coasted for several
miles before and have coasted much faster than I can run..So the uck
and roll method works...

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if you want to learn to do it properly i would suggest looking at a
parkour (freerunning) forum for a tutorial.

www.urbanfreeflow.com is a good site to look at.

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Can you get a gym teacher to help you with the technique? Don't they
teach basic gymnastics, which would include some form of tumbling? Or
they could at least spot you as you practice on a padded mat. How
about approaching a gymnastics school for help?

I've never done this and I know I would do it badly without
instruction. Isn't it possible to land on your head or snap your neck?
If so, then the road rash alternative isn't looking so bad.

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uni57 said:

I've never done this and I know I would do it badly without instruction.
Isn't it possible to land on your head or snap your neck? If so, then
the road rash alternative isn't looking so bad.

The point is to land on the back of a shoulder and do a forward roll.
Even if you land "head first", you want to keep the momentum, so
landing "on your neck" would be hard.

To land "on your neck" I would expect that you'd have to be falling
more "down" than "horizontally" if you understanding what I'm getting
at.

While "anything is possible", I would assume that breaking your neck
from this is less likely than having an uncontrolled UPD that results
in you smashing your head into a car, tree or other very hard structure
and breaking your neck that way.

I've used forward rolls in a number of situations (mostly
non-unicycle-related) that would have resulted in serious pain and
injury that turned out to leave a single bruise or no harm at all. It's
a very viable and very useful technique to slow your momentum and
regain control if you're agile enough to pull it off.

But as stressed - it's important to practice if they are not your
body's natural reaction.

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tuck your dominant arm down and let your head follow it, roll smoothly.
I guess you could practice by jogging on grass and diving as far as you
can into a roll?

Judo lessons is another thing that'd teach you how to improve your
tuck'n'roll technique. Generally I've only ever needed it when bailing
from height, gliding/coasting UPDs usually result in you running away
from it or falling on your [censored].

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I dont remember if this got mentioned, cause i skimmed through the
posts, but what helps me, is to not roll completly straight, but to
roll off my shoulder, justs feels better, smoother, and i get hurt less
while doing it that way =p

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Ive only had to do a roll once when I was on my uni but ive done it many
times skateboarding. practice it on grass or on the carpet. it is a
very usefull skill

Miles

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bmemike said:

...if you're agile enough to pull it off.

Nobody has EVER used that word to describe me.

I do want to learn this some day, but being overweight and out of shape
(and klutzy), I can see myself tearing or straining something in the
process. And I assume its best to be relaxed while you do it? That
ain't gonna happen either. I'll wait until I'm in better shape. And
then find a soft mat. And somebody to demonstrate it and help me (yes,
I'm that klutzy).

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Tomleyden said:

if you want to learn to do it properly i would suggest looking at a
parkour (freerunning) forum for a tutorial.

www.urbanfreeflow.com is a good site to look at.

That 'ninja roll'
(http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/fundamentals/roll/index.htm) tutorial on
there looks really good and just like I was told.

I learnt to do that roll for fire staff (you can do them whilst holding
one in your first hand down). I'm not sure I can do them on purpose but
I do sometimes do them accidentally when I crash on the uni.

I've seen someone do a set of forwards rolls off the unicycle in a
crash. That looked cool, but I think they had gymnastics training.

However, whilst I can roll in a clever way, usually I just fall to the
side and roll over and over, that saves you having to do any kind of
clever roll. If you're using a camelbak, you can roll onto that, and it
cushions you a bit.

Joe

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