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Voltech Class 100 Hero Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 152 Location: in front of the computer	Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:52 pm    Post subject:   I can totally relate to falling slowly. having an analytical mind and great sense of horrible irony I almost laugh and what the possiblities are before hitting. When i took martial arts I payed special attention to the parts on how to fall because it looks like fun. thanks to that i can fall and correct myself while laughing in my head about how bad it could have been. My friend Cameron is about 6'5" and really heavy set. Sometimes he'll put his arm around my neck and say "Sit" and drop his whole weight on me. But in one particualr instance my friends and I were walking, talking and just goofing off. After saying some smart ass joke about being tired, I pretended to fall backwards. Cameron sees the oppurtunity and gives me a powerful shove forward. Thats when everything slowed down but unlike Tog my mind sang a different tune that sounded like this: "holy crap I'm falling the wrong way. Damn you Cameron. Why did he have to do this while there are a bunch of people around. That girl is looking at me....she's cute too. better make this look good and come up laughing." I hit the ground tuck my head and roll back onto my feet laughing. My frineds are laughing we are all luaghing. One of my A-hole frinds tries to tell me how i rolled wrong and what he would have done better. There was group of kids from a nearby high school waiting at a bus stop across the street from my awesome fall. All I did was turn to them and say "What the f*** are you staring at?" _________________ I didn't 'cause I could if i wanted too ~T.H.
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Tog Hero Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 85 Location: Northern Utah	Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:20 am    Post subject:   I learned to shoulder roll due to lack of athletic ability, ironic as that sounds. See, I used to be able to jump pretty high. I'm just under 6 feet and I could hit the rim of a basketball hoop with my wrist. I never could dunk though. Anyway, even though I could get my hips about three feet off of the ground, I could also pull my feet up high enough and fast enough that I could jump over a fence that was 5'4" with my feet under me as I went over it, then land on my feet. I could also jump really far. In that Presidential Physical Fitness thing, I was able to break 8 feet on the standing jump in every year after about age 11 or 12. The problem was I could jump either way, not both. In a running jump, like the long jump, I could only get a few inches off of the ground. I could get about 16 feet total by just pulling up my legs and crashing into the ground "gear up". To get the best distance, I would hit the board as fast as I could. This made for spectacular crashes. I learned to roll because doing it that way hurt less. So, with that in mind, here are my three favorite rolls. I was at work in the grocery store. Because the people at the warehouse were never allowed to play with Lego as kids, very few of the pallets they sent us were square. In order to get the top pallet off of the stack, it was common to have to down stack the stuff by hand. To do this we had to climb up on the pallet jack. The pallet jack was a heavy electric one with a very weak sheet metal cover over the motor. People would sit on this and bend it out of shape. To climb the jack, we had to stand on the battery which was just in front of the cover. Just behind the cover was the control handle. On top of the battery was me, pulling stuff off of the pallet in a very angry mood. Well, the last box I grabbed this day wasn't the 90 pounds of frozen chicken I thought it was. It was apparently Styrofoam spheres filled with helium. I jerked hard and lost my balance when the case offered no resistance. I lost my balance and fell back, stepping on the cover with my left foot. It shifted and I started to fall backwards. If I didn't do anything, I'd have hit my back on the top of the control arm, then fallen over and hit the back of my head on the concrete floor. This would have sucked. I turned to my left and pushed off with my right foot. The plan was to jump over the control arm and land head first but facing forward. The reason this is one of my favorite falls was because I went through the checklist as I fell. Tuck chin. Right hand out, elbow up. Left hand in position. Impact. Fold. I rolled so well off of this one, that I actually came up standing and hit a Coke pallet with enough force that it hurt my hand worse than the fall. Next one was on the way home from school. There was a stretch of road where I had to cross one street, then about 20 yards of dirt, then the freeway on ramp. If you missed the light on the first road, you might be able to get across the second before the traffic, but you had to hustle. This day, there was a box type truck, like a U-Haul, that I had to beat. No sweat. I can out accelerate a truck for 80 yards. The light changed and I took off. Across the first road, up the curb, across the dirt... Wait. Something happened. I slowed to a stop and looked over at the truck. The driver was looking at me like i just sprouted wings. I had a strange disorientation, like I missed something, or had been asleep and not known it. I looked at my leg, and it was covered with dirt. I looked back at the ground, and there was a set of tracks. Left foot, right foot, left calf, left thigh, left hip, back, right shoulder, right elbow, right palm, half of a right foot on the edge of a 4 inch square post hole, left foot, right foot, and so on. I went down so fast, and came back up in stride, that I never knew it. For a person that can break down a fall to many fractions of a second, it was both scary and sort of cool. Last one was at the store. There were chains that we put up to show a check stand was closed. These are only about 20 inches off of the ground and sag in the middle. I could clear them with ease and I knew it. The Booth Girl would see me hop over them and said that one day I'd hook a toe and fall, and then what? I told her, I'd fold my arms in, tuck my head, and roll. Unless someone happened to be looking my way, they'd never know it happened. I really believed this. This day, I turned to hop over the chain and, as luck would have it, started with my foot actually under the chain. I came up and the chain caught in the tongue of my shoe. When I lifted my foot up, the chain stopped me. This puled my right foot back, away from the direction I was headed. I realized I was going to hit the floor, so I positioned my hands, and waited. Funny thing about a shoulder roll. You really need to be moving forward to make it happen. I had no forward speed at all. I fell straight down, face first onto the tile. Now, because I did have my hands in the right position for a roll, it broke the fall really well, but I still hit like a bug on a windshield. No momentum. No way to make a cool recovery. I just laid there, face down and laughed. God, I wish I could have seen that one from the outside. _________________ Guide for new players is now (mostly) updated for Issue 12. Link is the website in my profile.
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