Breakfalling on concrete

[raty tat tat]

This looks painful.
http://www.bjjee.com/videos/video-the-art-of-the-breakfall-on-concrete/

 

[Gabicho]

I've had to do ukemi on concrete.
Once because i tripped at some stairs and fell down like 4-5 steps down, in the middle of the busiest avenue of my city.
I ukemi'd, rolled, stood up. Nothing hurted. Dusted off.
Like a boss.
No one saw me because it was 11 pm. But i was glad that on reflex i didn't get hurt, nor did my tablet, which was on my backpack.

 

[Skip Reming]

check this out. warning graphic, warning Keenan Cornelius
https://instagram.com/p/zJR_LHhZ6G/?taken-by=keenancornelius

 

[TheHereticJay]

I've had to breakfall twice on concrete. Once when I was walking and slipped on a patch of ice. I was happier about not wasting my expensive ass starbucks coffee I had just bought than the perfect breakfall and no pain at all.

The other time, wasn't so injury free. I was on a road bike(pedal kind and not motor) going down a bridge, something happened to the front tire, I went over the handlebars, did a proper forward breakfall and not a roll. So I slid along the ground a little bit, got a little scratched up on my arm but nothing major.

 

[joeytriangles]

Lol that's my previous Judo instructor, great teacher and as you can see, passionate about Judo to the extreme. He's a 2 time olympian and a 7th dan though he never wears the 'KFC' belt lol.The BJJ academy I go to used to rent mat space from them before they opened up their own academy or else I would still be training with him.

 

[Zankou]

I'm no ukemi expert, but I would think you'd want to hit the rolling ukemi more on concrete and not the 'stick it' judo style ukemi he shows in that vid.

The whole point of the stick-it style ukemi is that your opponent is holding onto your gi so you can't roll, you have to absorb that driven-into-the-mat impact.

But if you are just tripping and falling, a rolling/tumbling ukemi would seem much better.

 

[SummerStriker]

I'm no ukemi expert, but I would think you'd want to hit the rolling ukemi more on concrete and not the 'stick it' judo style ukemi he shows in that vid.

The whole point of the stick-it style ukemi is that your opponent is holding onto your gi so you can't roll, you have to absorb that driven-into-the-mat impact.

But if you are just tripping and falling, a rolling/tumbling ukemi would seem much better.

Any time I've fallen on concrete I've had my feet kick out so fast I couldn't roll. Things like slipping on water in the kitchen at a restaurant or on ice in a parking lot.

It is my opinion that those falls on concrete are still easier and less painful to stick than break falls in the gym because you are falling from standing rather than being lifted up. In real life with your feet jerked out from under you, you usually can get a nice even breakfall instead of the whipping sideways falls you get in the gym sometime. I've been fucked up in the gym, but including being thrown in an ambulance and those other falls I've taken at random, I've never been hurt in real life.

I do have a friend that twice has done rolling ukemi after being thrown from his motorcycle, and he hasn't taken Judo in decades.

 

[snakeybizz]

are people made of glass?

of course you can break fall on concrete, quite easily too... probably gets harder the bigger you are

I could probably jump in the air and back flop on the concrete like a pro wrestling style bump... not gonna feel nice, but I'm not gonna break my back or anything

 

[snowman22]

It would be good to have more information on breakfalling on hard surfaces.

 

[lechien]

This looks painful.
http://www.bjjee.com/videos/video-the-art-of-the-breakfall-on-concrete/

That instructor is from Christchurch, new zealand.

Cool video and some tuf dudes living in south island.