How to do a parkour roll..?

Question

how do you do a pakour roll

Answer 1

A parkour roll is the same as a judo roll or shoulder roll, similar to the somersault with the main difference being the line of contact. The problem with somersaults is the potential to hit your head or injure your spine on a bad roll as those are points along the line of contact. In a shoulder roll, the line of contact is a diagonal from one of your shoulders to the opposing hip. To attempt a basic shoulder roll: get in a squatting position with a wider stance, and place both your hands on the ground in front of you so that you are leaning forward slightly, then choose which side you will roll to and take that arm and bring it across your chest behind the other arm, while doing this you should begin to turn your head in the direction opposite where you intent to roll and look towards the armpit of that opposite side, doing this will cause you to naturally begin to fall at an angle forward toward the side you chose, provide a slight kick up with your feet to help initiate the roll and just roll through it. I understand that trying to interpret a definition of a shoulder roll is difficult without a visual, so here is a quick clip that I found that well defines, explains and shows a shoulder roll. ( http://www.youtube.com/v/aIGlv49Y9Ac )

Hopefully that helped.