The Art of Falling
What you'll learn
- This course covers fundamental falling techniques so that you can react to the most common falling scenarios in your sport, discipline, or life in general. It promotes faster progression towards your movement goals, decreases fear, mitigates your risk of injury, lightens the vibe during training, and ensures better results for coaches and businesses involved in sport or movement arts. You will learn a unifying theory of falling continuums and how to engrain them in your natural reactions in order to respond better in many falling scenarios. Learn techniques like side rolls, break falls, half rolls, landing correctly, assisted dive rolls, and much more. Additionally, you’ll integrate these techniques into drills and challenges that will simulate real falling scenarios.
Requirements
- There are no course requirements or prerequisites.
Description
This course covers fundamental falling techniques so that you can react to the most common falling scenarios in your sport, discipline, or life in general. It promotes faster progression towards your movement goals, decreases fear, mitigates your risk of injury, lightens the vibe during training, and ensures better results for coaches and businesses involved in sport or movement arts.
You will learn a unifying theory of falling continuums and how to engrain them in your natural reactions in order to respond better in any falling scenario. Learn techniques like one leg back rolls, break falls, ukemi gallop, twisting au, assisted dive rolls, the concept of ground awareness, and much more. Additionally, you’ll integrate these techniques into drills and challenges that will simulate real falling scenarios.
Who this course is for:
- Athletes, movement artists, adventurers, dancers, fitness enthusiasts, anyone who runs the risk of falling and wants to walk away unscathed.
Instructor
![Amos Galileo Rendao](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 23 Reviews
- 207 Students
- 1 Course
Owner, GM, head coach, and pro athlete for APEX School of Movement HQ
Founder of ParkourEDU
Creator of Parkour Ukemi (The Art of Falling) & Parkour Randori
Founding board member of United States Parkour Association
Amos has been studying martial arts, parkour, dance, and falling since 2004, and has been developing this world-renowned curriculum since 2008. Using APEX School of Movement as his regular laboratory and home base, he’s also taught this curriculum through workshops around the globe in communities including trail running, climbing, pole fitness, tricking, parkour, dance, movement culture, martial arts, stunts, and so on.