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Movement / Revising the Landing: Speed vs. Stability
« on: March 20, 2012, 10:08:46 AM »
Alright fellow parkour-ers. I've been working on moving through an environment with as much speed as possible and ran into the problem of landings.
When you land, is it better to land with your hands inbetween your legs, or outside of your legs? I'm not sure if it's just me but here's my experience with both of the two:
Landing with hands between the legs offers better absorption of the impact. For whatever reason, I seem to be able to stop my self better and land in a stronger, sturdier position. But this definitely kills momentum and takes more time to back up and start running again.
Landing with hands outside of the legs is the opposite effect: I get a sloppier landing but I can get up and running fast.
Of course, you always want as much control as possible, while being as fast as possible. But I can only seem to get one or the other. I'm not sure if this is because hands in or hands out provides actually has the differences I've described, or it's just my technique. What do you guys know?
When you land, is it better to land with your hands inbetween your legs, or outside of your legs? I'm not sure if it's just me but here's my experience with both of the two:
Landing with hands between the legs offers better absorption of the impact. For whatever reason, I seem to be able to stop my self better and land in a stronger, sturdier position. But this definitely kills momentum and takes more time to back up and start running again.
Landing with hands outside of the legs is the opposite effect: I get a sloppier landing but I can get up and running fast.
Of course, you always want as much control as possible, while being as fast as possible. But I can only seem to get one or the other. I'm not sure if this is because hands in or hands out provides actually has the differences I've described, or it's just my technique. What do you guys know?