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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 1

Actually you roll on your shoulder, no neck involved. You learn early to tuck and I've never had neck issues, and I HAVE neck issues.

What typically happens is when someone throws you quickly is you mis-time the hit and end up with a sore lower back because it smacks too hard.

I used to practice and learn on a wooden floor. No chance of me doing that again 20 years later.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 2

Oh, I agree with Steve here. I'm hating wooden floors more & more with each year. Of course, when we've done demo's and competitions they're sometimes on things worse than wood. About a year and a half back we did one on concrete. I didn't enjoy that at all. Not to mention that it flat out takes the bruises & bangs longer to heal. Still, I say if you want to give lumps, you have to take lumps.

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Jonathan Kehayias One Orange Chip Points: 26778 More actions · Answer 3

I HAVE to do my annual Modern Army Combatives refresher once a year, and that is enough rough housing to last until the next time I have to do it. It would probably go better if I did it more often and I was sparing with someone who actually knew what was happening instead of someone like me who has to relearn the moves every year.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

Chris Morris (12/10/2008)
It looks so risky, rolling over forwards surely makes you feel vulnerable to neck injury? I wouldn't want to try it sober!

Feel, maybe, though done properly though the head and neck aren't involved. If you look carefully, you'll see that my forearm is touching the floor. The path that touches the floor is arm - shoulder - hip - lower leg - stand up. It's not like a gymnastic forward roll.

One of the first things that beginners will learn is how to roll properly. After a few years it becomes instinctive.

That was flight shooting, Gail. A couple each of four arrow weight/style classes, maxed out for distance.

I thought it was something like that.

Accuracy is sacrificed for power making the sport less intense than modern archery.

I don't shoot competitively. Just for fun and relaxation.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 5

GilaMonster (12/10/2008)
Chris Morris (12/10/2008)
It looks so risky, rolling over forwards surely makes you feel vulnerable to neck injury? I wouldn't want to try it sober!
Feel, maybe, though done properly though the head and neck aren't involved. If you look carefully, you'll see that my forearm is touching the floor. The path that touches the floor is arm - shoulder - hip - lower leg - stand up. It's not like a gymnastic forward roll.
One of the first things that beginners will learn is how to roll properly. After a few years it becomes instinctive.

Instictive is the key. I was heavy into Shoto Kan Karate many years ago, and I know that is what saved my life one day. I was run down in crosswalk by a car that decided to follow a truck (SUV type) through a red light. I saw the truck, but didn't see the Honda CVCC behind it. When I did see it, my first thought (though I didn't remember it for over a week) was I was dead. I did a downward block to the hood of the car which got me off the ground before the car actually hit me. My next thought was that i was going to go through the windshield, at that moment I felt my body weight shift to my legs (honestly!). I landed ON MY FEET 30 to 40 feet down the road. No rolls or tumbles, and wearing slick bottomed dress shoes. Pulled my left shoulder muscle (downward block) and my right calf muscle.

That was the only fight I ever got into outside the dojo, and as far as I'm concerned, I WON!

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

Lynn Pettis (12/10/2008)
Instictive is the key.

Indeed. My first instructor was once observed tripping on a flight of stairs (while running down), doing a perfect forward roll down the stairs while carrying a pile of books and ending up on his feet at the bottom of the stairs, still carrying the books.

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 7

Lynn Pettis (12/10/2008)
Instictive is the key. I was heavy into Shoto Kan Karate many years ago, and I know that is what saved my life one day. I was run down in crosswalk by a car that decided to follow a truck (SUV type) through a red light. I saw the truck, but didn't see the Honda CVCC behind it. When I did see it, my first thought (though I didn't remember it for over a week) was I was dead. I did a downward block to the hood of the car which got me off the ground before the car actually hit me. My next thought was that i was going to go through the windshield, at that moment I felt my body weight shift to my legs (honestly!). I landed ON MY FEET 30 to 40 feet down the road. No rolls or tumbles, and wearing slick bottomed dress shoes. Pulled my left shoulder muscle (downward block) and my right calf muscle.
That was the only fight I ever got into outside the dojo, and as far as I'm concerned, I WON!

That's an amazing story, anybody watching would have been dining out on it for weeks. Eat yer heart out, Keanu Reeves, this guy does it for real!

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 8

Amazing story, indeed. Lynn is lucky to be alive never mind without having any broken bones.

Me? I'd have just shot the car. 😉

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

Jeff Moden (12/10/2008)
Amazing story, indeed. Lynn is lucky to be alive never mind without having any broken bones.
Me? I'd have just shot the car. 😉

If you saw a picture of my guardian angel, she(or he) would be the one covered in dirt, grime, with messed up feathers and a bent halo. I have been in and walked away from 7 major accidents (2 motorcycle, 4 car, 1 auto/pedestrian {the one I just told you about}) and several minor accidents. What did it take to break something, soccer. Busted my right ankle while play keeper for my U10 girls team in a scrimmage againts the parents during a practice back in October 2000.

Two of the major car accidents; read-ended while at a dead stop on I-25 just north of Lincoln Avenue by a car going 65+ mph and a year later I blacked out on the way home from Denver just north of the North Gate Road to the USAFA and slammed my car into a ditch at 70 mph. Same car that I got rear-ended in, only my insurance company totalled it which is what the other guys insurance company should have done a year earlier but paid to repair it. By the way, if you live in the Denver/Parker area and if they are still there in Parker, Burns Automotive did an awesome job repairing my Honda Civic.

:cool::cool:

Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90303 More actions · Answer 10

Lynn Pettis (12/10/2008)
I have been in and walked away from 7 major accidents (2 motorcycle, 4 car, 1 auto/pedestrian {the one I just told you about}) and several minor accidents.

Wow - what is it that they say about cats? Something about nine lives if I recall. :w00t:

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn, that's down the road, thanks for the recommendation.

And remind me to drive when we get to go out for a beer.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

Here is the funny thing about all my accidents, I was alone in the car. There were no passengers. So I am safer with people in the car than not but my driving doesn't change. Figure that one out.

😀