How to Breakfall

[@SampsonJudo]

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[@miros1]

Started training judo over 10 years ago, coming from another martial art, I just love the technical details and execution of all the techniques! Thank you Sensei!

[@3ghostsinatrenchcoat]

My jiu-jutsu coach had us doing these as a warm up on my first day-I was not very good at them, and ended up very sore and embarrassed. Thank you for starting close to the ground to practice the technique and then working up to the full movement. I feel more prepared for my next class.

[@RussellCambell]

Started 1 month ago . 47 years old. I like how you can start low and work upwards to a full fall. Thank you Sensei

[@Crazy_Rich_Asian]

Hello sir, how is your progress in judo? I'm starting out soon too.

[@RussellCambell]

@@Crazy_Rich_Asian going well. Taking it slow. I have a great dojo and Sensei

[@eliaskjrbo8142]

@@RussellCambell my sensei is funny and plays disco when training 😂

[@groundfighter2375]

Best instruction for breakfall

[@SampsonJudo]

Hope this video helped you all! When did you all start learning judo? 👇🏻

[@mizzdannful]

Sensai, I want your opinion about something, I have seen your videos recently and was considering taking up judo. The only thing holding me back is the fear from serious injuries. Judging from your own experience, is there a high injury rate from judo hobbyists? Apologies for bothering you with this but I would like the opinion of a seasoned master in this sport. Thanks in advance

[@rahuls5881]

@@mizzdannful not sure if this is still relevant for you but dont worry about statistics of injuries in any sport/martial art. there is always something in every activity in life. If you like the thinking behind judo and the mindset and art form just do it. try it. never stop yourself from trying anything!

[@mizzdannful]

@rahuls5881 Hey m8, funny story. I ended up mustering up the courage and taking muay thai instead. I ended up tearing my acl partially, but I'm fully healed now and back at it. Thanks for your kind advice.

[@manbiteslife3110]

I was a striker for years and thought grappling is boring. Please try judo. You will feel like a child again.

[@jc10747]

This instruction is absolutely critical for people of any age. Thank you!

[@FelixFontana]

Very detailed, well explained instructions. Thank you. I just started Japanese Jujutsu and am doing breakfalls, needed this level of explanation to fully understand what is tying to be achieved by using a breakfall 🙏

[@shanehutton8439]

Thank you very much. At some stage could you please give an instructional video on forward & backward roll

[@GeorgescuGeorgeV]

Never practiced judo, just a little shotokan/fudokan in childhood...been studying the theory and am thinking of starting the practice. It seems to me that the breakfall is such a great all round workout. Next... to find some uke waza vids😊. Ukemi and uke waza seem to be actually enough for the regular day to day joe. You get great workout and it helps at amy age, you get to learn respect, you just defend untill adversary is tired and you can walk away. I would make theese mandatory în school from 10 to 14 😂 . Thank you sensei ❤

[@wyattchinn1036]

Going to show this to my kid to help him with his problems break falling. Great stuff.

[@junheceta268]

This is a late comment, but this is pethaps the finest instruction I have ever seenfor thr essential skill of ukemi---a clear and systematic way of teaching it. Thank uou, Shihan. 🥋🙏

[@SampsonJudo]

Thank you!

[@FirstLast-tx3yj]

@@SampsonJudo thank you sir. I skipped the first 5 sessions and trying to catch up I wass practicing some throws calmly but still felt impact in my neck disks and shoulder sockets. I also felt very sore for a week after I knew I am missing something... Thanks a lot

[@nairobi203]

The most important thing you mentioned at the end. People teach, without explaining the fundamental principles .. result: you end up practising wrong... Compensate technique with energy... No control... And so on..

[@kuroiki12]

Thank you Sensie Sampson, this has to be one of the best instructional videos full stop. Your clear and logical instruction has made me re look at my break falls and how I instruct them from now on. Respect

[@SampsonJudo]

Thank you for the kind words. I am glad I could help!

[@jav.angel1205]

Excellent instuctional...very good detail and long ! It was not a short 1 or 2 min video like other insructors usually do. Thanks!

[@visionpiping1048]

He makes this kook easy!

[@beskeptic]

Great vid Sampson! Thank you! Wating for the Mae mawari ukemi video.

[@minitipper]

Excellent instruction from an excellent teacher.

[@HoangTruong-ij4sm]

Thank you very much Master. I will learn these techniques everyday. Student from Sydney, Australia

[@DietVionis]

You are an amazing sensei.. very helpful for me 43years old

[@SampsonJudo]

Happy to help!

[@gardenartist8680]

You are a great teacher❤️ thank you for helping millions of people ❤️😌

[@anoniempje8384]

Awesome instructions! Even as a brown belt judoka I've picked up valuable details on the "why" behind the "how".

[@SampsonJudo]

Great to hear. We are always students, a belt is simply a tool to hold up our trousers. We never stop learning!

[@ΣωτήρηςΛεβέντης]

thanks for gifting all this free knowlege!

[@KonstantineMuradov]

Fantastic step by step explanation - thank you !

[@dpajc056]

thank you shihan. Great video, my favorite so far. Actually learning jujitsu here but these techniques are identical and I loved it!

[@kevincroucher3233]

I'm a beginner, thank you

[@shan8656]

Thank you so much for the demonstration, ,many fall down in different angle! Very helpful! Really appreciate it.

[@anilphilip546]

@sampson sensei do the breakfalls mimic actually being thrown? I noticed that you squat before hitting the mat but when being thrown we will not have that luxury.

[@wolfkingAD]

@@anilphilip546 Try it in training and find out. Direct answer: yes they do.

[@coolplay1338]

Thank you master

[@haroldbryant3105]

Real good as always.

[@SamUrai-gl1cy]

Excellent Sensei. Great tutorial. Very clear and well detailed explanations. Thank you Sensei.

[@akshaykapadi6350]

Best video about breakfalls on the you tube...I have liked shared nd subscribe 🥰✌️😇

[@SampsonJudo]

Thank you!

[@fires125]

Very good breakdown. Thank you for this! OSU!

[@SampsonJudo]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thomasdoggett4535]

Excellent lesson

[@SampsonJudo]

Thank you! 😃

[@SonfusedCoul]

Thanks for this video, helped me realise I was leaning a bit too far to the side for side breakfalls. I was wondering if you had any insight as to why knees can bang together in a side breakfall (after being thrown) and how this problem can be addressed. Thank you!

[@drutgat2]

Fantastic video. Many thanks.

[@aiyahuntacheimumbi236]

This is a great video! Very thorough!

[@albertarce1135]

Great lesson! Thanks!

[@jav.angel1205]

Please consider doing a video on forward rolls the correct way. Thank you

[@anilphilip546]

@SampsonJudo Sensei, I had one year of judo as an adult. A long time ago, my wife fell in the skating rink and put her wrist out and had a hairline fracture. Yesterday, a friend slipped on the ice during the snow storm here and broke her hip and for a few weeks, I have been encouraging her to learn break-falls. Yours is the most detailed video and we have been watching it together, this morning. However, I have seen that when slapping the mat, fingers get hurt and I let only the arm hit the mat, not fingers. This is important to her as she has arthritic (from overuse) injuries on her fingers. What do you advise?

[@SampsonJudo]

It is difficult to say without seeing her technique myself. It could be that she is leaving her wrist too loose and her arm is hitting the floor just before her hand, and she whipping the floor with fingers slightly afterwards. My advise is to try and keep the arm as straight as possible and hit the mat with the arm and hand at the exact same time.

[@anilphilip546]

@@SampsonJudo Sensei, sorry for the miscommunication. My wife does not know judo and wants to learn to break-fall only for personal safety. Hence we are watching your video. I did learn judo for 1.5 years in 2018 and even made a small judo floor (see kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJiQc3V4fJmHnMk). So I break-fall at home to keep fit. I found that slapping my fingers really hurt and so I uncoil my arm like a whip. arm, elbow, forearm but tilt the fingers away from the mat so they do not hit the mat. I do not know for sure, but only the angular momentum of the arm is important, to counteract the momentum of the body in the opposite direction.

[@SampsonJudo]

It is probably because you are uncoiling like a whip. Your whole arm should hit the floor at the same time. Doing it the way you describe, the force all comes out at the end of your finger, causing it to hurt rather than the force being distributed evenly across your whole arm.

[@anilphilip546]

@@SampsonJudo I was not uncoiling my arm then. But I think the problem was, "Your whole arm should hit the floor at the same time." was not being done. Now, I find that uncoiling my arm but angling my fingers up, works just as well and my fingers do not hurt. By the way, it will be useful to teach ordinary, unathletic, non-judoka people, how to fall. In ordinary clothes and on grass or carpet. There are so many slip and fall injuries - some fatal - that this will be a useful legacy to the rest of the world. Perhaps people need not practice full break-falls (since they do not have access to judo mats or spring floors), but practice developing their break-fall reflexes so in a real situation on hard surfaces, they will limit their injuries.

[@nobbytang]

Spread the load !!

[@caerleon87]

OMG!!!!!! you are a brilliant teacher!!!! So wish i lived near you.. Worst regret of my life?? Mt nan wanted me to go to judo lessons when i was seven, but i did not want to.. Now, aged 58, i would love to!! Is 58 too old though????? I am reasonably fit 6 foot 11 stone, but weak knees, that is what worries me..

[@SampsonJudo]

Thank you for your kind words! It’s hard to say if judo will be okay for you as I do not know your personal fitness level. Generally judog is very difficult for someone who takes up judo that late in life with little to no combat experience. However, I don’t want to generalise so get in touch with an instructor near you and talk with them further. Perhaps you can have a trial session or at least go and watch a session and decide together if you will be able to take part without putting yourself at risk. I, myself am 60 years old however I have been training nearly every day since I was 14.

[@caerleon87]

@@SampsonJudo I suppose i am pretty fit as i walk miles in work. i did Kung Fu for a little bit when i was about 20 and i loved it. My dad was the instructor! I packed it in for two reasons, one, i could not find a partner to train with, and two, it was awkward as my mum and dad were divorced on bad terms, so it was awkward, what with my dad having a new family of his own.. I loved it though and thought it was hugely interesting.. What i will do, is in work [i work in a large psychiatric hospital] we have a setup like in your dojo, as the NHS do their own training.. I will teach myself all the breakfalls you demonstrate, and if i can cope with this, then i know i will be ok and i will go to a local club as you say!! Thank you for your excellent advice!!! and thank you VERY much for taking the time to reply to me too!!

[@SampsonJudo]

@@caerleon87 Just be careful and speak to a qualified instructor first. Judo is very, very different from Kung fu. It is extremely high impact.

[@caerleon87]

@@SampsonJudo Thank you very much for all your brilliant advice! I will do as you say..

[@ВолкВолков-р1ч]

Hi. How many days does it take to learn this? If I do everything correctly in one day, then I can stop, or I need to bring these actions to a reflex (then I will always have to work on it). And how many times should I do each type of fall per workout?

[@SampsonJudo]

You should practice every time you are in the dojo to build reflex, muscle strength for break falling and also to help warm up for judo.

[@ВолкВолков-р1ч]

@@SampsonJudoToday is my training day. I'll definitely try it. Thank you!

[@anas1428omair1433]

Thank u v much

[@victorsingh878]

brillant

[@4n0nmann5]

Doesn't the front breakfall cause enorm damage to the spain? I feel like I would almost break my back doing it. If I would fall to the front of my face, I would probably just turn side ways and break my shoulder instead of breaking my spine

[@AjaychinuShah]

On Mae vs. Ushiro kemi which is which.

[@SampsonJudo]

Mae is forward, Ushiro is backwards

[@AjaychinuShah]

@@SampsonJudo well this is correct, which is right.

[@aikidotrek125]

👍🏾

[@dorjedriftwood2731]

I find if I use my hands I injure my wrists just using my forearms is plenty of surface area I’m really unsure what advantage using your hands would be. I don’t believe if you were practicing on concrete you would slap the small bones on the floor.

[@SampsonJudo]

You are supposed to use your hands & forearms, using just your hands will heighten the chance of breaking your wrists.

[@krakqs5385]

I Got an F in my collage pre exams

[@mateusz.ptaszek]

16:26 me when I invite girls for randori

[@wm6549]

This is excellent. Thank you!