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I've been living in Bangkok for the past 14 years, and I'm also an Aikidoka. People ask me have I ever had to use Aikido In the streets. My answer is: "Yes, about a dozen times, my opponents were wet floors, broken pavement stones, and traffic driving on the sidewalk." Good ukemi has saved me a lot of hospital visits.

Everytime he says "Pick a side" I feel like I'm picking between good and evil

The way you teach the roll with the hand positions might be better than how I've been teaching. I have trouble with the kids hitting their elbows because I use the "big wheel" arm positioning. It is tough for them to grasp. Thank you, sensei.

Ukemi should be taught and practiced in every class, in every dojo. It's that important. Ukemi practice has saved my life, and kept me from injury many times outside of the dojo. I've been practicing ukemi since the 1970's, every class.

Ukemi is the most useful skill I learned in dojo. I was once hit by car and knocked off my bicycle, but I only suffered a minor injury because I did Ukemi at that moment. Ukemi saved my life.

Ukemi saved my life many times. Including motorcycles dropping. All need to play a soft ukemi. The floor became your friend. Nice ukemi explamation. Good job. 🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋

Every person approaching 50 needs to see this and learn it! Your calm demeanor and simple demo, shows you are true to the Art w/o ego getting in the way!

This is not only useful for karate or judo,but also for cycling in case you lose balance and fall of your bike

Her: so what do you do first thing in the morning? Me: 00:11 Her: say no more....

I’m a black belt aikido student and must tell you: EXCELLENT VIDEO. Congrats. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

You just gave me Aikido ptsd from the rolling drills.

I remember this first lesson from my childhood. I made sure to teach my daughter after watching her fall in soccer and basketball.

I got my Falls and Rolls from Aikido and Hapkido. It's Truly Amazing that this Karate has it too.

As a person over 30 years old getting into this. The mental to throw myself on the ground is hard. Everything already hurts 😂 but thank you for this video. You make it look so easy.

I did kempo karate as a kid in a school that ingrained these lessons in me. It might have been a McDojo in the 90s, but I learned some good things to start off my martial arts journey. Recently, I wanted to introduce my partner to BJJ which I've done 17 years ago in another country, but on our first session they simply told her to roll backwards with no instructions, and pressured her to do it right away. That was a red flag to me. I watched one of their students who had been there for longer roll backwards without tilting their head, constantly compressing the back of their neck with their own body-weight, and the teacher was fine with it. All I thought of was, in a combat-sport situation if someone sprawled on top of them while they were in that position, it would crush their neck... So I intervened and taught her how to do it the right way, but after a few more sessions (and more red flags with big ego blue belts who went beyond rolling energy & resorted to scratching me constantly), never went back to that BJJ school.

I fight a dirty Australian HEMA and our usual training grounds are rocky hills and concrete/gravel parking garages; train throws anywhere that isn't a soft mat and you will naturally learn how to break a fall and you will vividly remember every single time you mess it up.

best rolling ukemi explanation, even judo and aikido teachers

I learned this in my Aikido Class before. I never thought that Ukemi is also practice in Karate.

Love the way how you lay down instructions! You'll make a total opponent of karate want to train with you.

Thank you, very good. My study through some jujutsu dojo have shown me that the differences in schools ukemi are details that are good to learn to see the oneness of the art. Thank again, "gracias" from Puerto Rico.

Wow these is something everyone everywhere should practice. Bicycles, motorcycles, skateboards, climbing, etc. Learning to fall without injury might be even more helpful than learning to swim ... Must share!

This saved my life more than anything else I learned in Karate.

I'm not a karate practitioner but i truly admire the art 👊👊 i currently practice and study wingchun. I can use the ukemi in a self defense situation. Thank you Sensei 🙏👊

I think that was the best class on Ukemi ever! I've had to go through the classes several times, none were presented as clearly, and honestly it is way harder than you made it look. I'm still not very good at it...

Exactly what I need in my life. I have a mental block , worried about falling wrong and hurting my back so I am fearful of even trying many of the fall techniques. And exactly as you said , prevents me from more advanced training. You’ve explained it so well and so clear here I feel some confidence to try. I’ve been same belt level a little longer than I should.

Great review on the Ukemi! It reminds me of my childhood Judo years, back in the nineties. Really useful, thanks a lot! 🙏🏻

Just clocked this one Jesse. Great exactly how I was taught in Aikido in 1986. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much. I had learned the over the shoulder roll before but always struggled with my right side and now this showed me what I was missing: the arm swinging under.

You are such a good teacher, Sensei Jesse! Thank you for this, and God bless

Love practicing break falls and rolls. Great video Jesse Sensei. Thank you.

Im going to teach you how to break fall **BADOMPHF**

Best Fall Tutorial I have seen. Thank You.

The way you explain these things, they seem so logical and easy to understand. I wish I could try my hands on Karate.

Favorite video! Totally practical information, and no air quotes!

Thank you ,thank you so much ,I have been really struggling to learn the falls and never nailed them, now with a few tries I finally got them ,thank you so much!!!

Thanks for adding those break falls Jesse, as I child I did judo and I remember all we first learnt was break falls and they have come in handy during my years in karate. It was a nice refresher for me again as as you get older and start to forget some of the important points. I think I may start instructing some of our students as it is an important part overlooked in karate training.

Thanks Jesse. Very helpful . Super appreciate your dedication to the arts. Also like other people, ukemi has saved me a bunch of times from falls from slips and tripping over unseen obstacles.

These free lessons are quite awesome.

Your forward breakfall breakdown was phenomenal, definitely going to integrate that into my teaching, thank you sensei!

Perfect Video at the Perfect time! Thank you Jesse, added to favorites!

Jesse thank you for this simple breakdown.I am 71 and the falls can make me a little uneasy. This has really helped a lot! Sometimes anew perspective helps. I am working on second brown in a self defense course ..Kenpo jujitsu. I love it , but sometimes it takes a little more for older brain to pick things up , lol! Enjoy your videos much ly.

great job demonstrating Jesse!

Thanks a lot, Jesse ! I always struggle a bit to teach this. Some people are so afraid of doing this exercises. Now I got some new ideas from you. 😊🙏

First - that's a good stuff you're showing here :) I can tell you that it's scary even for many seasoned judoka to just fall on the back. It's rooted very deep in human nature that falling on the back is a no-no. When I had problems to fall in any direction I've actually used one leg to kick another or pull my whole body and force myself to loose stability this way. One more thing - when you fall completely frontally, if a break is done properly you should be able to stand back like a spring. I can't tell you how, cause I'm unable to do this, but most of the black belt judoka I've met did it. It's kind of a gymnastic mystery for me ;)

When you said "like a sprinter" your body position made me think of THAT move from Kusanku!

Thanks a lot. I didn’t realize before that my head wasn’t supposed to touch the ground at all. Your instructions are very clear.

Excellent tutorial on ukemi. I have done Judo and Aikido and your presentation is spot on. My son's and I were taking a Shotokan Karate class and they went to show breakfalls and I damn near had a heart attack. They tried to tell my sons to allow their heads to smack the ground and basically back hand the matt. Needless to say we didn't continue.

I love these easy to learn .looking forward to applying them in my coming KUMITE tournament in college. Thank you

Years of karatetraining have saved my life a couple of times. For exampel when my Eskate decides to hookup with a bump in the road going 45 km/h sending me to the ground. At first full body impact and then up on helmet and steeltoes (work shoes) to save clothes. I was lucky walking after. Found the skate in a bush after a while. So ukemi is good to know! This is one of the videos I come back to sometimes because Jesse sensei explain so good.

Good instruction saved my life more than once in the dojo and on the street.

Wonderful video. You teach almost exactly as I do, and you demonstrate many more things than you actually talk about, especially on yokoukemi. Although from your demonstration, you know these things, I thought I'd share some observations for others who might find it helpful. For yokoukemi, my teachers stressed protection of the ankle, knee, and hip joints because you must be able to stand after the fall in addition to survive. The ankle is protected by the shape of the lower foot (curved inward as you demonstrate is my favorite, although pointed toes can work too), the knee by the alignment of ankle, knee, hip, and shoulder into the same plane (this requires you to thrust you hips forward mid-roll but causes the calf and thigh to bridge the knee in most people), and the upper foot lands ball first and pushes up to initially elevate and brake the hip landing. The upper foot also must touch down approximately in line with the other knee so that the leg can also act as a forward brake if there is significant translation as well as rotation in the throw. As a physicist, the ankle-to-shoulder alignment also maximizes the moment of inertia of the body which also slows the speed of the rotation, giving you a bit more time (small as it is) to make adjustments mid-flight. If position allows, you can also start the arm opposite to the forward leg (the one on the mat at the end) rotating backward, palm first, almost as soon as the roll begins. This can be an effective addition to strengthening the torso against the shock of the fall, as well as acting as a sensor to alert your body of the mat proximity. I come from a generation where ukemi had to be demonstrated on wood floors so I can vouch for the importance. However, I see many of these fine details being glossed over or omitted because the matted surfaces are so forgiving these days. While I no longer compel my students to demonstrate falls on hard surfaces, I frequently make them assume the ending position for yokoukemi on a hard floor and ask them to experiment with arm/leg positions to feel the contact points. Finally, thanks for the many excellent videos you've made. I hold a yondan in karate and a godan in aikido, and you make me question if I still train enough, even as I approach 70!

This is a great video, most people who want to learn martial arts don't care about this but this is what helps keep you in the fight. The only time I've ever used martial arts in real life is when I was on a dead sprint to the other side of the court playing basketball and I got tripped from behind, it was weird because everything slowed down and I had 2 choices. I could just fall flat forward and get scrapped up and possibly injure my wrists or roll, I rolled and only lost a step. It came from practicing the techniques you're showing here. Thanks again for the videos, you're doing the martial arts community a great service!

Excellent teaching. Thank you.

Well explained. Thank you for sharing.

Very helpful video! Thank you for creating it.

Superb and very helpful tutorial!

Har håller på med Japanskt jujusto. Så jag känner igen mycket av detta då jag tränat för någon timme sedan. Bra jobbat Jesse 😊👍.

This is great instruction. Thank you!

Fantastic, I was never taught these while I was learning karate.

Very good tutorial there. As a Judoka i have alot of tweaks here and there to make it perfect, but it is very good for a karateka. I remember my days in karate training it that way ;)

Thanks Jesse, these are techniques I really need work on. Great video and explanations.

This looks awesome! I started training when I was fairly old (47) and now - well 10 years later. I also have really bad knees. I've never been good at breakfalls but I know I really should be working on this (because OLD!). I see a lot of interesting things here that I think I can work with. Thank you!

Outstanding instructions thank you!

Sensei Jesse, great video! I love the way you break things down!

The best tutorial to learn how to do ukemi to al the karate practicioner...domo arigato Enkamp Sensei

Excellent guide!

Jesse: Teaching ways to do rolls properly. Me: Rolling on my head my entire life !

Excellent tutorial.

You do a great job. You deserve the respect of the fans. Sending some love from Brasil.

Thanks. Good tutorial. Clear and simple.

Your videos are so informative and helpful. Your explanations are very good.

Excellent tutorial. Similar to Hapkido break falls. Thank you Sir.

Thank you for this tutorial! There are far too many Karate schools that do not properly teach/train falling... thinking it only practiced in the "grappling" arts. They fail to realize that, if you don't survive the fall, the fight is over. As a side note, the front fall/roll is great for when you trip over the carpet in the hallway ;-)

Great video and great explanation, thanks

perfect explanation of basics, the same way i learned it. The most funny thing is that ukemi waza is most actual technic in my life outside the dojo.

I train Japanese jiu-jitsu in England, it's so brilliant to see a Karateka teaching Ukemi. Oss!!

Awesome man awesome.... hats off for ur sincerity and love for karate and lots of respect for your skill and practice.

Great video for the new students in my Aikido class who were taught to slap the mat about one second after they roll back, for some reason. This is before I joined the class. Hopefully this will help them correct the break falls.

This is world class ukemi. Subbed!!!

One of the more valuable lessons you've taught.

the timing of this being a suggested video is awfully amusing. making my yearly visit to vancouver, a friend of mine and my fiancee likes to greet me with hug-tackles. as such, she got me today and i just sorta out of habit did a soft fall. there's nothing quite like having a 145 lb. bundle of energy just nail me in her utter happiness. :P

Always enjoy your channel!…thank you...

Jesse your videos are very knowledgeable . Through your teaching I came to understand the proper way of falling. It is a very useful video for me. In fact I saved this video so that I can watch it later too. Although, keep it up Jesse

This is a great video, thank you.

Love it! Excellent tutorial!

You just earned yourself a like and subscribe from a judoka! That was the best demonstration and instruction of break-fall I've ever seen!!!

Thank you Sensie Jesse

Very good summary👍

Sensei Jesse, I think this is the most complete and clearest Ukemi video I've seen so far! And I'm especially glad it comes from a karate point of view! You even did the front and back bump, which I remember using when I did pro-wrestling couple of years ago! 😄 in my opinion, Ukemis should be taught in all martial arts, especially to kids, since in any circumstances it's useful knowledge to avoid injuries. 🙏🥋

I'm having a lot of trouble with this. I keep ending up incorrectly after the roll. I think I'm perhaps trying to roll too slowly. This is great, Jesse-san. Thank you for making content I didn't know I needed until I watched it! I'll get it eventually.

Brings back memories of my minna ju jitsu classes 30 years ago when I was in high school learning to break falls in Ohio at the old dojo. But now I fence these days living in another state. However, this video is such a great refresher so it's good to remember them. I can already hear the dojo mats in my head from doing these.

Great, all you need in 10 minutes! (ok, plus years to learn it ....) Excellent video who brings everthing together. Thank you!

From a Jujutsuka, very good video. Our jujutsu classes do ukemi with the warm ups. All beginners start with basic ukemi (forward, back and side) to give them confidence as well as protection.

Very nice.instructive and useful.thanks

Belo vídeo, Jesse!

excellent class, thanks

Great teaching. Thx!

Excellent lesson

Man this was an excellent tutorial. Your teaching style is so easy to follow. 👍