I want to teach you how to properly break a fall break falls are known as you gave me in Japanese and there are two versions or ways of doing it either a soft way where you roll and hopefully stand up again that's called Jun okay me Zhu means soft and then we have go gimme mode means hard and that's what you do when you don't have the ability or the space to roll and stand up and that's what you usually see in judo when you get thrown and such and the idea behind using break Falls is this if you don't know how to fall in a safe and proper manner then probably you will not be practicing more advanced karate techniques like throws and takedowns and sweeps and that kind of stuff so if you want to do more of those types of practical fighting techniques then you need to know how to fall properly and land in a safe manner and that's why I think all parati practitioners should know these things yet in many dojos I visit they don't know how to fall and you know if you look at gymnastics for example the first thing they learn is how to land before doing any flips or jumps so you really need to know these things now let's start with the soft break thought or jus you gimme this is how I teach it so usually I start from a seated position like this you can do either right side or left side the important thing is that you put the opposite hand next to the foot here and then my free hand goes there and then I look behind me and then I push off and roll on the shoulder with my head to the side this way so my head never touches the ground and look my position now is the same as when I started here one to look and throw and then from here I simply twist and stand up other side one two free hand goes in the space just under my armpit then you push off and then maintain the same position with the legs so that you can stand up in an efficient way and then of course once you know how to do it from the ground you do the same thing standing up gradually increasing the height until you can do it from a natural position as if you're falling this way in this time that's the first one second is back so I sit down this is how I usually teach it in the beginning always from the ground because it's super scary too far from here if you're a beginner especially so now you have a choice either right side or left side just tilt your head so I go this way then I sit back and I roll over the shoulder again not on the neck but over the shoulder and the scapula and my legs swing this way I use my hands to push up and look I immediately land as I stand up in a perfect fighting position ready again the other side one sit back throw your legs over the shoulder and use your hands this way like I'm a sprinter right this position and then of course if an opponent is pushing me I need you hands to protect myself so hence comes up and then I use my legs to stand up so that I can protect myself as I stand up and then if I do it from standing I will not go like this instead I will choose one side and I will put my leg behind me as I drop down and that's the standing version now that was jus Kimi next we're gonna do go okay me which is the hard way of falling first to the front starting from the ground again your hands in this position so I'm using my arms not just the wrists to break the fall and then I'm looking to the side so that I don't have a wig flash and smash my nose on the ground this way here notice that only my arms and my toes are touching the ground from here again starting from a standing position and then I choose one leg step over protect yourself because maybe someone pushed me so I need to know what's happening behind me right other side same thing here pick a side doesn't matter and then from here I do a stand up this way what's known as a technical stand up a way to protect yourself as you stand up and we've done that in previous episodes again other side protect yourself kick if you need to elevate your butt and stand up next that was front now let's do back on both sides you can do right left or both I'm going to start with both so from a squatting position this way but with a jump and the idea is that you hit before your back touches the ground because if your back slams into the ground like that then that's not a good idea right you want to break the fall with your arms at a 45 degree angle this way same level as your belt or hip bone here and then your legs not like that and not like this because if your knees are here you could hit yourself and if you go like this then there's a chance that you will roll over on your neck so strive to have this angle here not straight not bent but 45 degrees so the whole move looks like this and then you stand up like before like that okay so we did hard go get me front and back now let's do sides right and left starting from here or from here pick a side one leg goes straight out and the same arm go straight down this way the other hand goes here to the chest tuck your chin this way this leg is bent and your chin is super important same with the previous one I just did this one I just forgot to tell you because you don't want to hit your head 45 degrees and the reason for this is because if I do this with my legs I'm gonna smash them together and that really hurts so this one needs to be bent this is here for protection and then I can push myself up in a safe way again the other side same thing here look the exact same thing here protect yourself kick stand up this is what you would do if somebody if someone throws you or does a foot sweep or whatever now finally let's combine them so I'm gonna roll that you gave me and then I'm gonna finish with a go give me the hard break fall and stand up so it looks like this from here pick a side right or left I roll here I do the go give me the break fall then I stand up like that some combining the soft and the hard Jun and go like go jus like goes you do funny then you can also do that with a jump which you usually see in Aikido when people get thrown like that they have to jump otherwise I'm going to break the wrist right wrist locks saving jiu-jitsu and that's a tight end who gave me so it will look like this from the side instead of rolling I jump so and stand up always in the safe way and that's it i hope these variations these ways of doing that who gave me the break fault can help you land more safely and efficiently both for you and your training partners and students that's it train hard good luck and have fun