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Since starting Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu last year at Professor Pedro Sauer's school , I've had to regularly do forward and backward shoulder rolls. Both are part of the KMG curriculum we follow at my Krav Maga school , but we don't practice as often. I've been trying to improve my backward rolls because they are part of the regular Jiu-Jitsu warmup drills. The instructors and many students can do them slowly, without building momentum. This was my goal, to smoothly roll backward over either shoulder. Recently I watched a video by Stephan Kesting titled 3 Most Common Backwards Shoulder Roll Mistakes . I paid close attention to his technique and took a series of screen captures. Something clicked when I watched him roll backwards towards the camera. The breakthrough for me was watching how Stephan twists his whole upper body off the centerline , and then swings his legs along the centerline . For whatever reason, that clicked with me. I tried focusing on those two elements an...
