I'm not too sure these ancient ninja masters knew of something as elaborate as parcour or "ghetto armspring" and your laws of rolling around "the right way" can be applied here :o On a serious note, I don't know why there should be only one way of doing such kind of jump and I don't see any connection to parcour at all :/…
Acumen : I think they do, actually [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEv4WdJiN8E[/ame] this video is about ninjutsu technique, not sure it's super awesome as far as real technique goes, but if you look carefully, you'll see that the exact same principles depicted in ZacD's image are applied, so his comment is valid to…
someone had to provide :D Well, I just think these are two different "rolls", that's all. I've seen and done both in real life - hooray gymnastic exercise :D My point was, that these are two different ways of moving and achieving things. The animation by Tad Ghostal is more of a distance jump roll, while the technique ZacD…
looking sweet :) my current workplace has made me kind of "meh, its good enough".. and this surely is. I'm sure you'll get lots of useful crits from people here, who still have inspiration and will to do so ;D I'm gonna go off the beaten path of "it has to be realistic" and understand that you're going for style here. I'd…
Thats more of a ghetto handspring, than an actual roll. This is way more common, and comfortable: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/023/0/3/Parkour___Roll_by_AlexPav.jpg thats how you start doing it as a beginner, but try it your self in real life and watch some parkour videos. Typically you start doing it one handed,…
Thanks for all of the critiques. I got a little busy and just finally got around to making some changes based on all the input. Here's the latest version, any more comments are welcomed. v2: [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev3_vpcJUmM[/ame]