Breakfall postmortem

My breakfall/free fall is all twisty. Here’s a video of it:
(As a side note, this video was recorded off the Sony digital still camera. It was held sideways to better capture the, uh, verticality of the breakfall. The problem is that you can’t twist the monitor sideways to get a proper view of the video clip. I used information from this page to figure out how to do the rotation, and this page was convenient for RPMs of the necessary tools.)

A bigger image would help, but I’m clearly stepping on the outside of my foot when going into the jump, sort of like a pigeon-toe on the stepping side. Not sure how to fix this, except to do this off the lines on the mat more often. I probably also be stepping inside rather than straight ahead, which will also put a twist into the fall.

One other issue is that my legs crumple up on landing, intead of remaining straight out. My waist is probably bent a bit, also. This might be a side effect of the twisting, but probably not. As usual, I have posture issues.

And, probably not lastly, I’m travelling too far, putting too much energy into a forward direction, rather than straight up.

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