eli5: How do parkourists not break their ankles?

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I just saw a video of some guys jumping off extremely tall buildings onto concrete, no rolling afterwards. How do their ankles not just snap?

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If you’re talking about the trending video I just saw, those dudes were using awful form. Used to be a traceur/traceuse instructor, and my crew would have made them do a dozen jump drills for “slapping out” instead of rolling from those heights.

If you train real hard, your legs can take a lot of force and lengthen the time your body has to absorb it, but in the long term, it WILL destroy your joints to do it improperly

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