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The gallop landing

Gallop landings are useful if you’re taking a bigger drop where you need to use a soft landing while maintaining high speed and momentum into another move. Rather than absorbing all the way to a soft landing, the gallop landing spreads impact across more limbs, time, and distance—making it easier to keep going into the next movement. Gallop landings also help you change direction, duck under obstacles, and transition from 1 movement to the next.

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Running jump + gallop landing applied to a beautiful roof gap 😍
Taylor Carpenter / Ryan Ford
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Focus: Decelerating more gently, slowly, & quietly
Kinematics: Absorb somewhere between a hard and soft landing range of motion, and with more forward lean. Then, hands will contact the ground & gallop for balance.
Knee flexion: ~90 degrees
Pros: Minimizing impact, being stealthy & quiet, may be necessary for bigger drops & other high-impact landings, and offers more versatility to land, change direction, and move under obstacles
Cons: Less powerful rebounding, slower transitions & changes of direction, slower times on speed runs

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Running jump → gallop landing
Benati Louvouezo / Ryan Ford
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

Why?

to reduce impact by absorbing over more time, distance, & points of contact
to maintain balance & momentum when coming out of heavy jumps or drops that are awkward to land without hands
to use as a transition to connect other movements, change direction, or simply launch forward like a sprinter out of the starting blocks

Gallop landing applied in a descent
Ryan Ford / Taylor Carpenter
Denver, Colorado, USA 🇺🇸

How?

stand tall & step off the obstacle
drop & extend your feet/legs to the ground with arms loaded back
swing your arms forward at landing, absorbing through a partial ROM squat
as you hit the bottom of your partial squat, keep leaning/falling forward and use the momentum to send you into a single quadrupedal gallop
reset & repeat on the other side

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Drop → gallop landing → sprint
Taylor Carpenter / Ryan Ford
Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México 🇲🇽

Common problems & solutions

❌ problem: crossing arms or mixing up hand/foot touches
✅ solution: revisit simple quadrupedal gallop drills

❌ problem: not momentarily shifting full body weight to hands
✅ solution: work on leaning/falling more into the gallop landing

❌ problem: zombie arms throughout the movement
✅ solution: load arms back in midair & swing through upon impact

Useful prereqs

Progressions

Fake drop (arms back) → gallop landing
Taylor Carpenter / Ryan Ford
Coronado, California, USA 🇺🇸

Gallop landings applied

Additional resources

Gallop landing applied in a speed parkour competition
Olof Wood / Ryan Ford
Apex Denver, Colorado, USA 🇺🇸

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Ryan & Taylor

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