I’d also like to add something regarding break falls and rolls. #1 If you have previous MA experience great but please, when doing a forward roll just keep it at that and not a one handed forward somersault that takes 1/3 of the mat. #2. Be mindful when doing shrimp/hip escapes and back rolls with others is like being in traffic. I have seen enough people’s heads crash into the forward person’s feet and hips. Same goes with cartwheels. Some of my classmates have had to warn each other stop ‘crashes’ #3 Hip escapes aren’t easy for newbies (I’ve literally seen only one person get the motion in one class) and so are some moves like backward rolls. We all get stared at, we’ve all been there, that’s why there’s 2+ lines of rolling you need time, so keep trying.
#4 I’ve run into spazzes (I’m probably 70% spaz still) and have got dinged a bit with them during rolls. I’ve also warned my training partners who were about to roll with them to watch out. Maybe that’s unfair, I just know when my partners got promoted they shared more and worked with me because I’m not out to ‘kill a blue belt’ for fame and a lot of those spazzes left.