Roll-Down Lunge or "Steady Head Roll Down"

This young man made a very common mistake; he tried to combine a “downhill lunge” with a “downhill drop.”  He did not execute either maneuver correctly.  I’m not making fun of him because I would likely have made the same mistake before I learned how to do each maneuver correctly.

The young man is okay, but this was a scary experience.  He was not a part of my skills class.  I was demonstrating for my class what to do and explaining to them what not to do.  And then he backed up and did exactly what I said not to do.  He is grabbing his bladder area, and I was super scared that he was going to have some internal damage, but thank God he didn’t.  Similar crashes occur frequently on the feature that one of my students is pictured riding successfully above called the “The Lightning Filter Feature.”