Contact rolls are one of my favorite moves. Here is a breakdown of how to do them on both the inner and outer forearm. They take a little bit of work, but they're a great tool to have in your box :)

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This tech blog featuring special guest star Ted Petrosky! We got together for a jam in Brooklyn and he showed me a nifty contact trick that starts with a shotgun-style single hand spiral wrap and it got my gears turning. Here are two fun variants that utilize some other tricks we know and love and that really look cool with this move added in for some extra spice.

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This is a trick that Cyrille and Poiboi have both made use of a lot that I'm a big fan of--it's a pair of inner arm rolls performed such that the arms start spread out and then come together to perform the catch. As I worked through this, my original conception of the trick was to have the planes of the handles and tether flush with the back of my arm, but I realized as I played with it that instead the planes had to be at a slightly oblique angle as the direction of the head follows the angle of the tether in contact.

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