Land on the balls of your feet with knees and hips absorbing in stages, then use the noise as your gauge: louder only ever means harder.
Landing is the highest-return lever in the sport: more than half of all parkour injuries hit the limbs, and the most common cause is landing or impact — ankle sprains top the table at roughly 2.3 cases per 1,000 training hours. Technically: forefoot first, then knee, hip and trunk absorbing in sequence, torso staying upright. Measured from a 0.75 m drop, that lowers peak force by around 38 percent and the loading rate by more than 50 percent compared with a landing that includes heel contact. The mistake beginners make is landing \"softly\" by collapsing. The joints are meant to work actively, not give way. Your ears are an honest gauge here: quieter landings week by week mean you're improving, louder ones mean take the height back down. Silence has a ceiling, though — above it the roll takes over.