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Knowing how to fall is such an incredibly important life skill, it's baffling to watch people who never learned it. As a ski instructor, you could instantly te
by ramesh31 4y ago
Knowing how to fall is such an incredibly important life skill, it's baffling to watch people who never learned it.
As a ski instructor, you could instantly tell from their first fall the kids who would get it and stick with it from the ones who would be sitting in the lodge pouting after an hour.
- perihelions 4y ago- "you could instantly tell from their first fall" Mind elaborating what it is you see?
- comrh 4y agoA good video that helped me fall better on skis after I broke my wrist (by falling incorrectly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0HCRMbRRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0HCRMbRRA
- ramesh31 4y ago>Mind elaborating what it is you see? A lot of people just fall. Like a sack of potatoes. Their inner ear senses a point of no return, and they just let gravity take over from there. Other people sense the fall, and react, but they are still just trying to stop the fall from happening, so they break their wrists on impact. But usually anyone with any kind of athletic experience or decent kinematic awareness understands that the fall is happening and the point is to direct it. The elbows tuck, the neck lowers, and they guard the body while directing the inevitable fall.
- themitigating 4y agoCouldn't that be taught on mats in a gym instead of mistakes that could lead to injury?
- alistairSH 4y agoYes. Judo and parkour both actively teach falling and body-awareness. Gymnastics does, though it’s not generally as formal/explicit - you just get the body awareness from beginner-level tumbling.
- butterguns 4y agoI know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world? I took a nasty fall on my MTB this summer, broke my shoulder. Everything was instinctual and a blur. Can we somehow retrain our innate responses?
- karpierz 4y agoAs with every other skill, practice. Judo and skiing taught me how to fall. It's easier if you start young because you have less distance to fall.
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- DenisM 4y agoMartial arts
- timo555 4y agoSurfing is a great safe way to learn how to fall.
- jtsuken 4y agoNo, it's not! When you surf, you get used to punching through the surface and then holding your breath and dealing with the water movement. You have to consciously remind yourself to not do the equivalent of going head first through the face of the wave or stretching out your toes when bailing of the board.
- celestialcheese 4y agoI know it's not helpful, but from a lifetime of doing really stupid things in action sports, starting young is a lot of it. Falling like anything takes practice, and falling when your 12 is so much less painful than falling when your 35. Anyone who grew up in the skatepark/terrain park knows the experience of learning new tricks and progression. It's thousands of falls building up the muscle memory to land the trick. Over time, it just sticks (or you hurt yourself bad enough you quit). Cant really do this when you're old. It just takes less to cause damage, unless you're in excellent shape from doing active and dynamic movements over years of work. Now to try and be helpful - Martial arts, wrestling and doing low weight dynamic movement exercises will help you train. Also, if you want your whole body to be sore, pick up a skateboard, strap as many pads as possible, and go learn how to ride a bowl at your local skatepark. Guaranteed you'll get lots of fall practice :)
- themitigating 4y agoWhy can't life skills, especially ones that could be lead to injury, be explained instead of each person having to make the mistake before they learn it?
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