The art of falling. Unironically such a valuable video

I admire how you do these goofy things in public lol, great vid

Ukemi, The Art of Falling.
More people should learn it indeed

I always tell people this is one of the skills I'm most thankful for learning early in life. It really can make a huge difference, especially as I get older to avoid injury.

It's for everyone. I was 30. I instinctively tried to catch myself after I smacked my knee into a wood stump in the dark that I hadn't seen and it sent me tumbling forward, apparently putting my arms straight out like that stopped my fall, sure, but the momentum shot right back through my body all at once and I damaged my back so badly that I couldn't move for an entire day without tears. I didnt sleep that entire night, and ended up going to the doctor and getting a Toradol shot just to be able to EASE into bed enough after that (still in pain) to relax into the heating pack and get some sleep finally. They xrayed it, and it had bruised my ligament and muscle. Nothing to do but wait for it to heal. I was leaned forward hobbling for about 3 days, because straightening up hurt like hell, sent new shock waves of pain through my body for the next hour, and bending below a certain point was also impossible. It was also in winter, which meant the cold sunk in and made the pain worse too. Falling well is genuinely a needed skill.

Just being a wierdo has made me a master of all this. When it comes to outward perception I have no shame, or maybe just no awareness to shame.

You just have to have never stopped being a kid who saw too much ninja content.

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Up until high school, I was reckless with my body. I would climb the sketchiest things and jump/drop off things twice my height. As a kid, I never considered learning how to fall as a skill or anything like that. It was just “how to not hurt myself too bad so I can keep doing it”. I definitely hurt myself plenty of times, but never had to go to the hospital for any of my recklessness. My family thought I was lowkey insane. 😅

I’m in my 30s now with a spinal injury from falling down 4 steps carrying some equipment at work. I can walk, but my equilibrium is still not great if I move too fast. Doctors and PTs tell me I may be able to start jogging at a consistent pace again sometime next year. Thanks for reminding me that intentionally transferring/spreading impact force while falling is possible.

6:40 I taught my mum to do this action, when she could not swing her legs over the side of the bed to get up in the morning.
I laid down beside her and said, if it was me and I needed an invisible push to get me out of bed this is what I would do. And I did exactly the same movement as he’s doing in the video. It worked! So every old person in their 80s who finds it difficult to get out of bed I’ve taught them to do this, and they say they feel invincible once they master it.

You’re so strong. Those falls were straight up perseverance. Keep being inspiring and telling others: when you fall, you get back up and continue.

Being able to fall has saved my @ss sooo many times. From over the hood bike crash to running with a heavy pack downhill fall, or falling while bouldering. All thanks to martial arts.

Was waiting for him to use the word ukemi

I'm 61 and still ride technical Mountain Bikes. My in-ability to fall properly is the most dangerous aspect of my riding and I've been looking for ways to retrain it. This video came at a great time!

I fell down the stairs carrying a laundry basket last year. I didn't want to break the basket and ended up catching myself on my elbow. I needed a minor surgery.
EDIT: My reaction time sucks now. I can't kill anybody in CS anymore.

There's a concept called a "breakfall" for a ton of different martial arts, that teaches weight dispersion, minimizing damage when falling in different positions, and using those breakfalls as counters when being thrown, or during takedowns as you fall to use the momentum against your opponent. My martial arts instructor in college that showed me these actually helped me out several times in my life. Another helpful technique he showed me was how to walk on slippery surfaces like ice, grease slicks etc, without falling and minimizing the instability of walking on those surfaces. THAT has helped me even more.

This is a great topic. I'm 55, still very active, personal trainer, tumbling & fitness coach, self defense teacher.. You reach an age where falling starts to become scarier and scarier. You start feeling falls deep in your soul. I like having students imitate chimp movements, deep squat hopping around, rolling forward, backward, sideways, etc to get them used to rolling through falls rather than trying to stop them.

As a judoka, I agree with this video. The number of times that learning how to land when you fall that saved me from a bad injuries are more than I could possibly count. And that's more so true outside the dojo on concrete and pavement than in the dojo on the matts.

Having the strength to actually support your body weight / keeping your bones and joints from moving in the wrong directions when hitting the ground is highly beneficial, too!

In bouldering, falling is everypresent. I teach my clients to fall before I let them top out their first boulder. And I require them to fall from every top so that they learn how to fall. They need to fall all the time to make it a reflex, which effectively shortens the reaction time (I wildly guess: from 400 ms or 1000+ ms to 60 ms, no source). It is necessary not only for injury prevention, but it's also a confidence necessity. You will not jump properly if you concentrate on the fall. When you don't jump properly, you will not be able to make that jump. Not only jumps. You will not try to reach the next hold in fear of falling.

Climbing is about fear management. It's an endless pursuit. I love it.

So over looked, I grew up skateboarding for over 30 years and only really stopped a few years ago and at 51 and 6f4 I think I very good at falling. So many times I've had to bale out at a speed I know I can't run off the and I will roll or slide or try to get to the verge of the road, lading on a transition helps with the arc you were talking about. This has saved me so often over the years. I do notice I walk over difficult train (mostly my local step muddy forest with the dog) and people I'm with who are a lot younger than me snuggle, yet I skip along at speed and they are clinging onto trees asking for help) I wear barefoot trainers with good grip that helps, you feel the ground beneath you and react quicker to changes in the surface. I've tried to get my 90-year-old mum into wearing them. She's suffered a few falls, and I do worry about her.

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