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How to fall?

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Rock_Inhabitant
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I see a lot of people giving out advice about “learning to fall”, but I can’t find anything on NS or similar about how to actually safely fall or how to learn it. Y’all got any resources for it?
2 years ago
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tdollo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0HCRMbRRA


This vid should help
2 years ago
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ReturnToMonkey
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Play contact sports your whole life
2 years ago
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WunhungL0
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If I'm not feet first on the fall and there's no rail to attempt to save myself on, go with the flow baby. Caught the tip of my ski trying a switch mute back to back from initiating the grab a tad too soon and went head first into the landing. Got lucky because I was perfectly positioned into the slope of the landing so I slid down both times as I twisted on my back. My collarbone was quivering from the close calls.
2 years ago
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TreeJam
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Just don’t fall. It’s much safer
2 years ago
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nmwninjart
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Like mentioned in the video above Martial arts training helps!
Unfortunately it didn't save me from the box slide edge catch land in the splits crash I had two years ago.
2 years ago
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_brrett
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Learning how to fall would take a whole tutorial but one quick thing i’ll say now is don’t fall with your arms or legs extended because it puts your shoulder and knee joints in a vulnerable position.

Also if you’re falling on a rail and need to brace yourself use your hands for catching the rail and not your forearm because youll break your arm and if you’re falling on ground use your forearm and not your wrists cuz youll break your wrist lol
2 years ago
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gravel
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eat shit a lot and you get the hang of it
2 years ago
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switchlip2
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I am significantly better at falling than skiing
2 years ago
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maxu_27
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The more creative swear words you can yell before you hit the ground= the lower chance of injury
2 years ago
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teabag
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You’ll learn once you’ve busted your acls a couple of times
2 years ago
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midwestcoast
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Word on the street is these guys were just practicing/innovating falling techniques:

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/640974/Breck-Ballet-SkiingIf ya don't know whey at Breck, under Quicksilver, it's called "ballet hill" - now ya do...
2 years ago
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snomaster
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Most of us go into a hyper sensitive, slowed down time mode when crashing. Tuck and roll baby!
2 years ago
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PussyFinder
Posts: 277 - Karma: 802
So many different ways to fall. Best way to learn is trial and error
2 years ago
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brosasaki
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Keep your mouth closed, don't talk/shout while doing shit, you'll fuck up your teeth. ask me how I know
2 years ago
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Rock_Inhabitant
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maxu_27The more creative swear words you can yell before you hit the ground= the lower chance of injury

“By golly! Oh my!”
2 years ago
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jompcock
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protect ya neck
2 years ago
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KilaTsunami
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Always try to baseball slide it out if you think you're about to go down.
2 years ago
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STEEZUS_CHRI5T
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Never extend your arm/hand out for break a fall. Let your shoulder or side make the contact and then roll out of it.
2 years ago
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Steezy.Stephen
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Try and land with as much of yourself touching the ground at the same time. It distributes your weight and makes it hurt less.
2 years ago
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SmokedGouda
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dont smoke weed and have one beer instead of 7. Less of a chance that the can explodes on impact or the glass breaks.
2 years ago
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STEEZUS_CHRI5T
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SmokedGoudadont smoke weed


what about smoking gouda?
2 years ago
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SmokedGouda
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STEEZUS_CHRI5Twhat about smoking gouda?


Thats what I do instead. Abstinence brings eternal youth. Only exception is to prevent prostate cancer.
2 years ago
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bootspace
Posts: 438 - Karma: 3,709
turn every fall into a swerve
2 years ago
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