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Falling technique??
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[QUOTE="CPT Jack, post: 34064, member: 19007"] While having no motorcycle experience (seriously), I do have experience at hitting the ground hard. At the U.S. Army Airborne school, they teach you to spread the impact of landing (falling/crahing into the ground) across your body. First, it's a 5 point landing, where you twist and crumble to the ground. It's a bit difficult to explain, but here are the 5 contact points - 1. balls of your feet, 2. side of calf (between ankle & knee), 3. thigh, 4. hip/butt, and 5. side/lat/upperarm area. The most important thing is to keep your ankles & knees locked together. Seperately, it's much easier to break an ankle. Together, they can take much more impact. Next, bend your knees and twist to the side, try to get the top of your boots into the ground, otherwise you'll impact straight on your hip. Now you're collapsing into the ground and the impact is being spread across the fleshy parts of your lower body. At this point you kind of "roll" with the force/gravity across your side. I should also mention arm position so that you don't injure elbows, wrists, arms, or shoulders. Tuck your chin down and put your fists under you chin with your elbows locked in tight over your ribcage. That's it! You'll flip right over your shoulder/lat sometimes because gravity isn't through with you yet, but that's nothing. This takes a little practice and you should practice if you want to do it right. Start off just standing in your back yard and practice locking the body into position and collapsing. Then, when you're comfortable, paractice jumping off a chair and taking a fall. This may or may not apply, or be difficult to apply to racing, but I'd thought I'd throw it out there for your benefit. [/QUOTE]
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