This just ib from the BBC
Now there’s someone you paid attention in gym class. 
That’s nothing. My cousin fell out of his 8th floor window and only broke his arm. It was a straight shot down - there was nothing to break his fall except a small shrub on the ground. It made the AP when it happened. To this day my aunt is convinced her patron saint swooped down and saved him.
Re this gymnast guy: what do they mean, he somersaulted? How did he know when to turn out? He could have somersaulted onto his head!
That’s definitely a story to tell his grandchildren!
A good gymnast knows how not to land on their head. You somersault and then open your body out at a certain point, slowing your turn down. You have to judge it so that your velocity, height and angle towards the floor all balance so that your feet hit the floor. That this bloke did it while plummetting from a building is amazing. Pretty damn cool.
Oh Francesca, I know how a gymnast does it during a normal tumbling sequence. (I used to be one. A gymnast, I mean, not a sequence.) But during a normal move a gymnast knows, through practice, how far he is off the ground and how much time he’s got to turn out. Someone falling from a great distance wouldn’t, I would guess, know this, unless they do it regularly, like a platform diver. That’s why I’m wondering how he knew when to uncurl. By looking and seeing how much farther he had to fall? I wouldn’t think so but obviously something worked for him. Unless it was just sheer luck.
Ah yes, St. Clark of Kent
I, for one, will not make a GWB joke here 
Padre Pio, actually, but he probably had a little help from St. Clark.
Nah, it just means he made his DC 15 Tumble check and only took 2d6 points of damage.
George was but a twig at the time. Well, maybe a mature seedling. Well, at least a seedling.
9.87And from the French judge: 3.2
This brings up a silly question:
Did he fall from what would be considered the fifth floor in the U.S. and Canada (where “first floor” and “ground floor” are equivalent terms)?
I know I should be able to extrapolate this from the 33’ fall, but I have no idea about common Slovenian hotel room dimensions or any odd landscaping. (Quite apart from not being able to visualize “thirty-three feet” as easily as “four floors,” if I only knew to count the floors up from the ground or from the top of the ground floor.)
How do UK dopers read this, out of curiousity?
zoid, that was awesome! i’m writing it down and gonna try to use it in everyday conversation.
Generally speaking, aren’t there 10’ in a storey? So the third storey (what we here in the US would call the third floor) would go from 21’ to 30’, and 33’ would be the fourth floor – the height of his feet, rather than his head (which would be a few feet below the ceiling, at, roughly, 40’). That’s how I read it, anyway.
Glad to be of help
What I’d like to know, is how he fell out of the window in the first place? Did he lose his balance, have too much to drink, what?
From the article
what’s the somersault for? beyond bringing the legs earthwards that is.
Style.