# What's the best way to fall?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-fall/393296 "2007-02-23T00:20:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-fall/393296/21 "2007-02-23T18:58:44Z")

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The trick is to aim at the ground and miss.

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-fall/393296/22 "2007-02-23T19:56:10Z")

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[QUOTE=pravnik]  
I’ll also second judo for learning how to fall.  
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It was jiu-jitsu for me. At some point during the hours upon hours of hurling ourselves at the mats, the instructor said, “You may never get in a fight, but I guarantee that at some point in your life you will fall down.”

Only time I really remember going down hard after that was playing volleyball. Backpedalling I tripped over my own feet and went down. Without even thinking I rolled over one shoulder and came back up on my feet. I didn’t even realize anything unusual had happened until a bunch of the folk I was playing with commented along the lines of “What the heck did you just do?”

Pretty pitiful that after all the hours of practice, the $ spent, the damage to my body, that’s probably the highlight of my MA career! 😛

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