The trick is to aim at the ground and miss.
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! 