How to Fall Without Injury for Young Active to Seniors

How to Fall Without Injury for Young Active to Seniors
Bob and Brad with the assistance of Alex demonstrate ways to fall without creating injury.
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[@bethpat9]

Regarding rolling and the elderly-actually, I am 72 and fell last December and I did exactly that! I rolled and ended up on my feet. People watching said, "you fell very gracefully" lol 😁

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Good for you!

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Yeah, I don't see why they say an older person can't roll with the fall.

[@AlexanderGent]

I know it will be a bit more advanced but it might have been useful to show rolling. This is still something the elder can do, I have several students over 60 that are capable of not just forward and backward rolls but also dive rolls. Also it may be worth breaking it down to viewers in terms of progression. The backwards fall can be intimidating for beginners. Maybe showing rolling backwards and forwards just on the back already on the floor with a rounded shape might be useful as a prerequisite to an actual roll but also as an exercise by itself?

[@kimberly27285]

I learned something similar in self defence class. Slap arms out and tuck head. This technique helped me when I slipped on ice a few years ago. My feet flew out from under me and I fell backwards onto the sidewalk. Tucked my head and slapped my arms out. My back was still sore but I avoided slamming my head on the sidewalk. Def recommend this technique

[@macpduff2119]

Wonderful video. My husband suffered and died from 2 Traumatic Brain Injuries caused by devastating falls. So important to tuck the head and fall rounded while protecting the head.

[@n.southeasternohio5169]

macpduff so sorry to hear ,

[@cish6047]

So sorry to hear that. I’m sorry for your loss.

[@MsSingingpenguin]

❤️So sorry 🙏

[@macpduff2119]

@@n.southeasternohio5169 You are so kind. You represent Americans at our best ( compassionate and strong) :-)

[@n.southeasternohio5169]

macpduff thank you for your complement, so many people who work in the medical field I can honestly say they are so caring I know how you feel, l Lost my father from a fall last March . God bless!

[@fwcolb]

I was taught to fall in the Cub Scouts around age 8 or so. I fell in the road when I was about 75. My wife told me that I just folded up into ball and rolled. I may still be able to do it, but cannot explain how. It seems to have become automatic.Hope so. Better to learn these things when very young.

[@ckilus3812]

The name Aikido is composed of three Japanese words: ai, meaning harmony; ki, spirit or energy; and do, the path, system or way. Hence, Aikido is the way of the spirit of harmony. I learned aikido in my 20's. tq for the video.

[@TheCrisses]

And Aikido is relatively new. It's an offshoot of Judo.

[@lh3540]

thanks for this! trail running brought me here. I've only fallen twice on gravel and once on ice. I guess I'm instinctively doing ok, in that my first move is always to lower my center of gravity and just roll myself down first like a toddler would during a tantrum. My last dive really took out the skin on one kneecap though. I guess it was a win in that nothing was broken.

[@bron9674]

I'm 68 with two shoulder, one hip and two knee replacements. Way back (4 years ago), when I had only two artificial shoulders, I fell into a vegie garden...SLAP. Remembered my gymnastics at school. A couple of years later, I rolled, head tucked in the garden again. I am lucky I have good balance although sloppy feet! I am now trying to learn how to fall... all ways. Thank you.

[@mikegrigsby1922]

Overall, very good advice. I actually teach seniors how to fall safely -- students up to 90 years old! The chin tuck advice is KEY to survival. In my Fearless Falling class, we also practice the double arm slap move, just as shown, for front "flash-falls." For back falls, forget the slap, and focus on sitting down on one side of your butt. Tuck from both ends: your head to avoid whipping it back, AND your butt. If the core is tight and the butt is tucked, the body will naturally roll back.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Thanks for this.

[@effentjes]

My advice. Do not hold on to the leash of your dog when another dog is charging you... Twisting and falling as I did may result in a displaced tibial plateau fracture. I fell sideways on my knee, as demonstrated here, but with the knee taking all the weight, not my hip. I am 58 and was walking 5 miles a day for the last three years.

[@yvonnew416]

What really helps is to get up and down from lying down on the floor every day....that keeps the pattern nice and natural for your brain to have access to when needed. As well Feldenkreis training is great to get the elderly to do that safely and in progression. I happened to have a fall a few months after spinal fusion...quite terrifying but due to holding my glasses in my hands I naturally fell rather on knee/thigh/ shoulder with the head tucked in....luckily that saved me from too much compression on back and hands....so practicing falling while holding small towels or so can help to not use extended arm and wrist position.... and people please get down on the mat/floor every day....keeps you young and fit

[@Jiraiya-Sama482]

Good tip about keeping something in your hand to keep you from extending your arms I had a wrist break years ago and I just picked up skateboarding and I’m afraid of breaking my wrist again, I already had one of those falls but my ass absorbed most of it, wrist still to a large blow I decided I need to learn how to break my falls and break them well before continuing, the thought of bent metal (surgery) and broken bones in my wrist doesn’t sound to nice ahaha

[@ImranAhmed221]

Thanks. I trained in Jujitsu in my youth and I have also worked as an internist & Geriatrician. I find this video to be excellent & will share with family and friends.

[@janetarnold5464]

I grew up with two older brothers. We were fairly rowdy. One of the things we liked to do was pretend to be paratroopers. Do you remember the show Rip Cord? We would jump off of Dad's chicken house and land in his garden. Lol To keep from hurting ourselves, we learned to roll when we hit the ground. I am now 65 and this "training" has come in very handy. I have fallen a couple of times in the last few years. What happened is I went into that roll without even thinking about it. I never tried to catch myself, just rolled with it. It works!

[@shannonfogarty6204]

Very helpful and informative. I wish I'd learn this a few years ago. I'm prone to falling and I actually did reach out and braced myself on the counter so I wouldn't fall on my side or forward. The only thing I messed up was the left ankle

[@MsSingingpenguin]

I did the first one they showed - ended up with two torn rotator cuffs that required surgery! If I'd known some of this I'd likely have been ok

[@JohnDoe-on6ru]

This looks fun I hope I fall soon

[@suzanneadamson1306]

Love these guys. Always sending their vids to friends!

[@welcomematstevescott]

Hi Bob and Brad. I enjoy your videos. You provideed some good advice on falling in this video. My background is in judo and I have taken thousands of falls on the mat and taught thousands of people how to fall in over fifty years of experience. When teaching ukemi (breakfalls), some major rules are: 1-Protect the head. 2-Never extend or reach out with an arm. 3-Stay as round as possible to help dissipate the impact on one specific point or area of the body. 4-Repeat rule #1. The head must be protected. The only point in your video that I would have some minor disagreement with is the back fall where you advise tucking the foot and leg under the body when falling backward. This tends to rotate the hip in such a way that it will take a harder impact in the fall, especially with people who are novices at falling. It also tends to twist the lower back amd might cause injury from this. In addition to using breakfalls and teaching them for many years in judo, I have actually jad to ise them from time to time when slipping on ice, most recently avout a year ago. I got up embarrassed but not injured at at tne age of 66, that made me happy. Please take a look at my KZbin channel to see our content on judo. My wife is a PTA and enjoys your channel by the way.

[@blesschin9244]

im here after a kinda serious little injury from falling

[@coachingfinanceonline9451]

Good video, I learned these techniques as a teenager doing judo. The only issue is that if you fall forward and use your forearms to break your fall on concrete, it hurts, I know from experience. I got away with just bruises though.

[@giftedandblack494]

Much needed info . Thank you. We need to show this to our parents.

[@timmy9697]

Ty for this I broke my wrist cas I tried catching myself myself with my hands I broke my wrist hit my head scratched my shoulder scratched my arm it hurt 😢

[@Propfaqs]

Thank you! I know that was tough to demonstrate. Ouch!

[@aquamarine9568]

My problem is i hit the ground before I even realize I’m falling. How is it possible to be ready for an accident?

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Yeah, I broke my wrist last year trying on a pair of roller blade skates, I didn't know I was going to fall! Maybe if I practiced though my body would remember. I try to take less risks these days while still being active.

[@kathrynh685]

That would mean there’s something wrong, I forgot what it’s called and I’m sorry to be so unhelpful but you need to go to the doctor if you can.

[@parisbreakfast]

Yep, slipped on wet pavement..I was lucky to land on my knees 1st, not my head.

[@phurion.]

@@cockeyedoptimista its more of if you practice these moves a lot, you will get to a point where your body will naturally know how to react when you fall, itle improve the habit and your reflex will do the work

[@cockeyedoptimista]

@@phurion. That makes sense. Guess I should practice them! I try in my head but muscle memory would be the thing; thanks.

[@suewright1299]

Brilliant guys! So very many thanks

[@swilcoxpix]

Yes, do please do a video on rolling.

[@anactualalpaca7016]

My grandmother is very prone to falling. She's wacked her head on the floor a couple times real bad, these might be something I show her

[@marie-danielleoreilly3468]

Brad, you really impress me. It’s like Bruce Lee. Very interesting video, guys, but it’s not for me with my hémiplégie. I fell once on my head and I finished in the hospital with a trauma but nothing got broken.❤️❤️❤️

[@joannaw8607]

Good techniques and straightforward instructions

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

Just do a safety roll, and besides rolls, don’t slap the ground with your arms, but rather land on your palm with your arm outstretched first, and then bend your elbows and go onto your forearms. Fri/04/30/2021 at 23:37 EDT

[@macpduff2119]

You guys are so funny and so cute :-). PT restored my knees so that I could walk again without a cane. I was amazed at what PT accomplished

[@HealthyLifeStyle-ff6ks]

thank you for your demonstration, I definitely apply these techniques to protect myself. appreciate !!!!

[@draffter4055]

I learned to fall in jump school while training with the 101st airborne. I never got hurt.

[@zenMermaiden]

Invaluable information!

[@tomzeto]

What about when you are running forward full speed. It happens a lot in soccer when a defender pushes me down. I often roll out of it vs putting my forearms down for that “slap”

[@zookgaming4547]

Who came here after falling this morning? 😂😂😂😂

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

As a Senior, I have fallen . I’d worry about remembering this in the fast fall action . Seems like a rapid moving fall wouldn’t give you time to execute the safe actions. You advice is useful though.

[@nancyel281]

Thank you! This is invaluable!

[@gigics1612]

How to modify if have beyond terrible knees? Are there exercises to treat knee instability and prevent knee buckling?

[@ae31860]

I have SpinoCerebellar Ataxia and am trying to learn how to fall. This is great! Can you do another video on this please? Where can & should I go to practice?

[@gurugolf7438]

Make jokes if you want, but taking judo classes, I learned how to fall, including the slap, and never forgot it. 40 years latter I fell about 15' onto concrete and managed to turn on my side before hitting. I was bruised and sore, but I got up and walked and was not injured. People die from 15' falls and what is said. They landed wrong.

[@orpheushawkins5536]

Thanks for sharing

[@Mmm...yummymummy]

If u are tall wear cleats! Longer way.for giraffes to fall.On ice or wet snow u fall so fast u can not line yourself uo to take the most well coreagraphed fall. Falling off a roof or a ladder u have a moment tho.

[@RamonaInCA]

Very helpful, thanks.

[@dudley7540]

Practice these falls at your local emergency room. Bring your lawyer!

[@MsSingingpenguin]

😂😂🤣

[@kennylovesbjj]

For the backward breakfall, you don't want to put both your arms in 90 degrees relative to your body, they should be 45 degrees.

[@happyfriday607]

This is Very helpful.. TY

[@Jiraiya-Sama482]

It’s hard to break your fall if you get your feet swept out from under you because all your gravity goes down and basically into your tail bone it’s hard to shift your gravity in that instant to kind of roll and spread it out, and also like on a skate board where your center of balance is a straight line and not a circle it’s hard to keep your center of gravity to a point where you’re able to break your falls especially when you’re new and eat shit a lot ahaha my most feared fall is a backwards fall where my feet get swept out and I panic and throw my arm out which I had broken my wrist before in a similar fall years ago and I don’t want to break it again but it’s so hard to learn how to even remotely begin to prepare for that type of fall, I definitely have to get stretching my arm out “and locking” to stop and erase that as a flinch

[@Jiraiya-Sama482]

Also great video entertaining too subscribed

[@hellobralface884]

I'm watching this after injuring my elbow while learning how to ride a skateboard😁

[@Mk-7again]

Amazing! Thanks ❤️

[@Ughhhhhhhhhhihate]

The other day me and my dad were at the dump and I was standing on the side of the bed of his pickup truck throwing things into the garbage. I threw a ladder too hard and I fell backwards onto a bunch of random pieces of metal.

[@Katatawnic]

@8:05 That's how I broke my knee a bit over a year ago. Fell backwards, my leg was slightly behind, and as I came down, my knee twisted and fractured. My fall was almost identical to your example of how to fall correctly without injury.

[@maggiemay97]

With my arthritic knees that don’t bend too far there is no way I could do that back fall procedure. And if I did, I might not hurt my back but I’d never walk on my right knee again.

[@tomliuyt]

I dislocated my shoulder falling back in rollerblading in my mid-30's, I wish I saw this before

[@JJ-dc9sh]

Happened to me playing baseball when I was like 12 caused nothing but more shoulder problems in the future

[@lauried4439]

Awesome!! Is there a way to fall up stairs without injury? I just broke my wrist falling up concrete stairs.

[@jaxorsomething]

When your falling backwards you can let yourself fall then use the back top elbow for support, front fall you can try to fall sideways but not to much you get pressure on your arm. You can roll too even if it looks dramatic like sideways rolling it works for me. Idk about you but I am not the reason you have broken bones I ain't a doctor.

[@sallysassa]

That was great - thanks for risking your bones to share safe tumbling.

[@johnrice1943]

Watch at 1.5 speed. You're welcome.

[@iwbagiai]

i wanna see the demo for tall guys too

[@chanson-NA0L-]

nice Judo falling techniques -

[@chie4772]

i find falling forward being more scary than backwards fall. i m not sure if i am practicing right but i kind of feel pain on my elbows when i do it

[@ae31860]

I have spinocerebellar ataxia... So I have fallen and I will fall again... Much more frequently than a 40 year old should. Where can I go to practice these?

[@n.southeasternohio5169]

Just fell back after my mother's Lab jumped on me, hit on my coccyx ! During my ER visit another man came in , he felll down stairs taking his dog out, he was 88 and bit his lip, any pointers for us dog owners?

[@arikaGME]

Nurse Southeastern Ohio a lot is taking time to train the dog to have a very strong sit command for the dog. A dog can’t jump and sit simultaneously, so making the dog hold a sit during greeting is essential. Don’t pet the dog until it’s calm, only praise good behavior. Never let the dog lead on stairs or push out the door first, it’s just too huge of a risk of being hurt. I personally like a 6 foot leather leash, it gives more control and adjustment. I also have worn a heavy belt and anchored the handle of the leash through it. If the dog pulls or runs full speed I can let go of the lead with my hands and let the belt take the force rather than pull my upper body and risk a fall or shoulder dislocation. I lean back and brace for stability as the dog goes forward. The dog eventually stops pulling and you can continue. I made a game of it with the dog. If I spot a squirrel, children or something the dog got excited about I would ask the dog if she seen it too... if she looked at it calmly and continued to stay under control she got a treat. Always reward calm behavior.

[@n.southeasternohio5169]

Arika Bush thanks for the advice, my mom lab was running in back yard and I was on last step, and he decided to jump, he is trained to sit but he is a year old, this was kinda unexpected, he doesn't jump all the time, but we are working on him, thanks for advice!

[@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane]

I'm an X-Ray Technologist and I swear, dogs keep us in business! Lol! What Arika said is great advice, and I would add to that to teach your puppy/dog to get up and out of your way when you walk towards them. If they don't, step right on them (lightly) so they learn that you are not going to walk around them. THEY need to move out of YOUR way. If you don't teach them that, inevitably one day as you're walking around them, they will move, you two will get tangled up, and you will fall. Then you have to come see me! I can't tell you the number of people I've x-rayed for this very reason. I know it sounds kinda harsh, but it works. And everyone in the family must do it because my husband is bad about walking around our dog and he has almost fallen a few times and he had spinal fusion! Yikes! But our dog has learned that she has to get up with me, and well, maybe not with him. It drives me crazy when he walks around her as she's laying in the middle of the walkway! Arika, I had to teach my husband that he needs to go out the door first, too! :) Great advice!!!

[@n.southeasternohio5169]

Sweet Stuff thanks for your advice in sure you do see lot's of us in the ER, I'm going to try harder!

[@arikaGME]

Sweet Stuff my dog trainer used to tell us... the training is more for the people than the dog. 😉 Being constant is essential. It’s also huge to have everyone use the exact same words or hand signals for the behavior they intend the dog to do. My trainer and I used ‘down’ and my ex used ‘lay down’ to get the dog to lay on the floor. Than it got confusing for the dog, if she jumped I used ‘off’ and my ex used ‘get down’... so the poor dog was confused because his down meant two different behaviors and she didn’t understand what he meant. I also have a ‘go to bed’ command or ‘behind the gate’ so my dogs go to a specific place if I open the door, vacuum or need them off the floor. I had a specific blanket that I would travel with and that was considered the dogs ‘bed’. people could eat or walk around while the dog stayed quiet and out of the way. Building little behaviors like this make the dog feel secure and less likely to get wild around new people. I could take my dogs to outdoor restaurants and the waitstaff loved them, you wouldn’t know they were there.

[@pizzahead2919]

This would be good for pro wrestlers

[@Ok-gm7qx]

Ok brothers.

[@TotalTennisGeek]

So you wouldn't get a torsion fracture from the safe fall backward?

[@joycew9941]

no one practices to fall before the y fall do we ever have time to think

[@gurugolf7438]

yes

[@vincentlee7359]

Sorry what? I do Judo and Jujitsu. Break falls are something you have no choice but to do. At some point it becomes second nature. I actually fell slipping on ice one day and I did a break fall. There is no need to think. You just do it. Like most grappling/throwing martial arts practitioners don't have any cool stories about breaking their fall in some random bar fight. Most just have short stories of how they broke their fall from riding a bike, slipping or falling. I think the general public would greatly benefit from this.

[@jerrysanders9101]

Head injury is obviously far worse than breaking a wrist or rotator cuff. I mean a TBI or coma can be life altering or deadly.. I mean a hip fracture is bad but head injuries are the worst for anyone and should be most focused.

[@KrishnaKumariChalla]

I don't understand this. If you have time, you can do this. But very often old people don't even know or understand that they are falling. My mother used to fall just like that in zero seconds! Later she used to tell us that she didn't even know that she 's falling before falling to break it or make it safe!

[@samiam4200]

You guys are teaching Aikido breakfalls now huh? Might as well do some ukemi.

[@peggyharris3815]

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." Yeah?...that's how I ruptured a disc.

[@mrstevek118]

What about someone that had a stroke. They are more likely to fall and don’t have use of both arms, like myself

[@smilesmile7330]

Does it mean oww? 😂 I like these payback videos w Alex. Maybe u can have Jake demonstrate kickboxing on him 😜

[@lisakulp4639]

How can you practice this if you are afraid of falling?

[@cish6047]

Exactly! And in the midst of falling, who has time to think?

[@BobandBrad]

Start in a long seated position on a carpeted floor and slowly practice tucking chin in and slapping to sides and back.. Have a second person to assist

[@lisakulp4639]

@@BobandBradthat's comforting. I don't have to start with a full out fall. Even practicing tucking in the chin is useful to make it a reflex.

[@dkpreviuz]

I need a time machine to watch this video 😢

[@rubyjailbreak]

Me watching this before the big game that i know I'll never win without foul play

[@deborc2705]

I think I may have fallen almost correctly, except for the whiplash to my neck as I fell fast on the ice.

[@HakfooQuayde]

Basics of almost every martial art.

[@beast.carnot.9527]

can we really fall without any injury

[@arikaGME]

I tell myself fat bounces not breaks. I try to roll and hit fat areas first.

[@chriss2595]

Never slap, that's just wrong. Rolling is the key.

[@wm6549]

workers comp

[@ghostofachance8055]

Slapping aunts I’ll remember that. Not those kind of ants.

[@overallsolution]

Why the slap?

[@Jaimelaffoon]

If only you could plan all your falls😏

[@Katatawnic]

Wouldn't that be lovely?! 😂

[@xhalefn4516]

pov u just watched eyecandy

[@barbsnyder480]

☠️☠️☠️😀😀😀

[@tn_n.248]

Ooo

[@stewpidasso288]

Lord, I wish he would quit saying "expecially."

[@jerrysanders9101]

3 ads for this crap? Come on guys this is redic greedy forcing people to watch all those ads.. very off putting.. dam then minutes of self promotion.. wow..