Originally Posted by
njkayaker
If it was such a huge, obvious value, it's
odd that racers don't do anything about it.
That might be a good idea. It's a much better idea than asking people here since many of the people here claim that they
never fall.
It's an interesting question. It leads to another question, if it's useful,
why racers don't do anything about it, since they seem to fall fairly regularly (opposed to the all the people here who think that helmets have no point because people basically
never fall).
They should, but it's not odd if many, perhaps the majority, do not allocate training time and money to better crashing skills, beyond bike handling to avoid them. It's a matter of priorities - and you can't be fixated on crashing in a bike race. Nor are martial arts and biking commonly associated. So it's not particularly surprising to me.
It would be more surprising if it turned out that black belts in Judo and other martial arts spend years in practicing how to fall, if it really didn't matter. Or that it really has no obvious benefit when it's the most basic element taught in stunt training. Because bike racers don't worry about it? The most likely theories are that bike racers simply don't know any better, or they do realize it but for some reason aren't concerned enough about the potential of injury to take those measures.