Originally Posted by
wphamilton
That's why you also practice on concrete
I'm talking about the example [MENTION=426452]Squeezebox[/MENTION] gave, of the hiker who was able to fall without injury because of all the hours he spent training in a dojo. Honestly, if you have to ask this you obviously have no experience with it, which is OK but the attitude that everyone is an idiot is not OK.
I've been backpacking and hiking for decades.
I suspect this has nothing to do with hiking since practicing on a flat padded floor for hours would never duplicate carrying a 35 pound back on slick roots on a down hill grade.