Originally Posted by
wphamilton
...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.
Minor point, but it was me who told the story of the expert judo hiker.
We were descending a steep talus slope when he fell head-first, and I watched the whole thing. He landed like a cat, without injury.