Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
Cute, but riddle me this. When I fall from a dead stop because of losing balance at a stop light or forgetting to clip out, why do I not bruise, break or skin anything? I land on my gloved hands and decelerate the fall with the spring action of my elbows. The worst that has ever happened was the big chain ring digging into my right calf once and creating a string of cuts that looked like tiger claws. All the "trained" fallers here have reported their many bruises and scrapes where they hit the ground. Why is that?
Going down at 20 mph is very, very different. We aren't talking about that now.
I'm not a "trained" faller-overer, and I don't have springs in my elbows. I just refuse to fall until I'm actually on the ground, when, of course, I have no other honest option. Amounts to pretty much the same thing as "rolling with it" most of the time, and the only damage to me, my kit, or the bike is as much the abrasions caused by frustratedly scooting things around on the asphalt or concrete trying to get up as anything caused by the fall itself.