Originally Posted by
rachel120
I can't provide any source for any particular method. I just know that messing up a shoulder causes all sorts of problems, and it's probably not wise to deliberately make that the focal point for all your weight hitting. You mess up your shoulder, your entire life is put on hold for months and doesn't fully recover. Not it might not, it doesn't.
You continue to fall as you wish, I'll take all the advice I've ever learned in sports and let a limber shoulder in a tucked position take my weight over my 215# coming down on a compariatively delicate wrist. A shoulder may have the potential of being a worse injury, a wrist is far more likely to see a serious injury in any given fall.