[bamboo]

I learned to fall originally from judo practice then spent countless hours practicing ukemi in aikido classes. Honestly, judo kept me from killing myself and aikido showed me how to better control my falls in order to use them to my advantage. I wish we did less of it though...

How many of you practice being thrown? Is it important for you.

-bamboo

[zefff]

Right now I kind of fall into the Wine and cheese bracket but as of tommorrow I will be back on a bare minimum of at least solo breakfalls every day.

In BJJ class I see a lot of white belts like me who do not think about falls as important practice. Infact a while back I saw one guy break his collarbone in free sparring because he refused to accept a hip throw that was already on and so had his little shoulder joint accelerated into the mat by the weight of the two heavy weights combined!

If a martial artist doesnt have interest in learning how to accept throws he might as well not bother with things like turning the lead toe in, tucking the chin into the shoulder or a rear hand guard. We should all accept we may be taken down just like you should accept you will be hit at some point. Denying it is like trying to cut the earth in half.

[Tease T Tickle]

I train breakfalls and such somewhere between an hour a week and an hour a month, depending on what we want to focus on at that time.

But regardless, NOTHING beats a glass of fine wine and a cheese platter. It's unfair for your poll to pit my greatest pleasures against each other.

:shakes fist:

[bamboo]

Cheese is quite nice, especially when atop a nice cracker with a glass of cranberry shiraz.

[samurai6string]

shiraz= teh shit. I hate dry wines. I love desert wines. ( I know, I know. We actually drink something other than moonshine up here. )

Seriously though, I take throws as part of warm-ups whenever I go to class/open gym these days, and we end up drilling some sort of throw or reap anyways, and then sparring later. It was much more easy when I was about 10 years younger.

[MadSalmon]

I think practising falls should be part of every complete martial art training. It is not only useful on the mat. It is in every day life. How many stupid injuries are made from simple slipping on a wet floor or on ice.
On combat situations, the risk is too high of falling to ignore it. I often witness "nobody is trained" drunk fights and often the worst injuries comes from when one of them hit the floor

I practise sometimes on my own to keep the techniques in mind but we do not practise often enough in classes

I havent trained in a while, but will return soon. We did falls every day, and I threw in some rolling for myself.

I have a bottle of wine........Im going to drink it now, if its old, that means its good right?

[setsu nin to]

Before almost every training as par of warming up. Its basic that you have to practice all life if you want to stay in shape.

[BLACK PANTA]

I try to practice throwing and getting thrown at least once a week. Is it still concidered proper technique using your head to break fall?

[bamboo]

Its easier to just ride the hips panta