Helpful if you know you're going to fall. Lol
Or if you can do it reflexively. I don't need to know I'm going to get burnt to pull my hand back quickly. I'm sure you did something reflexively as you fell.
If you take a beginner judo class the first thing you practice is falling, hundreds of times. Then you begin to get thrown. When you are getting thrown so others can practice their throw, you also practice falling correctly. Good coaches will intervene just as quickly if you fall wrong as if you throw wrong.
I train BJJ not judo but we do takedowns each class. Go to class and fall 20 times before 7 am 3 days a week. You won't need to know in advance any more after a while.
It may seem silly but falling in the bathroom killed Bob Saget. How many old people fall and break a hip? How many of them die from complications and the mobility issues that a broken hip causes? Slip on ice and hit your head? Be Aaron Rogers and repeatedly break your collarbone? Falling competently is a seriously underrated skill.
If you take a beginner judo class the first thing you practice is falling, hundreds of times. Then you begin to get thrown. When you are getting thrown so others can practice their throw, you also practice falling correctly. Good coaches will intervene just as quickly if you fall wrong as if you throw wrong.
I train BJJ not judo but we do takedowns each class. Go to class and fall 20 times before 7 am 3 days a week. You won't need to know in advance any more after a while.
It may seem silly but falling in the bathroom killed Bob Saget. How many old people fall and break a hip? How many of them die from complications and the mobility issues that a broken hip causes? Slip on ice and hit your head? Be Aaron Rogers and repeatedly break your collarbone? Falling competently is a seriously underrated skill.
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