First of all.
The best way to crash is to not crash at all.
This you can do best by learning step by step.
On trampolines, airbags and into powder.
Just like we show you in every tutorial.
You will still crash sometimes and then I suggest.
You should always try to land on your feet, even if just a little bit on one foot or so.
So you can take most of the impact then roll and slide.
In the rest of the tutorial, I will show you how they learn to fall in Martial Arts.
The only sport where people actually practice crashing.
Check it out.
Hi, this is Jens at Stomp It Tutorials.
Today I´m going to teach you how to crash.
That sounds ridiculous but seriously its a skill.
Some people can crash all day and they will be fine and some people will like trip over
or slide a little and break the collarbone.
So it's totally a skill.
So if you learn have to fall better it's going to save you probably weeks ands months of
recovery time.
Of really bad crashes that can cause some proper injuries.
I think I've been lucky not to hurt myself too much because I had a couple of years of
martial arts training and I think I will show you what I learned then.
In martial arts, it's quite simple the the theory they have behind falling well.
When you fall you roll then boom.
You keep your arm straight.
Then you smash it into the ground.
It hurts but it hurts way less than landing straight on your hip and arm.
So you like spread out the surface area of the body as much as possible then smash.
It makes you crash gently.
That is pretty much what you should do.
But oh boy I know I don't always do that.
But quite often, sometimes I do it at least.
What you should not do is crash on your side and land straight on your elbow.
Or even worse like this.
Because here we have a wrist, arm and shoulder breaker.
Here shoulder breaker.
Yea that's just crap.
You can just start off in the beginning.
Tip over like that and smash the arm really hard.
Once you've done it really small.
You can go BIG!
It didn't even hurt.
Once you've done it half big do it even bigger.
And with speed!
Aaaw that was great.
So that's the side crash.
Key steps land on your side smash the arm, maximum surface area.
Learn it both ways!
Since you never know where you are going to crash.
So that was the side crash.
Now we come to the shitty one.
The back crash.
Luckily we are not snowboarders who do this all the time.
We do it quite rarely on skis.
The back crash is pretty much the same.
Start rolling a little.
Then you smash it, arms on the side.
And smash those arms hard on the ground.
So the arms take up most of the impact.
What you definitely do not want to do is something like this or that.
Because it bends your shoulder a lot!
You can break your hands, elbows, shoulders.
You don't want to do that.
So try to keep the arms here when you crash on your back.
Just having your arms in front of your body is counter-intuitive but it's going to save
you a lot of pain.
So roll a little bit.
Oh Aow!
Even if you do it right.
Aow that was not very nice.
Anyways, yea they forced me in martial arts to do this hundreds of times.
So that's the back crash.
Avoid having the arms back there.
Try to keep the arms out here.
Poles out to the sides ideally.
But as I mentioned, no chance you are going to be like.
Flying through the air head first.
Aah Stomp It guy told me to keep my arms in front of me and smack them in the ground.
You are not going to remember that but maybe thanks to watching this you will avoid an
injury.
Because it's in there deep in your brain and maybe your body remembers it and brain too.
And then!
So you can crash on the side and the back now the face.
I crashed on the face one time on my bike.
All this training did nothing for me.
Check this out.
That was 10 years ago.
I went to the dentist and it didn't go so well.
They took my teeth away.
I get new ones soon but I am just saying.
That crash was awful.
Maybe you wanna see it.
Check it out here.
So I'm riding in on my bike.
Thinking oh what a great idea to ride on the front wheel down this stone ledge.
I did it 2 times before but not enough.
I took a bad turn and went diagonally across it.
Look at the teeth flying there.
Idiot, moron.
So what I am saying here is do not ride your bike on the front wheel down stone ledges.
But if you do and if you have the slightest chance of saving yourself as you fly towards
the face.
I recommend crashing something like this.
So when you land you have this little space here to like absorb the impact.
Yea I didn't have time to do it that time with the teeth.
So I don't like crashing on my face but anyway.
I don't like it man.
Alright, don't' be a chicken now.
That made you look like a real p-word.
Did that?
Yea.
Ok lets do it bigger.
I thought that was a decent landing.
Yea it was good.
The three falling techniques we had.
Side crash, straight arm.
The back crash roll back and the front one.
Oh yea I almost forgot.Fourth one the often double ejector in powder.
It often happens when you drop.
You land, the skis sink down and it just frontflips you.
You have about zero time to do anything about it.
More than tuck in and front roll.
It not that much to think about.
I bet you've done it in gymnastics.
But if you have time to think about it I would recommend the more martial arts kind of roll.
Where you roll crooked over the shoulder.
I think it's way nicer.
Cause you are less over the head.
But when landing that drop in deep powder, getting stuck it's going to be a straight
front roll.
Like this.
You can round it off with that same technique as the side falling.
This is the best one.
You're looking seductive.
So that's it for Stomp It Tutorials how to fall/crash.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
If you wanna save yourself from a couple of crashes go out there and practise in the snow.
You are going to look stupid doing it but it's so worth it.
Maybe it is going to save you a couple of weeks or months of rehabilitation time.
So take your crashes seriously and practise these 4 falling/crashing techniques.
Cheers and be safe out there.