Discussion:Survive a Long Fall

This article is going to be spotlighted. Great!!

This article is really well written!!

Brilliant... I might woe my life to this person sometime

very well written...who is the author?

Has anyone tried this?

this article will sooner or later save my life.

Some facts that can save your life...

this may be very good but if you were in that position, this artical is probably not going to be the first thing you think of....and has anyone ever tried this? you do realize that the chances of living are not very likely.you guys can go ahead and try this but i wouldnt b able to think that much in so little time with so much pressure...i would probably die.:'(

I'm a skydiver, I've worked at a dropzone for over 7 years, and I have 170+ jumps, so I'm a pretty credible source...

If your falling, and you don't have a parachute, the arch is great, but you want to extend your limbs to slow you down. Having an arch makes you more aerodynamic, and therefore faster. We arch while skydiving because it's stable and aerodynamic. However, we also have a parachute so we don't land on our bellies.

Other falls: in skydiving, when your gonna land hard, we do a PLF (parachute landing fall). It's basically a "tuck and roll." You don't wanna faceplant, so fall to the side a little. Protect your head. Roll.

Re-reading through it, bending at the knees means your not arching. So the article contradicts itself.

For general knowledge, If you fall from an airplane in flight, with no parachute, your going to die. I've been in the business for long enough, I've seen it. If your at a plane and you emergency exit or whatever in a commercial plane, you assume position, and kiss your butt goodbye. You can't survive a fall from over 500 feet. Skydivers jump up to 15000 feet without oxygen. Even with parachutes, it's easy to get hurt.

HELP ME I'M FALLING AND I DIDN'T READ THIS!!!!!

The "find yourself" auto-link is ridiculous, should be removed.

Added a little extra to the warnings, to summarise DON'T TRY IT...

Beautifully written. It doesn't seem very applicable though.

The article was good, but it could tell you ways or the positions of your body to affect the velocity, the duration of your deceleration, and the distribution of the impact forces upon your body.

The article was good, but it could tell you ways or the position of your body that help affect the velocity, the duration of your deceleration, and the distribution of the impact forces upon your body so you would have an idea how to fall.

wow.

why cant they build aircraft with new technology to save passenger's life? it is better than talking how to survive falling to land and die

Changed the warning that skydiving is "very dangerous". It's not, in fact its fairly safe but there is always a chance of serious injury or death

So.. if I read this correctly...this is what I should do huh? I am going to go ahead and memorize all 11 steps. 11 is not a typo by the way. And if I accidentally happen to jump off of a 10 stories building, within those less than 4 seconds while I fall down, I am going to remember these 11 steps, thanking the genius who wrote this article first of all, then try to follow the steps--beding my knees, arching my back, looking for a right spot such as marsh, a large tree, and/or a fast running water that is very likely to be found in the middle of an urban city and steering myself to that position, all the while making sure to relax like a chirping bird. Oh, did I mention the "try to roll" step, instead of splashing onto a cememt ground? Thanks a bunch MAAATE!

Very well-written article. I had to make a little change... apparently whoever edited before me swapped the instructions for forward and backward motion. Pulling your arms back at the shoulder and extending your legs will cause you to move forward, and extending your arms and bending your legs at the knee will cause you to move backwards. Any skydiving student could tell you that.

Seriously though, who's gonna remember any of this if they're falling out of an airplane without a parachute? Heck, it's hard enough to get skydiving students to remember their training when they're falling with two instructors there to remind them what to do. Instructors go over the arch position incessantly before a student ever puts on a parachute, and most students still flail around like a fish out of water.

If you're not used to freefall, all rational thought pretty much goes out the window. And even if you do remember what to do, the odds of surviving a fall at anything close to terminal velocity are crazy slim. But hey, if this article makes you feel better while you're screaming toward the ground at 120+ mph, then good enough.

For those who are complaining about remembering all the steps in application. All you need to do, is flatten yourself out. How is that not obvious?

Tip top stuff. I'll epxect more now.

Ab fab my godloy man.

...If you're falling from a 30-story building or an airplane, you probably don't have time to look up how to survive it on wikihow... just sayin'.

Great Article!

I think this is one of the best articles I have ever seen.

Also, all the comments agree! This is very well - written

and can actually save lives. Now, time for me to write some

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going to do that, no question! If anybody wants to but still

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Thanks alot! I am training to become Green Arrow! This will help me now!

That is just impossible. G-Force is too strong that you can't live! Watch Mythbusters!

This article is wrote like it's easy...as easy as doing a simple jump. Sort of helpful...