How to fall off a Coker



All of this dialogue about planning your landing during a Coker UPD is
good I suppose when you have warning that you are going to go down. On
pavement I've done the knee gaurd/wrist gaurd slide and I can remember
one fall in particular when I had the time to aim for the grass. I was
able to make it with the left half of my body while the right half got
the sidewalk.
Alot of the time you can land on your feet and the run out works well.
There's also the attempted run out that turns into a dive/slide when
your feet just can't catch up.
Then there's the fall that gives no warning, etc., etc., etc....
(ouch!)

- Frank


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30 years of rock climbing has taught me this: a fall happens so fast
that there's no time to think. However, if you have already programmed
your bean to perform a certain maneuver, like rolling, you will probably
do just that. So while I can't provide the best technique for falling
onto the street at speed, I can promise you that unless you already have
a technique in mind, with the intention of trying to perform it, you
will almost certainly react instinctively -- and come what may.
Visualizing a fall and how you'd like to execute this or that move will
go far in actually doing same if and when you go down.

JL


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treepotato wrote:
> *think i need 'How to get on a Coker'
>
> :p *

Well, Miss Tree, unless you are a REALLY small little sapling with tiny
little branches (which you don't look like in your picture), as long as
you have a handy wall, pole, or friend within grabbing distance, getting
on a Coker really isn't a problem. Staying on, however, is not always
so easy ;) .

Jayne


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Jayne ZA wrote:
> *
> Well, Miss Tree, unless you are a REALLY small little sapling with
> tiny little branches (which you don't look like in your picture)*


In her picture, she looks like a tiny dancing stick person. That would
make it even harder to mount.


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