Just Had A Brush With Death

a reply to: IAMTAT

Do enough athletics, and some things become automatic just like you also learn that the body can really only move efficiently in so many ways, so some movements and stances get repeated and used over and over across different disciplines with minor adjustments.

a reply to: IAMTAT

I have done that twice. Both times my autonomous bodily systems kicked in to alter how I fell. Both times I should have been injured severely but didn't.

The second time I studied the fall as I lay on the ground marveling at my autonomous systems ability to work in fractions of a second.

The reason you did not hit your head was simply because you had trained your body.

Judo, as a sport, should be taught in primary school as a subject. It would make a huge dent in a countries medical budget which is probably why it has never been implemented.

Now figure out which parts of your side hurts and you will see the Judo breakfall for what it is. Great isn't it.

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a reply to: pheonix358

Well, don't remember doing it...but it looks like I may have.
If so...those classes as a kid may have saved my life.

a reply to: pheonix358

Yes, and what the body has once learned and made instinctive, it doesn't tend to forget even if you lose the physical ability to make it happen.

There are a lot of old skills I'm regaining as I get stronger and more physically adept.

It's like a riding a bicycle.

So if you learn how to fall to an instinctive level, it won't be forgotten even as you might lost the physical ability to make it happen.

a reply to: ketsuko

Glad I gave my kids years of the training now.

a reply to: IAMTAT

Yep!

All of my children have the abilities, I thought it such a great skill and what kid doesn't like to throw other down onto the mat!

If I knew how, and I don't speak Japanese, I would love to compare per 1000 people, how many of the elderly in Japan suffer hip breaks and such like compared to say Australia or the US. Would be an interesting comparison.

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originally posted by: ketsuko

I recently tried to kill myself and my family too. By the grace of God, I failed, but I honestly don't know how. It's a bit of a story, but this is your thread.

Reading your post I wondered whether you intentionally answered your ‘how’? If not, I’d highly encourage you to ask God if that was Him and to reveal Himself to you. Same goes for the OP, it’s great to hear the fall went well!

Not wanting to hijack the thread, but I too can look back on a couple situations in life where if it weren’t for a few seconds timing, things would have gone seriously bad. In hindsight I can now clearly see it was God’s hand of protection upon me and the few other lives involved.

I fell off of ladders and roofs at least ten times in my profession. Yeah, I got hurt pretty bad twice, and I also flew off scaffolding, that cost me about a hundred grand in lost profits till my back healed up. I had to hire an extra guy to do lots of what I could no longer do for about three years...but I kept working on the job doing some stuff everyday.

Glad you are okay.

Something to consider (or not) is that maybe we humans are surrounded by intelligence of various forms that exist beyond our normal senses. Maybe killing plants we deem "weeds" makes certain intelligence (or nature programs, or whatever) upset.

a reply to: IAMTAT

#1. Ladders need to be tied off.

Never work from a ladder, unless you follow #1.

#2. Tying the ladder off is sometimes the most dangerous part. lol

My FIL had both his ankles re-located to around his knees. He came down our 2 1/2 story roof on his back looking up at the sky.

Landed on his feet. Wasn't pretty to say the least.

He was cleaning the eavesdrough.

He didn't tie the ladder off either.

As they say, any fall you walk away from is a good one. haha

This sends chills down my spine.

I just remembered this...about 4 years ago I attended a really important meeting just before Christmas. One of the key guys who was instrumental to the meeting (and meeting organizer) didn't show up. No advance warning and no explanation. A bunch of people left standing around.

Come to find out he'd been hanging Christmas lights on his house the night before and took a 2 story fall from a ladder. No one was around when he fell. I guess he laid there for a while until a neighbor saw him and called 9-1-1. Long story short, he died at the hospital a few hours later. Tragic, yes, but it gets even worse.

His wife had died a little over a year before (cancer I believe). He was hanging Christmas lights on their house in hopes to bring a little happiness and normalcy back into his...7 year old daughter's...shattered life following the tragedy of his wife's, and her mom's, passing.

And it all that wasn't bad enough, there's even more. His daughter was attending some after school play rehearsal when the incident took place. He was hoping to surprise her...but then he just didn't show up to pick her up after the rehearsal. At first no one knew what had happened, but then school officials and authorities put two and two together and figured it out.

Absolutely nicest guy you could ever meet too! And I can't even begin to imagine the trauma to the little girl; she gets dropped off to go to a Christmas play rehearsal and comes home to no family at all...just days before Christmas. Imagine what goes through her mind when someone says "Merry Christmas!".



P.S. - I've taken a bad fall off a ladder once at work, and hurt my back pretty good, but my story is irrelevant in comparison.

Bottom line - OP got lucky! All the rest of you, be careful out there!

a reply to: IAMTAT

Do you know how much I paid that ladder to get the job done? POS.

Seriously though, glad you're ok. People die from ladder falls all the time.

a reply to: IAMTAT

I'm glad you're okay, the Three Idiots thing doesn't work with two of us.

Next time have DB come over and lay on the ground next to the ladder.

a reply to: IAMTAT
I hate working on ladders. I'm glad it wasn't worse for you.

Thanks for the posts, thoughts and stories, all.

Woke up with NOT the pain/soreness I was expecting.

GOOD to be alive.

a reply to: IAMTAT

Glad to hear it!

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: IAMTAT

Next time have DB come over and lay on the ground next to the ladder.

Just stand on his belly. When he lays down it's taller than any ladder.

a reply to: IAMTAT

I am glad you are okay and you should get checked out.
I slipped on ice in 1998 and a few years later started
having trouble with my back and shoulders.

originally posted by: IAMTAT

originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: IAMTAT

Glad you were lucky and not injured permanently !!!!!!

Consider 2 ladders with a plank walk in the future !! 😊

It was a crap ladder.
Treating myself to a new quality one.

Get a scissor lift.

originally posted by: FauxMulder
Just stand on his belly. When he lays down it's taller than any ladder.

Also: Gravity.

DB has his own and instead of plummeting to the ground as he fell TAT would have just smoothly gone into orbit around him.