In today's sit down drive around world. The human body doesn't get much of a chance to test its limits. But in some parts of the world, training the body and mind are still a daily endeavor. Grand Master Iron Kim of Oom Yung Doe Kung Fu is one of these people who claims to have jumped from a 12 story and 8 story to a sloped surface below without injury. Photos are at http://oomyungdoe.com martial arts
The Art of high falling is called kyung-kong-sul-bup or Mid-Air-Art-Technique. It requires focus, body conditioning and meditation. The meditation is necessary to shift your organs within your body in the way a leaf would feather downward instead of plummet like a pebble. This requires metronome like precision and timing.
When you actually hit the ground, you want all your organs as high in your rib cage as possible in order stretch out and lengthen the total impact time on your body. If you are 6 feet tall falling at 60mph (300,000 feet per hour or 5,000 feet per minute) - nowhere near terminal velocity, from the time your feet hit to the time your head hits, it will take 0.07 seconds. Lets just say a tenth of a second.
If you hit flat with your whole body at once, that same impact takes 0.006 seconds. You engineers can do the math. Remember F=mA. So that means that the Force of a flat hit is atleast TEN TIMES Greater than a gradual drop. Now. Roll off the impact onto a sloped surface. This rolling off can take about 3 seconds. So the total impact to the body from a 0.006 second SPLAT! vs a 3 second roll is about 50,000% greater. Ladies, Learn to Roll.
Beyond this I don't know much more about the technique so I'll let you decide.
As far as I can tell, Looks like the guys above could use some more swafting. Watching cats and monkeys falling like this Shaolin Monk may help. At any rate, now to learn the Famous Bruce Lee's 1 Inch Punch
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