Breakfalls work!

Breakfalls do work, especially when you least expect them.

We were leaving a cruise terminal in Miami and the drive way has these sparsely spaced, shin high, very narrow, concrete barricades… I had my backpack on, I handed a suitcase to the driver, then and turned around to take a step. All the sudden, I was falling face first and saw the ground coming up at my face fast. I tucked my head, bent my right arm, tucked my right shoulder, then my legs went over my head as I did a front roll over my right side. I stopped on my right side with my backpack still on.

Concrete is not fun to fall on,  but the only “injuries” were two good (or bad?) scrapes on my knee/shin from the barricade – no fault of the breakfall – and a little scrape on my right forearm from the concrete – because it’s concrete and not a mat in the gym.

I guess it was not bad for an old man LOL…