The Art of the Fall
If you’ve been following me for a while, you already know that I am passionate about helping people learn how to fall. Safely. You know, without getting hurt. Falling in a way that you do not get hurt and can effortlessly pop back up to a standing position, with the only thing that gets injured is your ego.
I used to be terrified of falling. Even after 50 years of downhill skiing, I rarely, if ever, fell down. My youngest sister, who was a fantastic skier and on the Penn State ski team in college, used to push me to go faster, take more chances. She actually once asked me “Don’t you want to lose control sometimes?”
I looked at her in horror and replied, “Haven’t you met me?” Falling was simply not in my repetour, nor in my future. However, that all...
