Injured Athlete Directed Training: Game Day Protection

Athletes play injured. Sometimes they are coming off a benching injury and feel ready to get back in the game, other times they are just playing through the pain of a non-benching injury.

Re-injury is a major risk in these situations. Athletes know this, and when falling, will change position to protect the injury from direct ground impact. This means the athlete is now trying to keep two areas of the body safe from impact - the head, which instinct dictates must be protected, and the injured area. The usual result is that the injured area often takes some level of impact anyway or the athlete gets a protection injury. (see below.)

Game Fall's falling method, Dynamic Falling, is extremely versatile. You can start a fall on your left but land on your right; legs can be tucked; arms can be rotated to keep pressure off the shoulder or completely tucked, etc. With Injured Athlete Directed Training the athlete will have techniques needed to safely protect the injury no matter how the fall starts.

Directed Training is a private tutoring program for an injured athlete on how to fall without getting re-injured.

A Game Fall Trainer comes to your location, evaluates your injuries and determines the Dynamic Falling techniques needed to protect those specific injuries from ground impact.

The athlete then will be privately tutored on these specific falling skills, resulting in Game Day Protection.

Injured Athlete Directed Training is available to any athlete, whether they have taken Game Safe Falling training or not. Since the athlete learns only a few specific falling techniques for game protection, private tutoring for a few hours is all that is usually needed. The likelihood of being re-injured or getting a Protection Injury is now substantially lower.

Stop Protection Injuries

A Protection Injury is a new injury that happens when an athlete falls oddly hoping to protect an original injury. Because of Resistance Falling, when falling athletes try "to be careful" of an original injury, they just end up more vulnerable to ground impact. Athletes know this as they are constantly frustrated that they protected an original injury, but ended up with a new bruise, tear or break as part of the bargain.

To Game Fall, an athlete should not fall "carefully". The more an athlete tries to be "careful", the more their body locks up and squares off, and so the more hard angular impacts. Game Fall's approach is Dynamic Falling, a worry-free falling system that stops both ground impact re-injury and protection injuries.