Originally Posted by
seypat
If you're going to practice crashing, you need to learn how to crash into a fire/flames.
In all seriousness, Wherever you have muscle, that's what needs to hit the ground first. Flex it and make an arm bar, shoulder bar quad/hip bar, etc to absorb as much of the impact as possible.
I'm skinny with bony "corners". Landing on a flat surface means landing on those corners. Best I can do is arrange to have the movable corners hit first but not have then rigid. (I can weight lift all I want and I'm still all corners.)