Will judo teach you how to fall without hurting yourself ?

Im jus wondering cus i might start a new martial art|||The idea in judo is to make the other dude fall not vice versa.|||that will be the first thing you learn when you do judo. They will teach you what they call %26quot;break fall%26quot;. Once you are able to fall without hurting yourself, you won%26#039;t be afraid of getting thrown. nothing fancy with break fall, it teaches you how to protect your important body part from injury when you fall. You may want to do a bit of research, just type in %26quot;break fall%26quot; in google. I just tried that and here is one of the link


http://www.wikihow.com/Break-Your-Fall|||Mostly it comes down to getting used to being thrown. You learn to move your body the correct way, and it gets tougher to the impact.





You will get shown to %26#039;breakfall%26#039; in judo. This is more of a distraction technique to get your mind of the fact you are going to hit the ground, when you are first starting.





Later on, say if you compete you won;t need them. For example wrestlers don%26#039;t use them in tournaments either.|||Most martial art school teaches you how to breakfall. For most judo school, they will take more time to teach breakfalls. You%26#039;ll be taught how to land safer when thrown.|||Not really... You%26#039;re body will probably brace itself naturally but you can%26#039;t really teach yourself to fall one way or another... that%26#039;s in the hands of the person throwing you.|||Yes of course, knowing how to fall without hurting yourself is definetely part of learning Judo.