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=============Hmmmm...I have landed supine when unseated - onto black top, from a small quarter horse of 14.2 (58 inch at the shoulder) : admitted I was wearing a riding helmet - and I have sympathized with a kid who landed prone, and sprained a wrist. There was an experimental fighter/bomber configured for flying prone - the Prone Meteor, but the spacemen who were taking appreciable G were seated supine, a not uncommon position in racing cars.
Good physics -- the leap is very high! Now check the slo-mo replay aroundThe audio from the common taters is misleading. It suggests he
33 s. The guy twists his body around to land face down. It reminded me of
videos showing a cat dropped upside down. The cats twists to land feet
first.
was trying to land feet first but was "not able to do that".
Understanding the physics starts from realizing that "feet first"
and "face first" are not the only possibilities. Among the many
possibilities, in reverse order of preference, are
back-of-head first << face first << feet first
As I see it, the point is that the geometry of the jump plus
the angular momentum of the ball would naturally lead to a
possible supine landing, which would be a very bad thing.
Landing prone is not nearly so bad, because it allows using
the arms to break the fall. Landing feet first would of
course be better, because it means falling not so far, and
allows using the legs to break the fall, but this was not
an available option in this case.