Personal finance, both the investing end as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, and, more importantly, the (not) spending end. Cooking. Most stuff on the CfAR curriculum. How to fall safely, its easy to learn and greatly reduces the danger of a fairly common type of injury.
The three things I remember from a long-ago judo class that have served me in good stead are (1) If falling forward, roll—that is, constrict all the muscles of my torso and neck so my head is driven towards my knees and I end up on my back. (2) fall as flat as I can, spreading the impact out over the largest possible surface area. (3) keep my chin tucked up against my chest while falling so my head doesn’t bounce off whatever surface I strike.
Of course, these are the sorts of lessons that have to become reflexes to be worth anything. And reflexes are taught by practice.
Many martial arts, as well as several performance arts and sports have well developed break fall techniques that can easily be added to a standard gym class curriculum. Some locations have tried doing so and so a large reduction in fall based injuries. Unfortunately, I don’t have those articles on hand, but here is a related one discussing the effectiveness of such techniques. If you are interested in learning them yourself they are pretty much the first thing you will learn in a standard Judo class.
Personal finance, both the investing end as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, and, more importantly, the (not) spending end.
Cooking. Most stuff on the CfAR curriculum. How to fall safely, its easy to learn and greatly reduces the danger of a fairly common type of injury.
Could you be more specific about how that’s supposed to be taught?
The three things I remember from a long-ago judo class that have served me in good stead are
(1) If falling forward, roll—that is, constrict all the muscles of my torso and neck so my head is driven towards my knees and I end up on my back.
(2) fall as flat as I can, spreading the impact out over the largest possible surface area.
(3) keep my chin tucked up against my chest while falling so my head doesn’t bounce off whatever surface I strike.
Of course, these are the sorts of lessons that have to become reflexes to be worth anything. And reflexes are taught by practice.
Many martial arts, as well as several performance arts and sports have well developed break fall techniques that can easily be added to a standard gym class curriculum. Some locations have tried doing so and so a large reduction in fall based injuries. Unfortunately, I don’t have those articles on hand, but here is a related one discussing the effectiveness of such techniques. If you are interested in learning them yourself they are pretty much the first thing you will learn in a standard Judo class.