PCP ROCKS!!!

Crap, I forgot about that one.  And EMT-B was only a year ago.
Good for you guys I'm not an EMT, huh?

As others have said... too many variables to say for sure, but with proper technique, people
can pull off (land) some crazy shit.

When I was a kid (6-8 years old), I used to jump off the roof of my house.... it was at least 15-20 ft up
and land it with a body roll forward. I never got so much as a bruise. I was always good at landing
from falls or when jumping out of trees, etc.

FYI, I've never broken one bone in my body (I'm 35)... and I've been in some nasty car and motorcycle
wrecks, played contact sports, lots of fights when I was younger.... I think alot of it has to do with bone flexibility.

I knew a couple of girls growing up that broke something almost every year. It was crazy... and these
girls didn't play sports or anything. Just knida odd.

-ZA

IIRC - there have been people whose shoot did not open while sky diving and they walked away with bruises.

There was a vet in New York who made some stufy of cat injuries from falls. As the height increases, the injuries increase until some point, then the injuries go down for higher falls. They think it is because the cat relaxes more and spreads out more for higher fall.

People used to throw cats from planes, and there are actual laws agaisnt this. They survived the falls quite often.

It's not how far you fall, it's how you land.

People have died in industrial accidents with amazingly short falls (in general industry, OSHA says you need fall protection above four feet); and, people have lived with faulty parachutes.