While it's not a breakfall, I've had another case where the "acrobatic" ability I've gained from martial arts... the combination of flexibility, quickness on my feet, and overall lightness of movement... has come in handy. Several years ago, I was out jogging. I was on the left side of the road when a car was turning. He was going fairly fast and turned the corner too tight... tight enough he went up onto the curb. If I didn't get out of the way, he was going to at least sideswipe my legs and probably run over my foot. I wound up doing a handspring/cartwheel off of the rear of his car to get out of the way. He stopped, afraid he had hit me, but I waved to him to let him know I had been unharmed. The sound he thought was me being hit was when my hands hit the trunk to do the vault.
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