Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20180622162042/@comment-25396609-20180929225943

There is ways you could use that Semblance to survive a major fall, but it would require a LOT of dumb luck. The most obvious would be abusing momentum transfer the way freerunners do.

To quote, "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end."

By converting downard momentum into forward momentum when you land in order to avoid having the entire force of the fall transfer into the ground (the shock of which is what proves fatal or harmful in a fall from significant height), you can reduce the impact on your body. This is why Freerunners land into a roll when jumping down to a lower elevation. If you were to have a large enough weapon to use as a platform and abused the Semblance to turn a straight vertical fall into one where you will be hitting the ground at an angle, you would be able to slide into the landing rather than simply hitting the ground and stopping. The slide gives you more time to slow down.

The problem is having enough clear space on the ground to execute the slide properly, correctly calculating the angle you need to hit the ground at in order to transfer from the fall into the slide, and not being dislodged from your position on top of the weapon when you reach the ground.

If any of those factors is missing, you're going to be a pancake.