I was watching a documentary this morning on the tube where the main topic was teaching people how to fall properly - these were skateboarders and BMX competitors.
I found this interesting because being taught how to fall and when to stop the fight against a fall was a very important part of the amateur wrestling clubs I'm still involved with. In amateur wrestling and especially at the senior high school level, there were sometime falls that resulted in an athlete being injured or concussed and usually that athlete was just a high school wrestler where the very short season did not allow for the amount of instruction that a club wrestler could attain.
Now learning how to fall and when to stop fighting the fall is a very difficult thing for many wrestlers to wrap their head (and bodies) around. The ones that did figure it out rarely got injured and the ones that really figured out often could take a deliberate fall and turn it into a very advantageous position for themselves against their competitor.
That all said, are kids/athletes taught how and when to fall in other amateur sports because falling is a pretty much a part of every sport. Is it taught in the amateur sports that your kids are involved in, have you been taught this in any sport you were involved in? Hockey, soccer, football, baseball, it doesn't matter because falls are a part of all of these sports and I'm curious as to how commonplace it is for this skill set to be taught.