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A PLF is a parachute landing fall, a special way to land after jumping from a plane and deploying your chute so you don't get hurt.
A PLF distributes the landing shock along five points of contact: balls of feet, side of calf, side of thigh, side of hip ("buttocks"), and side of back ("pull-up muscle"). During a PLF, the jumper tucks his chin and holds the risers in an arm-bar protecting his face and throat, with elbows tucked into his sides. The direction a jumper PLFs (left front, left side, left rear, right front, right side, right rear), depends on the direction of drift as well as the terrain, wind, and oscillation. Experienced paratroopers naturally assume a PLF position when accidentally falling too!
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