Unpopular opinion: the pratfall is underregulated. I've been working with our regional safety board to develop a voluntary certification framework for controlled falling in entertainment contexts. If you're serious about longevity in this industry, protect your knees. They don't grow back.

Six months into my first senior engineering role and my knees have never felt better. Secret? Eccentric loading protocols borrowed from trail running, applied to controlled descent. I wrote up the full protocol. This is the post I wish I'd had coming out of clown college.