The fall of the human body from a height is fundamentally based on the physical nature of the evaluation of the body's horizontal throw. It is a compound movement, consisting of movement in a horizontal direction and free fall. For an objective assessment of the factors affecting the course of the body's fall and the impact position, it is necessary to take into account the conditions under which the body contact was lost at the initial point. The fall of the body is determined at the moment the body loses contact with the mat. The trajectory of a falling person depends on several parameters, such as the height of the fall, the position of the body at the moment of loss of contact, it also depends on the fact whether the body is acted upon by an external force. The impact of a person depends on the impact speed, the mechanical conditions of the impact surface and the position of the body upon impact, i.e. which part of the body it hits. The paper presents the results of experimental research.