Janet Rosen

There are dojos that historically don't do breaking highfalls (Ki Society lineage comes to mind) and techniques/projections tend to be such that they don't naturally lead to a need for a breaking highfall. At some dojos that do a lot of breaking highfalls, ukes are conditioned to specifically turn a certain way and intitiate such a fall even when there are other ways of staying connected and making another fall. Then there is the middle path that includes being able to take a nice highfall if thrown into it but nage mostly doing technique that don't require it.