On a dismount the flyer's own landing decides the impact peak — measurably far more than how well the base catches. Landing soft is trainable.
This is the lever most squads look for in the wrong place. In measurements of pop-off dismounts, the flyer's landing ability determines the impact peak with high statistical significance, while the base's catching ability barely registers — between individual flyer-base pairs at similar drop heights, differences of more than twelve body weights showed up. Two things you can change in your very next session: land over the whole foot instead of stopping on the balls of your feet, and genuinely give way — a landing with less than 90 degrees of knee flexion counts as a risk marker for the ACL. Use the sound as feedback: the quieter, the softer. And the uncomfortable part: rested and fatigued flyers measured almost the same. This is not a question of freshness but of technique.