Who are these people.
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Genuinely i am shocked by some of these video. Whipper at 2min on desert sandstone. wtf |
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If you are referring to the sandstone one at 2:07 that is my friend I am holding the rope. |
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paddyrock wrote:Genuinely i am shocked by some of these video.Dont be. That stuff is Wednesday at most local crags. Today I witnessed a guy belay a girl up a 70' tall route with the sideplate on his GriGri open. |
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Thanks for sharing. I think that there are a few clips here that are great teaching illustrations for new lead belayers regarding hard versus soft catches. That is valuable. I think there is even one that shows the belayer pulling back to make the catch even harder. |
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JDinCalgary wrote:Thanks for sharing. I think that there are a few clips here that are great teaching illustrations for new lead belayers regarding hard versus soft catches. That is valuable. I think there is even one that shows the belayer pulling back to make the catch even harder.I guess you have never tried to prevent someone from decking a ledge among many other circumstances where you might not want a "soft" catch. If you think you should always step into the fall and make it "soft" then you are mistaken or only climb 5.12 and above over hung sport routes. |
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my favorite one is the boulderer cratering @ 4:35! |
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""Anyone enlighten me on what the second rope is going in the very last whipper?"" |
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jleining wrote:my favorite one is the boulderer cratering @ 4:35!Yeah, that mat isn't doing squat for you at that height. Even if the guy hadn't moved it out of the way a few seconds earlier. Ouch. |
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I feel pretty bad for these folks... you guys really need to get some instruction both in spotting and in belaying. Much of this is unacceptable and would be grounds to never fuckin climb with any of you again. The only decent catch was the big one filmed with a camera stuck to the rock which was clearly planned out and fake as hell. |
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@3:20 is the reason all climbers, even sport climbers, ought to be wearing helmets. my 2cents |
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Seth Jones wrote: Who are you talking to? Some of the catches in the vid were fine considering the situation. Of course, some of them sucked but a soft catch is not always best.After I watched the video I felt the same way. Some really bad belays, some adequate, and some good. Some bad ones were really bad though. |
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Seth Jones wrote: Who are you talking to? Some of the catches in the vid were fine considering the situation. Of course, some of them sucked but a soft catch is not always best.HA i thought the poster was the videographer/friend of the climbers... ya a few were decent like the one that was planned... |
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at 5:15. No shoes must have felt great on that landing. |
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Benjamin Pontecorvo wrote:If you are referring to the sandstone one at 2:07 that is my friend I am holding the rope. The very next whipper on sandstone is actually not that surprising- the rock on that route gets super soft at the end. I have ripped gear on that pitch- what screwed that guy is it looked like the one good piece in the upper section back-clipped. Looks like someone made a compilation of R and I weekend wingers. I would agree with you that they use a lot of videos of people doing unsafe stupid shit for content. Anyone enlighten me on what the second rope is going in the very last whipper?Wow Benjamin. This is my biggest fear on sand stone. I have heard of this happening but never saw the actual results. Lucky that piece at the end held. \The ice climber at 3.53 who splashes into the water is my favorite. While watching i cringed while he placed both his tools beside each other on at least three occasions before they finally blew. GUMBY I always get the sense that when i watch these videos i am watching an event that really screws up this persons health for quite along time. Iv had pulled pulley tendons disrupt my climbing for months. Cant imagine the recovery process that some of these guys had to go through. |
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This is a frightening video! my palms started sweating |
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Looks good to me. I doubt any of my fall looked more graceful |