As a beginner to climbing/bouldering I'm so thankful to my past self for skateboarding and learning how to fall. Tuck n roll is the way! Never extend arms/legs straight out because ouch that arm pop looked not fun...
Don't belay from an anchor unless you have too (if you are very small). The advantage of belaying with your body is that you can absorb the impact over a longer time and reduce the instantaneous forces on the climber and gear. It's called a dynamic belay and should be the default method used where the climber is higher up. I have never met anyone serious who thinks otherwise. If you let go because you are pulled up in the air then you are incompetent and should practise more under supervision. Also, spotters indoors just get in the way - the matting should be good enough to absorb impact, it is your responsibility to know how to fall - bend the knees, bend the arms, don't land on a hyperextended limb otherwise you are asking to be injured. If you see an experienced big guy going for it, don't spot him, he'd rather land on a soft mat than your bony knee.
Unless you are on a multi-pitch the fall factor is never gonna be above 1 (you can't fall under the ground)! Therefore it's not an extreme hard fall by definition so you might as well be anchored.
In the U.K. you used to able to donate to a mountain rescue pot in a shop or something and in exchange get a little log book. The log book was every incident they attended in the last twelve months. A great learning tool and a source of laughs in the pub. Bring it back.
As a certified guide, I just want to let you know this guy gets a lot wrong. His advice is sometimes dangerous and he lacks the experience to talk on many of the things that he does. Please do not blindly accept this random youtubers advice
Really? Please enlighten us, you have a video where either you or a friend is climbing an urban wall using a mat that is way to small and a hard concrete floor which seems pretty dangerous, also looks like there is no spotter
That last clip is like my nightmare as a tree guy. Of course I'd rather walk away from a job than have some lady in flip flops stand under my rig, but that's just me :))
Good video series. The fella belaying me (we just started leading) told me he sort of had the "everything will be fine attitude" while belaying. Which is somewhat more acceptable when climbing, so that you take calculated risks for a climb. But it's just not a state of mind for belaying.... I've talked to him and started sending him a bunch of these videos
Thank you very much for your anthology of climbing fails. One of the problems now a days is that people learn to climb in gyms and are unaware of the skills you need to survive when you are out in the hills. In the Eastern Alps the tradition is to belay from the anchor. In the Western Alps I was told when I was young that it was better to belay from your belay loop, because your body absorbs part of the impact. Never the less, they experimented all this in Chamonix at the ENSA Lab (The school that trains mountain guides) with a 80 Kg dummy falling down and the belayer either belaying from the belay loop or directly from a fixed anchor (rigged in a way in which it doesn't move or turn upside) and after the experiment and the measures taken on the impact and so on, the conclusion was that it was better and safer to belay from the anchor. I took a few falls last year on purpose in a place without danger, not even on bolts, but on cams and wires and everything went alright and the belayer thought it was more comfortable. By the way, when I started climbing we had no harnesses, we attached the rope to our waists and there were no ATCs we would belay the second with the rope coming over the shoulder or around the hips when belaying the leader. We would also wear motorcycle helmets and gloves to avoid burning our hands. That was the way to belay explained by Chouinard in his beautiful catalogue of his newly created company (The Great Pacific Iron Works) back in the early 70s. Here in France I've seen often bolts under the route so that a lighter climber could clip himself to the anchor and belay a heavier climber without being pulled up and hitting the rock in case of a fall.
Just for Info. To Belay from an Anchor can have some Advantages in Multipitch climbing, so the Belayer dont crashes against somthing. In other cases its better to do Bodybelay because the Leadclimber has a much softer fall.
wow i only watched a few climbing fail videos of you and i really love it. cant wait to watch all your stuff. i also want to add that the first climber is julia kruder belayed by her brother jernej kruder. even professionals make mistakes
Hey Josh! I recently found your channel and it's the best, funniest, climbing related channel I have seen in a while. Keep the vids coming! Love your work!
About the idea of anchoring the belayer so they don't fly into the air and possibly take their hands off the brake strand: I'm usually lighter than my partner and use and atc and have been slammed up into the rock so much. I never ever came close to letting go, no matter what happened, it's against my instincts. I feel like non-beginners are unlikely to let go. But it is still way nicer to be anchored in, for multiple reasons
If he fell that far, that fast, him not being anchored is what saved him from flipping around and smacking his head off the wall. The loose be layer kind of saved him somewhat. Maybe a panic/ device malfunction too.
@8:17 exactly why there is a specific method to feed slack to a leader using a grigri. Brake strand hand (right hand) just hooks the tab with your pointer finger and lightly presses the cam with your thumb. Grabbing the whole device is a huge nono. People don't read user manuals or take the extra few seconds to double check the people they climb with know the proper methods.
I also see the mistake of pressing the back of the grigri cam instead of the middle. Petzl warns that if the back is pressed it won't push your hand off but the middle portion is much impossible hold back in the event of a fall. Always use the middle
As a tree climber and a banjo picker excellent video I think that Limb had his saw pinched,he was going to take the engine off of the bar to eliminate the destruction of the chainsaw she was handing him the saw wrench the piece fell while she was on her way back down he never managed to take the engine off of the bar
I almost never see someone spotting in the bouldering gym i go. And in the situation of the girl, I also don't see what a spotter would be able to do. (she was clearly landing on the feet, but wrong angle...)
@@pascaljutras178 not true but but highly dependent on the boulder problem. There are definitly sketchy moves where you would tumble into a uncontrolled fall and a spotter is good safety. But most problems are fine without spotter and it is more important for the climber to be aware of risky falls. It is also great to practice spotting in gyms.
Hell yeah man I used to be an arborist also. I loved tree work. I actually started rock climbing because I got a better job and wasn't climbing trees anymore.
Ever since I provided first aid to a compound dislocation at a gym I cannot stand the sight (or even the thought) of dislocations anymore, it is seriously horrible.
I like your humor and your videos. I'm glad i've found your channel :) please keep up the good work! btw: The first clip is jernej kruder and his sister.. both pro climbers..
Wow good job on that BANJOOOOOOO & don't shout you'll bite your tongue off... & belayer could have climbed up a little to give more slack so climber could clip in because he didn't have enough slack to clip in. . . like 3 feet. that's what we had to do for my lead on Snake Dike. Cant watch I need a rated G version but I listen to the audio when its too bad haha. Yes to anchor. You can probably be an EMS worker.
@@BetaClimbers No way listen, he asks "is there more?" he ran out of rope I think hehe. It's good content. no need to change anything to G rating. . . I think I just have to watch with my eyes your other series or somehow not be an empath. This is necessary for the climbing community though!
You are currently my favourite climbing RUclipsr and love your sense of humour! Hope we can be friends 🙂 Arborist here btw, and can't stop facepalming while being horrified 🤦🏻♀️😱
In the first clip...isn't it better to put 2 fingers through the biner rather than on the dog bone? If you fall your hand could slide down the dog bone and get through the gate/stuck whereas if you just have some fingers through the biner they'd just release the biner...
Hey, I don't climb but what about attaching the belayer to an anchor via a strong bungie, that way if you fall you won't have a hard snap but a more progressive one while limiting the height a belayer goes up into the air.
Wondering what you think about belayers wearing helmets. Friends were climbing a multi pitch and the belayer was under an overhang on a ledge( so no chance of helmet needed for rock fall). Couldn't see the leader so probably delayed taking in. For some reason he thought my helmets there and had this( he doesn't know why) urge to wear it so did. The leader fell, I think on the 3rd pitch this was, belayer got smashed into the overhang cracking his helmet near in half but still conscious and able to arrest. He was dulux white telling the story on return that evening. Imagine if your leader dislodges a rock accidentally and knocks you out, makes for one determined leader.
Ground anchoring sounds safer but if the belayer is at the point where they arent comfortable doing a dynamic catch they shouldn't be lead belaying. Its one thing anchoring a really small person like a child if they are belaying someone far heavier, but its better teaching people how to react to those situations. Plus ground anchoring outdoors can lead to injury for the belayer if theres a rockfall and they cant move.
Be layer anchors are dependant on situations and rock. Multi pitch then there is no argument, you delay off an anchor. Single pitch trad on rock like gritstone, then relay anchors can be sensible. But on rock where the quality can be questionable, like here in the UK on trad limestone, then the belayer needs to be free to move to avoid potential stone fall
GriGri should be illegal for beginners :P But from a joke to all seriousness people who are learning to belay should stop using grigris... So many accidents because people assume the grigri is some sort of magical machine that will break all falls...
In the 70's and 80's when I was climbing the belayer was ALWAYS anchored. If you get pulled up 3 feet or 5 feet then the climber is going to fall that much farther and their chances of hitting some rock or the ground increases. What if the belayer gets pulled into the rock and gets knocked out? Not a good situation for the climber. So what if the lead climber takes a little harder fall when the belayer is anchored. Big deal. The farther you fall the more chances of injury. It's especially important when you have inexperienced belayers and or people smoking weed. Or when there are pretty girls to flirt with. It's very easy to be distracted and climbing is serious business. It's life and death. An unanchored belayer can be a question mark in a fall. An anchored belayer is an ANCHOR. You decide. Be safe. Climb on.
Yeah - I'm skeptical about this type of lead belaying where the belayer basically *leaps* into the air to give a 'soft catch'. Sure, sometimes the climber takes a heavy fall and you get pulled up, but you should still be bracing *against* it (sitting back in the harness) as far as I'm concerned. If you're deliberately flying up the wall, you really don't have much control of where you go once you leave the ground.
Belaying off anchor doesn't absorb a lot of the impact you'd want it to in a fall if you could. However if you are newer its a dangerous belaying spot then yeah. Hard is Easy has some stuff on this
Caustic on Cannibal Crag, caught a couple folks doing the same sprint for the anchor cause is a nice sustained mid11, problem is if working mid11 then pacing is not one of those yet developed skills and climbers rush for the summit.
I believe that if you want to belay from an anchor, you shouldn't do it with a grigri. Because you cannot soften the catch and that can be dangerous for the back of the climber, or ankle depending on the situation.
I can attest to this. I was belaying a man heavier than me a couple seasons ago. I was tied in because the base was a small cliff we had to walk up to. My climber was just about to clip in to the next bolt but slipped, fell a solid 3 meters. He messed up his foot pretty bad. I was thankful to be on an anchor, still flew up a couple feet, but it saved my hand from the first clip.
@@SlidewaysKev Yeah but there are different kinds of bodily harm. I can handle blood for days, but that arm was sooo gross. I left that comment a while ago and I'm getting flashbacks, lol.
10:55 It's a common mistake that looks correct but it isn't. When you traverse, or the anchor is not directly under you, the rope shouldn't be between your legs.
The saws doesn't just run: if it's a normal chainsaw you have a double acting trigger to make it run. He probably also activated the chain brake when he let it go (or at least that should be done). I think a bigass swinging branch is much more dangerous in this case (I'd say he should have cut the branch on smaller pieces and use propper rigging to lower them)
@@jakalestan5704 ok you must not use power tools for a living if you run the saw high rpm and let go the damn chain will still be moving for at least 5 seconds and the teeth will destroy flesh if it slides down even at idle you really need to know things before commenting or stop using electric chainsaws and putting a brake on is what is on your mind when falling "really"
@@sendit2873 I was saying that in this case the chain probably wasn't spinning. I would guess the chain was in the cut when the guy called the woman, she needed some time to climb the ladder etc. so by the time she got there the chain already stopped, right? Didn't see his hand on the trigger either. If the chain was spinning with half speed and hit her shoulder it would make a mess, no doubt about that. Also stopped chain can do damage, no doubt about that. But in comparrison wiht a huge branch in your head I think we both agree what is more dangerous...
You have to give props to the lady at the end she kept that screw driver in her mouth the whole way down that ladder!
BetaClimbers that last one was total chaos!!!! Electrical wires chainsaws ladders lol
@@cffmailbox should be in a "Final Destination" movie
😂😂😂😂
i use the edelrid ohm with my gf because she is quite a bit lighter
if you didn't get any props for the banjo, here are some. kickass dude!
As a beginner to climbing/bouldering I'm so thankful to my past self for skateboarding and learning how to fall. Tuck n roll is the way! Never extend arms/legs straight out because ouch that arm pop looked not fun...
Don't belay from an anchor unless you have too (if you are very small). The advantage of belaying with your body is that you can absorb the impact over a longer time and reduce the instantaneous forces on the climber and gear. It's called a dynamic belay and should be the default method used where the climber is higher up. I have never met anyone serious who thinks otherwise. If you let go because you are pulled up in the air then you are incompetent and should practise more under supervision.
Also, spotters indoors just get in the way - the matting should be good enough to absorb impact, it is your responsibility to know how to fall - bend the knees, bend the arms, don't land on a hyperextended limb otherwise you are asking to be injured. If you see an experienced big guy going for it, don't spot him, he'd rather land on a soft mat than your bony knee.
Unless you are on a multi-pitch the fall factor is never gonna be above 1 (you can't fall under the ground)! Therefore it's not an extreme hard fall by definition so you might as well be anchored.
Pool jump: cannonball
The “dislocation” looked more like a humerus spiral fracture.
I just keep laughing at "he had a couple of options....and he's taken the route of -desperate clip-...."
5:48 go check that out....
In the U.K. you used to able to donate to a mountain rescue pot in a shop or something and in exchange get a little log book.
The log book was every incident they attended in the last twelve months.
A great learning tool and a source of laughs in the pub. Bring it back.
These breakdowns are extremely helpful for beginners like me . Great idea , better to learn from others mistakes than your own .
Agreed
As a certified guide, I just want to let you know this guy gets a lot wrong. His advice is sometimes dangerous and he lacks the experience to talk on many of the things that he does. Please do not blindly accept this random youtubers advice
@@lukeaurand5722 please enlighten us. What did he get wrong? Not trying to be an ass, just trying to better myself. But you did call him out.
Really? Please enlighten us, you have a video where either you or a friend is climbing an urban wall using a mat that is way to small and a hard concrete floor which seems pretty dangerous, also looks like there is no spotter
God, that belayer grabbing the leading line is harrowing. His hands are probably RAW.
Combined with the grigri death grip, it's a bad time all around.
That last clip is like my nightmare as a tree guy. Of course I'd rather walk away from a job than have some lady in flip flops stand under my rig, but that's just me :))
Good video series. The fella belaying me (we just started leading) told me he sort of had the "everything will be fine attitude" while belaying. Which is somewhat more acceptable when climbing, so that you take calculated risks for a climb. But it's just not a state of mind for belaying.... I've talked to him and started sending him a bunch of these videos
I do treework and the only tima a ladder should be in treework is when you cut apple trees xD
I do tree work, only time we use a ladder is to get to the lower bough. Rule no.1 never cut a branch whilst a ladder is being stood on.
Thank you very much for your anthology of climbing fails. One of the problems now a days is that people learn to climb in gyms and are unaware of the skills you need to survive when you are out in the hills. In the Eastern Alps the tradition is to belay from the anchor. In the Western Alps I was told when I was young that it was better to belay from your belay loop, because your body absorbs part of the impact. Never the less, they experimented all this in Chamonix at the ENSA Lab (The school that trains mountain guides) with a 80 Kg dummy falling down and the belayer either belaying from the belay loop or directly from a fixed anchor (rigged in a way in which it doesn't move or turn upside) and after the experiment and the measures taken on the impact and so on, the conclusion was that it was better and safer to belay from the anchor. I took a few falls last year on purpose in a place without danger, not even on bolts, but on cams and wires and everything went alright and the belayer thought it was more comfortable. By the way, when I started climbing we had no harnesses, we attached the rope to our waists and there were no ATCs we would belay the second with the rope coming over the shoulder or around the hips when belaying the leader. We would also wear motorcycle helmets and gloves to avoid burning our hands. That was the way to belay explained by Chouinard in his beautiful catalogue of his newly created company (The Great Pacific Iron Works) back in the early 70s. Here in France I've seen often bolts under the route so that a lighter climber could clip himself to the anchor and belay a heavier climber without being pulled up and hitting the rock in case of a fall.
Just for Info. To Belay from an Anchor can have some Advantages in Multipitch climbing, so the Belayer dont crashes against somthing. In other cases its better to do Bodybelay because the Leadclimber has a much softer fall.
Insane footage of the tree fail. Wow.
You’re right; a ladder is almost always out of place on a tree job. But the SECOND ladder was a real surprise! That was sketchy!
wow i only watched a few climbing fail videos of you and i really love it. cant wait to watch all your stuff.
i also want to add that the first climber is julia kruder belayed by her brother jernej kruder. even professionals make mistakes
Hey Josh! I recently found your channel and it's the best, funniest, climbing related channel I have seen in a while. Keep the vids coming! Love your work!
Federico Ezequiel Mackin Right on man thanks I’ll keep it coming 🤙🏻
I like your analysis, you should do more of these.
The best part of this video is you storing your banjo in haul bag! Love it!!!!
Always practice down climbing - once you've made the top clip (any clip!) it's a top roped down climb so no fear!
Tbh I haven’t thought of it like that.
About the idea of anchoring the belayer so they don't fly into the air and possibly take their hands off the brake strand: I'm usually lighter than my partner and use and atc and have been slammed up into the rock so much. I never ever came close to letting go, no matter what happened, it's against my instincts. I feel like non-beginners are unlikely to let go. But it is still way nicer to be anchored in, for multiple reasons
If he fell that far, that fast, him not being anchored is what saved him from flipping around and smacking his head off the wall. The loose be layer kind of saved him somewhat. Maybe a panic/ device malfunction too.
Wouah ! I cannot more breathe ! …very interesting anyway .Thank you to share your …climbing wisdom …from France.
I use an ohm when I climb with heavy dudes
@8:17 exactly why there is a specific method to feed slack to a leader using a grigri. Brake strand hand (right hand) just hooks the tab with your pointer finger and lightly presses the cam with your thumb. Grabbing the whole device is a huge nono. People don't read user manuals or take the extra few seconds to double check the people they climb with know the proper methods.
I also see the mistake of pressing the back of the grigri cam instead of the middle. Petzl warns that if the back is pressed it won't push your hand off but the middle portion is much impossible hold back in the event of a fall. Always use the middle
As a tree climber and a banjo picker excellent video I think that Limb had his saw pinched,he was going to take the engine off of the bar to eliminate the destruction of the chainsaw she was handing him the saw wrench the piece fell while she was on her way back down he never managed to take the engine off of the bar
I almost never see someone spotting in the bouldering gym i go.
And in the situation of the girl, I also don't see what a spotter would be able to do. (she was clearly landing on the feet, but wrong angle...)
hes just being critical just to be critical
you are absolutely right, spotting is only for outside bouldering. Big rule, never get somebody under you when you climb a bouldering wall in gym !
@@pascaljutras178 not true but but highly dependent on the boulder problem. There are definitly sketchy moves where you would tumble into a uncontrolled fall and a spotter is good safety. But most problems are fine without spotter and it is more important for the climber to be aware of risky falls. It is also great to practice spotting in gyms.
Hell yeah man I used to be an arborist also. I loved tree work. I actually started rock climbing because I got a better job and wasn't climbing trees anymore.
3:27 It's torsion fracture of the humerus.
that was a rough one. oof
Yeah, when I saw that I immediately thought, “No, that is a fracture, not a dislocation.”
The banjo into the haul bag 😂
Ever since I provided first aid to a compound dislocation at a gym I cannot stand the sight (or even the thought) of dislocations anymore, it is seriously horrible.
Thank you for the knowledge on what not to do ever
Ricardo Becerril hey man thanks I appreciate it 👍🏻
Some of these can be hard to watch, but all of them are instructive! Great job
watched all ur fails, and this is by far the nastiest video man! really shows u the risks with the girl breaking her arms and the near faceplant
I wouldn't call that last one tree work. Just a wreck.
CANNONBAAAALL! LMFAO same with cycling.. tuck and roll.. stay above the wheels.
The fact that the guy didnt grab that brake line tells me he has never belayed anyone falling before. His hand should have been on the brake line.
For the climber at 12:00 I would recommend a ground anchor. He looks bouncy and they are on a ledge
I like your humor and your videos. I'm glad i've found your channel :)
please keep up the good work!
btw: The first clip is jernej kruder and his sister.. both pro climbers..
Got some trees to take down on a specific side of property
It’s been 3yrs, how’s the banjo playing coming along?
ever heard of the "stone mnt (nc) running belay" belay off tree or anchor in a leader fall the belayer jumps off the cliff to suck up the slack
MIKE TRAVIS I knew of the technique but I never new it had such a great name lol 😂
Good god damn I love this channel. Banjo intro... crazzzzyyyyyy
I think the term you’re looking for is cannonball
What are directly left of your Men Working sign. They look wooden?
Did I see you in "Deliverance"?
He was the Bert Reynolds dude.
Wow good job on that BANJOOOOOOO
& don't shout you'll bite your tongue off...
& belayer could have climbed up a little to give more slack so climber could clip in because he didn't have enough slack to clip in. . . like 3 feet. that's what we had to do for my lead on Snake Dike.
Cant watch I need a rated G version but I listen to the audio when its too bad haha.
Yes to anchor. You can probably be an EMS worker.
Joelle Perry lmao thats funny! I don’t think he was out of rope I think he was just pumped. Eh I’d give it a pg-13 no blood. 🤣
@@BetaClimbers No way listen, he asks "is there more?" he ran out of rope I think hehe. It's good content. no need to change anything to G rating. . . I think I just have to watch with my eyes your other series or somehow not be an empath. This is necessary for the climbing community though!
Favorite climbing channel
11:20. Looks like Point Pure in Queensland Australia.
The first clip is fucking hilarious
You are currently my favourite climbing RUclipsr and love your sense of humour! Hope we can be friends 🙂 Arborist here btw, and can't stop facepalming while being horrified 🤦🏻♀️😱
Lol 🎶 you got a friend in me! 🎶 🤙🏻
Well, that first one isn't "Crash & Burn" at Skytop
In the first clip...isn't it better to put 2 fingers through the biner rather than on the dog bone? If you fall your hand could slide down the dog bone and get through the gate/stuck whereas if you just have some fingers through the biner they'd just release the biner...
Is this guy for real :-) I enjoy listening his commentary, it's so out of somewhere lol
Hey, I don't climb but what about attaching the belayer to an anchor via a strong bungie, that way if you fall you won't have a hard snap but a more progressive one while limiting the height a belayer goes up into the air.
I like where your head is at but an experienced belayer knows how to give a soft catch.
Wondering what you think about belayers wearing helmets. Friends were climbing a multi pitch and the belayer was under an overhang on a ledge( so no chance of helmet needed for rock fall). Couldn't see the leader so probably delayed taking in. For some reason he thought my helmets there and had this( he doesn't know why) urge to wear it so did. The leader fell, I think on the 3rd pitch this was, belayer got smashed into the overhang cracking his helmet near in half but still conscious and able to arrest. He was dulux white telling the story on return that evening. Imagine if your leader dislodges a rock accidentally and knocks you out, makes for one determined leader.
This is an old video but max respect for banjo intro
Jumping into a pool is cannonball.
Dang Josh! We got more in common! Banjo and Mandolin!!! Woooooooooo!
Toots WheelCo. Hahaha dope!
Could you analyze some more situation where rope was cut by the rock?
Игорь Сомов I’ll try to find some 🤙🏻 might have to dig into forums and do a video like that.
Video at 6:40 is exactly why I have PAS. If I'm gonna fall anyway, I'm just gonna hook up.
Ground anchoring sounds safer but if the belayer is at the point where they arent comfortable doing a dynamic catch they shouldn't be lead belaying. Its one thing anchoring a really small person like a child if they are belaying someone far heavier, but its better teaching people how to react to those situations. Plus ground anchoring outdoors can lead to injury for the belayer if theres a rockfall and they cant move.
Christ that dislocation got me distracted for minutes blaah
Jesus that last one
Oh btw cannonball josh lol
Toots WheelCo. Lmao 😂 yeah that’s it!
That’s your next tshirt! “ just let go, you’ll be fine.”
Somehow i missed this one...
You can learn a lot from other people's mistakes...
Be layer anchors are dependant on situations and rock.
Multi pitch then there is no argument, you delay off an anchor.
Single pitch trad on rock like gritstone, then relay anchors can be sensible.
But on rock where the quality can be questionable, like here in the UK on trad limestone, then the belayer needs to be free to move to avoid potential stone fall
GriGri should be illegal for beginners :P But from a joke to all seriousness people who are learning to belay should stop using grigris... So many accidents because people assume the grigri is some sort of magical machine that will break all falls...
CANNON BALL!!
In the 70's and 80's when I was climbing the belayer was ALWAYS anchored. If you get pulled up 3 feet or 5 feet then the climber is going to fall that much farther and their chances of hitting some rock or the ground increases. What if the belayer gets pulled into the rock and gets knocked out? Not a good situation for the climber. So what if the lead climber takes a little harder fall when the belayer is anchored. Big deal. The farther you fall the more chances of injury. It's especially important when you have inexperienced belayers and or people smoking weed. Or when there are pretty girls to flirt with. It's very easy to be distracted and climbing is serious business. It's life and death. An unanchored belayer can be a question mark in a fall. An anchored belayer is an ANCHOR. You decide. Be safe. Climb on.
Yeah - I'm skeptical about this type of lead belaying where the belayer basically *leaps* into the air to give a 'soft catch'. Sure, sometimes the climber takes a heavy fall and you get pulled up, but you should still be bracing *against* it (sitting back in the harness) as far as I'm concerned. If you're deliberately flying up the wall, you really don't have much control of where you go once you leave the ground.
The audio swap was hilarious!
Massively useful videos
Belaying off anchor doesn't absorb a lot of the impact you'd want it to in a fall if you could. However if you are newer its a dangerous belaying spot then yeah. Hard is Easy has some stuff on this
Red rocks for the guy grabbing the clip? That spot looks familiar...
Caustic on Cannibal Crag, caught a couple folks doing the same sprint for the anchor cause is a nice sustained mid11, problem is if working mid11 then pacing is not one of those yet developed skills and climbers rush for the summit.
@@zacharylaschober i think i got kicked off this a couple times. Remember it being super pumpy, took some big falls too!
That woman almost lost her arm when that saw came down then tree fell on her. 😬
4:19 CANNON BALL!!!!
Nice solo 👌😁😅✌️
I'm a tree climber, and that was balls....
Love the info thanks brother
I believe that if you want to belay from an anchor, you shouldn't do it with a grigri. Because you cannot soften the catch and that can be dangerous for the back of the climber, or ankle depending on the situation.
I can attest to this. I was belaying a man heavier than me a couple seasons ago. I was tied in because the base was a small cliff we had to walk up to. My climber was just about to clip in to the next bolt but slipped, fell a solid 3 meters. He messed up his foot pretty bad. I was thankful to be on an anchor, still flew up a couple feet, but it saved my hand from the first clip.
The upside down close call no helmet, the belayer was way too far from the wall.
"Dive Bomb" Lol!
had me weak
Yes. This is exactly the kind of thing people need. However, a warning about the arm would have been nice.
He did warn you though at the beginning about bodily harm.
@@SlidewaysKev Yeah but there are different kinds of bodily harm. I can handle blood for days, but that arm was sooo gross. I left that comment a while ago and I'm getting flashbacks, lol.
@@missanna208802 it was pretty gnarly, prolly one of the most gnarly of the popular videos
I nearly stopped watching after the arm
Are all those climbers too cool for helmets?!?!
You’re funny dude !
I dont want to die
We are not allowed to spot at our bouldering gym
that intro lol
Climbing style is hillbilly lmao. Hey man just a video idea but could you do some crack climbing and techniques?
lol! Yeah great idea I will add it to the list!
10:55 It's a common mistake that looks correct but it isn't. When you traverse, or the anchor is not directly under you, the rope shouldn't be between your legs.
Yeah, but if he had been spotting her, instead of filming, we wouldn’t have this great video of her breaking her arm like a twig. 😬
the saw hit her in the shoulder if it was running that would have cut her arm off
The saws doesn't just run: if it's a normal chainsaw you have a double acting trigger to make it run. He probably also activated the chain brake when he let it go (or at least that should be done).
I think a bigass swinging branch is much more dangerous in this case (I'd say he should have cut the branch on smaller pieces and use propper rigging to lower them)
@@jakalestan5704 ok you must not use power tools for a living if you run the saw high rpm and let go the damn chain will still be moving for at least 5 seconds and the teeth will destroy flesh if it slides down even at idle you really need to know things before commenting or stop using electric chainsaws and putting a brake on is what is on your mind when falling "really"
@@sendit2873 I was saying that in this case the chain probably wasn't spinning. I would guess the chain was in the cut when the guy called the woman, she needed some time to climb the ladder etc. so by the time she got there the chain already stopped, right?
Didn't see his hand on the trigger either.
If the chain was spinning with half speed and hit her shoulder it would make a mess, no doubt about that. Also stopped chain can do damage, no doubt about that.
But in comparrison wiht a huge branch in your head I think we both agree what is more dangerous...
First one is Jerney and Julia Kruder. They're siblings, so probably not checking her out.
Well. Mr Jerney probably needed a nose job after that thing.
Holy crap what a knock.
On the first time they’re not wearing helmet’s
Geronimo!
Geranamo!
You win!
@@BetaClimbers stumbled upon your vids so catching up on them, been loving the authentic content bro keep it up
@@kylebronson8953 🤙🏻
Damn!
Spotting is not an option for bouldering in gym, you absolutely want nobody under you when you climb.