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billy
Feb 16, 2008, 6:20 AM
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See the video of this climber falling upside down at:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1091171/one_of_the_craziest_climbing_falls_you_will_ever_see/
Anyone else have crazy insane climbing falls on video.
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patto
Feb 16, 2008, 7:10 AM
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WTF!? That fall is neither big or particularly scary. It would also be normal for falls on kachoong. (BTW it is Mt Arapiles, Australia)
There are certainly some crazy fall videos about but this isn't one of them.
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jmvc
Feb 16, 2008, 10:13 AM
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RADICAL!!!
Now that's scary, not those videos about free-solo speed climbing.. 
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socalclimber
Feb 16, 2008, 11:07 AM
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Yawn. I've taken bigger falls getting out of bed to piss when to drunk.
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billy
Feb 16, 2008, 11:49 AM
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So where are all the crazy fall videos then.
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epoch
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Feb 16, 2008, 12:50 PM
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little late, but link for the lazy...
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m2j1s
Feb 16, 2008, 1:47 PM
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watch the movie first ascent, there are some really sweet falls in there.
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microbarn
Feb 16, 2008, 1:49 PM
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billy wrote: So where are all the crazy fall videos then.
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j_ung
Feb 16, 2008, 2:02 PM
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Good catch. That fall could have been a lot worse.
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coastal_climber
Feb 16, 2008, 3:08 PM
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E11
>Cam
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epoch
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Feb 16, 2008, 3:22 PM
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Very interesting concept.
I like it.
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mturner
Feb 16, 2008, 4:14 PM
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epoch wrote: Very interesting concept. I like it.
That's pretty cool. I wonder though, seems like it should have it's own category, like net protected solo or something. It's quite different than doing a regular solo.
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epoch
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Feb 16, 2008, 4:17 PM
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mturner wrote: epoch wrote: Very interesting concept. I like it. That's pretty cool. I wonder though, seems like it should have it's own category, like net protected solo or something. It's quite different than doing a regular solo.
Considering that there is some sort of protection to keep you from decking, I would lump this into highball bouldering.
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mturner
Feb 16, 2008, 4:23 PM
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epoch wrote: mturner wrote: epoch wrote: Very interesting concept. I like it. That's pretty cool. I wonder though, seems like it should have it's own category, like net protected solo or something. It's quite different than doing a regular solo. Considering that there is some sort of protection to keep you from decking, I would lump this into highball bouldering.
Brings up the question though, what makes a problem/route a solo vs. a highball boulder. I'd say it has more to do with historical view of the problem/route than the protection factor. In other words, is it viewed as a highball or is it bolted.
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mturner
Feb 18, 2008, 4:53 PM
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haha, that guy was asking for it.
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randyb
Mar 13, 2009, 4:25 PM
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I just got done watching first ascent. Pretty great shots and I was impressed that there was a story line in it. What a great movie. The runout that Dean Potter had on The Tombstone above the crux was sick. He nailed the hardest part but had to run it out to a 125 foot whipper risk to finish it...just sick.
Not that I feel guilty about being a sport climber but that movie made me appreciate hard Trad route climbers even more. Hats off you crazy people!!! I wonder if my balls will ever get that big....
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sungam
Mar 13, 2009, 10:37 PM
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Yesh. This is the one I was going to post.
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majid_sabet
Mar 13, 2009, 10:51 PM
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very nice setup
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randyb
Mar 14, 2009, 2:24 AM
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Angry... I need some trad training here in the front range... you in?
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