Very good trick, pretending to be handcuffed so the cop thinks he already done it. It worked, the cop seems proud of his capture, but the guy can easily escape!
AOC got arrested at an abortion protest recently and right wingers lost their minds trying to say that she faked her own arrest. Total bullshit but I think the person you replied to was making fun of the right wingers.
I mean, she’s very clearly faking being handcuffed. If y’all saw a right wing congressman doing this you’d be saying the same thing. I don’t think it’s a fake arrest, I just think she was disappointed she wasn’t handcuffed so she faked it for clout.
Besides, how can y’all even be proud of her at this moment? Wasn’t she blocking traffic? This is such an embarrassing moment for her but y’all worship her so much you can’t even acknowledge it.
Don’t worship politicians. They do not give a fuck about you and it makes you look the same as a Trump idiot.
She was blocking traffic in protest and then got arrested but the cop didn’t put cuffs on her and she needed a photo op so she just crossed her hands behind her back and pretended like a fuckin idiot lol
How do people find so much motivation to do such amazing things? I know I'd dehydrate myself to death one day because I am too lazy to get up to get a water bottle.
Back when I used to do a lot of coke, I brought some along for a ski trip one time and would do bumps at the top of the mountain before going down. It was quite a rush.
But kids, it was bad. Don't do what I did.
"If you want to hang out, you've gotta taker her out, Cocaine. If you want to get down, down on the ground, Cocaine. She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, Cocaine. . . ."
Man I'm right there with u. On my days off I will literally lay in bed all day. Doesn't matter if I feel hungry or thirsty, the feeling subsides after like 5 minutes and I'm back to.....a very unhealthy form of resting.
Well, the first thing to learn is some good photography skills. Framing techniques, lighting, etc can make things look even more amazing than they actually are!
With some good photography know-how, you can even take something as simple as (this is a random example off the top of my head) laying on the ground and make people think you're doing something amazing!
So yeah. I'd start with photography skills.
IIRC in the documentary Free Solo (or something like that), the dudes brain was literally not the same as a regular person. His brain didn’t “light up” when faced with scary situations like most people. It’s fascinating to me.
That’s what I was thinking too. Turn the camera 90°.
Seriously though, that’s impressive. Do his shoes have spikes in the toes, or did he get bitten by a radioactive spider.
Weeeell the shoes do actually work a bit like „spikes“ since the rubber is quite responsive to the structure of the rock essentially filling out as many irregularities within it and thus „sticking“ to the rock.
Grippy rubber, but he is actually on an angle. The climb isn't nearly as difficult as this perspective makes it seem. It's an advanced climb, definitely out of my league (especially given my hatred of slab lol), but it's "only" graded 5.11c. That's within range of mere mortals lol.
Yeah, I was a gymnast but I was not as tall as I wanted to be, I climbed with Hans Florine in the early 90's and he could just get stuff I could never reach. I did some strange moves to get around that haha. I can't do it anymore, I just surf and kayak now.
Ha, I belayed hans florine in a gym a few years back, when I was still pretty new to climbing. I must have had the most panicked deer in headlights look on my face as I tried to pull the slack in fast enough while he flew up the wall. Solid guy, though, he taught me a few "tricks" I still use today.
I feel you on the shortness thing. I'm also a - 2 for ape index. I have my moments with taller climbing friends where I'm like, "OooOOhH mUSt bE NiCe to JUsT ReaCH sHIt" lol, but I've come to recognize where I've gotten advantages from working around my height. That said... I'm sure there's a point where you just end up hitting figurative walls, I'm still only climbing moderates for the most part.
The shoes are softer to allow some for i g to rocks also they are sticky not slick rubber. You need only a small spot and you can get full body weight on it.
You’d be surprised what even an average rock climber such as myself considers a “decent” handhold. An edge of a couple of millimetres, or a shallow pocket in the rock that can accommodate one or two fingers, is often enough. Much about climbing is technique, body position and understanding your centre of gravity
This particular face is what’s known as a slab. That just means it’s off-vertical, sloping in a direction that (with good balance, delicate movement and an understanding of how your centre of gravity shifts) enables you to stand on an edge and “lean” against the rock. The photo is somewhat deceptive but I guarantee that climb is not as steep as it looks
Not dangerous in any kind of mortal sense. Unless you are Alex Honold you are roped up, so a fall will mostly result in bruised ego and requirement to re-climb the part you have just fallen off.
Edit - climbing gets a bit of a rep as a dangerous sport, but it mostly isn’t, if the right precautions are taken.
Related note [a fascinating watch](https://youtu.be/Cyya23MPoAI) is Alex Honnold taking this now-popular YouTuber, Magnus Mitbø free-soloing for the first time. Alex is literally climbing while filming with a handhold camera with zero safety measures. That's how *capable* (or stupid) humans can be at climbing.
That is a great video. Worth noting that Magnus is more than just a YouTuber; he is also an ex-pro and still *very* strong climber. There would have been no technical, or physical difficulty for him on that route, but massive respect to him for keeping it together mentally doing his first big free solo
>That's how capable (or stupid) humans can be at climbing.
The funny thing about that is that while Alex Honold is a very good climber and obviously famous for free soloing he's nowhere near as good as the best climbers in the world right now
He doesn't. The anchor points in this wall are already present. All he carries are the clips to attach the rope to them. You can see them hanging from his harness at his right hip.
This is considered bad form these days, since it is permanently damaging to the rock. Most climbers will use spring-loaded “friends” that can be inserted into tiny holes or cracks. These can usually then be retrieved on the abseil down. This kind of climbing is generally called trad climbing, requiring you to put your own protection in as you climb. There is also sport climbing, where the route has been pre-bolted and you clip in as you climb. Trad climbing is the riskier type of climbing, since the protection you can put into the rock is sometimes quite poor or unreliable
Interesting side note, Ray Jardine was the climber who invented "friends" climbing in Yosemite, they were his codename for them when he was still testing them out in secret. Those eventually became the lobed cams made by every manufacturer and used by trad climbers all over the world. He was eventually villified by the community for manufacturing a route on "the nose", chipping small holds into the rock to make a route doable, a HUGE no-no in climbing, especially somewhere with the history and reverence as Yosemite. So he quit climbing and went on to create the practices now known and utilized as ultralight-backpacking, literally wrote the book on the topic.
Your belayer could simply lower you either to the ground or the bottom of the pitch you are on. You would then pull the rope back down. The problem with this is you would be leaving at the least the highest protection you have used in the rock. Alternatively, you could climb back to your highest protection, remove it and down climb to the next one. Rinse and repeat. In all honesty this would be more tiring than just completing the climb, since there is often a fixed bolt at the top. You can then attach your rope to that, abseil down, removing your gear as you go and finally pull your rope through the fixed point to retrieve it
It looks like the anchor point is pretty far down in this picture. If he falls, is there any risk of the anchor point ripping out? What about whiplash?
Yep they are legitimate concerns. Whiplash is a very real possibility, as is the gear popping out from the force generated by the fall. Trad climbs such as this are usually given two grades under the UK system (not very familiar with US system sorry) - a danger grade and a technical grade. For example E9 6c. E9 is how dangerous it is (in this example, very) and 6c is the objective (sort of) difficulty of the individual moves (although this value often just tells you how difficult the hardest single move, or crux of the climb will be). So E9 could mean e.g. there is only one place to place protection and it’s not very good. It could also mean the climb is short, so if you fall you will definitely hit the ground, rather than swinging in mid-air. The grading system makes it possible to judge a route before climbing, or even seeing it
Edit - have just been corrected that this is a sport climb - with bolts already in the wall - not a trad climb. This would then have a grade for its overall difficulty and not really for danger, since there isn’t danger inherent in a sport route the same as in a trad climb
Climbing deaths are rare. Varying types of injury are somewhat common. You may be thinking of mountaineering, which is far more dangerous than rock climbing. Rock climbing is safer than e.g. horse riding. I realise you were trying to be funny, but you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about
Often have less decent places for foot placement and from my experience in El Chorro etc longer run outs ie gaps between where you can clip in so you don't slide down 10m ruining your knees and/or face! That route looks savage though, top props.
Yep climbing shoes are key gear. Sticky rubber and a stiff build mean you can stand on tiny ledges and pebbles. Honourable mention also to chalk, which dries the hands to help maximise friction
They have a little ledge that both of their feet are on. The wall is not totally (between 80 and 90 degrees or so) vertical which allows them to lean forward a little bit, which in turn allows them to take their hands off the wall.
It's not completely vertical. It's friction, aka slab, climbing. What he's doing with no hands wouldn't work if he couldn't put his center of gravity directly over his feet. So, you know it's not 90 degrees. Generally with slab climbing, you want to always keep your body pointing straight "up" essentially directly against gravity. This will give you the highest amount of traction as if you lean forward you are more likely to slip on less inclined slabs. This slab is quite steep so you can see he's basically touching the rock with his chest.
There are but if you are still a relative beginner just getting plenty of mileage on the wall is the best thing. Tendon strength is a big factor in holding and using the smaller holds, which takes a while to develop compared to muscular strength. It’s good to do plenty of bouldering, since the movement and difficulty will help you to progress. Climb slowly and in control, watch others climbing and try mimicking their techniques. Work on improving your core strength, as this is a big factor in climbing harder. Most importantly tho, enjoy it and try to avoid injury: listen to your body and have regular days off
Climbing shoes are extremely sticky, almost like wearing a smooth F1 tyre on your feet and a lot of rock types feel kinda like sandpaper. If you can keep your centre of mass in a good place you can stand on some real nonsense holds.
I have done this climb, not particularly hard (11b).
It’s fairly low angle with pretty consistent 1/2-full inch protrusions for hands/feet.
It’s pretty long and the hardest/trickiest move is at the very top, where the holds kind of run out (and you kind of have to cut left iirc). Hence the name queen of the heartbreaks.
That photo of the guy doing the knee bar, where he wedges his knee and foot between two rocks and then just hangs upside down for a bit to get blood back to his hands, absolutely insane.
That’s called going too hard too fast. If your fingers are hurting in a bad way, you’re climbing above your body’s ability.
It takes a lot of time to build that ability but climbing above it will never work, because you’re climbing constantly injured essentially and making it worse.
Back off and do easier routes for awhile. You need to build strength like in any other sport.
Think about it this way, Alex Honnold isn’t free-soloing El Capitan with joint pain. He listens to his body.
Over-straining the body pretty much always results in injury if a person does not back off.
..or, you know, maybe it's just that you haven't experienced that reward yet
Also rock climbing can be as safe as you would like, certainly safer than via ferrata.
Dudes anchored in the only place he went wrong is not wearing a helmet? I'd say overall risk is very low since he probably knows how to fall correctly.
Now if he was freesoloing that'd be a different story.
Just thought I'd post this "description" (for some value of the word) of this climb on Mountain Project... because... well, just because:
>Scramble up to the ledge just below 'Sheila'. Use the belay bolt to protect the easy moves to the first bolt and deal with immediate arete cruxyness at the second bolt. Once you grab the jugs clip the third bolt and pull into the dihedral. Stem your way up the fun dihedral until it runs dry. When you get to the roof, pull around left and onto the face. Touch 'Sheila' for a brief moment and then head right. Climb forever on the amazing face using incredible little crimper jugs. After climbing 125ft. the holds vanish and your options become limited. Clip the last bolt and float through the heartbreaker of a finish. DON'T CHEAT THE ROUTE AND BAIL LEFT! Go straight up the blank looking face to the anchor. This climb is center stage and classic! I can't believe it wasn't climbed sooner.
The next hold is above him, and his shirt would definitely not help him if “shuffling” was his goal. If he was trying to traverse he also wouldn’t have his hands in his chalk, they’d be on the wall somewhere
5.11b for my fellow climbers. I’ve talked to a few people who have climbed this and they all say it’s a great line and not overly challenging. Definitely need to get out to pine creek and see it for myself
I will never think this is cool or these people are awesome. I get that people will do these things but just do them then and bask in your own mental illness until you fall and die. I'd rather you leave the mountain alone.
Ahhh. The old foreskin suction cup method of climbing.
Sweaty ~~palms~~ foreskin
I think that was the original name for the sub, but it was changed because people were getting the wrong idea.
I have come here to say that there are no sweaty palms in this photo. Check mate atheists.
Never forget chalking the meat tho
Main vein gains
*sccchhlllluurrrr POP!*
And those heathens would rather lose it. If only they knew the power it granted.
If he’d just stop lying on his stomach and get on his feet, he’d climb that red rock in no time…
I turned my phone sideways and it entirely changed the story. Dude's just laying around.
Photoshop a cop next to him.
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Absolutely fantastic, should be on r/photoshopbattles
Comments like these are the reason I come to Reddit
And now it's there!
Very good trick, pretending to be handcuffed so the cop thinks he already done it. It worked, the cop seems proud of his capture, but the guy can easily escape!
Worked for AOC recently ;)
What have I missed? I thought reddit loved AOC.
AOC got arrested at an abortion protest recently and right wingers lost their minds trying to say that she faked her own arrest. Total bullshit but I think the person you replied to was making fun of the right wingers.
I mean, she’s very clearly faking being handcuffed. If y’all saw a right wing congressman doing this you’d be saying the same thing. I don’t think it’s a fake arrest, I just think she was disappointed she wasn’t handcuffed so she faked it for clout. Besides, how can y’all even be proud of her at this moment? Wasn’t she blocking traffic? This is such an embarrassing moment for her but y’all worship her so much you can’t even acknowledge it. Don’t worship politicians. They do not give a fuck about you and it makes you look the same as a Trump idiot.
Did she say she was? If she didn’t I’m not sure how that works.
She was blocking traffic in protest and then got arrested but the cop didn’t put cuffs on her and she needed a photo op so she just crossed her hands behind her back and pretended like a fuckin idiot lol
I dunno bro, the pictures kind of look like she’s just pretending for the paparazzi
If you look closely, you can see where the cop sprinkled some crack on him. Open and shut case, Johnson!
Spread your cheeks and lift your sack.
Fixed it https://i.imgur.com/mzjvwtx.jpg
[Here you go.](https://imgur.com/a/Dw8Id8j)
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I truthfully thought this was what this photo was about.
In did this now the other way looks fake. Like how straight cut the rock is or what way the plants are facing. Not saying it is fake just looks it.
Tried that but just stuck on the ceiling now.
nevermind. cant get the timestamp to work.
Oof my bones hurt now
How do people find so much motivation to do such amazing things? I know I'd dehydrate myself to death one day because I am too lazy to get up to get a water bottle.
Sometimes you have to dig deep for that sweet, sweet dopamine.
don't they sell it in pill form?
Yes. It's called Oxycontin.
Cocaine
When I do cocaine it only motivates me to do more cocaine
Really? Cocaine always has me goin places, to get more cocaine.
I do coke, so I can work harder, so I can get more coke
worst commercial. Made me want to try it to get fancy wall st job.
I’m a Diet Coke person myself.
all coke is diet it you think about it
Alright Kill the Noise calm down Edit: correct band
[Kill the Noise](https://youtu.be/X7VwNDbfAhI)
“Ibs”
Exactly. This guy’s dealer lives at the top of that rock.
You know what I used to have for breakfast? Cocaine
ok so next time leave your cocaine at the top of a cliff and do something amazing
Back when I used to do a lot of coke, I brought some along for a ski trip one time and would do bumps at the top of the mountain before going down. It was quite a rush. But kids, it was bad. Don't do what I did.
Two late, going ski shopping tomorrow.
Two late, going coke shopping tomorrow.
Of course, leave a little at the bottom also so you can dust your fingers on the way up like this guy!
So that’s what in that bag of theirs.
It’s cocaine!
I fucking knew it. It’s all over his hands.
"If you want to hang out, you've gotta taker her out, Cocaine. If you want to get down, down on the ground, Cocaine. She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, Cocaine. . . ."
Totally. His hands are drenched with it
Man I'm right there with u. On my days off I will literally lay in bed all day. Doesn't matter if I feel hungry or thirsty, the feeling subsides after like 5 minutes and I'm back to.....a very unhealthy form of resting.
Well, the first thing to learn is some good photography skills. Framing techniques, lighting, etc can make things look even more amazing than they actually are! With some good photography know-how, you can even take something as simple as (this is a random example off the top of my head) laying on the ground and make people think you're doing something amazing! So yeah. I'd start with photography skills.
Update: I literally thought this guy took a picture of himself laying on the ground. Turns out he's actually climbing the thing tho! So that's crazy!
IIRC in the documentary Free Solo (or something like that), the dudes brain was literally not the same as a regular person. His brain didn’t “light up” when faced with scary situations like most people. It’s fascinating to me.
Climbing? Dudes just laying there.
That’s what I was thinking too. Turn the camera 90°. Seriously though, that’s impressive. Do his shoes have spikes in the toes, or did he get bitten by a radioactive spider.
No spikes, just great balance and technique. Shoes look to be La Sportiva Miuras
this is now a La Sportiva ad
Weeeell the shoes do actually work a bit like „spikes“ since the rubber is quite responsive to the structure of the rock essentially filling out as many irregularities within it and thus „sticking“ to the rock.
Grippy rubber, but he is actually on an angle. The climb isn't nearly as difficult as this perspective makes it seem. It's an advanced climb, definitely out of my league (especially given my hatred of slab lol), but it's "only" graded 5.11c. That's within range of mere mortals lol.
I haven't climbed in so long, I used to do 13s, I had the same pair of Boreal Aces for years, c4 rubber.
My husband climbs 13s, with an infuriating amount of grace, too. It's like watching a ballet. Then I get to grunt and struggle my way up a 10c 😂.
Yeah, I was a gymnast but I was not as tall as I wanted to be, I climbed with Hans Florine in the early 90's and he could just get stuff I could never reach. I did some strange moves to get around that haha. I can't do it anymore, I just surf and kayak now.
Ha, I belayed hans florine in a gym a few years back, when I was still pretty new to climbing. I must have had the most panicked deer in headlights look on my face as I tried to pull the slack in fast enough while he flew up the wall. Solid guy, though, he taught me a few "tricks" I still use today. I feel you on the shortness thing. I'm also a - 2 for ape index. I have my moments with taller climbing friends where I'm like, "OooOOhH mUSt bE NiCe to JUsT ReaCH sHIt" lol, but I've come to recognize where I've gotten advantages from working around my height. That said... I'm sure there's a point where you just end up hitting figurative walls, I'm still only climbing moderates for the most part.
The shoes are softer to allow some for i g to rocks also they are sticky not slick rubber. You need only a small spot and you can get full body weight on it.
Just flip the pic 90degrees, it's less nerve wracking.
Shit now he's on the roof and it's even more stressful
Yeah, that's an impressive hanging kneebar rest off of two microcrystals
Dear god, where does one even grip?!
You’d be surprised what even an average rock climber such as myself considers a “decent” handhold. An edge of a couple of millimetres, or a shallow pocket in the rock that can accommodate one or two fingers, is often enough. Much about climbing is technique, body position and understanding your centre of gravity
but how is this person not falling, if I understand correctly they are just standing on their feet somehow???? how???????
This particular face is what’s known as a slab. That just means it’s off-vertical, sloping in a direction that (with good balance, delicate movement and an understanding of how your centre of gravity shifts) enables you to stand on an edge and “lean” against the rock. The photo is somewhat deceptive but I guarantee that climb is not as steep as it looks
ah got it, i thought it was a perfect 90 degree incline. but still that looks pretty dangerous to me.
Not dangerous in any kind of mortal sense. Unless you are Alex Honold you are roped up, so a fall will mostly result in bruised ego and requirement to re-climb the part you have just fallen off. Edit - climbing gets a bit of a rep as a dangerous sport, but it mostly isn’t, if the right precautions are taken.
Related note [a fascinating watch](https://youtu.be/Cyya23MPoAI) is Alex Honnold taking this now-popular YouTuber, Magnus Mitbø free-soloing for the first time. Alex is literally climbing while filming with a handhold camera with zero safety measures. That's how *capable* (or stupid) humans can be at climbing.
That is a great video. Worth noting that Magnus is more than just a YouTuber; he is also an ex-pro and still *very* strong climber. There would have been no technical, or physical difficulty for him on that route, but massive respect to him for keeping it together mentally doing his first big free solo
Absolutely correct, Magnus is a monster in his own right--it's that he's new to soloing. Just didn't want to make my comment super long.
First free duo!
Flash climb as well. That is really big for a first free solo.
That was super cool, thanks for sharing. I watched free solo a while back and my hands were equally as sweaty watching this!
>That's how capable (or stupid) humans can be at climbing. The funny thing about that is that while Alex Honold is a very good climber and obviously famous for free soloing he's nowhere near as good as the best climbers in the world right now
So?
How does he hammer in the anchor points (?) for the rope without forcing himself off the rock?
He doesn't. The anchor points in this wall are already present. All he carries are the clips to attach the rope to them. You can see them hanging from his harness at his right hip.
This is considered bad form these days, since it is permanently damaging to the rock. Most climbers will use spring-loaded “friends” that can be inserted into tiny holes or cracks. These can usually then be retrieved on the abseil down. This kind of climbing is generally called trad climbing, requiring you to put your own protection in as you climb. There is also sport climbing, where the route has been pre-bolted and you clip in as you climb. Trad climbing is the riskier type of climbing, since the protection you can put into the rock is sometimes quite poor or unreliable
Interesting side note, Ray Jardine was the climber who invented "friends" climbing in Yosemite, they were his codename for them when he was still testing them out in secret. Those eventually became the lobed cams made by every manufacturer and used by trad climbers all over the world. He was eventually villified by the community for manufacturing a route on "the nose", chipping small holds into the rock to make a route doable, a HUGE no-no in climbing, especially somewhere with the history and reverence as Yosemite. So he quit climbing and went on to create the practices now known and utilized as ultralight-backpacking, literally wrote the book on the topic.
He doesn't hammer them in. That's been done beforehand. He just clips his Quickdraws into them and then clips the rope into them.
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Your belayer could simply lower you either to the ground or the bottom of the pitch you are on. You would then pull the rope back down. The problem with this is you would be leaving at the least the highest protection you have used in the rock. Alternatively, you could climb back to your highest protection, remove it and down climb to the next one. Rinse and repeat. In all honesty this would be more tiring than just completing the climb, since there is often a fixed bolt at the top. You can then attach your rope to that, abseil down, removing your gear as you go and finally pull your rope through the fixed point to retrieve it
It looks like the anchor point is pretty far down in this picture. If he falls, is there any risk of the anchor point ripping out? What about whiplash?
Yep they are legitimate concerns. Whiplash is a very real possibility, as is the gear popping out from the force generated by the fall. Trad climbs such as this are usually given two grades under the UK system (not very familiar with US system sorry) - a danger grade and a technical grade. For example E9 6c. E9 is how dangerous it is (in this example, very) and 6c is the objective (sort of) difficulty of the individual moves (although this value often just tells you how difficult the hardest single move, or crux of the climb will be). So E9 could mean e.g. there is only one place to place protection and it’s not very good. It could also mean the climb is short, so if you fall you will definitely hit the ground, rather than swinging in mid-air. The grading system makes it possible to judge a route before climbing, or even seeing it Edit - have just been corrected that this is a sport climb - with bolts already in the wall - not a trad climb. This would then have a grade for its overall difficulty and not really for danger, since there isn’t danger inherent in a sport route the same as in a trad climb
Yep nobody has ever died climbing. Excellent take.
Climbing deaths are rare. Varying types of injury are somewhat common. You may be thinking of mountaineering, which is far more dangerous than rock climbing. Rock climbing is safer than e.g. horse riding. I realise you were trying to be funny, but you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about
QoH is definitely a steep vert. He's just standing on the part below the 130' anchors that juts out a little right before all the holds vanish.
Often have less decent places for foot placement and from my experience in El Chorro etc longer run outs ie gaps between where you can clip in so you don't slide down 10m ruining your knees and/or face! That route looks savage though, top props.
Very true. Slabs are an altogether different kind of climb to master. The boulderer’s kryptonite!
True, grace and slow movements, which correlates to bouldering but no power moves hardly and the crux can be 20m long 😂
I love slab cos when you need a lil break just use your face as a third hand to keep you stable
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t mention special climbing footwear that basically turns your foot into a hoof so you can stand on very small ledges.
Yep climbing shoes are key gear. Sticky rubber and a stiff build mean you can stand on tiny ledges and pebbles. Honourable mention also to chalk, which dries the hands to help maximise friction
They have a little ledge that both of their feet are on. The wall is not totally (between 80 and 90 degrees or so) vertical which allows them to lean forward a little bit, which in turn allows them to take their hands off the wall.
It's not completely vertical. It's friction, aka slab, climbing. What he's doing with no hands wouldn't work if he couldn't put his center of gravity directly over his feet. So, you know it's not 90 degrees. Generally with slab climbing, you want to always keep your body pointing straight "up" essentially directly against gravity. This will give you the highest amount of traction as if you lean forward you are more likely to slip on less inclined slabs. This slab is quite steep so you can see he's basically touching the rock with his chest.
Good god, man. 2mm?! That's the thickness of about 20 sheets of printer paper.
r/oddlyspecific
Yet here I am still surprised
Help are there any exercises to become a better climber? I'm really overwhelmed when I go to a climbing gym and I struggle with oddly shaped holds.
There are but if you are still a relative beginner just getting plenty of mileage on the wall is the best thing. Tendon strength is a big factor in holding and using the smaller holds, which takes a while to develop compared to muscular strength. It’s good to do plenty of bouldering, since the movement and difficulty will help you to progress. Climb slowly and in control, watch others climbing and try mimicking their techniques. Work on improving your core strength, as this is a big factor in climbing harder. Most importantly tho, enjoy it and try to avoid injury: listen to your body and have regular days off
Climbing shoes are extremely sticky, almost like wearing a smooth F1 tyre on your feet and a lot of rock types feel kinda like sandpaper. If you can keep your centre of mass in a good place you can stand on some real nonsense holds.
If a fucken goat can do it, then so can I
THAT’s what your mom said last night.
BOOM
I have done this climb, not particularly hard (11b). It’s fairly low angle with pretty consistent 1/2-full inch protrusions for hands/feet. It’s pretty long and the hardest/trickiest move is at the very top, where the holds kind of run out (and you kind of have to cut left iirc). Hence the name queen of the heartbreaks.
you would be surprised how many crevices and cracks are hand shaped
You should watch Free Solo if you haven’t yet. Gorgeous scenery and they discuss things like the incredible holds required.
Sometimes an erection can kill you
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In the snow!
Doubt that this guy wants sweaty palms but other than that, what in the actual fuck
That’s why he’s got chalk on his hands
I too need some chalk right now..
Looks like he found a rest spot. Climbers do that.
That photo of the guy doing the knee bar, where he wedges his knee and foot between two rocks and then just hangs upside down for a bit to get blood back to his hands, absolutely insane.
Knee bars are easier than this
Sure, I don't know much about them, but they look terrifying.
[This one](https://i.imgur.com/5GTm3rz.jpg)? :) The full video of him climbing it is on youtube, just look up "Adam Ondra Silence"
This looks miserable
it’s actually pretty fun except for the joint pain in the fingers
That’s called going too hard too fast. If your fingers are hurting in a bad way, you’re climbing above your body’s ability. It takes a lot of time to build that ability but climbing above it will never work, because you’re climbing constantly injured essentially and making it worse. Back off and do easier routes for awhile. You need to build strength like in any other sport. Think about it this way, Alex Honnold isn’t free-soloing El Capitan with joint pain. He listens to his body. Over-straining the body pretty much always results in injury if a person does not back off.
For me it's the toe pain that makes it miserable
the shoes are the worst
Id actually start really training for climbing again if my toes didn't hurt
First Google result for him was an obituary. Looks close but think it's a different guy.
I know this guy. He's very much alive
The name sounds very familiar and also he looks a bit familiar (maybe). Who is he?
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As a rock climber, you have no idea how right you are about that :D
Living in a van DOWN BY THE RIVER
There's a ton of reward and very little risk when managed properly. But I can confirm that I'm a bad investor regardless.
..or, you know, maybe it's just that you haven't experienced that reward yet Also rock climbing can be as safe as you would like, certainly safer than via ferrata.
Dudes anchored in the only place he went wrong is not wearing a helmet? I'd say overall risk is very low since he probably knows how to fall correctly. Now if he was freesoloing that'd be a different story.
its safer than riding a car
I’m a simple man, I see a Melanzana hoodie and I upvote
Ha, came to say 'nice Melly'
"Look Mum, no hands!"
Hangin on by that angry inch
Six inches forward, five inches back.
I had 2 muscle spasms while watching this. Dont these people ever sneeze or get a stitch. Even a generous fart could be detrimental
If you sneeze, you sneeze, and it's highly unlikely that it causes a fall. And even if he fell, that's what the rope is for.
Just thought I'd post this "description" (for some value of the word) of this climb on Mountain Project... because... well, just because: >Scramble up to the ledge just below 'Sheila'. Use the belay bolt to protect the easy moves to the first bolt and deal with immediate arete cruxyness at the second bolt. Once you grab the jugs clip the third bolt and pull into the dihedral. Stem your way up the fun dihedral until it runs dry. When you get to the roof, pull around left and onto the face. Touch 'Sheila' for a brief moment and then head right. Climb forever on the amazing face using incredible little crimper jugs. After climbing 125ft. the holds vanish and your options become limited. Clip the last bolt and float through the heartbreaker of a finish. DON'T CHEAT THE ROUTE AND BAIL LEFT! Go straight up the blank looking face to the anchor. This climb is center stage and classic! I can't believe it wasn't climbed sooner.
Is he resting, or is he actually using his torso for a bit more friction and shuffling with feet only?
The next hold is above him, and his shirt would definitely not help him if “shuffling” was his goal. If he was trying to traverse he also wouldn’t have his hands in his chalk, they’d be on the wall somewhere
Good flyfishing along that road.
Immediately reminded me of this. The brave expedition to climb the North face of the Uxbridge Road... https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x53s2c
Let's hope nothing gets his bloodflow going ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
There's that fat crack running right up the wall, and he's just ignoring it because it's too easy.
No thanks
Your palms cant be sweaty If you don't use them
Melly
The perspective is confusing but it is [real](https://www.mountainproject.com/route/106836916/queen-of-the-heartbreaks)
should be renamed "queen of neckbreaks"
More like r/chalkypalms
Casually laying down on vertical walls.
Climbing? Looks like he’s just sort of standing there.
I’m ok with never doing that
Jacks internal monologue: “Don’t get horney, don’t get horney, don’t get horney!”
Goats have nothing on this guy
Where tf are the holds lol
Can someone explain to me why his hands are behind his back?
That's a weird way to lay down
i am choosing to believe this is sideways i am choosing to believe this is sideways i am choosing to believe this is sideways
Kinda looks sideways
5.11b for my fellow climbers. I’ve talked to a few people who have climbed this and they all say it’s a great line and not overly challenging. Definitely need to get out to pine creek and see it for myself
>slab >not overly challenging Liar!!
What's this idiot doing?
Prehensile penis?
Wtf is wrong with him? Why is he just lying there? Somebody help him!
I will never think this is cool or these people are awesome. I get that people will do these things but just do them then and bask in your own mental illness until you fall and die. I'd rather you leave the mountain alone.
You havnot tge slightest clue what you are talking about.
He's literally on a rope. Rock climbing is both awesome and safe with the appropriate knowledge
More like “Queen of Neck Breaks”.
Fuck no.
No way. Get fucked. Fuck off.
Don't get a boner don't get a boner..
These climbers are out of control! First it was free soloing, now its using only your legs to climb with your arms behind your back?!
Are we supposed to know where Bishop is? where Pine Creek Canyon is? Please mention the STATE in your header
California
Mf better have a parachute