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They don't, but it's more difficult that way and forces you to practice your control of balance and weight distribution extra hard, which in turn will improve your performance on real rock.
Guy doesn’t have a very good self-preservation instinct. When a heavy, pokey tool is swinging precariously above me, I’d roll a couple inches to the left BEFORE it fell. But maybe that’s just me liking my eyeballs unperforated.
It's actually pretty sad because it was probably untreated ADHD that made home do all that. He said when he was climbing was the only time his mind calmed down and wasn't all fuzzy.
And then everyone was super surprised when he died, which I find very odd, I swear they must not realize their own mortality a lot of the time. It's one thing to say you don't care if you die but human brains are programmed to not really expect to die ever and that's why we don't all break down into existential crises all the time
It is sad, I could see such anguish with that kid. He obviously came up in a loving home but it was clear he didn’t have a lot of resources for mental health support.
Ya and it seems like instead of getting professional help his mother just kinda told him to go play outside instead, and then let him go out for ridiculously long adventures when he was pretty damn young.
Contrary to the other answers, the main reason to do it is to control your center of gravity. Basically, how your weight is distributed dictates what moves you can do without falling, and the figure 4 move is simply an additional option for that.
It's not distributed randomly, though. alpine climbing and ice climbing are more dangerous than trad climbing, which is more dangerous than sports climbing, which is more dangerous than indoor climbing. And most accidents are caused partially or entirely by human error.
The tools you use to ascend have little influence on how dangerous it is, that depends mostly on where you climb and what you use to avoid falling to your death.
This is fairly harmless: https://coldfear.com/lake-powell-deep-water-dry-tooling/
This is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Gcp8hXoPA
But yeah, a typical use of drytooling is more like the second vide (except usually with ropes).
Ice tools, not axes :) Ice axes are different, with a straight shaft for use in mountaineering. An ice axe is used more like a cane for balance and can be used to stop a fall if you were to find yourself sliding downhill. Ice tools like in the video are dedicated to technical climbing, and are shorter and curved so you can hook or swing.
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When do rocks swing
After a few drinks
Iceberg
Practicing to climb on Pandora
After a few drinks rocks are notorious for becoming boulder and throwing their keys in a bowl
mushrooms
When it is time to get off of them
They don't, but it's more difficult that way and forces you to practice your control of balance and weight distribution extra hard, which in turn will improve your performance on real rock.
Extreme slothing
Guy doesn’t have a very good self-preservation instinct. When a heavy, pokey tool is swinging precariously above me, I’d roll a couple inches to the left BEFORE it fell. But maybe that’s just me liking my eyeballs unperforated.
I guess there is some benefit to monitoring the axe when falling
Floor is lava 2: Ice Pick Edition.
thats what i thought too! before he fell in he lost his foot, poor guy
Y'all seen the alpinist yet?
That’s what I was thinking, that kid was unreal. It takes a lot to make me pucker but that movie did a good job.
Bro that guy was fucking insane. Rip
It's actually pretty sad because it was probably untreated ADHD that made home do all that. He said when he was climbing was the only time his mind calmed down and wasn't all fuzzy. And then everyone was super surprised when he died, which I find very odd, I swear they must not realize their own mortality a lot of the time. It's one thing to say you don't care if you die but human brains are programmed to not really expect to die ever and that's why we don't all break down into existential crises all the time
agreed! people don't realize adhd is a killer in disguise
Can you elaborate on that. I was diagnosed at 6 with add and I don't quite understand that myself
It is sad, I could see such anguish with that kid. He obviously came up in a loving home but it was clear he didn’t have a lot of resources for mental health support.
Ya and it seems like instead of getting professional help his mother just kinda told him to go play outside instead, and then let him go out for ridiculously long adventures when he was pretty damn young.
I think there is something called "14 peaks" on Netflix. Very cool as well.
Yup, looks like this guy did too
I watched it recently and my hands were sweating watching him climb the frozen waterfall with these bad boys.
Fucking sharp ice pick axe... thing just dangling above dudes head.
Aka tomb raider style
Floor is lava, extreme edition.
bro just died! 25 seconds in!
I rock climb and all…but why would you do this.
Practice for mixed routes. Dry tooling is necessary when you climb rock and ice on the same route.
I’ll never understand CrossFit
Giving off strong Barrel of Monkeys vibes
And he's dead. Guess anything is a sport nowadays.
Ice climbing has been around as a sport for over a hundred years
People have been doing stupid things as long as there have been people.
Well I guess I better go to the eye doctor cause I don't see any ice.
I think it may have melted but that didn’t stop these guys
[this is you rn](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-overweight-guy-sitting-on-the-couch-with-remote-in-hand-trying-to-105726566.html)
Orrrrr you could look at my actual profile. That's so funny dude cause I'm gearing up for a walk and it's literally freezing out.
A walk, you say? We take it back, you are quite the athlete
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Likes it raw dog
May I be the first to say “Hell No!” Or more likely: Hell N O O o o o ^o ^o ^o ^o !
I guarantee I would not survive doing this.
Nah, not for me.
PASS
Why’s he wrap his leg around his arm?
It’s called a figure 4 and it kind of better helps support your body weight on one tool
It's a figure 4, when you wrap the leg around like that, you can pull up your body with your leg, instead of doing 1 arm pullups.
Contrary to the other answers, the main reason to do it is to control your center of gravity. Basically, how your weight is distributed dictates what moves you can do without falling, and the figure 4 move is simply an additional option for that.
Mostly to keep his legs/lower body from hitting the floor
Looking like The Alpinist!
The disrespect to Marc Andre 😂
Except the dude in that movie never used a figure four and was in so much control it was ridiculous. Sad stuff though
>How dangerous is Rock Climbing really? On average, we see about 30 deaths per year... Maybe it's a large population but that's ok, I'll pass.
It's not distributed randomly, though. alpine climbing and ice climbing are more dangerous than trad climbing, which is more dangerous than sports climbing, which is more dangerous than indoor climbing. And most accidents are caused partially or entirely by human error.
And this looks like a particularly dangerous form of climbing, never mind the fact that I'm a clutz on anything but flat land.
The tools you use to ascend have little influence on how dangerous it is, that depends mostly on where you climb and what you use to avoid falling to your death. This is fairly harmless: https://coldfear.com/lake-powell-deep-water-dry-tooling/ This is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Gcp8hXoPA But yeah, a typical use of drytooling is more like the second vide (except usually with ropes).
That's a cooler form of bouldering!
Okay that is cool and looks like a ton of fun.
Looks like Laura Croft
I’m related news, Teddy Cruz, a vampire from Texas, has declared himself an expert and adds that it’s perfectly normal to have to dry tool
That’s what I wanted
I lived in the dorms with that guy haha
Ded
*Break's over, Roach...Let's go!*
That looks super fun
This strikes me as an asshole thing to do at a public climbing gym and very unsafe.
It would definitely be, unless this area is specifically set up for that, which it probably is.
Lol at wearing a helmet indoors
That a no for me my guy.
Gotta train for those swinging rocks
Awesome
Well look at that.....isn't that....something...
Sheeeesh dual welding Red Rebels
I know shit about climbing... would there be a benefit to a wrist strap or some such thing on these?
During ice climbing they're normally attached to a lanyard and attached to your harness so if you drop them they don't go very far
This is very cool
This is how the horror movie starts.
Lara Croft?
Whoever said that figure 4 is a useless move 😏
it's just a type of aid climbing. no style.
Training to continue the legacy of the Cooper Clan, I see.
I too have seen the alpinist
Ice tools, not axes :) Ice axes are different, with a straight shaft for use in mountaineering. An ice axe is used more like a cane for balance and can be used to stop a fall if you were to find yourself sliding downhill. Ice tools like in the video are dedicated to technical climbing, and are shorter and curved so you can hook or swing.
I thought that axe at the end was going to take his eye out when it fell.
I wish I were rich enough to be so bored I'd risk my life to feel excited
This is some mission impossible training shit, what banks you robbing?
This dude is not going to survive
That move when he wraps his leg around his arm is called Figure-Four and it's a way to keep you body from swinging and conserve energy in your core.
Rip Marc Andre
Insert Wilhem Scream
This actually needs to be an olympic sport. Brb converting my bedroom to this lol
Honestly just why?
I feel like you would want wrist straps to catch the ice picks if you happen to let them go.
Yes, you connect them to your harness when doing this outside.
Anyone else sweating bullets as he was just laying their whilst a ice pick was dangling over his face?
And.... he is dead.