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sick_climba

Apr 8, 2005, 10:48 AM
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just curiouse have any of you people that have lead ever back clipped? i did the other day and felt like such a dumb-ass :oops: a luckly i didn't fall... has anyone else made that mistake? has anyone made tha mistake and fallen?

tisar

Apr 8, 2005, 11:19 AM
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I really think that happend to everyone once a while. No need to freak out. There recently was a bigger discussion about the chances of backclipping leading to unclipping in which was sound reasonably stated that the dangers are often overestimated (besides this was a flamewar par exellance, have fun!).

Nonetheless I'm close to anal about it. The only conclusion I draw of the discussion is not to risk a whipper for correcting myself. Seems not worth it.

- Daniel

overlord

Apr 8, 2005, 5:05 PM
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i did. once.

was left at the second bolt with no clipped pro. bad.

j_ung

Apr 8, 2005, 5:12 PM
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How bad it is depends on a number of factors. Which way does the draw twist? What's the angle of the wall? Where is the climber relative to the draw when he/she falls? And more. Rather than answering these questions, though, best to just avoid it. :D

mtman

Apr 8, 2005, 5:25 PM
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just to let you know that people do get hurt doing this i had a old friend from high school that broke his back when he back clipped and fell unclipped from the draw and took a nasty wipper at a bad angle, he was lucky he is not paralyzed and only had to be in a body cast, this is a really easy thing to prevent so just try and get in to the habit of checking, but i would not worry to much if you only do it once.

Mtman

spivey

Apr 17, 2005, 10:40 PM
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Try climbing lower grades on which you're less likely to fall or dummy leading until you get used to it. I back clipped a few when i was learning but i pretty much got it now so i dont worry about it, just practice

j_ung

Apr 20, 2005, 2:11 PM
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...dummy leading...

:lol: Damn, that sounds so much cooler than "mock leading." I'm calling it dummy leading from now on.

z_rock90

Apr 21, 2005, 2:20 AM
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All I need to remember from backclipping it that I want my finger to point to the wall when I clip.

jt512

Apr 21, 2005, 2:28 AM
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All I need to remember from backclipping it that I want my finger to point to the wall when I clip.

Now that's dummy leading.

-Jay

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