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I'm not sure I totally agree with this, but I'll go with it, and expand upon it even more. Those climbers who primarily boulder, that's climbing without a rope
by nicpottier 16y ago
I'm not sure I totally agree with this, but I'll go with it, and expand upon it even more.
Those climbers who primarily boulder, that's climbing without a rope, fairly close to the ground, are better still. Because they work on insanely difficult problems and fall all the time.
- reemrevnivek 16y agoYou're missing one of the points of the article: When you fail, it has to be cheap (i.e, a rope attached so you fall a few feet). Bouldering and falling all the time does not mean that you're failing cheaply. Falling hurts!
- jasonkester 16y agoNo, he's right. Boulder falls are nearly always soft, and certainly aren't painful. Usually they're only a foot or so onto a pad. It's actually pretty rare to come off from high up and miss a pad. Granted, you can still break things. But it still works out safer on a per-hour basis than Volleyball.