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It’s the same as any other extreme sport - skill reduces risk but cannot fully eliminate it. Eventually a skydiver’s parachute will fail in a way they couldn’t
by fwlr 3y ago
It’s the same as any other extreme sport - skill reduces risk but cannot fully eliminate it. Eventually a skydiver’s parachute will fail in a way they couldn’t have prevented, etc.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoSkydivers carry reserves though, free-soloists eschew safety equipment.
- fwlr 3y agoYeah, based on the other comments here I think I have quite a different view than most. To me, trad climbing vs free soloing seems like riding a bike with or without a helmet - it’s the same sport, just with different levels of safety equipment. But it seems like that is a qualitative difference to most people, which is interesting.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoMostly, a helmet is unlikely to be the difference between life and death for a cyclist. 30mph (faster than I've ever been on a pedal-bike) is about 13m/s. That's about ~10m fall if my maths is right. Did you mean a motorbike? It feels like the comparison to cycling would be at least two orders of magnitude in difference of increased risk.
- fwlr 3y agoI did mean bicycles, yeah. Really I just think I have a very different way of understanding and conceptualising things. Like to me, sky-diving is “jumping out of a plane”, that’s the activity, and whether you have zero, one, or two parachutes is just a question of safety equipment.