IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE OVER 5 MINTUES THEN LOOK HERE:
SOOOO i dont know how to add this as a video but PLEASE check it out online... it used to be 10 minutes but he shortened it to under 5 so more people would watch it. CHECK IT OUT, featuring BADASH HAMILTON and JIM GIORDANO.
p.s. he cut out a sick-ass whipper which is featured at the very end of another video... so watch the end of the other one too:
(go to 6 minutes and 22 seconds to see jim fall 40 feet and get caught like 2 feet from the ground... what can i say, they told me to give alotta slack for the movie, haha. I didnt realize I would fly up so far... at that time i wasnt used to belaying alot of people heavier than me, but now all is well.)
(AND if you go to a little before 4 minutes into it you can see me climb a problem.... )
woodchuck07 says:
ditto...for the second posting of this...hahahahahaaa!
You did this so we would be forced to watch it twice, eh?
badash says:
haha well i just wanted people to be able to watch them both at once.
badash says:
wait, go to 2:53 to see me do the problem... why do i keep getting this wrong!? and go to the very end of the 2nd one to see a whipper.
woodchuck07 says:
I like your airborne' moves in the whipper the best. How you just disappear from view is a laugh. Gone!
badash says:
Yeah it was crazy... he fell like 40 feet, lol. He didnt clip the last 1 or 2 and with the slack he told me to give and his weight, he fell FAR. He came like 6 inches from decking - SCARY! I SWEAR im a good belayer! haha.
woodchuck07 says:
And that was indoors! Hmmm, wonder how safe we are outside on a spooky run out route IF 'Ash is on the other end of the rope. I better lose another 20 pounds before I head out to the Red this fall/;-o
woodchuck07 says:
Actually it's pretty interesting how belays have changed with the mood or the style of climbing. Some gyms I've seen have mandatory floor bolts to anchor to, and grigri required by all climbers no matter how experienced. Before that, I saw some places who used 100+ pounds of barbells to tie down the belayer. There was always an anchor. If you belayed off your harness, it was because you were anchored to something behind you every time. I always used a tree, a boulder, anything solid for my outdoor climbs, as taught in every instructional book ever read. But I realize with the advent of sport' climbing, the climbers have changed the rules of the belay.
I see huge loops of slack being literally tossed out as leaders clip bolts, and 'jumping' belayers who are airborne on every fall, often meeting the climber in mid air. Jump-jugging the rope over a quick draw high on the route to pull the climber back up overhangs at the Motherlode. I ask why? Is this suddenly justified by a new physics principle I never heard of? What about the ropes? Are they so much better these days that you can do this or do sporties retire their ropes after a day of 40 falls and 40 jug pulls up over that same section of rope?
Just proves I'm an old trad' since I'm clueless to the methods seen out there today.
Didn't mean to get off on a tangent here.
Oh Ash, I know you can belay just fine. But I'm not joking about my need to lose the 20 pounds mentioned.
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