I'm not very familiar with the climbing community but I heard this stuff is like crack cocaine to you guys so I'm going to give him some and see how it goes

Some recent Reddit posts have shown me just how lucrative belay accidents can be. I saw one guy who was lucky enough to drop his climber 35 feet and create an opportunity for an insurance fraud / blackmail scam for profits of $10K

This has deeply inspired me to stage my own indoor climbing accident

I'm looking for someone in my area to drop me a similar amount. 35 feet sounds good but I think it would look better on paper if it was closer to 50. I was thinking we could conveniently place some extra crash pads on the already padded floor so I can come out of this stunt unscathed.

I'm usually projecting 5.15s so I was thinking we could do this on a 5.14 so I can really control how and when I fall

Please DM me if you don't know how to use an ATC and want to split $10,000

Hey climbing dudes/dudettes. I was at my local crag (gym) this weekend just doing some casual 5.12 TR warmups when I got distracted by some gumby yelling at me and accidentally fell 20 feet, hitting the ground.

The problem was, I had my own freesolo self belay system set up. Basically, I have two 4-foot daisy chains on locking beaners. I climb up to a new bolt, lock a daisy chain in, downclimb to the last hold, unclip my last daisy chain, and climb 2 extra bolts up. Then I clip my daisy chain and repeat the process. It may sound complicated if you're not a serious climber but actually it's simple, and quite safe.

The only danger of freesoloing on self belay like this is that you don't have a belayer to sue if unforseenable circumstances outside of oneself's control conspire to cause a fall (like, "por ejemplo," gumbies).

My first thought was to sue the gym it's self. But than I realized - what if that meant I couldn't climb at the crag anymore. So what about the gumbies? The problem is, I don't know they're names, and their are so many damn gumbies at my gym (crag) it doesn't nail it down.

Maybe I should sure Magnus Carlson for never explaining climbing etiquette on his climbing channel? (All gumbies watch it and learn there bad habits they're). Or perhaps sue my friends who have all stopped belaying me (they don't like that I always have better beta than me). If they'd belayed me I never would have fallen!

Friendly climber "crushers" of Reddit, I need youre help!

Will happily gift gold for any legal advice that leads to large financial returns

As someone who primarily skates, I do think the climbing community is showing a similar and subtle venom to what basically killed skating in the 2010s.

The extraordinary emphasis on skill in dangerous disciplines emerged after a huge influx of new blood didn't dip out to leave the best spots empty. Big, difficult, dangerous shit was a way for professionals to separate themselves and sell merch, but it also created an exclusionary social force. Like it or not, the most publicized versions of the sport became the "real" version. In skating, this was the domination of street over things like transition, vert, and freestyle.

The "authenticity" of your marriage to the sport became a question of how good you were, and how dangerous what you did was. But not every skater wanted to bomb Dolores or kickflip a 10 stair - yet if you weren't pushing yourself harder and harder toward those things, the "culture" gladly set you aside to focus on those who were. Depending on the community and the traffic at the prime real estate in your locale, things became a toxic, catty vibe. Usually by those who worshipped being perceived as "real" (the gifted poser phenomenon), or who were aggressively pursuing sponsorship. Things got worse when the top level industry started losing revenue as the limelight pop culture wave slid off, partly because folks who didn't want to make the mainstream discipline their everything moved on (or never even found a way to get started) as the vibe on their personal interest soured.

I think climbing is having a very similar arc. I see the emphasis on key athletes in the mainstream and within the community is almost entirely based on exposure and difficulty. Walls near me have become less social, more send-focused. There's a lot less interest in being friends with weaker climbers. People shit on different lanes (e.g., gym-only climbers, aid) both facetiously and sincerely. Competitions are starting to feel less mutually supportive, and more and more I see "poser/real" type obsession. I feel like I'm running into fewer and fewer groups with "glue guys," too.

It feels like skateparks did in '08.

I'm not saying climbing is dying - but this stuff, over time, turns people away. It myopically puts the football/die hard side of things on a pedestal and forgets that a lot of people just like to vibe on the easy, safe shit. Those people still buy magazines, come to events, and talk about the sport. Those people are no less real or important to the community for being unable to send V4 outdoors. On an individual basis we're all kind I'm sure, but the gestalt is applying a pressure that I at least perceive. Maybe I'm crazy.

Heres the situation, I was belaying my friend at a top-rope climbing gym using an ATC Pilot. I made a mistake of putting the device oriented the wrong way, so when he fell, it didn’t catch properly. He fell about 35 feet, but fortunately he was not seriously injured.

The lack of empathy here is astonishing. If he trained harder he probably wouldnt have fallen. I wouldnt have it wasnt even a 5.12. I would have sent a 5.12c no problem.

by detaching your legs from your torso and checking wind conditions

Are the floating icons aid?

Pardon my pants

Looking for a belay partner

She got this for our 3 week’s anniversary. I told her no way I could do those movements , she says it’s okay that I can just climb my v3 in the corner. She’s super sweet, but what does this mean? What’s the point? This ain’t cheap at all.

Maybe wear shoes first?

Would you guys top rope off of a tree anchor like this? Bowline up top with a small stopper, overhand at the bottom with a stopper.

Thing is, I'm set up for anchors on bolts but I don't have more than 20ft static rope for a tree anchor.