How safe is sport climbing reddit. Some people are drawn towards the adventure/pushing the limits aspect of climbing which in reality is a much bigger part of its history. Except for the climbing harness, the equipment used in the rigging of the highline in this photo is neither safe nor acceptable. Does any one here have experience with smart watches in climbing/bouldering settings? Ideally I would like to track grades, attempts and height. I don't think that gear is less likely to break now than 20 years ago. I would argue that the people climbing have gotten much safer over the years, rather than the sport itself. Unfortunately it is very common and alarmingly, from what I've observed it seems to be more common than in years past. Safety is everything. You cannot be totally safe suspended by your waist from a rope, just like you can't be totally safe under 100 feet of water. 10 climber will go you will see most people will not be wearing helmets. How do you back off without leaving any gear? Do you rap off a fixed hanger (seems like a really bad idea to me)? Downclimb and clean as you go (not falling when you get near the bottom)? Any other method? r/Sport_Climbing: A place to discuss current and past sport climbing competitions. I knew 3 people that have died from rappelling- one was my coach when I was 15. They are really two separate things, the relatively safe sport/movement aspect like bouldering or sport climbing versus climbing where risk is part of it like trad and mountaineering. Can someone walk me through how to bail from a route above your ability? Lets say you are pushing the grades, but just can't do a climb. Even most repeated trad lines os DWS are pretty safe. Mathematical properties play such an important part in who wins. Gravity will win Reply reply Over_Tip_6824 • Trad climbing is a lot broader than sport. This is not me fucking with you, this is me actually answering your question factually. Safe enough to be done 5-7 days a week, 7-10 jumps a day as a job, dangerous enough that there will never be a single day you do it that it cant kill you. I'm looking for a smart watch to buy, with it's primary purpose being used during cycling and climbing. In Paris 2024, there will be 2 medals for men and women, with speed being an independent discipline. Mountaineering is dangerous, mountains are unforgiving. Anyone dying rock climbing is too many people for most (myself included), but it's like diving. This might be true on certain routes (steep 'sport' climbing toutes) but this is certainly not the case for most mountaineering routes. The format is seriously fucked. If you are serious about high altitude mountain climbing, you have to accept that you're playing Russian roulette. It covers everything from hard single pitch cragging where you're basically sport climbing on gear to sketchballs alpine climbing where the gear is mostly there so they can follow the rope to find your body. Can’t over share this enough. For sport climbing at most of the popular areas that a 5. The main thing a lot of uninitiated people mistakenly believe is that safety equipment, in particular a rope, removes all danger and means that falling is permissible at all times. Do not skip on safety, climbing is a very safe sport until something goes wrong. My question is why do I struggle so much when sport climbing compared to bouldering. I’ve shown him some youtube videos of youth climbers and climbing gyms, and now he is begging to go to a climbing gym this winter and wants to ask Santa for his own climbing shoes. Reddit's rock climbing training community. Didn't knew that math was the 4th discipline of sport climbing. The Gallery, Black Corridor, Cannibal etc generally do not have people climbing above you and the rock has done most of the exfoliating its going to do by now. . Climbing isn't truly safe. Climbing is by far more physical sport. I think most popular climbing disciplines are really safe, those are sportclimbing and bouldering, either done at boulder gyms or outside. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Safety bulletin for r/climbing: please do not attempt highline rigging without extensive training and understanding of safe and acceptable rigging practices. You can minimize some of the risks, but you cannot eliminate all of them, and if you think that you can, you are only fooling yourself. GPS would also be beneficial. I’ve begun learning about the sport, but would appreciate any feedback from other parents of kids who climbed this young, and how to nurture it. Dedicated to increasing all our knowledge about how to better improve at our sport. And now I'm thinking of it, I'm curious to see how the rate of injuries compares to other similar highly physical sports. Also about to try via ferrata, climbing outdoors on a fixed-rope route. I can throw for a huge dyno with only two pads underneath me and have no fear. pul iarq fxdzr knvtu ujux bqq rws dobtmxo zfdnt vruoi