For Me, Fall Practice Was Bad Advice
Why this popular climbing training method doesn’t work for everyone
Why this popular climbing training method doesn’t work for everyone
Falling is an integral part of climbing. But for many of us it's also a consistent source of fear and limitation. In this article series, Arno Ilgner, author and founder of the Warrior's Way, provides a series of lessons about how we should think about our fear of falling and, as importantly, how we can practice our way past it.
Learning to lead climb involves memorizing various systems—how to tie in, how to clip quickdraws, how to clean anchors—AND accumulating fluency and trust in those systems.
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Do you want to be more comfortable taking lead falls? Mateusz Haładaj shows us one way to expedite the process...