Should I Stay or Should I Go

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When you're attempting to onsite a route at your limit and confronted by a hard-ass move, feeling fully trashed and unsure if you have the reserve you need to pull the move....do you more often:

Accept that you don't have anything left and take?
3
13%
Climb through it with everything you have in you?
21
88%
 
Total votes: 24
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pigsteak
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Post by pigsteak »

right..I don't either. I have to work for every ounce of courage. glad to know I am "normal" in that aspect.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
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climbhigh
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Post by climbhigh »

I initially voted I go for it, whatever it takes. I would like to think I have a decent head when it comes to roped climbing. But then I realized its not as good as I thought it was. When I'm bouldering its all or nothing, I go till I fall or top out. Whether its a butt scraping 2 move problem or a proud 30ft highball, I have rarely just dropped off, no matter how tall or bad the landing is. I feel I have much more control of my body and landing with a big bouldering ground fall than I do on a small roped fall, as long as I had trusted spotters. But when I am on rope I guess sometimes I do feel hesitant and don’t push as hard mentally to get thru the moves I know I could walk if they were on a highball. So I need to figure out how to take my bouldering head and apply it to my roped routes.This thread made me rethink the way I want to approach my roped climbing.
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