fact or crap?
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I was pumped out of my gord on Defy the Law at Left Flank yesterday and have only lead 5 climbs to my credit(officially on lead 1 week). I made the clip and fell off 1-2 moves afterward, but at the last bolt it is a little runout (a long way for my gumby psyche) i was biting the hell out of the rope as i kept dropping it, a bystanding group had their video camera out and were waiting for a massive whip from a hopelessly outmatched gumby (10A is within my limit, leading scares the pee out of me though), afterwards they reminded me to NEVER put it in my mouth, and explained they knew from prior experience how paper covers rock and rope obliterates teeth. i'll try gumming it from now on, but the thought did occur to me i could do some serious damage to my chompers and made clipping even more unenjoyable. I think do the pull, gum it, pull (while releasing rope), clip method from now on
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Re: fact or crap?
last year (while competing in the mixed open comp in ouray), the guy climbing in front of me did just this...Josephine wrote:So I heard this story about someone that was leading. He put the rope in his mouth to draw up more so he could clip. While the rope was in his mouth, he fell - and the rope pulled out lots of teeth.
can anyone verify if this is this true?
it's tougher to spit out a frozen rope...i think i saw a picture somewhere.
regards.
r.r.
I was going to ask the same question Yasmeen. I think good advice to give a beginner instead of don't put the rope in your mouth is: don't get over your head to the point where you are risking more insisting on clipping instead of just taking the fall. Bite the rope if you need to in order to clip just don't get to a point where you are so afraid of falling that you'll not drop the rope out of your mouth when falling.
"Climbing is the spice, not the meal." ~ Lurkist
Meadows wrote:I try not to put it in my mouth now, but when I do, I hold it with just my lips.
Hmm. No comment. Great quote though.
Sarcasm is a tool the weak use to avoid confrontation. People with any balls just outright lie.
[quote="Meadows"]I try not to put it in my mouth now, but when I do, I hold it with just my lips.[/quote]
[quote="Meadows"]I try not to put it in my mouth now, but when I do, I hold it with just my lips.[/quote]