RRC Archives

my names mcrib i wish somebody liked me so i could quit stealing dogs and making them like me with peanut butter.

where's your helmet retard?

anticlmber wrote:wear a helmet if you want to and fuck what anyone else thinks. your head/life not there's. don't make a big deal about it and nobody else will either.

I agree! I'm also biased - I'm an avid helmet-wearer.

a similiar thing happened to me on Gold Rush a couple weeks ago. i think its the 5th or 6th bolt where things start to get a bit more technical and theres a move that doesn't have the best feet. the first time i was careful about placing my feet so i wasn't behind the rope and ended up down climbing to my last bolt. next time i went up and i am pretty sure that i didn't get my leg behind the rope (i learned that lesson long, long ago) but when i fell the rope was back there and it flipped me upside down and slammed my back against the wall. I think i my leg may have got behind the rope during the fall. cared the shit out of me but i was alright on the whole. my gf said i should have been wearing a helmet and maybe she's right but i stopped wearing one when sport climbing a few years ago. this fall has made me wonder if i should start wearing it again...

I don't think that wearing a healmet is the issue here. Like you said anti, wear it if you want, who gives a shit. Anyone can flip, and probably most of us have at one point or another, its ok to laugh once everyone comes out alive.

game of odds. stack the deck as much as you can.

glad your ok pa.

we should just do away with ropes. that's the problem, can't get the rope behind your leg then.

It is completely fair to call this guy out for the lack of a helmet. I think taking a fall and flipping upside down is something you have to be ready for, you won't always flip, but it might happen. Bottom line is that you should always wear a helmet and yes people don't because they don't think it looks cool. If you flip and hit your head or a rock hits your head with no helmet you have a greater chance of being seriously injured as opposed to having a helmet on and being hit.

Simply put, wear a helmet.

corduroy - I don't think I'm getting the details of the fall from the video - would you mind walking through what happened?

Let's all agree that helmet on is safer than not. But still, shoudn't the greater point to take away is "watch for the damn rope behind your leg!"?

Perhaps that was assumed, and the advice you're all trying to give here is "When climbing with rope behind leg, it is advisable that you also wear a helmet."

I made the comment on there about the helmet... I just wasn't sure where to start. Did not look like the greatest belay, legs mixed with rope, spinning upside down fall with no helmet... I prefer a helmet at all times even though I hate wearing them... It's just another reassurance I like to have. I'm not going to tell someone who has been climbing for awhile whether they should wear one or not, but... yeah, nice helmet.

I've also seen people flip upside down due to their feet tapping the wall as they are falling--so you can flip upside down even if you do not put your leg behind the rope. That would be a good reason to wear a helmet. Not that I have ever worn one.