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welcome to the largest study on climbing

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falls for the last 2 years we have

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measured and analyzed hundreds of Falls

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big small with heavy and light climbers

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and one of the main questions I had is

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how does extra slack affect the fall or

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more precisely does falling more reduce

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the pendulum into the wall and how hard

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the climber is going to hit the wall so

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long story short yes it does but not

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always if the catch is soft like in this

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case we can see the correlation how

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falling more reduces the horizontal

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speed however in the case of a hard

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catch the fall exceeds rope's ability to

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absorb the impact and the climber is

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pulled back up and into the wall even

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harder and then we had some more

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peculiar discoveries so if you're

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curious check out the full video