welcome to the largest study on climbing

falls for the last 2 years we have

measured and analyzed hundreds of Falls

big small with heavy and light climbers

and one of the main questions I had is

how does extra slack affect the fall or

more precisely does falling more reduce

the pendulum into the wall and how hard

the climber is going to hit the wall so

long story short yes it does but not

always if the catch is soft like in this

case we can see the correlation how

falling more reduces the horizontal

speed however in the case of a hard

catch the fall exceeds rope's ability to

absorb the impact and the climber is

pulled back up and into the wall even

harder and then we had some more

peculiar discoveries so if you're

curious check out the full video