1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,200 All right, welcome back to the largest 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,120 study on climbing falls. In the first 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,360 episode we looked how does extra slack 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,320 affect the fall, or more precisely does 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,320 falling more reduce the pendulum into 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,520 the wall and how hard the climber is 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,840 going to hit the wall, and then I showed 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,640 you the importance of soft catch and 9 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,359 what a massive difference that makes and 10 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:28,400 also that hard catches are not only the 11 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,599 problem for heavier belayers 12 00:00:30,599 --> 00:00:33,320 lighter belayers often lack practice to 13 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,760 give soft catches since most of the time 14 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,920 they don't need they fly up anyway but 15 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,120 in exceptional cases with enough 16 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,039 friction... -My foot -What happened to your 17 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:49,000 foot -Well it was a hard fall - Heavey belayer? 18 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,840 -Llight belayer. Yeah yeah and I also 19 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,320 asked you guys I'm curious did you ever 20 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,600 got unexpectedly hard catch from a light 21 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,879 belayer? And turns out this happens more 22 00:01:01,879 --> 00:01:03,400 often than I 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,040 thought. so yeah light or heavy you're 24 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,119 going to love this episode because we're 25 00:01:08,119 --> 00:01:10,320 going to investigate which method of 26 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:12,920 giving soft catch is the best. We're 27 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,000 going to compare stepping forward versus 28 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 jumping up and as a bonus the tube slide 29 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,119 method where the belayer lets the rope 30 00:01:21,119 --> 00:01:23,040 slide through the device which is more 31 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,799 common in trad 32 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:27,920 climbing so let's begin. Now in the 33 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,000 previous episode I showed you this 34 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,799 beautiful horizontal velocity graphs and 35 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:35,720 I explained that the peak of horizontal 36 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,240 velocity is at the bottom of the 37 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,720 pendulum and that is a good indicator 38 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,159 how hard the climber would meet the wall 39 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:46,960 if the wall would not be overhanging and 40 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:49,200 in this test I wanted to go a step 41 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,600 further and see what happens when the 42 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,759 climber meets the wall. - 1... 2... 3... 43 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,840 and my idea this time was to 44 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,600 measure deceleration during the impact 45 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,840 and in many of our test cases 46 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,840 this idea was working really well. If we 47 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,000 compare the soft catches to the hard one 48 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 you can see a huge spike in 49 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,800 deceleration. However after doing lots 50 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,440 and lots of more falls and analyzing the 51 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,840 data I realized that the peak 52 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,959 deceleration is not always a good metric 53 00:02:26,959 --> 00:02:29,480 to look. for example take a look at this 54 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,080 hard catch you can visually see that it 55 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,080 was much harder for the climber but the 56 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,200 peak deceleration was nearly identical 57 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,159 to the soft catches before, so it turns 58 00:02:41,159 --> 00:02:44,519 out our soft bodies are incredible at 59 00:02:44,519 --> 00:02:45,800 absorbing 60 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,400 impacts but the problem is that it's 61 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,080 very difficult to measure what's 62 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,319 happening in our muscles during this 63 00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:54,959 impact. So while peak deceleration was 64 00:02:54,959 --> 00:02:57,040 interesting to look in some cases, 65 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,840 horizontal velocity at the moment of 66 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,280 impact was much better indicator. After 67 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,560 all, all of this velocity that we are 68 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,239 about to hit the wall will need to be 69 00:03:08,239 --> 00:03:12,200 absorbed by our soft bodies. Okay so 70 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,400 let's see which method to give a soft 71 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,599 catch is the best. To not kill me on the 72 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:20,280 very first test we started with smaller 73 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,200 falls and jumping up technique. And these 74 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,319 falls were extremely nice and soft. 75 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,799 [Climber] - A soft ride! So let's see how stepping 76 00:03:33,799 --> 00:03:38,080 forward will compare. [Climber] - 1... 2... 3... 77 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,680 - This is harder. And the fall this time 78 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,159 felt a little bit harder and we can also 79 00:03:45,159 --> 00:03:48,480 see that in the graphs. However overall 80 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,920 it was still a very soft catch. 81 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,840 And the second fall was very similar. 82 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,040 Also a quick note: I was not sure 83 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,040 how much stiffer the rope gets over 84 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,640 multiple falls, and even though in this 85 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,079 video I'm presenting you all the data 86 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:08,879 grouped by method, meaning at first I 87 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:10,879 show you all the soft catches with 88 00:04:10,879 --> 00:04:13,480 jumping up method, then I show you all 89 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,760 the soft catches with stepping forward, 90 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,519 in reality we did alternate between the 91 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:21,320 methods between every fall. So we did a 92 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,919 jumping up and then stepping forward, etc. 93 00:04:23,919 --> 00:04:26,280 Pointless information for most of 94 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:28,720 you, but I know that a lot of geeks are 95 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,919 watching my videos and we like to write 96 00:04:30,919 --> 00:04:34,240 nitpicky comments, so this is for you 97 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,280 nitpicky geek. All right now let's see 98 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:40,479 how the tube slide method compares and 99 00:04:40,479 --> 00:04:42,520 while I was expecting a lot from this 100 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,240 method, the first fall wasn't any better. 101 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,039 The second fall had a very low momentum 102 00:04:50,039 --> 00:04:53,600 into the wall but a lot of vertical 103 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,800 momentum, which made me almost run across 104 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,840 the wall, which was slightly 105 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:02,080 uncomfortable. So we tried again and this 106 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,000 time the fall was much nicer and I know 107 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,160 that people like to try all the crazy 108 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,479 things they see on the internet so 109 00:05:10,479 --> 00:05:12,160 that's why I have to stress that this 110 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,960 tube slide method is really advanced, so 111 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,360 if you don't know what you're doing, make 112 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,400 sure that you have an expert guiding you. 113 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,360 Now if we would compare all the best 114 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,919 attempts of all the methods, we can see 115 00:05:24,919 --> 00:05:28,000 that the jumping up was slightly better 116 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,919 but overall all the method were very 117 00:05:30,919 --> 00:05:34,280 similar. [Climber] - So all of these falls felt quite 118 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:36,240 soft except the one where he does 119 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,960 nothing, then I fell to the wall. 120 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,199 Yeah we actually forgot to film hard catches 121 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:44,080 where the belayer does nothing on this 122 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,919 test, but no worries this was just a 123 00:05:46,919 --> 00:05:50,220 small warm-up. And let's see some bigger falls. 124 00:05:50,220 --> 00:05:52,240 So this time we started with a 125 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:53,880 tube slide method, 126 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,790 which at least in theory, lets the belayer achieve 127 00:05:56,790 --> 00:05:58,700 any full arc. 128 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:00,960 And here is one more attempt 129 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,600 this time with even bigger arc or longer 130 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,800 braking distance, and the fall was just 131 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,880 tiny bit softer for the climber. For now 132 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,639 I'm just going to keep the softest 133 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:15,039 attempt in the charts and let's see how 134 00:06:15,039 --> 00:06:17,880 does that compare to the jumping up 135 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,520 technique. And we can see that the first 136 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,479 fall was slightly smaller, however it had 137 00:06:24,479 --> 00:06:27,520 nearly identical horizontal acceleration 138 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,319 and velocity. However it also had lower 139 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:33,960 absolute velocity, which is actually 140 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,680 better for the climber. Now the second 141 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,919 fall was slightly smaller but had a tiny bit 142 00:06:40,919 --> 00:06:43,800 more horizontal velocity towards the wall 143 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,240 and again let's keep the best 144 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,039 attempts of each method and see how does 145 00:06:49,039 --> 00:06:53,160 that compare to the stepping forward technique. 146 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,840 And we can see that the fall 147 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,440 was smallest however it had the greatest 148 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,599 impact to the wall. Now on the second 149 00:07:02,599 --> 00:07:05,919 attempt the belayer did a much better job 150 00:07:05,919 --> 00:07:09,560 and the fall was significantly softer. 151 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:11,479 And if we compare all the best attempts 152 00:07:11,479 --> 00:07:13,680 of all the methods, we can see that the 153 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,680 horizontal speed at the moment of impact 154 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,879 was nearly identical. Which means that at 155 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:21,759 least in this test case scenario, 156 00:07:21,759 --> 00:07:24,280 a skilled belayer can achieve almost the 157 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,440 same results with any method. But since 158 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,879 consistency in catches also matters, 159 00:07:29,879 --> 00:07:33,440 if we compare the worst attempts, tube slide method 160 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,800 was the best, followed by jumping up, 161 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,000 and then the stepping forward was the worst. 162 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,479 However even the worst cases of 163 00:07:42,479 --> 00:07:45,440 any of these methods were much much 164 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,280 better compared to the passive belay. 165 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,120 So the first arising takeaway was that no 166 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,199 matter which method you choose to give a 167 00:07:54,199 --> 00:07:57,039 soft catch, it's going to be much better 168 00:07:57,039 --> 00:07:58,960 than passively standing and doing 169 00:07:58,960 --> 00:07:59,960 nothing. 170 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:03,280 And as always one test is no test, so I 171 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,400 wanted to repeat these tests in a 172 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,159 different location with another belayer. 173 00:08:08,159 --> 00:08:11,599 Ricky who has also a lot of experience 174 00:08:11,599 --> 00:08:14,319 using this tube slide method, and he told 175 00:08:14,319 --> 00:08:16,940 me that it's actually his preferred method. 176 00:08:16,940 --> 00:08:19,599 So, high expectations. 177 00:08:19,839 --> 00:08:21,641 [Climber] - Two, three... - Okay 178 00:08:21,641 --> 00:08:23,400 - Falling! 179 00:08:24,350 --> 00:08:27,940 - Aw, that was super soft! 180 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:32,880 So we did three attempts and all of them had very similar horizontal 181 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,519 velocity nice 182 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:38,240 consistency next we tested the stepping 183 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,880 forward method and we can see that the 184 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,839 fall was much shorter and had a much 185 00:08:43,839 --> 00:08:46,760 greater swing into the wall it seemed 186 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,680 that the Blair was pulled towards the 187 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:51,720 wall way too much and did not had enough 188 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,100 control to make the false 189 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:58,200 [Music] 190 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,920 move 191 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,079 all right next the jumping up method 192 00:09:04,079 --> 00:09:07,200 where Ricky actually did a very bad job 193 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:08,880 on the first 194 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,279 attempt and the same happened on the 195 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:14,680 second attempt where his jump was very 196 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:17,800 minimal only initiated a little bit from 197 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,680 his right cuff so that's not how you 198 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,480 jump and that's why I decided to ignore 199 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,399 these two attempts for the poor 200 00:09:25,399 --> 00:09:27,760 technique and after He adjusted his 201 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,920 technique on the third jump he jumped 202 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:34,480 with both legs and it was much much 203 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,519 better and finally we did one passive 204 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:40,000 catch where the Blair does nothing and 205 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,560 same as before it causes significantly 206 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,399 higher swing into the wall so at least 207 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:48,200 in this test case scenario tube slide 208 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,399 was the best followed by jumping up and 209 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:54,079 stepping forward was again the 210 00:09:54,079 --> 00:09:57,000 worst so stepping forward versus uh 211 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,079 jumping up yes stepping forward was not 212 00:10:01,079 --> 00:10:04,360 in a controlled way I was just pulled to 213 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,120 the wall mm I tried to lean 214 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,200 backwards to to break to catch a fall 215 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,519 but it was not in a controll way and 216 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:15,880 jumping up I can choose how much I want 217 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,680 to jump and at what timing so overall 218 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:20,800 which method is the best will heavily 219 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,800 depend on your experience using this 220 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,000 methods however stepping forward seemed 221 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,360 to be the worst and gave the least 222 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,160 control and also worth mentioning is 223 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,399 that standing too far in many situations 224 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:37,839 can drag the Blair into the wall 225 00:10:37,839 --> 00:10:40,600 completely 226 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,600 uncontrollably okay now was 227 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,720 like and that would make the catch even 228 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,120 harder all right but what if the Blair 229 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,160 is significantly heavier in that case if 230 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,560 you try the jumping method there is not 231 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:01,959 much pull up by the rope and jumping is 232 00:11:01,959 --> 00:11:04,959 much more difficult so maybe stepping 233 00:11:04,959 --> 00:11:07,920 forward is better in this case to test 234 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,720 that kishu suggested to introduce extra 235 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,880 friction which basically makes the 236 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,320 blayer 237 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,040 heavier can we try like this he wants to 238 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:23,040 kill me so that's what we got a little 239 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,959 zigzag in the beginning and then a 240 00:11:25,959 --> 00:11:29,040 straight line all the way to the climber 241 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,560 so the Rope actually is not going over 242 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:35,160 the edge it's just very sharp angle you 243 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,639 have to for sorry he says you have to 244 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:41,170 fall 1 2 245 00:11:41,170 --> 00:11:43,360 [Music] 246 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,880 3 the swing into the wall 247 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,800 is 248 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,399 okayish so we started with jumping 249 00:11:51,399 --> 00:11:54,839 method which felt slightly harder with 250 00:11:54,839 --> 00:11:58,519 increased friction but still plenty soft 251 00:11:58,519 --> 00:12:00,120 enough 252 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,440 yeah just take a look at this Bel 253 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,000 running up the wall and even avoiding 254 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,399 his arm being squished into the first 255 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:11,160 Quick Draw skills huh so let's see if 256 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,920 with increased friction stepping forward 257 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,440 will be better this time he was not 258 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,560 pulled into the wall uncontrollably 259 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:21,360 anymore it also looks like he got the 260 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,959 perfect timing and even started running 261 00:12:23,959 --> 00:12:27,680 forward just before they impact however 262 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:30,199 they swing into the ball for the climber 263 00:12:30,199 --> 00:12:33,880 was still harder compared to the jumping 264 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,959 method okay next we did a series of tube 265 00:12:36,959 --> 00:12:40,240 slight catches the first felt very nice 266 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,839 and soft now the second fall had even 267 00:12:43,839 --> 00:12:46,839 softer impact with the wall however I 268 00:12:46,839 --> 00:12:49,360 still had a lot of momentum downwards 269 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,240 which forced me almost run down the wall 270 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:53,680 which is a little bit 271 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:56,720 awkward and the last fall had a very 272 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:57,839 similar 273 00:12:57,839 --> 00:12:59,440 effect 274 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,639 and if we look into the best cases for 275 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:04,360 each method we can see that jumping up 276 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,399 and Tube slide were very very similar 277 00:13:07,399 --> 00:13:10,240 and the stepping forward was slightly 278 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,120 worse and this bar chart plots all the 279 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,839 Falls so we can see that on average tube 280 00:13:16,839 --> 00:13:19,519 slide method performed the best followed 281 00:13:19,519 --> 00:13:22,120 by jumping up and then stepping forward 282 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,279 was the worst now from Pure feeling 283 00:13:25,279 --> 00:13:27,920 standpoint for me as a climber both 284 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,839 jumping up and Tube slide methods felt 285 00:13:30,839 --> 00:13:33,720 very nice and soft maybe if I would be 286 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,120 nitpicking this extra momentum downwards 287 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,120 sometimes on the tube slide method was 288 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,279 slightly uncomfortable although in 289 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:43,680 theory the blayer should be able to give 290 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:45,839 almost any kind of catch with this 291 00:13:45,839 --> 00:13:49,040 method and the stepping forward method 292 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,800 was maybe slightly harder had slightly 293 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,600 bigger impact to the wall however it was 294 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,800 still plenty soft enough and what is not 295 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,759 soft enough is passive blay so once 296 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:04,399 again no matter which soft catch method 297 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:07,639 we tried it was significantly better 298 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:10,959 than passive Bay and with added friction 299 00:14:10,959 --> 00:14:13,440 the Bayer wasn't even lifted off the 300 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,120 ground this time previously when we had 301 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,800 no friction passive blay looked like 302 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,320 this the blayer was still pulled up but 303 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,240 now with extra friction that is not the 304 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,120 case anymore and you can see how the 305 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,880 climber is being pulled up and into the 306 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,880 wall even 307 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,839 harder 308 00:14:34,839 --> 00:14:38,480 yeah okay that 309 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,120 was that was the way it was so yeah 310 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,839 don't forget to subscribe I might need 311 00:14:44,839 --> 00:14:47,399 advertisement money to fix my broken 312 00:14:47,399 --> 00:14:51,639 body at old age so what's your favorite 313 00:14:51,639 --> 00:14:54,759 method yeah jumping up jumping up yes 314 00:14:54,759 --> 00:14:56,959 mhm okay so we were leaning towards 315 00:14:56,959 --> 00:15:00,399 jumping as our favorite meth foot but 316 00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:03,160 what if the blayer is really really 317 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,399 heavy or there is so much friction in 318 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:08,120 the system that the Rope Almost Doesn't 319 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:12,959 pull the Blair up in that case you can 320 00:15:12,959 --> 00:15:17,839 jump I don't know what 30 40 cm maybe 50 321 00:15:17,839 --> 00:15:21,079 if you're a crazy athlete but is that 322 00:15:21,079 --> 00:15:23,680 enough for the soft catch and this 323 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,079 brings us to this experiment here we did 324 00:15:26,079 --> 00:15:28,680 a series of false alternating between 325 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,399 stepping forward and jumping up and we 326 00:15:31,399 --> 00:15:34,120 measured the forces to the climber and 327 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,399 same as before jumping up was 328 00:15:36,399 --> 00:15:38,480 consistently better than stepping 329 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,880 forward and doing nothing was 330 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,360 significantly worse and then we decided 331 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,360 to introduce this zigzag in the rout and 332 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,279 although it doesn't look like much it 333 00:15:49,279 --> 00:15:52,240 actually added a ton of friction 334 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:56,319 basically imitating a very heavy blay 335 00:15:56,319 --> 00:16:01,319 what wa I couldn't jump at all and as I 336 00:16:01,319 --> 00:16:04,480 was expecting jumping up was not working 337 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,279 at all in this case so let's see if 338 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:11,519 stepping forward is going to be better 2 339 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,279 1 wow that was 340 00:16:14,279 --> 00:16:16,399 solid 341 00:16:16,399 --> 00:16:22,680 2.5 oh [ __ ] Z and it actually was even 342 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,839 worse man I cannot give you a soft catch 343 00:16:25,839 --> 00:16:28,560 this way so yeah no matter how much I 344 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,560 Tri to jump I was not able to give a 345 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,279 truly soft catch and stepping forward 346 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:35,959 was even 347 00:16:35,959 --> 00:16:38,560 worse it's impossible to give a soft 348 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,399 catch like this to time well the 349 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:44,440 stepping forward and such a short fall 350 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,560 is nearly impossible yeah now while it 351 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,600 seemed that heavy blers are doomed on 352 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,839 this next experiment I actually 353 00:16:53,839 --> 00:16:56,680 discovered something that helps this 354 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,800 time I was belaying a light girl and as 355 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,360 before I was also struggling to give a 356 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,480 soft catch the jumping simply did not 357 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,280 work and neither did the stepping 358 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:14,919 forward method but then I discovered 359 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:20,839 something better better this one was 360 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:25,919 soft yes it's soft so yeah turns out 361 00:17:25,919 --> 00:17:28,039 that bending Den KN will give you more 362 00:17:28,039 --> 00:17:30,799 range of movement and in this test case 363 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:34,039 scenario it made a huge difference it 364 00:17:34,039 --> 00:17:36,440 the fall 365 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,919 was just super soft and the others was 366 00:17:39,919 --> 00:17:44,840 boom like boom yeah yeah yeah so it's Bo 367 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,640 versus and we prefer wo you prefer woo 368 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,440 yeah yeah and although I already 369 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,320 mentioned this in the first episode but 370 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,080 it's really important to stress that 371 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,320 simply throwing a lot of Slack does not 372 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,559 mean a soft catch 373 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:09,320 okay this [ __ ] and in a case of a 374 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,600 passive Bay can end up very badly and 375 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,880 the only reason she was fine in this 376 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,280 case was because she was falling 377 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,039 straight down under the Quick Draw so 378 00:18:20,039 --> 00:18:22,520 all she felt was just a jerk to the 379 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,360 harness in a different situation with a 380 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:28,200 little bit of swing that kind of catch 381 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,559 with would probably break her ankles so 382 00:18:31,559 --> 00:18:33,720 instead of feeding a ton of slack for 383 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,960 your climber maybe you should feed your 384 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,360 climber and as we saw If the fall is 385 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:42,159 small bending the knees before the fall 386 00:18:42,159 --> 00:18:45,280 might help now in case of a big whipper 387 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,080 the fall naturally is much bigger so you 388 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,480 will have more time to go down and 389 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,799 explode up and from B mechanical 390 00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:55,120 standpoint since our muscles act as 391 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,440 Springs going down and jumping up should 392 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,200 result into a higher jump now if that 393 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,640 doesn't help I would suggest more food 394 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,480 cycles and if that's not an option then 395 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,960 I've seen a method used by a very heavy 396 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,400 Blair which worked very well for him 397 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,600 where he took a little bit of slack with 398 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,039 his lead hand and during the impact he 399 00:19:18,039 --> 00:19:22,440 used his lead hand to soften the 400 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,000 catch it is extremely important to not 401 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,880 have too much slack here or you will 402 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,600 burn your hand so be smart and use this 403 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,559 at your own risk this is sketchy but 404 00:19:34,559 --> 00:19:36,679 I've seen it working really well or 405 00:19:36,679 --> 00:19:39,159 alternatively go old school and learn 406 00:19:39,159 --> 00:19:41,919 how to use tube style BL then it doesn't 407 00:19:41,919 --> 00:19:43,799 matter what's the weight of the climber 408 00:19:43,799 --> 00:19:46,400 you can always make a soft catch but of 409 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,760 course that comes with its own risks of 410 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,480 not having assisted blade device but for 411 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,720 majority of you jumping up is going to 412 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,520 be the best and if for whatever reason 413 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,600 you find yourself away from the wall 414 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,960 then just do stepping forward as we saw 415 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,480 whatever soft catch method is much 416 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,679 better than passive delay now I 417 00:20:06,679 --> 00:20:08,280 understand that this video was full of 418 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,840 charts and graphs and chances are if 419 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,280 you're still watching you're a little 420 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,799 bit nerdy however I'm going to make a 421 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:17,320 separate video for my blay Master Class 422 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,360 where I will go more on practical 423 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:22,320 details including those sketchy low to 424 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,080 the ground situations and also during 425 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,200 these two years we have measured forces 426 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,159 on hundred of Falls so we have a lot of 427 00:20:30,159 --> 00:20:32,120 data but as I explained in previous 428 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,840 episodes Peak Force to the climber might 429 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,120 not be the most important 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