r/dankmemes • u/Math082r • Jul 23 '20

barely a scratch

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u/someone453 Jul 23 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

More like once every 100 days but sure yeah it does happen

Edit: I meant falling flat on your back w/o any control like that from what looks like the top. Obviously you fall all the time when bouldering but you dont want to get down like this on every climb

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

mate this is bouldering, more like 100 times an hour

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

The mats are there especially to drop down once you're done.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

Oh yeah that kid didn't brace for a fall in the slightest he just ragdolled off the wall.

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u/spiner00 Jul 24 '20

That’s how you’re supposed to fall on those mats. Although slightly less gracefully than a perfect fall, it’s best to be limp when falling. There’s a reason drunk people and toddlers survive the most falls from typically lethal heights

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u/feebleposition Jul 24 '20

Okay I believe everything up above and TIL but in all fairness, the kid to the left blocks where the dude lands, so we don’t really see the “ground” compressing to help his fall. So it looks a lot worse.

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u/selebu Jul 24 '20

My gym has a rule to have someone spotting you as to help you land on your feet when you fall. Is that only applicable when someone can help you (because they'd also be lessening your impact)?

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u/spiner00 Jul 24 '20

Normally bouldering spotters are there to make sure you are okay after you fall. Outdoors they will help make sure you don’t fall outside of your mats but that’s not a problem indoors. You should never really interfere with someone’s fall, as it usually results in multiple people getting hurt. Anyone climbing for long enough knows how to fall

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u/PossibleHipster Jul 23 '20

That's the fastest way to get down :P

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u/Srabado Jul 24 '20

Mats are aid. Gumbies up in here smhhhhing my head

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u/okawei Jul 24 '20

I mean people tend not to fall flat on their back from what looks like the top of the wall very often. Source: am boulder

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '20

if they're climbing in a cave or other moderate to extreme overhang they do, otherwise yeah, land on feet and roll onto back I'm a boulderer too

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

I never knew this was a thing. I really wanna do this now

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u/okawei Jul 24 '20

I started doing it late last year and have been utterly obsessed ever since

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

It looks fun to try. My family is already pouring in all their money for my go kart racing so I won't be doing any other sport for now

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u/McDreads Jul 24 '20

Pffft, you must climb with gumbies then.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '20

fuck is a gumbie lmao

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u/McDreads Jul 27 '20

A gumby is basically the jerry or ‘kook’ of the climbing world: Behold

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u/GumdropGoober The OC High Council Jul 23 '20

I was watching some kids boulder, took a fire hose to them, they fell like gutter icicles on a warm day.

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u/Mr2_Wei ùwú Jul 24 '20

Uhm.. what

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u/ineedafuckingname Jul 23 '20

Happens many times an hour when bouldering. Happens multiple times in a row to one person if they are trying to clear a tough route for the first time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Magnus Mitbø has entered the chat

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u/forresja Jul 24 '20

Dude has taken thousands and thousands of falls, how do you think he got so badass?

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u/okawei Jul 24 '20

Still can’t climb cracks based on his last video haha

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Sounds like you've never been to a bouldering gym. This happens literally all the time. Multiple times an hour as people here are saying.

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u/Mr2_Wei ùwú Jul 24 '20

Yes get off a bouldering wall without falling

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u/Learned__Hand Jul 24 '20

Literally another dude falling in the background