How To Place Copperheads - Aid Climbing Skills

[@spaghettihair]

Thanks for taking whips on heads for our education/entertainment :)

[@brianrodman1033]

These videos are excellent. Really impressed with how well everything is explained and shown with both graphics and "live demos". The footage of you taking multiple falls on heads, beaks, and hooks is awesome, definitely above and beyond. Makes me want to check out the course you offer because I know it will be of great quality and enjoyable to watch as well as informative. Thanks again for the great content that has been fun to watch and helpful to refresh various aid climbing/big wall climbing techniques after a long hiatus from climbing.

[@vdiffclimbing]

Thanks Brian!

[@brianrodman1033]

@@vdiffclimbing I watched the Baffin Island video for the first time today. Wow! What an incredible and epic first ascent. I can only imagine what an intense and beautiful place it is there, way up North. The amount of huge unclimbed walls and peaks is mind blowing and seemingly unlimited. How did you guys go about deciding what your climbing objective would be?

[@vdiffclimbing]

We decided on Mount Turnweather because it looked massive, scary, totally wild, completely improbable and awesome all at the same time.

[@bobbypatton4903]

I fell on a head a few days ago on my first aid lead fall. I'm slightly obsessed now, I can't believe it held!

[@smknchub]

Nothing like unzippering after nail up ! Or finding bolt hangers stamped with Oh S**t and Oh oh. Fond memories. Kudos on the vid !!

[@ve7hun]

Great video - and absolutely awesome graphics! Please keep publishing these videos.

[@johtso1]

Blown away by the quality of these videos! Amazing work..

[@coleman7931]

Production quality went crazy on this, thank you!

[@alessandroiotti8620]

great videos guys. When you write at the end "not suitable for soft rock", it should be said that Lead-heads are for sandstone

[@docwatson1134]

I want to compliment the climber in this video. He seemed so calm and relaxed as he's falling, casually reaching his right hand for the rope as the second piece of protection goes zing! And he enters a controlled free fall. I assume he had a solid bolt and some shock absorbing rig further down the wall. Looked like this wasn't his first time falling off a cliff, seemed to be having fun.

[@EricForney-uz4iz]

Great explanation and Clearly described. 👍👍

[@aaronmay3653]

Thanks for making these videos.

[@ericman3234]

great video . thanks😊

[@billybones4950]

When he said “bomber”, I felt that. 😂

[@123amsterdan456]

So we have this thing that might or might not hold your body weight, and If you find one on the route, you have no idea how long it's there and the integrity of the cable. Good Luck :) I love climbing

[@vdiffclimbing]

Give it a bounce test and you'll find out!

[@simonsimon9880]

Whether you found it in situ or placed it yourself, you still have to bounce test it exactly the same way. So a found head isn't really any more sus than one you placed.

[@muhammadtaufik3720]

Very easy to understand,, I am waiting for next video 👍

[@expierreiment]

Very good video! Thanks

[@ryanvanhorne5837]

Great video, thank you.

[@BushCampingTools]

Absolutely brilliant video!

[@inkwhir]

Wow, what software did you use to make the 3d graphics? It's sick!! 😍😍

[@vdiffclimbing]

I used Blender. It's free! www.blender.org/

[@LuenWarneke]

Great videos as usual. Thanks for sharing. 🤙

[@lachimsojdag]

Thanks for sharing !!! awesome video guys !

[@professorsogol5824]

How well do heads work in the narley cracks in the bark of ponderosa pine trees?

[@kellenbusby]

Dude this was an awesome video.

[@vdiffclimbing]

Cheers!

[@ledzep369]

Can we get a HowNot2 video on these to see some data/numbers?

[@simonsimon9880]

Not really any useful numbers. When you place a head, you're deforming it so much that test pulls in a lab setting are meaningless. Every placement needs to be tested individually (just like any other hard aid placement). Got to know how to bounce test your new placement, without risking shock loading your previous piece. You can certainly test the loop end of a home-made head to see how strong that swage is, but testing the business end is kind of pointless.

[@oldi6btm6t9d4]

Very interesting!

[@ASNIV_]

So helpful

[@foxvideo2233]

Bien, thanks

[@2rfg949]

hahaha I love your videos please don't stop

[@vdiffclimbing]

Thanks Michael! More videos coming soon..

[@anafyedpedv.2965]

สุดดด

[@sstrong42]

Aid climbing is so weird.

[@TheSubieFan]

Okay so I'm not totally crazy for not understanding aid then? This shit seems like a weird foreign world where the rules are so blurred.

[@EliotRege]

It’s super weird. But it’s also really important for doing things you can’t climb normally on things like big walls if you still want to do the rest

[@LocalConArtist]

I have heard that aid is how engineers relax

[@simonsimon9880]

​@@TheSubieFannot many rules. Stick clipping is considered off-side, but for the most part, up is up!

[@danny-li6io]

Yeah, no thank you

[@johan2380]

jesus.. people trust this with their lives?

[@linksgrunversifft4270]

Wow, this is NO commercial for copperheads🤣 Maybe they hold, but probably not…🫣

[@simonsimon9880]

They're not meant to hold falls, though. They're meant to hold your body weight, to help you make upward progress.