Top 10 Worst Trad Climbing Falls Analysis

[@neaituppi7306]

I never wear a Bicycle helmet. One little wrinkle dinkle. I would suggest to not tell potential subscribers that your channel is not for someone that wants to complain about not wearing a helmet. Let them complain in the comments, it is engagement. You don't have to respond. Unless it is really insulting, then delete it.

[@headpointhandbook]

Hey dude, nah all good, I'm just about never insulted by anything, I appreciate your comment. First, NEVER? are you CRAZY/?? I'm cancelling you. Haha, yea, you're right and I didn't think of that, it would drive more engagement. The thing with that though is that I don't care. I know that this channel has a very niche audience, and I also don't/won't make any significant money doing this, and don't need to. I'm essentially free to be who I am, to be totally honest in my videos and to have the luxury of telling the helmet police to shove it. Being honest and being myself is worth more to me than youtube engagement. If I wanted to be a youtuber I would make indoor bouldering videos. Thanks again for your comment, I really do like it.

[@neaituppi7306]

@@headpointhandbook That is actually good. I had friends that want to be "KZbinrs" and they get kind of self absorbed. But you are welcome to send me one of the free helmets they probably send you to endorse. That you never wear. I might wear it.

[@headpointhandbook]

@@neaituppi7306 Hahaha If I ever pick up a brand name sponsorship and they send me a helmet, I mean this in all seriousness, I will ship it to you completely free before anybody else.

[@chopsjazz1]

Actually, "take your friend's pants when they offer them to you" is a lesson that I have put to use quite often, but never when climbing.

[@headpointhandbook]

Give me your pants right now

[@muzorewi]

Can we all agree that not wearing a helmet is irrational, there really are no downsides.

[@headpointhandbook]

You didn't heed the warning. I have no choice but to...disagree with you.

[@stephenhanselmann3443]

@@headpointhandbookwhy do not like climbing with a helmet?

[@headpointhandbook]

@@stephenhanselmann3443 I don't have any particular reason. It's simply personal preference. I think the risk of being injured in a fall without a helmet is incredibly unlikely and can be mitigated in other ways. If I was ice or alpine climbing I'd for sure wear one, but I don't hate myself so I'll likely never do those things lol

[@climberevan]

Thanks for putting this together!

[@headpointhandbook]

Thanks for taking the 40 minutes to watch it! I appreciate it.

[@ASNIV_]

Awesome video. Appreciate all the content you put out.

[@headpointhandbook]

Thank you, glad you've stuck with me. Hope it helps!

[@Phoosh]

Last fall clip gave me chills when I saw how the bolt on the cam caught you. 😬

[@headpointhandbook]

You shoulda saw my chills when I recovered it like that.

[@CloveHitchCory]

love your videos bro. I learn so much from watching you. This channel is so underrated

[@headpointhandbook]

Thanks dude, be safe out there! No shortcuts.

[@zReivax]

The not realizing you broke your ankle is wild. I'm currently walking around on a visibly bad ankle injury, and it's got me thinking 🤔

[@headpointhandbook]

Get an xray dude! It'll take 20 minutes at a city MD.

[@gabrielrivera9594]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. Lots of good stuff to think about

[@headpointhandbook]

Thank you! Hoping to help people develop a more rational and less fear based approach to their own climbing.

[@arthurkock881]

Love the fall analysis, hilarious yet insightful. You don’t think that if there’s a low crux with dodgy gear like on Bird Brain, it would be prudent for the belayer to basically brace for impact with the climber, given the higher likelihood of that happening? Maybe a football uniform would have been useful 😅

[@headpointhandbook]

Hey dude, missing you as usual. I think yea, your partner diving to hopefully catch you in the event of a bad fall would be pre-discussed and part of a dangerous belay, maybe even injuring themselves in the process. We need black diamond branded shoulder pads.

[@Antmandominguez]

Do you mind explaining why your 5.8 gunks falls were so bad and any lessons you learned from them?

[@headpointhandbook]

Hey, 5.8 in the gunks can be sandbagged for the grade, with some ledgey falls and traversing or varied terrain, so I really did mean that even though it's a joke! Maybe I can do a separate video on lessons for budding trad leaders.

[@DanA-bt7dr]

And sorry for focus on Cilley Dicken as it seems like there's been a lot of chat about it (this is my first time seeing it), but the logic of anchoring Sabrina with a cam was to stop her from shooting upwards to prevent a groundie? Do you think there might have been a different result if she was free to move dynamically?

[@headpointhandbook]

No problem, I appreciate you asking. Yea for sure, I think it was hard to anticipate how far I would fall, so anchoring seemed like the best decision. I think anchoring tighter would be the option in the future, because a ground fall there would be much worse(higher likelihood) with no anchor.

[@kawong1607]

Super cool stuff as usual! Definitely helpful for me, a relatively new trad climber aspiring to tackle consequential terrains! Not trying to be those annoying judgmental helmet polices. In all the lead fall you analyzed helmet wouldn't do shit for the leaders (or even making the leader easier to fall, like James Pearson mentioned), but it seems useful for belayers. In the whipper you hit your wife, perhaps a helmet would have better protected her head from slamming into the wall. I'm just curious about your take on helmet for leaders and belayers. No judgement implied :)

[@headpointhandbook]

Thanks! I'm psyched you asked. It's hard to say, maybe if she WAS wearing a helmet she would have skated her head up and off the rock and drove her eye socket into that corner instead? Or maybe she would have skated down and been totally fine. It really is hard to know and I'm not convinced after hours of thought that she would have been better with a helmet in this particular fall. Of course, my general advice is to wear a helmet, though I don't.

[@TradamYaks]

With the weather finally feeling more like fall I've been getting antsy to get back to work on bonehard. Definitely going to reevaluate that gear. And clip that old piton mid crux.

[@headpointhandbook]

I was too damn weak for that piton at the time, I'd give you my new gear beta if you like. Let's go dude I'm psyched! Future Shock direct right there is my main project for the fall.

[@TradamYaks]

@@headpointhandbook I have no problem taking gear beta on headpoints!!

[@nealnoyce1050]

Helmet?

[@headpointhandbook]

right there on my head

[@damian9070]

Lack of helmets on belayer is recipe for a disaster. Im not even that experienced but everytime I been outdoors there has been rockfall.

[@ericmarx3373]

Interesting, I’ve climbed almost every where you can name over the last 15 years and the only time there was rock fall it was the size of a large microwave and it certainly would’ve killed me, helmet or not. I responded to another comment here about how I feel about Sabrina’s lack of helmet on the cilley dicken fall.

[@arthurkock881]

You may be climbing on choss. When I started sport climbing, due to fear of falling my friends and I would often limit ourselves to mid-5.10. After we’d climb the finger few classics, we’d be left with zero or one star sub 5.10’s that are incredibly chossy and not repeated often. Rockfall (usually small) would happen all the time.

[@aminebrahimi3948]

@@ericmarx3373 Do you climb indoors you mean?

[@DanA-bt7dr]

Wait, you fall?

[@headpointhandbook]

I try as hard as I can not to lol

[@snailmonk]

Kinda wild people were mad at you for that person swinging in on you on bird brain. It was lucky she missed you, but it seemed like not really anyone's fault. I'm sure it was a lesson for her as well!

[@headpointhandbook]

Hey, yea they were upset that I climbed in her rope line, which clearly isn't what happened. I haven't been upset about it since the moment it happened. They still ignore me at the cliff, but I'll just keep saying hi, and walking by. Thankfully, I have plenty of friends.

[@snailmonk]

@@headpointhandbook Wow weirdly petty of them... Good mindset though, keep on keeping on and all.