290lb (131kg) climber! Guess the forces.

[JoelPenson]

About 2 stones of force ended up on the belayers face lol.

[johns]

I’m 6’5” & 215lbs. and there is NO WAY I’d lead anything without my belayer being anchored!

[thomasmoran]

Belaying a climber 3x you weight in open toe sandals 💀

[skillzboard]

Theoretical maximums for a fall factor of 1.0 for a fixed belay point are roughly 5 kN on climber, 9 kN on top draw and 3 kN on belayer. This is assuming a relatively new dynamic rope with about 7.5% static elongation and moderately low friction on the top draw. The fall factor here appears to be about 0.6, so I would estimate the maximum forces at 4 kN on climber 7 kN on draw and 2.5 kN. And that's assuming the belayer was fixed and not raised off the ground. So final guesses for the soft catch are: 3 kN on climber, 5.5 kN on draw and 1.4 kN on belayer.

[dragoscoco]

So 131kg falling about 3m is dampened in about 1 m. A 3 to 1 on one rope but doubled so a 6 to 1.
My guess is 7.7 kN.

I did not account for the head bump, lmao. Cheers to the belayers, they had some courage!!!

[bpfoley]

As a 280lb climber, also seeing the ohm and that he was just even with the draw, im gonna say 4.2kn on the belayer.

[hamagasch]

Hell jeah finally, I am at around 100kg and every "heavy climber" is mostly at around 80 xD
I am thrilled to se the numbers ! :D

[calebplumleephotography]

Lil bro almost died from suffocation... not the way he expected to go

[michaelweymouth]

We had a peanut belay us on the pamper pole at a group dynamics course in Massachusetts, when I was at Northeastern. She did it but it looked more like cirque du soleil ballet flying like Tinkerbell. 🤦‍♂️

[MrProphet]

As a bigger guy (270 lbs.) I've been waiting for this.

[velocirabbit]

POV: you just set a new route and need to test the screws

[therflash]

With the guy on the end, 5.3 on bolt, 2.6 on the climber, 1.3 on belayer.
With the girl, 4.7 on bolt, 2.5 on climber, 1.1 on belayer.

[vitorviotti]

As a 110kg climber I'm very interested in this

[drstrangelove]

Please have a look at the Edelrid Ohm video for a good example how a light climber belays a heavier climber without smashing his head (Angy Eiter does it there by not getting the head first).

[kgw]

Simple math. Mass times acceleration of gravity gives you newtons

[Zogg]

Pretty much the only time a belayer standing on the floor should have an anchor!!! If the belayer panicks when they are yanked off the floor, there's a chance they could let go of the rope, and if they aren't using an auto locking belay device things can get very painful. I have seen this happen on a large overhang on an indoor wall. Thankfully, the people who owned the wall really liked thick crash mats and the leed climber got to walk away from a 10 meter + fall!!!

[onadventures]

Probably less than you expect. I’m going to go 1.5kn on belayer and climber. 3kn at the anchor.

[shoqed]

2.5 on climber, 4.5 on anchor, 1.3 on belayer

[sendthis]

Well…191 kg, appx 6 meters?
Speed at impact: 10.84 m/s or 39.04 km/h
Time until impact: 1.11 s
Energy at impact: 11230.80 joules

The force of gravity, g = 9.8 m/s2.
Gravity accelerates you at 9.8 meters per second per second. After one second, you're falling 9.8 m/s. After two seconds, you're falling 19.6 m/s, and so on.
Time to splat: sqrt ( 2 * height / 9.8 )
It's the square root because you fall faster the longer you fall.
The more interesting question is why it's times two: If you accelerate for 1 second, your average speed over that time is increased by only 9.8 / 2 m/s.
Velocity at splat time: sqrt( 2 * g * height )
This is why falling from a higher height hurts more.
Energy at splat time: 1/2 * mass * velocity2 = mass * g * height


I’m not smart.
I use the “Splat Calculator”.
Look it up…it’s useful.

[DJ-kgzq]

I thought someone was knocking off your channel until I saw the “HowNOT2” 😂