Fear of Lead Climbing | Fear of Falling Masterclass

If you are afraid of lead climbing, you should NOT start with lead falling training. This will be a mini-guide on how to overcome fear and anxiety for lead climbing!

[ahmadchehaimi]

Intresting video :) I would add that a thing that can help is trusting the climbing equipment. Some people are afraid that complications might happen with the equipment and do not react very well to that fear. Studying profoundly how the harness, grigri, and so on work helps a lot. There are plenty of videos on youtube that test the limits of climbing equipment and show how resilient and reduntant they can be.

[schluppvomgrunenstern]

That was exactly what I was looking for. 😊

[MatthewWright-yt]

Contact with the wall is what’s in my head, and trusting a good belay

[mat]

There is a catch, you need a good belayer and that doesn't depend on you. Second point there is a big difference on training the falling in a gym where you choose the angle of the wall and outdoor climbing where the falling is much bigger and the environment is not so safe. How you overcome the fear when a fall is most probably dangerous? There are plenty of easy route on the level 5c/6a where the distance between bolts is 4-5m not 1m as in the gym and where you can't fall if you don't want to break your ankles.

[marselluswallace]

Ciao, ti scrivo in italiano perchè ho intuito da qualche video che italiche sono le tue origini (?) o quanto meno lo mastichi.
Grazie per i tuoi video, la meticolosa esposizione e la simpatia con cui sono conditi è appagante. Ti vorrei chiedere un suggerimento: come sconfiggere la paura di cadere in alpinismo?
Il metodo "falling masteclass" risulta difficilmente attuabile, da un lato per la precarietà di soste, protezioni (friends, nuts etc) e roccia, che potrebbero rendere una caduta molto grande e al limite mortale, visto che si è considerevolmente elevati rispetto al suolo;
dall'altro perchè, per progredire con la confidenza si necessiterebbe di fare voli sempre più alti e la sporadicità delle protezioni inseribili nella roccia (4-5 metri, per la mia esperienza) farebbe ben presto giungere a big whipper ad alto tasso di infortunio
😱😨

Che si fa?
Grazie in anticipo, un saluto dal Bel Paese, continua così
🙂

[Craigsoutdooradventures]

Lead climbing falls…. I used the auto belay for the 1st time yesterday, climbed 15m then was to scared to let go, so climbed back down 🫣🫣

[truongvu]

In the last jump she could have easily been stuck with her left leg between the wall and the rope lol. That didn't look good at all. You can see she touched the rope with her ankle.