I prefer rope climbing due to my fear of falling. Bouldering is scarier to me because there is no rope to catch me if I slip, and I have had a couple Injuries from falling weirdly off of boulders.
1 year ago | 21
I started climbing recently, I'm mid 40's, i've been climbing less times than I can count on my fingers and the first time I went out my bro put me on a 6a with an over hang and slopers and once I fell it really helped my climbing knowing someone responsible to belay makes falling as fun as it is uncomfortable.. and so you can relax a bit .. I made it up eventually with the sweatiest finger tips I ve ever experienced..🤣🤣🤣 I had to use my elbow for a jam and i still have scars on my shins from about 2 months ago..😊 I would have been out more but the weather is wet and I ve picked up a few injuries at work and other forms of play.. All the best to each and A
1 year ago | 20
I started climbing at 45, so I'm not really good at it. But when I read your comments I seem to have one big plus: I'm simply not afraid of falling. Maybe because I did Judo as a kid and learned how to fall, or maybe because I lost count of how many times I fell of a horse in the course of 35 years (two times with concussions with amnesia - we never wore helmets then and one large haematoma on my hip, but as I always tried to assure my mom - never anything serious 😁) So yeah, I just trust my partner to hold me if necessary.... 🤷🏼♀
1 year ago | 0
I have to do some practice falls pretty much any time I go back outside to get into the right head space, otherwise the fear of falling makes me climb really poorly. Does the trick every single time though!
1 year ago | 2
@victoriajonesadisciplesjou477
I recently started bouldering after a few months of top roping and being able to compleat a level 2 climb bouldering scared me because I recently saw someone fall and break their ankle bouldering indoors. I started a level 1 climb and as I was getting ready to send it I began to feel fear of falling. I did end up falling as I was trying to grab the finishing hold but it wasn't that bad honestly
1 year ago | 1
After doing that questionnaire, I realized it's not the fear of falling, it's the fear of grievous injury. Especially in my case, even though I can work 40+ hours in a week, I have no employee health insurance or workers comp. I'd be SoL, couldn't pay my bills, couldn't drive or take care of my elderly fam. I've even fallen before, but it's always been in a controlled way, eg deciding to drop off landing on my feet, or sometimes slipping off an overhang, but I'm still usually landing on my feet, or falling on the first move. It's the sketchy af moves at the top of the bouldering wall that get me, where I'd definitely break something if my foot or hand slips. Dyno to pocket at the top. Kneebar but if your other foot slips with your leg jammed in there, you're gonna be dangling or yanked out and probably break something. And people are always saying "It's not as bad as you imagine it" but I haven't imagined it, I've seen it. Compound fracture when a guy fell onto a crash pad, family friend broke his neck falling off a chair, even broke my own damned ankle jumping off a porch (granted I didn't see the leaf-covered stump, but still). Last time I was at my local place, they had a start where you hang upside down and put your hands at the hold a few inches above the floor. Getting into it was awkward af even for the experienced climbers. Being paralyzed from the neck down would be a waking nightmare. From listening to other people, a lot seem to fear the injury more than the fall. I'm also not afraid of falling when tied in.
1 year ago | 1
I have bad anxiety and I think my progress with climbing has been slow primarily due to my risk aversion. I am just so damn scared of taking a bad fall at the gym that I don’t like to do anything risky or too hard unless I’m top roping, but I don’t want to be like that forever so I’m trying to take bigger falls. The other day, I was working on a V2 and I felt that voice in my head telling me to just come down. I wanted to overcome that, so I went for it, and ended up falling from the top—it wasn’t a bad fall, and I was okay, and I felt proud of myself for working through that fear and trying to send it since I really appreciate that climbing is all about failing first. But once the adrenaline wore off I cried because I was so shaken up. I think I’ve had more confidence since taking that fall because I know I was okay, but climbing is so mental, almost feels like therapy for me
1 year ago | 1
I once took a small fall bouldering on a dynamic move and hurt my shoulder pretty bad. I’ve gravitated more towards ropes now and don’t really do bouldering as much due to the fear of falling and injury.
1 year ago (edited) | 1
I think it could be interesting to have comments from people who don’t have fear of falling to get their perspective on the matter. Wether it be because they’ve overcome it or simply because they never had it. I have never been afraid of heights or of falling and as a climber it’s such a privilege! I wish I could share that sense of confidence and fun with others…
1 year ago | 1
Walking down a mountain ridge, I felt like I was going to topple forwards and roll down it. There was nothing either side of me coming down Kirk Fell. The fields were so far below and in front of me that I was having optical problems with the decent down to the Wast head inn in the valley below. Apparently the Fell runners that race up it the way I came down (and now I know why ) but not down that way I came. Had similar problems on other mountains as I have found out I have a stigmatism in one eye.
1 year ago (edited) | 0
I started climbing in the summer of 2022 with my husband as a fun thing we could do/learn together. For several months we were completely obsessed. But then one day I was low down on a route I knew that could send and just felt absolutely terrified. I came down but continued climbing that day and beyond, basically feeling a little nervous but ok. But then I started to burst into tears on the wall, and after taking breaks, doing some fall training, etc decided that I needed to stop. It was a really fun activity but not for me in the end, because of my fear of falling. My husband and I still watch all your videos together, especially the content on More Magnus!
1 year ago | 10
At the top of a 20 foot boulder at my skill limit, there is definitely a heightened tension. But I think that is a good and rational thing. It tends to make me stick moves that I might waffle if there was zero consequence.
1 year ago (edited) | 0
When I watched a video by this crazy youtuber that went free soloing on a whim with Alex Honnold. My palms and my feet got sweaty watching that video
1 year ago | 22
I recently went outdoor climbing for the first time, doing a fairly intermediate wall (v3?) and it was fairly smooth up until right at the top. We brought big mats and everything but there was a weird mantle at the top and genuinely it was the first time I’ve understood people’s fear while bouldering. Seriously I was like 4 meters off the floor and it was terrifying. Never got that feeling indoors before even on much higher walls.
1 year ago | 1
Once while mountaineering with friends, we were climbing up a ~50° rock face, and it was raining the night before, so I started to slide down the path I took up, if my friend didn’t have good reflexes and stopped me, I genuinely could have slide off the trail and fallen about 10 or so metres, so now there’s a reason I only do indoor climbing
1 year ago | 1
I never been outside climbing only indoors, and my fingers are very sweaty, so at the top of this v4 the sweat on my fingers tips finally comes and I fell vertically hitting my shins on the three volumes below me. And I fell off this climb like three or four times because I was at the last hold before the finish and I kept falling like this each time
1 year ago | 20
I fell from an overhang about 6 m high because I psyched myself out at the top and ran out of grip strength. Shouted down to clear the floor and I was ignored. Winded myself and was otherwise fine, but nobody so much as looked at me or asked whether I was ok. That really upset me, the climbing community can be really snobby sometimes
1 year ago | 9
First time on scaffolding working on my own home at 15 yrs.old, it was like 6m from the ground but thats still scary.considering you have no safety and you would land on concrete upon fall. legs felt like noodles and the sweating did not help
1 year ago | 0
Take me 1ft off the floor and my brain goes "No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-noooooo" until I am back in the ground.
1 year ago | 0
Magnus Midtbø
Have you experienced fear of falling? I want to hear from you! Tell your story here: form.typeform.com/to/jO303EkY
1 year ago | [YT] | 474