How many feet = whipper?

"Damn bro, have you taken that whipper from the fourth bolt?... Legendary"

Mike Lane wrote:If you have time to look down and basically 'experience' the fall. Most dinks and drops happen so fast that you don't perceive much when it happens. With a whipper, you have time to mentally register either an 'Oh Shit' or a 'wheee"; depending on your nature.

Exactly.
I took a 30 foot slide (not a whipper) on a Tuolumne runout-actual rubber skid marks for the last few feet! Good Times!
A Screamer is when you have time to say "Oh Shit!"

When you hear the wind.

Joe Huggins wrote: Exactly. I took a 30 foot slide (not a whipper) on a Tuolumne runout-actual rubber skid marks for the last few feet!

Yep, gotta be fully airborne, more points if you think yer gonna die.

Had two of those.

How about this? If the distance your belayer ran when he saw you falling is greater than the distance between you and the ground when you come to a stop, it's a whipper. Added points if you were 3 or more bolts/placements up the climb.

I'll give you a "whipper," right across your face!!! I'm rick james BIOTCH!

It's not the length of the fall it's the force of which your body accelerates and eventually hit's the wall. But, let's put a number on it and call it 15' ft.

When you take one you will know it. 15 ft. or so generally registers as a whipper for me.

It's only a whipper if you and your belayer crap their pants.

mucci wrote:When you hear the wind.

When "whipper" comes to my mind, I imagine the sound of a whip, the sound the rope makes in a big fall.

iClimb5fun wrote:Thanks for the laughs guys!! Good stuff. As far as the term "whipper" goes, the climbing community here uses it as another word for fall.

For us it means "big fall"
As a linguist I would think "whipper" may have different lengths depending on geographic region.
As a climber, I generally think if you skip a bolt or two, or have a long "no-pro" runout and fall...

Buff Johnson wrote:It's gotta be a bonafide 12.234 feet, you can't just go 2 feet above your pro and have the belayer zing out the gri just to make it look good on camera.

I think I have done this bouldering, but It was a groundfall

Maybe a whipper is a fall that you remember?
I still remember the first time I jumped on purpose from the anchors, even though it wasn't that far (~10 feet). Psychologically it was really hard for me to jump.

Over time our definition of "whipper" changes - I'll take numerous 30-footers while working a sport route, and none will be memorable. However I recently took a 30-footer on a microcam (I'm not a trad climber), and man do I remember that. I was pinkpointing and telling myself "these pieces are bomber, I'm clipping bolts, they're bolts" and then when I fell I realized "oh shit I'm in the air and that is most certainly not a bolt."

If you take a trip to the ER after your fall, chances are it was a whipper.

Those are called diggers

Joe Huggins wrote: A Screamer is when you have time to say "Oh Shit!"

A double-screamer is when you scream, run out of air, realize you are still falling, taking in air and scream again.

This is pointless

dorseyec wrote: You don't have to jump up, just give with the fall a little bit. Even when I am standing on level ground I rarely will "jump". I think you two need to get some instruction or yer gonna die, you sound like you could use it.

Are you a dick all the time or just when your hiding behind the the vast expanse of the Internet, I have seen more of your quotes on here in the last few weeks get removed due to the #1 guideline of don't be a jerk than anyone else. You sound like you could use some instruction in attitude ajustment.

And to answere the question the pitch of my voice has to change drastically for it to be considered a whipper. It jumps into the mega-whipper range if I have to change my pants afterward

When you have time enough to think "Why is the rock moving up so quickly?"