training for soloing

You do understand you are doing a fringe activity and there is going to be little to no "evidence" as you put it for any claim made for training for free soloing. A handful of people in the world do it at any sort of intensity (mostly people are doing it at very low intensity like you are talking about to get in mileage in the mountains alone).

There's very little evidence to support a good theory of why cancer is caused in humans and that is a subject that millions of dollars has been pumped into and thousands of brilliant people have dedicated their lives to researching. Why would you think there would be some evidence for this or that claim about free soloing? :D

Gotta go with intuition I'm afraid, Ken.

a friend of mine used to do quite a bit of soloing, and looking back on it he felt that it kind of screwed up his lead head. at first i thought this sounded counterintuitive, but his explanation made sense. when soloing he kind of built it into his head that he absolutely could not fall. when leading, he had a hard time transitioning into being able to commit to an uncertain move when falling would be relatively safe. he ended up quitting soloing primarily for this reason.

just food for thought...

slim wrote:a friend of mine used to do quite a bit of soloing, and looking back on it he felt that it kind of screwed up his lead head.

slim wrote:a friend of mine used to do quite a bit of soloing, and looking back on it he felt that it kind of screwed up his lead head. at first i thought this sounded counterintuitive, but his explanation made sense. when soloing he kind of built it into his head that he absolutely could not fall. when leading, he had a hard time transitioning into being able to commit to an uncertain move when falling would be relatively safe.

Will S wrote: Sure you did. You claimed to have gone to college. Given that you write like a 3rd grader who skipped their Ritalin, that seems like a pretty ridiculous claim...then again, maybe you went to a SEC school. Or barber college.