Advice to someone who had their belayer drop them (twice)

My advice to someone who had their belayer drop them ...twice, had followed. EDITED: Shortened AND deleted per request from something I actually had seen with my own eyes, twice and damned near exact as I SAW happen to others to the following fantasy bullshit points so as to have a worthless post that both helps and offends no one due to poor reception and folks belief that they prefer style over substance and don't need my advice:

1) Meh. Don't learn anything from your accident and don't learn from others hard won experience, just go get dropped again. 3rd times a charm? Hip Hip. That's why we pay rescue folks after all, and they'd just be sitting around watching cartoons and eating sugar pops and Captain Crunch all morning, so getting them off their lazy asses is a benefit to them and to you. No escaping the inevitable I guess.

2) Wear your helmet. Kidding. Everyone says it though so it must be true. Right? It won't matter when your tib/fibs are up in your stomach area and your vertabrea scrunched so tight you think Mini-me is a giant (opps, my apologies to any offended "little people or vertically challenged persons"). But my point is that with modern medical thinggys, you'll be back to climbing harder than ever before.

3) Trial and error worked fine for your grandparents, so keep on (once all of the breaks heal) and don't give up. You'll probably eventually get it sorted out. Try try try again and all that shit. I mean, many before you have recovered from injuries and they continue to lead full and happy climbing lives. That might be you the 3rd, 4th and 5th time you slap dirt. It might not even happen again. Haha, and I have a bridge I'll sell you too.

4) And please try and flap your arms like wings like Wiley Coyote in the Road Runner Cartoons to maneuver, as your ass is flying though the air, so as to miss the rocks at the base. If your leader falls and is about to come slamming down on you, why not use the Road Runner method as well to get outta the way?

Carry on. Beep-beep

If your belayer drops you that does not make them a noob... that makes them a dumbass
Sorry I could not make it past the first sentence

Billcoe wrote: Say you have a hot new girlfriend you meet in a climbing gym

Your possibly valid points about mentoring new climbers are completely overshadowed by your absolutely disgusting post. I'm too appalled to be more eloquent than this:
You are super gross.

I'm still at my local telephone pole trying to find bolts to clip into.

Em Cos wrote:Your possibly valid points about mentoring new climbers are completely overshadowed by your absolutely disgusting post. I'm too appalled to be more eloquent than this: You are super gross.

I thought this is why the GriGri was invented??

Hottie + no experience + GriGri + 6-pack = Great day of climbing, try doing that with an ATC!

Is it weird that I'm kind of getting aroused?

Your just mad that your "buddy" got the "hottie" you didn't, or is it that your "buddy" is into "hotties" and not you.

So how would you classify the person who dropped me 30ft on top rope?

WyomingSummits wrote:So how would you classify the person who dropped me 30ft on top rope?

Bill, you're too old for this kind of thing.

This seriously has to be the worst, most archaic post I've seen in a LONG TIME. Are you sure it's you who won't climb with new people and not new people who don't want to climb with you? Just sayin' man.

I, I think it's anti noob and pro hottie. Didn't get much else from it though.

No!

The debate is hottie grigri vs. gigi use

I'll go against the prevailing opinion here and say great post. Written for the demographic that is most likely to find themselves getting dropped. Might be even better if your buddy has a hottie too.

I took away from this that guys will do just about anything to get a date. If the female in question is attractive to males safety goes out the window.. I think?

So, anti hottie, anti noob, pro safety then?

"Blah blah blah, I'm a douche and I think I am important" = this thread.

That, and you are super gross pretty much sums it up.

I had an incident this winter, where I let myself receive a questionable belay. Dunno what I was thinking. My friends had taken off for the day, so I kind-of absorbed myself into this guided top-rope group. The kid belaying me said he knew what he was doing, but overseeing him I thought some things were questionable. I wanted to climb so bad that I told myself, "Well his guides are watching" "It's not that tall up there" "How fast could that fat frozen rope go through the device anyway". Needless to say, lesson learned, the climbing in that sense was not enjoyable and I down-climbed instead of letting the kid lower me. Wasn't until back at the car where I had the, what's wrong with you convo in my head.

But if it were a hottie... I would have tied in, not looked back, and dyno'd the finish!

Jake I've been putting beginners on that GriGri, teaching them to belay since I got it from you. If you have some brains in your head, and the person you're teaching has some brains in theirs, and you go over these things with them and inspect them, teach them on short walls, the learning process is not difficult.