Free Climbing

[Whalleyrange]

Watch this video

http:// http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=66974

 

Great video inspires me to climb. But it feels weird not being in a harness even tho I know I can do it.

 

I crosses my mind that it's not worth the risk of being injured and not being able to work But still got to do it some times.

 

Got a great beech tree in a park back home for it. anyone else have a tree they just can't help to climb around?

[Whalleyrange]

Sorry bad link.

 

Try this.

 

UKC News - FRI NIGHT VID: My Own Hands

[Pedroski]

Saw that vid a little while ago - he's good. Funnily enough, when I went out for a walk on Saturday with my wife and kids and dogs, I decided to have a little free climb to try and stretch and get my lungs working properly as I was feeling pretty crap. Anyway, I hoiked myself up on to a branch about 8 feet off the ground, then went up 3 more - suppose I got to about 20 feet. Then it kind of dawned on my that I really was feeling rough and it's a long way back down!

[Dan Curtis]

Seen that vid floating about but only just watched it.

 

My nephew keeps pestering me to free climb just so he can see it. I'm beginning to push my limits with it now, smaller branches, bigger gaps etc. Of course I'm aware of the tree's physiological limits so I'm not losing my head but there is such a freedom with it.

[Pedroski]

Tell you what I really do like, and that's hanging upside-down with legs over a branch. Dunno why, it's somehow just so relaxing!

[kentjames]

I have thought in the past how its funny that in my youth I thought nothing of climbing up a tree and sitting in amongst the branches. A Beech tree comes to mind that we use to spend hours in just chatting. These days, on the odd occasion that I have free climbed I find it easy to climb up but less easy to get down again. Maybe that's just laziness of using a rope to descend on. I found this video very calming and thought invoking, however I'll stick to climbing with ropes these days.

[Pedroski]

Kentjames, I think one of the problems of coming back down again when we get older is the extra weight and less bounce. I see my kids jump off stuff and find myself having to try hard not to stop them, but it's just the sort of heights I would jump from when I was a kid and find easy.

[Backpain]

Lovely stuff, but I can help smelling the same bullshit he smelt with rock climbers! He'll be running a "free climbing school" pretty soon just watch. Balls like space hoppers though. Like the bit at the end where he falls, is there a part II?

[Sam Thompson]

It's a cool video, he's called bareroots on here

[jhonnyjigsaw]

I have thought in the past how its funny that in my youth I thought nothing of climbing up a tree and sitting in amongst the branches. A Beech tree comes to mind that we use to spend hours in just chatting. These days, on the odd occasion that I have free climbed I find it easy to climb up but less easy to get down again. Maybe that's just laziness of using a rope to descend on. I found this video very calming and thought invoking, however I'll stick to climbing with ropes these days.

 

i was climbing on 3 knot systems while spiking monkey puzzels with a ganoderma bracket