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Desensitizing yourself to falling... 29-Jun-2006 At 11:44:41 AM mtnbear

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After a really bad mind screw i recieved while climbing yesterday (My first day back after being off two months from an injury) I realized that I needed to desensitize myself falling on trad gear. As I lay in bed falling asleep i came up with this:

On a short route (smaller then 15 m so that I only need 1 60 meter rope) I would set up a top rope and tie myself in. On that same route I would go up it as if leading the route with trad gear. So I'm tied into the top rope system and the "Leading" at the same time. With the top rope system I wouldn't have all the slack but enough to keep you from decking should things go wrong in the lead scenario.

Once you get to a point where if you fall you wont deck from either the top rope as a back up or the trad lead... you jump! Of course I will want to set it up so that I fall onto my trad gear first so as to A) gain trust in my placements and B) desensitize myself to falling on it

If My fall was held I would climb back up and a little bit higher and then jump off again...
If anything were to go wrong with my trad placements I would have the top rope system to catch me and the oportunity to learn from what I have done wrong in placing my gear.

Can anyone see anything wrong with this hypothetical scenario?