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Fear of Flying 30-Jan-2004 At 2:46:16 PM Access Ant

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I been climbing for about 18 years, working as an instructor for about 8 and I still shit myself when falling off. Fear is a basic survial instinct we all have and it does a good job keeping us alive. I climb cause I get scared (and it's fun) and to overcome it and get up a route that you didn't think you could is (at least I think) is one of the best feeling in climbing. Now sure if you are working projects or one of those freaks that climb grade 28 plus (which by the way I'm not even close too) you need to spend a fair bit of time airborn, you do get use to it and can even get casual about it (which is when most people get hurt). However for the rest of us mere mortals if you don't get scared every now and then I think your got something wrong up top. Thats not to say that you need to by gripped stupid on every climb all the time, it just a bit of fear is healthy, you know the saying "NO FEAR NO BRAIN".