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Shockloading is bullshit 1-May-2020 At 4:04:39 PM IdratherbeclimbingM9

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On 1-May-2020 PeterW wrote:
>On 1-May-2020 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>> I have also accidentally taken greater than FF2 on a fifi hook during
>an aid-climbing fall.
>
>My first thought was, "How is more than FF2 possible?"
>
>My second was to guess that the hook caught on something as you fell past?

Your second guess is correct.
It would have been a non-event (read 'routine clean-air on vertical wall type') fall of about 3 metres, except that my fifi snagged gear lower down while I was falling and statically arrested the fall before the lead rope took any loading.
The fifi was on a 20 cm loop girth hitched to my harness, and the fall length was probably a metre or so before the fifi snagged. It snagged on the pro that would have held the lead rope under belay tension!
I was somewhat baffled by it at the time and didn't get out my tape measure to get the exact numbers(!), but I know that last piece was below my feet at the time.
I marveled as much that the fifi didn't cut through the wire of the passive pro that arrested the fall!
;-)