November 4, 2016

belaying, soft catches, gifs, and I hope you've been well

Happy Friday!

Two things for you today:

First: Have you ever been spiked? Have you ever tried to describe a "soft catch" to someone?

Well, if so, here's huge update to The Complete Guide to Soft Catches (as told in Gifs). This is a key foundation to other things to come.

Second: Do you have any outdoor trips planned for the spring? If you do, can you reply and tell me three things:

• Where you're going
• Why you're going there instead of somewhere else
• What your goals are (if any) for the trip

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Read The Complete Guide to Soft Catches (as told in Gifs) -->

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This comment went by on Reddit, about this guide:

[I sent this article] to my belayer and we made some adjustments. We would normally only give soft catches on bigger falls, but we started doing it even for smaller ones.

Made a huge difference and increased my confidence 10x.

How's your confidence? What would a 10x increase mean for your climbing?

-Josh