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How many time have you hit the ground falling off 13-May-2013 At 12:37:11 PM Superstu

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Once I decked while fiddling in the first nut about 2m off the deck. It was a cold morning, I wasn't warmed up, and I got a flash pump in my right hand while crimping. The fingers uncurled and down I went, bounced and walked away. It was at some forgettable modern bolted crag at Stapylton and somebody went back and put a bolt in at the start, which annoyed me immensely. My belayer for the day has never climbed with me again, oh well.

The other time I decked was on Hyaena when my belayer didn't hold the fall (rope whizzed through his fingers giving him rope burn). I hit the base hard and spent the evening in Horsham hospital trying to remember who I was. I now have a healthy respect for helmets, and wear one more often than I used to.

I took up climbing in 1990. So two decks in two decades. Statistically, if I get a days climbing in each week for the remaining 7 years of this decade, I've got a 1 in 364 chance of decking every day I go out!