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self-unclipping quickdraw 29-Oct-2008 At 7:35:49 PM hipster

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Are you 100% sure he didn't kick the ring bolt/draw with his feet as he fell. Because if he fell and had his feet nowhere near the rope the incident of the draw unclipping should in no way have forced him upside down, he should have just fallen further.
Not long ago on an FA I was slumped on a ringbolt lamenting the runout to the next clip. As I climbed on I heard a metallic twang, and looked down to see the quickdraw I'd just passed had unclipped from the bolt and had fallen to the clipped draw below. Nervous times they were climbing to the next draw!! I could only summise that I'd somehow displaced the draw with my foot as I climbed upwards.
Bad luck on blowing the tick too :-(