Wipeout Wednesday: Three Vids of Face Plants and Whippers

In the world of climbing, big wipeouts are few and far between, but when they do go down it’s always great when someone is catching it on film so we can all learn how to avoid them.

In the first video, Claire Bukowski took a 10-metre fall at a competition and landed on a soft floor. She did suffer some injuries and a fear of lead climbing for some time. Read about the fall here.

Big falls can hurt, even when they’re onto soft pads. Play safe out there.

Click to play the clips.

In 2012, I decked from the top of my gym at a local competition. You can read about my experience and how I overcame my fears of lead climbing on my blog: claire-bukowski.tumblr.com/mystory (Link in bio)?

A post shared by CLAIRE BUKOWSKI ? (@claire.bukowski) on May 20, 2015 at 12:53pm PDT

Happy Wipeout Wednesday…keep your faces safe everyone ?

A post shared by Sierra Blair-Coyle (@sierrablaircoyl) on Feb 7, 2018 at 6:47am PST

Taking a bad fall @chonjongwon96 style. Munich Boulder World Cup 2017. • ? @tomaoleksy

A post shared by Kilian Fischhuber (@kilifish) on Nov 13, 2017 at 8:26am PST

Watch highlights to the 2018 BlocBuster in Ontario here.