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Re:The Free Soloist Who Fell to Earth by throwaway22032 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @08:02PM (#36463874)
I edited my post to clarify that I don't mean that there's zero skill involved, of course I didn't mean that.

Just that when it goes wrong, you're just screwed.

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Re:The Free Soloist Who Fell to Earth by kdmccormick on Saturday June 24, 2023 @08:32PM (#36464077)
Yeah, I'm with you there, there's a big luck aspect it seems.

I think those things soloists they do in order to lower the probability of freak events (choosing climbs smartly, not soloing when they're no in the right headspace, practicing, being good at recovering from mistakes, choosing good holds, etc) makes it very skill-based, but they can never lower that all the way to 0%.

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