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Originally Posted by multiweb
Geez... some parts of this video make me feel really uncomfortable. Even sitting at my desk on a chair. lol.
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Hi Marc
I completely understand.
It is quite interesting how one’s body/feelings/thinking processes can each respond to such situations.
In my early days rock climbing, your conscious mind would “know” that you are safe, standing on a narrow ledge, some 100 metres above the ground or sea below. Yet a leg might involuntarily and gradually start shaking in fear, as another part of your environmental monitoring system fed a danger signal back into your subconscious mind.
It was as if your own nervous system had taken control and decided that you were in an unsafe situation, so it sounded the alarm, even though your conscious mind “knew” that you were quite safe, belayed to the rock face via a comfortable harness.
No amount of talking to, or addressing your leg, would stop it from shaking, only the action of climbing up changed your state.
In the same situation as Alex Honnold in the photo, if I were not belayed to the rock face, it is quite feasible that my legs could actually shake me off the ledge.
Cheers
Dennis