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Sports / Fitness / Recreation | | English term or phrase: to take a whipper (in climbing) | ¿Alquien sabe cómo se denomina a este tipo de caída (whipper) en español?
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| | | sufrir una vuelo / una caída importante | Explanation:
"In rock climbing, a whipper is an especially hard or dynamic fall where the rope is weighed by a significant load. A fall is considered hard when the climber falls beyond at least one piece of protection, which in trad climbing would mean the last placed cam or nut and in sport climbing would be the last successfully clipped quickdraw. The term 'whipper' comes from the whipping motion a climber will take if an unskilled belayer cuts the fall short, limiting the dynamic stretching nature of the rope and causing a pendulum effect (often into the wall). It has become ubiquitous [sic], however, with a hard fall, regardless of whether the pendulum effect is achieved or not."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipper
"“Los vuelos” pueden tener un valor que va de 0 a 2, siendo este último el más grabe [sic] que puede sufrirse, y se calcula dividiendo los metros de cuerda utilizada desde el asegurador hasta el escalador que ha caído, entre los metros de la caída."
http://www.climbingzone.es/blog/cuerdas-de-escalada-como-ele...
"Pues un vuelo en deportiva es una caída importante pero es parte de la diversión"
http://www.atate.info/index.php/tecnica-y-practica/tecnica/2...
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Note added at 23 mins (2011-09-16 11:27:45 GMT)
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Perdón: "un vuelo", no "una vuelo". |
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Local time: 08:54
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23 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 sufrir una vuelo / una caída importante
Explanation:
"In rock climbing, a whipper is an especially hard or dynamic fall where the rope is weighed by a significant load. A fall is considered hard when the climber falls beyond at least one piece of protection, which in trad climbing would mean the last placed cam or nut and in sport climbing would be the last successfully clipped quickdraw. The term 'whipper' comes from the whipping motion a climber will take if an unskilled belayer cuts the fall short, limiting the dynamic stretching nature of the rope and causing a pendulum effect (often into the wall). It has become ubiquitous [sic], however, with a hard fall, regardless of whether the pendulum effect is achieved or not."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipper
"“Los vuelos” pueden tener un valor que va de 0 a 2, siendo este último el más grabe [sic] que puede sufrirse, y se calcula dividiendo los metros de cuerda utilizada desde el asegurador hasta el escalador que ha caído, entre los metros de la caída."
http://www.climbingzone.es/blog/cuerdas-de-escalada-como-ele...
"Pues un vuelo en deportiva es una caída importante pero es parte de la diversión"
http://www.atate.info/index.php/tecnica-y-practica/tecnica/2...
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Note added at 23 mins (2011-09-16 11:27:45 GMT)
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Perdón: "un vuelo", no "una vuelo".
| Charles Davis
Local time: 08:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 79
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