Types of Rope Used for Indoor Rock Climbing

Video Transcript

"I'm here to talk about indoor rock climbing. Okay, in this clip, I'm going to be explaining the two types of ropes used in climbing. As we first stated, top roping, when the rope is above you, we use a different type of rope. Mostlly, they use a very static rope (static meaning there's no real elasticity in the rope; no stretchiness). They use this way because when you fall, you don't really fall at all and you just stay in one spot, so there's no need for a dynamic rope which is stretchy, kind of like a bungee cord. The reason why is dynamic ropes are very expensive, and you only want to use them when you really need to take a fall on the safety. Here, these are cheaper, very much stronger, and durable. As you take a look at the dynamic rope which we use for lead climbing, as you see when I'm falling, if you take a look at the rope, there's some stretchiness to it. And the reason why there's some stretchiness to it is so you don't break your back or harm yourself or rip your harness right off of you, like as if it was a still cable. You need that stretchiness to absorb the shock of the fall; that's a dynamic rope we use for leading and the static rope we use for top roping."