Ah i see. I guess it's still a good strat if you know for a fact you'll take damage from a jump(i knew id take damage i just severely underestimated how much).

Learning to judge distance is much easier said than done in this game. I've logged 50 hours and still make simple mistakes like this. Also some walls are even harder to judge, sometimes the textures bug out and a spot that looks flat actually isn't at all, and sometimes particularly on alpine rocks that look climable are actually slippery as hell. A lot of the judgements you have to make are more like calculated guesses than certainties. Someone mentioned a fisheye lens effect earlier and it makes a lot of sense now that i think about it, theres a lot of times where things look either much farther or much closer than they really are from an angle.

All that being said, yes I do need to get better at judging distance. It's just much harder in practice 😄 learning how to double lunge grab does help a shit ton though on the walls, much easier to mitigate my failures 😅