Alpine > Trad > Sport > Boulder
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This thread got me thinking. |
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Something real to say > Trolling. |
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In an effort to get this thread started in a manner that is appropriate, I will add this: |
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The truth hurts. |
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NC Rock Climber wrote:In an effort to get this thread started in a manner that is appropriate, I will add this: youtube.com/watch?v=ddjD4c-…My day just of much better !! I have not had a laugh that good for a while now. youtube.com/watch?v=gaOMug3… |
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So, you think it's lame that people don't give you respect for sport climbing, but then you go on to say that people who don't climb 5.12 aren't really climbing? |
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Ryan Williams wrote:So, you think it's lame that people don't give you respect for sport climbing, but then you go on to say that people who don't climb 5.12 aren't really climbing? I got news for ya buddy - the people climbing 5.8 trad or 5.10 sport are having just as much fun as you are. Probably a lot more actually. No doubt they are more fun to be around. Get over yourself.I'm not saying that I'm better than them, I'm stating an opinion about "sport" climbing. I have no issue with any of the disciplines, I just notice attitude in one direction not the other. |
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.... Yawn.... so you guys think the Broncos got a chance against the Ravens Sunday? |
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When I was in college I ran over a chipmunk with a forklift. Boy, was that messy. |
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Randy W. wrote: I'm not saying that I'm better than them, I'm stating an opinion about "sport" climbing. I have no issue with any of the disciplines, I just notice attitude in one direction not the other.What you fail to realize is that your "opinion" is in fact attitude in the other direction. Saying that sport climbing "starts at 5.12" is no different than a trad guy saying that sport climbing is inferior. The way you feel when trad guys put sport climbers down - that's the way you just made a whole lot of 5.10-5.11 sport climbers feel. |
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You said it man..nobody fucks w The Jesus! I like your style dude... |
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who cares? |
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pebble wrasslin pointless little boulders is just for getting better for those RAD sport lines! |
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Randy W. wrote:This thread got me thinking. mountainproject.com/v/gener… I often hear people say that Alpine climbers are the best out there, and that sporto's and pebble wrestlers are a bunch of pussies in comparison. I see myself as a recreational climber, and I find it annoying that there is this BS about sport is just an invisible TR and this and that. Someone in the above post said they never hear sport climbers and boulderers making these negative comments about the other, but the inverse is not true. My though on it is this... sport climbing really starts at the 5.12 level, and at that point, you have invested a shit ton of time and you could likely give a crap about someone else's opinion. Tradsters that can't climb hard boast about how inferior HARD climbing is because the ego must fine a way to justify that someone else is better than them.I rarely hear alpine climbers putting down anybody else. It seems to me like it's strictly a trad thing. and only a minority of trad climbers, for that matter. |
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Not understanding sport climbing: A week chufflet with a big ego but very little pain tolerance and too much fat. |
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a good well rounded climber does sport, trad and boulders ... |
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Ryan Williams wrote:So, you think it's lame that people don't give you respect for sport climbing, but then you go on to say that people who don't climb 5.12 aren't really climbing? Respect my authority!!!!! Oh yea, it's not that they aren't climbing, it's that they aren't "sport climbing", or so I hear. I'll bet they will come back, with a troop of boy scouts, a hemp cord, and an old swami belt. Viva la Revolution!!!! |
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Jonhy Q wrote:Not understanding sport climbing: A week chufflet with a big ego but very little pain tolerance and too much fat. Not understanding trad climbing: A noob from the gym who doesn't understand the irrelevance his situation and likes to make weak people mad. The reward of understanding multiple disciplines: priceless. bearbreeder wrote:a good well rounded climber does sport, trad and boulders ... if you climb harder trad, sport climbing and bouldering can be very useful to pull through cruxes ... personally every 5.12 or above trad climber i know does sport and boulders at some point ... ;)yep x2 |
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Nate Reno wrote:pebble wrasslin pointless little boulders is just for getting better for those RAD sport lines! -> hangdogging up those lame safely bolted sport routes is just to get good enough not to fall off of those inspiring trad routes! -> traddin' at the crag 30 mins from the road is just to get better so you're more confident and safe, so you can get up that huge alpine peak! -> now you can alpine up to the tippy top of some big magestic mountain! by the time you get here, you're old, out of shape and crusty. lots people just skip to some random step to begin with, then/or have too much fun at whatever step they're on and stay there for the most part. /end rambling, I had about as much of a point as the hippo.X2. This is wise, young ones. |
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Everyone has a certain mix of enjoyment from difficult movement (let's call this "movement") and from danger/exposure/conditions/gear/everything else (let's call this "adventure"). |