[a dense loner]

Will someone pls put this on a fourth thread?

[Duma]

Pooch has done Wheel of Chaos 8B+

from her FB:
So psyched to have climbed the Wheel of Chaos today! It was my second 8B+/ V14. It was my second day on it, and there was A LOT of epicing on it today before the send, didn't think it was going to happen. So happy!

[monkey boy]

Not really sure if this is news but Mina repeated Super Cool (8a+) at Gordale yesterday! She said it was the best route she had done.

[petejh]

Barely registers a flicker of the needle on my significanceometer, don't know about others. On the cool-routes to enjoy scale it must be right up there though.

[Stu Littlefair]

Not really sure if this is news but Mina repeated Super Cool (8a+) at Gordale yesterday! She said it was the best route she had done.

Good effort Mina! Not hugely significant in the grand scale of things, but a good sign that the stamina training is paying dividends. Such an amazing route, and one which was a popular target for women a few years back. I was really surprised by how reachy the crux felt when I failed on it last year - makes the ascents by Lucy Mitchell, Ako Shillitoe and Ruth Smitton really impressive, given that I think they're all 5'4" or less...

[SA Chris]

Pooch has done Wheel of Chaos 8B+

So psyched to have climbed the Wheel of Chaos today! It was my second 8B+/ V14. It was my second day on it, and there was A LOT of epicing on it today before the send, didn't think it was going to happen. So happy!

Took her two days in total? Impressive either way, but doubly impressive if that's all it took!

[a dense loner]

Yep two days total

[Moo]

No video for this, no video for jade ........... Just saying

[Wood FT]

No video for this, no video for jade ........... Just saying

Strange not to film your hardest and most likely proudest ascents, sponsors or no sponsors. She does have a proven track record up to 8B doesnt she? 

Not really sure if this is news but Mina repeated Super Cool (8a+) at Gordale yesterday! She said it was the best route she had done.

Nice one to Mina, my LTG route!

[a dense loner]

I hope they are fuckin jokes. She's the strongest woman out there by a country mile and if she hadn't have moved to shef for 2 yrs she'd have pissed these probs then

[Wood FT]

just to clarify I wasn't questioning the validity of these ascents at all.

[cowboyhat]

I hope they are fuckin jokes. She's the strongest woman out there by a country mile and if she hadn't have moved to shef for 2 yrs she'd have pissed these probs then

As an aside, (I certainly have no reason to doubt AP), this is no argument at all.

Rich Simpson was the strongest guy out there yet he was a liar.

[Moo]

I'm obviously taking the piss.

[a dense loner]

I know that it's the thousands of people that don't know the in-jokes I'm reaching out to

[cofe]

Sounds like Keenus has done Rhapsody. Great news.

[Nibile]

 

[Stubbs]

Interesting, looking forward to reading about how it has become a worthwhile aim since the last time he tried it http://jamespearsonclimbing.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/walk-of-life-e12-7a-48m-description.html

[cheque]

He posted this a couple of days ago. " Rhapsody – a route that I had tried just before leaving the UK, had failed on, and to make matters worse had openly criticized rather than accepting defeat.  It was a chumps move, the act of an arrogant immature kid, but the past is the past and there is no way I can take that back."

[tomtom]

http://instagram.com/p/tU-_hozN1v/

[T_B]

Yep, he took a fair amount of stick for the overgrading of Walk of Life, Promise etc when he was young and naive. And most recently getting criticised for his 'funny' accent FFS! Give the guy a break. Top effort 

[Gus]

Still not convinced that The Promise without any pads, ladders, 20 spotters etc et. is massively overgraded!!

[Bonjoy]

I spoke to James about the accent thing. It’s just something he’s picked up from speaking a lot of English to people who’re using it as their second language. He admitted it sounded a bit odd, but said (in a funny voice) that he couldn’t do much about it and wasn’t bothered anyway. It certainly isn’t some sort of deliberate affectation.
Fine effort BTW!

[lagerstarfish]

I'd misread that as "funny ascent" and was slightly confused about Bonjoy's post

[Nibile]

Still not convinced that The Promise without any pads, ladders, 20 spotters etc et. is massively overgraded!!

Jesus fucking Christ Gus, thank you for making me feel not alone.
I really really struggle to comprehend how some peole fail - or pretend to - to understand this.
Even I, understand that.

[Muenchener]

I spoke to James about the accent thing. It’s just something he’s picked up from speaking a lot of English to people who’re using it as their second language.

I haven't received any feedback about my accent from living abroad for fifteen years (so far), but I definitely noticed - quite early on too - that taling mostly to second language speakers and/or native English speakers with other dialects definitely has an averaging-out effect. I'm not only not up to date on current British slang, I'd also probably less likely to casually use words/phrases that I know are UK dialect specific.

It's not a conscious choice, it's just something that happens.