[TomP]

Wow. Nuff respec! I thought he may have spanned it but holding the rail one handed is an incredible dispaly of strength. I wonder if he managed to get a toe hook to stop the swing? I thought that would be possible from what I remember looking at it a few years ago, when I was last in the peak.

I'm amazed that this ascent has had such little coverage on here.  Everyone seems obsessed on this BOULDERING forum with 'significant repeats' of ROUTES!

 

[Fiend]

Morpho sitter in a dank pit originally done into an outdated finishing sequence, though. Might be why.

[KH]

Morpho sitter in a dank pit originally done into an outdated finishing sequence, though. Might be why.

It's only morpho if you assume you can only do it if you're long.

For me it seems like an ideal problem, sit start under overhang, campus to rail, technical heel hooking, powerful openhand movements to jug and easy top out for good measure!  It might not have the aesthetics of CT but has the range of quality moves that make for an outstanding boulder problem.

[Johnny Brown]

Its only not morpho if you assume it won't be a hundred times harder for a midget to pop through a giant reach that has only been managed by giants. I guess this is that negative attitude again, we could all be monsters if we could just get through it.

[Jim]

A great effor by Mick.
The problem with brad pit ss is, its not a very inspiring problem and has only been done by a giant and a slightly smaller giant

[dave]

doesn't it really matter if its been done by tall people? if it was non-morpho and only done by a tall person would a problem be less impressive? no. what is it for Mick, like 8b? for a shortie it'd be 9d, and since no-one can climb 9d its irrelevent. better done by a "giant" (mick ain't that tall!) than not at all. 8b is impressive to me. cry me a fucking river.

(would everyone prefer that this problem doesn't exist or something, as it won't constantly remind them of their non-plus stature? crazy.)

[Jim]

The problem is Dave, is that you go into the pit and think wow, that looks like a good problem. You don't go ;wow that sitstart will be amazing.
The climbing is impressive and also looks very hard but so is ill pirata. They both look like shit, uninspiring problems hence the lack of coverage

[dave]

the sitter looks like great climbing on decent rock spoiled by being in a green mucky dank hole at an otherwise beautiful crag. much like the standup.

[Jim]

I'm sure Ill pirata would look like great climbing if it was more than 1 foot off the floor and not in a dirty hollow in the ground

[T_B]

Hastily pointing out that I can't get anywhere near Brad Pit...

Standing on the ground I've felt the span between the undercut and the rail and it didn't seem that ridiculously big. What did seem ridiculous was the concept of pulling all the way up onto that rail from low down. Is it not that people are being a teeny weeny bit dismissive just cos it's clearly nails, rather than super morpho. I would imagine that it's certainly no more morpho than Jason's Roof/undercut.

Also, I really do think that the standard problem is significantly harder if you're big. I actually have pretty good flexibility, especialy in the hips, but find that once I have my heel on, there's so much leg pushing me away from the rock that my arms are almost at right angles to the rail!

So all in all I say the big chaps who have done the sitter might have the span but they would be at a disadvantage on the meat of the problem? So v 

[Jaspersharpe]

  

It's an amazing effort whatever. Did Mike A propose a grade?

[Somebody's Fool]

V11 or V12ish.

And he did catch it with one hand, but all this really tells you is that he didn't do it as a double dyno. His left hand remained on the undercut etc.

What Tom said re Jason's sounds about right distance wise, only you have to jump.

[Andy B]

What Tom said re Jason's sounds about right distance wise, only you have to jump.

Some of us would have to jump Jason's.

[a dense loner]

sorry i'll translate, somebody's idiot meant 8a/plus

[Fiend]

sorry i'll translate, somebody's idiot meant 8a/plus

??? What's that in V-grades again??

[butters]

??? What's that in V-grades again??

Come on Fiend! Even I am starting to think in Font grades these days and if fat useless punters like me can do it then I am sure you can...

bluebrad   

[Jaspersharpe]

Genius.