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#5375 Re: significant repeats
January 06, 2015, 06:22:36 pm
And your spelling has got worser

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#5376 Re: significant repeats
January 06, 2015, 06:29:37 pm
And your spelling has got worser

Not sure about that, i heard his ass has got faster too....

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#5377 Re: significant repeats
January 06, 2015, 09:16:02 pm
Little dick fast arse or big hammer little nail.

And he does piss voyager

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#5378 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 07:27:57 am
Mina is 5'6 with the same ape.

Wierd because I remember being in Font and measuring spans against Mina and she had a couple of inches on me although I had a little in a straight reach up from standing flat on the ground. I and my span have been consistently measured at a smidge over 5'7" for years now. Is Mina shrinking?

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#5379 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 07:49:31 am
Little dick fast arse or big hammer little nail.

I'm sure I once saw that on a brightly coloured card stuck on the wall of a central London phone box...

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#5380 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 07:50:32 am
Mina is 5'6 with the same ape.

Wierd because I remember being in Font and measuring spans against Mina and she had a couple of inches on me although I had a little in a straight reach up from standing flat on the ground. I and my span have been consistently measured at a smidge over 5'7" for years now. Is Mina shrinking?

She's been recruited by the short side...

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#5381 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 09:46:15 am
Wierd because I remember being in Font and measuring spans against Mina and she had a couple of inches on me although I had a little in a straight reach up from standing flat on the ground. I and my span have been consistently measured at a smidge over 5'7" for years now. Is Mina shrinking?

The Mustelids are closing ranks

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#5382 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 09:59:32 am
Split & Logpile s'il vous plait.
Or split at least. I wonder what title could be given to the thread.

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#5383 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 10:22:58 am
Dreamtime repeated by 17 year old Giuliano Cameroni. Despite being one of the oldest hard problems this still doesn't get that many ascents. I always thought this looked a quality problem as well, far better than the story of two worlds that sees a lot more attention.

Once again we get all excited about a 25 year old grit 8a being done by 17 year olds in Britain whilst in the rest of the world kids the same age are off doing 8Cs and a 13 year old girl is flashing 8A and doing 8B+.

Nice to see voyager being done though, and pretty quickly as well. Bit more significant.

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#5384 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 10:33:52 am
Didn't it break, what grade is it now?

Not sure anyone is getting that excited about CT tbh. I daresay cocktalk will stop reporting it as news soon, or their newsfeed will look a bit daft.

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#5385 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 10:38:51 am
I think the jury is out still. 8B+/8C. Since the break its been done a few times.


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#5386 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 10:39:18 am
Not sure anyone is getting that excited about CT tbh. I daresay cocktalk will stop reporting it as news soon, or their newsfeed will look a bit daft.

Unless someone climbs it in a silly hat. It will get reported then ;)

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#5387 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 10:49:14 am
Tomtom, did you phone it?

Height makes more of a difference than ape index, naturally.

Wait a minute, has willackers lanked Careless in a santa hat?? Someone call the national press...

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#5388 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 10:52:17 am
Tomtom, did you phone it?

It was constantly busy...

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#5389 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 10:52:35 am
I think the jury is out still. 8B+/8C. Since the break its been done a few times.

Think its meant to be a fair bit harder now, as you say doesn't see as much attention compared to its neighbour around the corner. Giuliano Cameroni is very impressive, ooooo to live and to be brought up in Ticiono. (Check out the Blue Chironico guide, pictures of him in there aged 6, think his dad wrote the guide).

His mate Samuel Ometz is pretty handy too, such a huge difference in standard between UK and the rest of the World!!

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#5390 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 11:09:01 am
Once again we get all excited about a 25 year old grit 8a being done by 17 year olds in Britain whilst in the rest of the world kids the same age are off doing 8Cs and a 13 year old girl is flashing 8A and doing 8B+.

I don't think anyone is getting particularly excited about the ascent itself.

People were getting hot under the collar about:

a) How tall Mina is
b) How Mina's height dictated which sequence she used before the crux
c) What Mina's height had to do with Nige's allusion to his own height
d) Who had the best grammar

and

e) Who's Sean?

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#5391 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 12:07:35 pm
Doesn't matter how tall Mina is it's still well impressive him doing the dawn wall even if they did use slaves and bolts; and CareLess Torque, although I thought it was a shame when Sean Favresse scrubbed off the lightning bolt at the start. Iconic. Still, first at the split-grade on British soil, fair play.  :blink:

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#5392 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 12:28:26 pm
I've just had verification of the Mina/ Ferret measure-off by an eye witness. So unless Monkey Boy can provide unedited footage of his lass and a tape measure his claim is looking shaky.

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#5393 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 12:36:50 pm
I've just had verification of the Mina/ Ferret measure-off by an eye witness. So unless Monkey Boy can provide unedited footage of his lass and an independently calibrated tape measure his claim is looking shaky.
Fixed that for you

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#5394 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 12:41:20 pm
First the Gaskins controversy now this, where will it end  :no:?

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#5395 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 12:42:17 pm
Split & Logpile s'il vous plait.
Or split at least. I wonder what title could be given to the thread.

Badger, badger, badger

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#5396 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 12:56:26 pm

such a huge difference in standard between UK and the rest of the World!!

Well, you say that, but time and time again when "top" climbers come to the UK they generally do about as well as top British climbers have done on home turf. We don't do too bad for a country with a generally damp climate, without unlimited steep alpine granite or undiscovered swathes of tufa-drenched dry limestone. Why anyone would want or expect us to be best in the world, or think our position relative to world standards is important I don't know.

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#5397 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 01:02:41 pm
I think we probably need a thread to discuss UK standards and which ascents count as 'significant'...

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#5398 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 01:12:39 pm
My coment, other then the dreamtime bit, was meant as a bit of a wind up.

Still think its true though. :P

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#5399 Re: significant repeats
January 07, 2015, 01:13:34 pm
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Well, you say that, but time and time again when "top" climbers come to the UK they generally do about as well as top British climbers have done on home turf.

Nice Dave, nice. But not nearly as well as unsponsored weekend warrior 'climber's climbers', eh?

 

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