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#700 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 07:22:07 pm

timestamp is wrong


Not that kind of answer  :chair:

Something like "Yeah, he's done it and is now getting drunk" is what i'm looking for.

« Last Edit: June 08, 2012, 07:27:31 pm by Lopez »

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#701 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 07:31:13 pm
He fell at last crux.

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#702 Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 07:32:18 pm
He fell at last crux.

And is now getting drunk ;)

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#703 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 07:33:02 pm
There was a bit of live commentary on facebook.... 21st century reporting

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#704 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 07:38:03 pm
Punter...

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#705 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 08:10:19 pm
Gabri Moroni has just commented, "Ondra is a punter" (on Crackbook). Do I take this to mean that Potter has dropped it?

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#706 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 08:14:15 pm
Gabri Moroni has just commented, "Ondra is a punter" (on Crackbook). Do I take this to mean that Potter has dropped it?
yes
http://www.rockandice.com/news/2031-amazing-effort-by-ondra-on-realization-flash

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#707 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 08:15:51 pm
See Adam's post. No live stream, but live FB updates. He got through the 8c+ bit, fell on the top crux 4/5 moves from the end - guess that means one of the 2 crux moves

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#708 Re: Ondrawad
June 08, 2012, 08:33:03 pm
While he may have missed the 9a+ flash,

Lets not completely miss the fact that he still flashed an 8c+ route to get there, and then continued up the wall a significant distance...

That's got to be at least 9a no?

(still...pathetic effort though)

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#709 Re: Ondrawad
June 09, 2012, 07:37:20 am
Adam you have broken my heart. Why didn't you just wait another year? Why?   :'(

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#710 Re: Ondrawad
June 09, 2012, 08:46:24 am
Watched this last night, weirdest scene ever at a crag with what seemed like almost every climber at ceuse watching from below Biographie sector waiting for the event to happen. Must have been massive pressure. Think everyone was just praying he didn't blow the start moves (which looked nails). Great to see, the guy's a legend.

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#711 Re: Ondrawad
June 09, 2012, 02:59:23 pm
The original used to be regarded as hard 8c+ so not a bad effort!

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#712 Re: Ondrawad
June 12, 2012, 04:51:45 pm
There is an interview and some scrappy footage of his attempt here http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=67185

Always seems like a nice honest lad, would love to watch him climb in person one day.

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#713 Re: Ondrawad
June 12, 2012, 04:56:40 pm


How distracting!  Shut up and letting him get on with climbing.

From the same account Jungle Boogie


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#714 Re: Ondrawad
June 12, 2012, 05:55:11 pm
See Adam's post. No live stream, but live FB updates.

I know he's a climbing god, but to update his FB midroute.   :bow:

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#715 Re: Ondrawad
June 12, 2012, 06:20:00 pm
Fuck me i couldn't climb the stairs with all that pullava!

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#716 Re: Ondrawad
June 13, 2012, 02:05:28 pm
whos this ali guy he looks pretty good at climbing ::)

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#717 Re: Ondrawad
June 13, 2012, 02:06:42 pm
whos this ali guy he looks pretty good at climbing ::)

Dunno, but I think he spells it "Allez!"

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#718 Re: Ondrawad
June 13, 2012, 02:20:05 pm
Presumably world cup comp climbers are used to crowds and noise from the comps and thus rather better adjusted to it that most of us.

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#719 Re: Ondrawad
June 14, 2012, 09:22:18 am
Sounds to me like you are pandering to the crowd   :whistle:

If I were to try and defend them, I would ask whether a horde of completely silent onlookers would be worse.
But I'm not going to try to.

Those people are idiots. How is he meant to flash a 9a+, with some eejit on the floor pulling him out of the zone every 2 seconds with their attempt to become part of the experience.
Pah.

I found the part where he rested, then made a false start quite funny though. So I guess the crowd did have some use.

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#720 Re: Ondrawad
June 14, 2012, 10:04:00 am
So did he redpoint it?

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#721 Re: Ondrawad
June 14, 2012, 10:05:46 am
No. Interview on the other channel says two more failures (I think) and then he had to leave.

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#722 Re: Ondrawad
June 14, 2012, 10:23:53 am
So maybe the flash was further off than originally thought. God effort anyway.

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#723 Re: Ondrawad
June 14, 2012, 11:15:37 am

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#724 Re: Ondrawad
June 14, 2012, 01:14:51 pm
So maybe the flash was further off than originally thought. God effort anyway.

bear in mind the effort he will have put in for the flash will have left him spannered for the rest of the day, then again he does do multiple hard shit in a day quite regularly

 

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