Non-Quality Chuffing Videos (Read 286420 times)

GCW · December 30, 2014, 11:16:12 pm

One would have thought that Gerty Berwick would have your name upon it, Will.

DanD · January 06, 2015, 11:23:13 am

Hard to categorise this but still worth watching. 22 years old too.

Gus · January 06, 2015, 03:12:03 pm

That's f***ing Waddage!!!

Danny · January 07, 2015, 10:43:09 pm

Some nice bits of footage, but gobsmackingly pretentious at times:

Wood FT · January 08, 2015, 09:12:53 am

I watched it at work without sound, looks so so good. Watched with sound at home and yikes! I'm off to go hang myself because my life can't compare.

Nigel · January 08, 2015, 11:40:29 am

Quote from: DanD on January 06, 2015, 11:23:13 am

Hard to categorise this but still worth watching. 22 years old too.

Worth it for le Menestrel making Infidele look 1a. Fuck me.

T_B · January 08, 2015, 11:56:50 am

Quote from: Nigel on January 08, 2015, 11:40:29 am

Quote from: DanD on January 06, 2015, 11:23:13 am

Hard to categorise this but still worth watching. 22 years old too.

Worth it for le Menestrel making Infidele look 1a. Fuck me.

+ 1

Johnny Brown · January 08, 2015, 12:29:36 pm

I thought Hypothese was more impressive, not convinced his sequence on Infidele at 8a is any different to what now gets 7b+ on bleau.info!

standard · January 08, 2015, 01:19:29 pm

Quote from: Johnny Brown on January 08, 2015, 12:29:36 pm

I thought Hypothese was more impressive, not convinced his sequence on Infidele at 8a is any different to what now gets 7b+ on bleau.info!

agree.
he mauls it.
ref:

Nigel · January 08, 2015, 01:38:11 pm

Infidele is 7b+ in the same way Sur-prise is. I.e. its 7c. Anyway, I missed Hypothese when I skimmed it first time, love the way he does the first move, scrappy on the second though

Nigel · January 08, 2015, 01:39:15 pm

Good to hear him bumming footwork though, and walking what he talks. Amazing climber.

Jaspersharpe · January 13, 2015, 01:16:29 pm

Tempted to put this in quality because of the subject matter (route and climber

) but the outrageous screeching of the guy at the end tipped the balance, the dog looks far from impressed.....

Do not turn the volume up!

Wood FT · January 13, 2015, 01:30:10 pm

Quote from: Jaspersharpe on January 13, 2015, 01:16:29 pm

(route and climber )

+1, total crush

tomtom · January 19, 2015, 11:24:23 am

Neil F · January 19, 2015, 12:56:47 pm

Someone give those guys a new rope, FFS.

tomtom · January 19, 2015, 01:43:15 pm

Quote from: Neil F on January 19, 2015, 12:56:47 pm

Someone give those guys a new rope, FFS.

yeah - I noticed that !!

Fiend · February 10, 2015, 11:32:48 am

Not sure if we've had this before? Going through some recent grit ascents on UKC I noticed a massive amount of bellends headpointing E5s and E6s including all the usual safe ones, trade routes etc etc. I really though that bullshit had died out in the 90s, but ANYWAY nestled amongst the dross I saw this fine onsight ascent from Jacob so thought it was worth sharing.

hstmoore · February 10, 2015, 12:21:57 pm

Why does headpointing a route make someone a bellend?

slackline · February 10, 2015, 12:36:19 pm

Quote from: hstmoore on February 10, 2015, 12:21:57 pm

Why does headpointing a route make someone a bellend?

Because its not what Fiend would do.

Gus · February 10, 2015, 01:22:34 pm

Headpointing is ace.

jwi · February 10, 2015, 02:15:29 pm

Fiend · February 10, 2015, 07:17:57 pm

Because it's a naff, crass, pointless, challenge-avoiding waste of a route and one's climbing potential that is direspectful and demeaning to the route, any climber who climbs it normally or who intends to climb it normally (and has the brains and balls to leave it to a time until they are good enough), and even disrespectful to oneself by not giving yourself a chance to actually improve enough to meet the route's challenge. It trivalises the experience (especially the important psychological experience) and is contrary to the whole essence of a chosen climbing challenge, being, well, challenging. Especially in the case of obviously onsightable trade routes, especially in the case of habitual low-grade headpointers, and especially in the case of people who haven't even tried to push their limits in a conventional way and see what they are capable of.

Obviously this doesn't apply to: new routing (where the challenge is unknown), cutting edge routes (where there is no precedent for current onsighting) nor early repeats / repeats of esoteric /scarcely climbed routes (where the challenge may be different from what is expected).

Conversely, the actions of those who avoid the headpointing pitfall and tackle the full challenges and push their own limits and sometimes the general climbing limits are glorious and respect-worthy and inspiring. As if that needs to be said*.

Hope that helps.

* - but I'll keep praising them anyway, if nobody minds.

willackers · February 10, 2015, 07:34:31 pm

Quote from: Gus on February 10, 2015, 01:22:34 pm

Headpointing is ace.

mrjonathanr · February 10, 2015, 07:57:21 pm

Wow, first time Fiend has said something I support. Not that headpointing is no good (first headpoint I did was Black Magic way back - man, I was floating for days afterwards, chuffed out of my mind) but because onsighting is so blooming hard and I believe neglected nowadays.

There's stacks of Peak frighteners I could tick with a toprope inspection first. They'll have to wait till I get better or bolder.

willackers · February 10, 2015, 08:02:35 pm

Better, bolder, or just never do them. I think Fiend is being really harsh.

If I think I can flash, on-sight or ground-up something then I'll go for it. Some routes are just too hard or dangerous for that. I'd rather headpoint something than never do it.

Everyone knows their limits, sometimes you have to bring a route down to your level to get it done.