[Greg C]

Just wondered which of the following everyone is...

Pure Blood - A climber and or boulderer who comes from a climbing back ground. i.e. One or more of their close family got them into climbing, and was a climber themselves.

Mud Blood - A climber and or boulder who comes from a none climbing back ground and was introduced to climbing in some other way, usually later in life.

Which leads me to my next question who are the best climbers Mud Bloods or Pure Bloods?  

Just a bit of fun.  :D

[Adam Lincoln]

Mud Blood i is

[billy]

Mud blood i'm afraid!!!!

Got into climbing through scouts when i was a lad!!!!

Naturally 'the muds' are better climbers!!!! :

[fatneck]

Mud Blood, aye!
But I take my kids climbing, does that make them pure blood?
I would imagine if your dad was Mr. Moffat and your mother
was Ms. Rands, you'd be pre-disposed to be amazing, or would you :?:

[nik at work]

mud blood too.....

[ian h]

pure blood my dad was into it although these days he just seems to walk up and down snowdon, ben nevis etc etc

[ian h]

you did not say what you are greg

[Jim]

Mud blood, got into climbing when I went to uni in leeds althought I had been before with school. Was mainly canoeing before that (rodeo)

[james]

Mud blood
Cheers

James

[runt]

Mud again, no pedigree here what so ever, the old man would have had me on the Tour given half a chance, sadist

[dave]

M to the B

[Pantontino]

mud blood

I started when I was 15 because my best mate at school was into it.

I almost felt like I had a theory about how pure bloods were generally talented but lazy, whilst mud bloods had little natural talent but worked hard and in the end surpassed the head start that the pure bloods had, but then I can think of examples on both sides of the fence.

That said, there is probably some truth in it.

Good climbers are generally very driven people.

What demons are you running from? :twisted:

[dave]

I almost felt like I had a theory about how pure bloods were generally talented but lazy.........

that certainly ties in with what i see - i've only really ever met one natural, and he could have been as good a houlding is now if not better, but he never tried hard enough!

[Pantontino]

I guess there is a parallel with the short-tall conundrum.

Stumpies are want to complain how they could piss hard problems if they had the reach of a tall climber, whilst forgetting that if they were tall, they would actaully find it a lot harder to lock off or hold small finger holds - swings 'n' roundabouts.

I've always looked at my 'talented' friends and wondered why they don't try harder - the answer is they don't know how to, because they never had to. In contrast, my mindest is always been locked into the 'big struggle', because that is what I've always had to do, to get the routes or problems I wanted. I'm not a very good climber, but I do know how to climb at my absolute limit (not very impressive I know :roll:). If I fail on something, it's because it's too hard for me, not because I gave up, or let go.

[Doylo]

Pure blood, me old kings been at it for 40 years or something, and he managed his fisrt V1 at the Beacon the other day! :rocker:

[Greg C]

Interesting that most people in this forum are mud bloods. This all stems from me and a mate (Nigel) talking about the fact nearly all the people we climb with are pure bloods. Perhaps us half breeds are pulled together or sumat!  

Out of all the top climbers around at the moment which are which, I wonder?
Vickers dad got him into it I think? And some member of Gaskins's family got him started, me thinks.

[dobbin]

Mud Blood too. Started with Ian Fitzpatrick at 16 back in Liverpool. Initially at Parbold Quarry then Pexhill then the Peak in '94.

He's also a mudblood and has bags of talent although at present he chooses not to exercise it. Besides which he's having a baby (miracluous!)

[T.H.]

I am 100% mud blood.  None of my family even know what physical activity is, and I was almost disowned for choosing a sports science course at uni.  They don't believe it's a proper subject, which if I'm honest it probably isn't.

Started climbing at the ripe old age of 20, but didn't start taking it seriously until I was 22.  Now I'm nearly 24, I'm quite proud of how much I've improved in that time.

[Bubba]

I'm from the muddy side too.
Probably first climbed aged 11 with school but not seriously 'til the early 80's when I spent half my life living in caves and trad-climbing at Symonds Yat, meeting up with the FatboySlimfast around the same time.

[fatboySlimfast]

I spent half my life living in caves and trad-climbing at Symonds Yat, meeting up with the FatboySlimfast around the same time.

halcyon days, jumpers for goal posts etc etc
im a mud as well, the closest my family got to climbing was up a pubs staircase. started climbing under the instruction of a guy called frank cannings(always get him mixed with his more famous brother of south west 70's fame, either frank or pat!) on the shittest indoor wall. You know end of sports hall brick things around '82. Met bubbs at the mudfest of symonds yat and later moved to sheff to climb

[AndyR]

I'm a pure blood, though unfortunately I'm naturally untalented and lazy - not a good combo....

[Johnny Brown]

I is from the pure side. Me Dad took me walkin n scramblin as a kid, though he'd given up climbing years before. I badgered him into taking me out, so we dug his old gear out and went to the lakes. Hawser-laid rope n a hemp waistline. I was about 8 or 9. Got a harness for chrimbo and then 2nd trip was to the Roaches  and I guess did my first bouldering there. Took me about five years to get from diff to VS, as we didn't know anyone who climbed 'that hard'!!

[Avoiding the Traitor]

Mud Blood !!

Starting climbing lark about 1 and half year ago and was introduced to it by my father in law  :D

[Big Frank]

Mud blood here too, though I've always walked with me old Ma.

Started climbing with me mate at about 19 seriously, he now puts an appearance in about 2 times a year! (think braking his pelvis and cracking his spine at Malham put him off a bit).

Got into bouldering because when you have babies you have less time to commit and bouldering can be a spur of the moment thing. (pay heed Andy).

[Bonjoy]

Pure as the driven snow. My father started when he was 12. His crowning acheivement was soloing Prom Traverse at Black Rocks pissed!! Considering he rarely led over HVS i'm lucky he survived to have kids.

[Jess]

caff and dave birkets dads both climb, and there both fantastic.
if both parents are shit hot then its got to be passed on. Leo s girlfriends a good climber so if they have any kids in theory they should be bloody good. as would dave and marys.

[Scouse D]

pure blood. My dad and grandad both used to take me out cragging from an early age.

[Adam Lincoln]

Pure as the driven snow. My father started when he was 12. His crowning acheivement was soloing Prom Traverse at Black Rocks pissed!! Considering he rarely led over HVS i'm lucky he survived to have kids.

 :shock:

[cofe]

can i play one of the owls? they're proper concept flava.

otherwise i'll be a mudblood.

[Carnage]

Muddy fucker.....

[JR]

mud blood, like dobbin started at the esoteric piece of shit called parbold quarry...