[Will Hunt]

we can b 2geva x 

                

Forever and ever.

[Dr T]

General Sport

 Maintain a sensible/progressive strength progression regime
 Look after the back and elbows
 Improve stamina - might prove difficult

Bouldering

 Keep chipping slowly away at the grade progression

Travel - Put in a good show in...

 Font
 Cornwall
 Lake District
 Peak

Non-climbing

 Carry on being the best Dad I can be
 Keep smiling through the rest of it...

[SA Chris]

Get a decent night's sleep(7 hours continuous). Is it possible to die from sustained insomnia?

[Oldmanmatt]

Get a decent night's sleep(7 hours continuous). Is it possible to die from sustained insomnia?

There is a famous quote, supposedly one Churchill's...
"They say insomnia never killed anyone. This is because the Coroner always records the cause of death as suicide..."

[tommytwotone]

A few carried over from 2011 and a couple of new ones for me...

Climbing:

Finish off my "tick Almscliff up to 6c+ in the last Yorkshire Bouldering Guide" mission by Easter
Climb a minimum of 3 Font 7as in Font at end of March
Climb a Font 7b anywhere
Do Breakfast at Burbage West (long-term nemesis)
Go to Ilkley (to my shame I'm still yet to go there since I moved to Yorkshire)
Go to Wales and boulder in The Pass / Porth Ysgo
Get one of my photos published in a guidebook
Get a photo of me published in a guidebook

Non-climbing:

Continue non / minimal drinking mission I started in early Dec 2011
Manage balance between lovely but non-climbing girlfriend and achieving climbing ambitions above
Continue saving for house deposit and hopefully become a homeowner at some point

[webbo]

Last years aims got done, so going to make these ones harder....

1. Onsight a proper (ie not grit) E2
2. Onisght a grit (or any) E3
3. Ground up E4
3.5 headpoint summat hard - E6?
4. Boulder lots more 7B's and some 7B+
5. Get a couple more 7C's done
6. Climb outside more, in all weathers
7. Go to some propper (ie multipitch) cliffs
8. Get some good snowy stuff done in the alps and some decent water ice - tho maybe the year after...
9. Get a 2.1/1st
10. Just climb shit loads
11. Do some 'orrible aid/trad combos
12. Develop local crags that no one can ever be arsed with.
13. Climb inside less!



Game. Fucking. On. ambitous? fuck yeah

Do you climb routes with only one hand or no feet.You've bouldered 7b+/7c and you've not onsighted E3. You are taking font 5+/6a at a push.

[webbo]

Not to get any shitter or fatter but I might as well say try to not get any older.

[lagerstarfish]

Last years aims got done, so going to make these ones harder....

1. Onsight a proper (ie not grit) E2
2. Onisght a grit (or any) E3
3. Ground up E4
3.5 headpoint summat hard - E6?
4. Boulder lots more 7B's and some 7B+
5. Get a couple more 7C's done
6. Climb outside more, in all weathers
7. Go to some propper (ie multipitch) cliffs
8. Get some good snowy stuff done in the alps and some decent water ice - tho maybe the year after...
9. Get a 2.1/1st
10. Just climb shit loads
11. Do some 'orrible aid/trad combos
12. Develop local crags that no one can ever be arsed with.
13. Climb inside less!



Game. Fucking. On. ambitous? fuck yeah

Do you climb routes with only one hand or no feet.You've bouldered 7b+/7c and you've not onsighted E3. You are taking font 5+/6a at a push.

might have something to with with number 13 on the list...

[fatdoc]

Last years aims got done, so going to make these ones harder....

1. Onsight a proper (ie not grit) E2
2. Onisght a grit (or any) E3
3. Ground up E4
3.5 headpoint summat hard - E6?
4. Boulder lots more 7B's and some 7B+
5. Get a couple more 7C's done
6. Climb outside more, in all weathers
7. Go to some propper (ie multipitch) cliffs
8. Get some good snowy stuff done in the alps and some decent water ice - tho maybe the year after...
9. Get a 2.1/1st
10. Just climb shit loads
11. Do some 'orrible aid/trad combos
12. Develop local crags that no one can ever be arsed with.
13. Climb inside less!



Game. Fucking. On. ambitous? fuck yeah

Do you climb routes with only one hand or no feet.You've bouldered 7b+/7c and you've not onsighted E3. You are taking font 5+/6a at a push.

trend i've seen over the last few years... I did my first font 7a+ 5 yrs after my first 8a+ redpoint. I never did a 7a boulder on grit whlist headpointing E7 and onsighting E5.... weird...

[Nibile]

- get really strong

  thought you were already the Beast Daddy... 

I wish I was, I wish I was...

[Milford Cubicle]

Climbing goals -

Work my way through 6's building up a nice long ticklist
Lots of milage on rock
Learn how to climb on grit
Any boulder on any rock type in the 7's
Stay uninjured
Work on flexibility
Get down to 11ish stone so that I can crush

Specific climbing goals -

Razor roof - Cratcliffe
Steep traverse - Stanage Plantation
Mark's roof LH - Gordoms North
The ultimate Gritstone experience - Curbar

Non-climbing -

Learn to use my camera to get the best out of it
Start making loads of good quality vids
Make a climbing vid worthy of the quality vids thread
Move out of Bedford to somewhere a, worth living in and b, near some rock
Decide what to do with my life and start doing stuff to move me foward in a career of some sort
Learn to do a kip up
Get at least a half man ascent of a 75m slackline
Not waste my year like I did with most of my last year :/

This should be interesting to look at at the end of the year haven't ever had new years resolutions/goals before, time to get to work

x

[lagerstarfish]

trend i've seen over the last few years... I did my first font 7a+ 5 yrs after my first 8a+ redpoint. I never did a 7a boulder on grit whlist headpointing E7 and onsighting E5.... weird...

Was this before pads?

[fatdoc]

not the answer, I've launched up all the dynos at minus ten, crumpled off the length of stanage, hurtled off the bowderstone.... etc  /etc... u get the picture. I also had one of the first  cellar boards in sheffield... this was 1990. In head pointing i hit the ground from 30ft+ dozens of times.

my point is... the ability to boulder  grade now way way exceeds what was the route grade of a climber.... so why is the transfer of this power not leading to greater success on roped climbs of all the different genres. I'm not alone in this cohort.

weird.

[shark]

hows about this for a bit of competition.

1. End 2012 ahead of i_a_c on 8a.poo

shall we wager a beer?

It is ON! 

Play fair boys. UKB rules. No dodgy Kalymnos or Cheddar ticks. No more than one Tor or Brean linkup. A man hanging on the ropes in a helpless state, with his toes off the ground, shall be considered down. 

[Andy F]

my point is... the ability to boulder  grade now way way exceeds what was the route grade of a climber.... so why is the transfer of this power not leading to greater success on roped climbs of all the different genres. I'm not alone in this cohort.

weird.

My thoughts exactly. I see lots of (mainly young) strong beasts doing hard blocs but barely pulling down when on the string. Sorry, that was 

[Plattsy]

Font 7B
PB every fell race

Simples.

[andy popp]

Finish reading Clarissa (a monumental challenge it seems)

Deliver book manuscript on time (+ hit one hundred other pending deadlines)

Do some climbing (would it be too much to hope to do some projects, or even to tie on?)

Grow beard to yet more stupendous proportions

[fatdoc]

i see you being more successful than I andy.

[andy popp]

Success is easy when you set the bar as low as I do.

[douglas]

Broken Sam and The Highlife

[dunnyg]

Do you climb routes with only one hand or no feet.You've bouldered 7b+/7c and you've not onsighted E3. You are taking font 5+/6a at a push.

I have done the grand total of 1 7B in a session. It took me loads of goes. The others (ie 7B+/C and 7B's) have either been long term sieges or at least 2 sessions. Im crap at flashing things, did a V6 once, but it finnished up a problem i had already done... would be happy flashing V4+ as it doesnt happen that often.
The only E3's i've flashed are acme wall and new dimensions. One with beta. Both with pads. Fell off (on the easy bit) on another E3 6a/b. Make of that what you will. I have the stamina of a lemon so want short and hard in my trad life.
oh yeah, and I dont really like falling off shit.

As for climbing inside all the time... i usually get out twice a week if not more, i just want to climb in the rain....


In all seriousness, maybe i should start using more than one limb to climb though. (or mtfu)

[Wil]

I think my aims will be much the carry over from this year, but with more emphasis on the trad:

Onsight E5 on different rock types and onsight E4 consistently. (I prefer having routes to inspire me though Mortlock's Arete, The Golden Mile, Bloody Sunday, Great Wall, Supersonic, Calvary and Cardiac Arete are on the list).
Do a really big and reasonably hard rock route somewhere, possibly Dolomites, e.g something on the Marmolada or the Comici Route.
Don't piss about going to crap venues!
I'm not too fussed on sport goals for next year, onsight F7b would be good and tick some classics, and I really should get to Yorkshire finally.

[i_a_coops]

hows about this for a bit of competition.

1. End 2012 ahead of i_a_c on 8a.poo

shall we wager a beer?

It is ON! 

Play fair boys. UKB rules. No dodgy Kalymnos or Cheddar ticks. No more than one Tor or Brean linkup. A man hanging on the ropes in a helpless state, with his toes off the ground, shall be considered down. 

 
And by the end of next year my dubious Chorro points will have dropped off my scorecard... good thing I'm going to Buoux this summer, I've heard points from there really count...

[ducko]

To not have a swarm of dragons set fire to my harvest,

I'd like to tick a v10 this year

[fatboySlimfast]

Finish project stanage
Complete a number of nemesis(CoMI!!!)
Get back on some sea cliffs
Hit the big gap in greno(rolled in 5 x, couldn't commit)
More balance in my work/leisure