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French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 02:36:31 pm
I've been trying to refresh my french for a trip to Ceuse and realized I have no idea how to say most of the climbing words, would anyone be able to help me out with translations of:

Onsight,
Flash,
Redpoint,
Sport climbing,
Trad climbing,
Bouldering,

etx...

Thanks Dan 

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#1 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 02:43:59 pm
Don't worry, all you need to remember is to shout "Allez! Allez!!" at the top of your voice whenever someone is trying really hard.


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#2 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 03:13:31 pm
I can help with a couple - from memory / my crappy French:

Onsight = A vue
Bouldering = faire du bloc

Grimper seems to be the one-size fits all verb for just "climb".

In my experience you won't need to worry that much about compentance in French, most people you'll come across will speak better English than you will their mother tongue!

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#3 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 03:22:10 pm
I was told by French friends that they don't really have an equivalent for Red Point, they'd just describe it as 'Aprés Travaille'.
Couple of other terms from memory:
Dalle - slab
Deversé - steep
Facile - less than 8c

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#4 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 03:24:25 pm
I forgot... Trad - Terrain d'Adventure.

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#5 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 03:29:04 pm
Don't worry, all you need to remember is to shout "Allez! Allez!!" at the top of your voice whenever someone is trying really hard.

And shout "ENCULER! PUTAIN MERDE!" at the top of your voice every time you fall off.

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#6 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 03:33:20 pm
Facile - less than 8c

When I have heard things described as facile in font
Quote from: some random bleausard passing by
ca, c'est tres facile
, it seems to mainly apply to anything they have seen me (within earshot) falling on?  Now I know that this is a description of problems up to 8c I feel much happier.

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#7 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 03:34:47 pm
http://www.gdargaud.net/Climbing/Lex_Fr.html



the ones I tend to remember (along with some of what's gone before)

Bolted = equipé

Crimped = arqué

Open handed = tendu

hold = prise

slack = du mou

take = avale (or possibly 'sec', never quite got my head round this one)

assurer = belay

overhang = surplomb

slab = dalle

arete = obvious.

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#8 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 05:32:00 pm
Heel = talon
Toe hook= Spatule
Bicycle = Double croche
Move = Movement
British = les rosbif

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#9 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 05:33:09 pm
arete = obvious.

 :slap: Thats where I've been going wrong all these years, I should be grabbing the obvious hold, not the corner. :clown:

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#10 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 06:45:48 pm
la manip - to wank, but also to thread the belay

la reta - you retard, did all the hard moves but fell off the headwall top-out (retablissement)

la reglette - crimp

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#11 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 06:48:52 pm
Bleau - Font

Font 6A - 6A bloc

baudrier - harness

chaussons - climbing slippers/shoes

ongle - (finger) nail

6b (obl) - 7a

help - au secours

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#12 Re: French climbing Terms
July 23, 2012, 07:20:26 pm
I was told by French friends that they don't really have an equivalent for Red Point, they'd just describe it as 'Aprés Travaille'.
Oui,oui, aussi..
a redpoint = enchainement
to redpoint = enchainer (means 'to link' so not exclusively a redpoint though nearest equivalent)

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#13 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 12:52:33 am
"ah putain!" seemed the most common in the tarn....

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#14 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 08:50:23 am
Translations still required for:

Dab! ??

Punter

Back around..

Well, its the conditions y'know, a bit humid and greasy today, if it were a crisp dry cold morning i'd...

Spot me please...

Yorkshire spot

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#15 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 10:54:08 am
Translations still required for:

Well, its the conditions y'know, a bit humid and greasy today, if it were a crisp dry cold morning i'd...


"J'attends un nuage" seemed quite prevalent when i was there in the summer, combined with "Apres Vous"

Translations still required for:

Back around..


not for all occasions but "Depart Hollandaise" meaning that you jump started when you shouldn't have

Undercling          Inversée

Press             épaule (literally shoulder)


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#16 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 11:10:03 am
What's gaston in French?

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#17 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 11:13:00 am
Strangely enough, I don't think they use gaston, just the 'epaule' mentioned above.

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#18 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 11:13:39 am
What's gaston in French?

Pamplemousse.

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#19 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 11:27:34 am
je suis fait une steak - I've ripped a flapper, or literally I have made a steak (out of my finger..). 

Anyone heard this actually used by a Frenchman?  think I learnt it out the back of a font guide years ago..

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#20 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 12:00:50 pm
isn't l'applat a sloper? At least Sloper taught me something useful.

and a bac is a jug I believe.

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#21 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 12:05:36 pm
Huite bouteilles du vin rouge, un demi-kilo de la Coulommiers et deux baguettes. All you need to know to keep you happy for a day.
« Last Edit: July 24, 2012, 12:26:34 pm by andi_e »

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#22 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 12:12:39 pm
isn't l'applat a sloper? At least Sloper taught me something useful.

tendu refers to the way you hold a sloper, so yes you are correct, i think.


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#23 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 12:41:01 pm
Cheers for the replies :)

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#24 Re: French climbing Terms
July 24, 2012, 09:02:42 pm
I just Go Ogled a couple of things (lolotte and bossette) to corroborate my memory and found

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvements_d'escalade

mostly covered here already, but worth reading the French descriptions so you can better discuss the finer points of individual moves (Go Ogle Translate proves to be as amusing as ever)


 

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