[dk]

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 

[slackline]

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.

[tommytwotone]

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!

[Serpico]

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

[Serpico]

I forgot... Trad - Terrain d'Adventure.

[Jaspersharpe]

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.

[sidewinder]

Facile - less than 8c

When I have heard things described as facile in font

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.

[i_a_coops]

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.

[Stubbs]

Heel = talon
Toe hook= Spatule
Bicycle = Double croche
Move = Movement
British = les rosbif

[slackline]

arete = obvious.

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

[lmarenzi]

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

[lmarenzi]

Bleau - Font

Font 6A - 6A bloc

baudrier - harness

chaussons - climbing slippers/shoes

ongle - (finger) nail

6b (obl) - 7a

help - au secours

[mrjonathanr]

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)

[leeroy]

"ah putain!" seemed the most common in the tarn....

[tomtom]

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

[rodma]

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)

[andy_e]

What's gaston in French?

[abarro81]

Strangely enough, I don't think they use gaston, just the 'epaule' mentioned above.

[Stubbs]

What's gaston in French?

Pamplemousse.

[ben]

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..

[SA Chris]

isn't l'applat a sloper? At least Sloper taught me something useful.

and a bac is a jug I believe.

[andy_e]

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.

[rodma]

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.

[dk]

Cheers for the replies

[lagerstarfish]

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)