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#25 Re: Aims for 2014
December 26, 2013, 09:06:15 pm
Eat loads of shit.

Don't do The Ace.

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#26 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 07:56:14 am
4. Do some trad with Nik at Work.
FUCK YEAH! :2thumbsup:

I'll need to add in 3a, buy a harness.

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#27 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 09:04:03 am
1. Arrive for my week in Font in Feb uninjured.
2. Climb 7a on a regular basis rather than just once a year - maybe start projecting something a bit harder.
3. Get below 13 and a half stone.
4. Climb in North Wales more.
5. Go to Torridon.
6. Catch a 20lb carp :fishing:
7. Do some fly fishing.

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#28 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 09:06:29 am
Redpoint 8a

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#29 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 09:31:39 am
Trad
Climb E2 regularly
Climb E3
HP E4/5
Climb more route than last year

Sport
Onsight 6c or harder
Climb 7b again or harder

Bouldering
7A

Other stuff.
Put up a FA on isle of man
Dolphin belly slap
Climb in 4 different countries

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#30 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 11:22:09 am
Rough chronological order:

1. Climb some more grit routes this winter.

2. Short trip to Pedriza in late January.

3. Short trip to Berdorf in cool spring / autumn.

4. Short trip to Pfalz in cool spring autumn.

5. Move to Manchester / Peak area.

6. If successful, climb some cool routes in Wales / South West.

7. Get weight below 12 stone in spring.

8. Keep doing falling practise.

9. Keep training CV at gym and micro-runs.

10. --- to be added later ---

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#31 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 02:16:49 pm
Gollum's Cave (if i can stomach it!)

I went for a walk to check it out the other day and I'm never going back. Does anyone actually climb there any more? Seems a bit intrusive when there are squatters living in a tent there....

PM me if you have trouble getting belays on any of those routes btw, think they're all on my hit list as well!

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#32 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 02:55:49 pm

8. Keep doing falling practise.

9. Keep training CV at gym and micro-runs.

10. --- to be added later ---


10. Practise the difference between "practise" and "practice"?


 ;)


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#33 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 03:04:00 pm
Aims: there's no point putting down grade related goals as I'll spend all year chasing them anyway. So, less numeric goals:

The Quarryman.

Do as many of the things on my current list of unclimbed projects as possible. Think of good names (or bad puns) for them. Go exploring, and find rock that would actually be worth cleaning/climbing. Climb it.

F8a on trad gear.

Try hard-for-me multipitch sport routes, in Chorro/Verdon.

Catch up with High Repute on 8a.nu bouldering. Stay ahead on routes.  :boxing:

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#34 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 04:57:34 pm
1. Boulder 8B (one of two local projects that I've been trying off and on since 1999)
2. Mandala (next fall?)
3. Crow Pass Marathon in Sub 5hr (July)
4. More days outside than 2013
5. Bolt and climb some new routes hopefully in the 8a-8b range :)
« Last Edit: December 27, 2013, 05:05:58 pm by Sasquatch »

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#35 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 05:47:29 pm
Catch up with Hugh Reputon on 8a.nu bouldering. Stay ahead on routes.  :boxing:

That's fighting talk  :boxing:

Are we doubling the wager?

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#36 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 06:06:57 pm
I love that smiley! Sounds good, I believe that's 2 pints now then.  :)

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#37 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 06:37:49 pm
Malc's Arete
Malc's Arete
Malc's Arete

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#38 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 07:02:02 pm
I love that smiley! Sounds good, I believe that's 2 pints now then.  :)

Pretty sure it's 4 now. You're obviously worried and trying to get out of the extra 2 pints already  :chair: :icon_beerchug:

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#39 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 08:20:45 pm
  • Climb 8A+
  • consolidate 8A
  • valiantly attempt an 8B
  • finish of some nemeses (i.e. don't fall off the top of berezina again)
  • Make it to Magic Wood
  • Go somewhere new
  • one armer on little crimp on beastmaker
  • get flexibility back!
  • at least a reasonable 2.1 for the year

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#40 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 08:55:51 pm
The last two years have been a real rollercoaster and for the first time I ages I feel settled. So......

- Lose a stone
- Pass my bike test and buy a good bike
- Have a really good trip to the Ments with GME and the lads
- Go climbing
- Do some music thing

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#41 Re: Aims for 2014
December 27, 2013, 10:55:36 pm
Quote from: Falling Down link=topic=23430.msg431211#msg431211 date=1388177751
- Do some music thing
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a) Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia - looked great this year - or b) some hippy festival,  or both.

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#42 Re: Aims for 2014
December 28, 2013, 11:29:02 am
Gollum's Cave (if i can stomach it!)

I went for a walk to check it out the other day and I'm never going back. Does anyone actually climb there any more? Seems a bit intrusive when there are squatters living in a tent there....

With a sales pitch like that I could hardly not visit now.

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PM me if you have trouble getting belays on any of those routes btw, think they're all on my hit list as well!

Will do, thanks for the offer :)

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#43 Re: Aims for 2014
December 28, 2013, 11:45:32 am
Climb outside more than once a month.
Climb an established boulder that's harder than 7A.
Climb an established sport route that's harder than 7a.
Climb more Trad routes than sport
Climb someone else's adventure route, preferably George Smith's.
Resist the lure of trying new routes.
Reduce feeding the rat to a few new boulders, but climb more established ones than new.
Maybe allow the odd newbie highball....http://hoseyb.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/giveaway-project-of-month-july.html

Have Fun!

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#44 Re: Aims for 2014
December 28, 2013, 12:40:46 pm
Some wildly optimistic aims for 2014...

(Finally) climb working class (and the SS too hopefully)
Avoid getting injured (this is where I failed badly in 2013)
Do an 8B
Learn how to use my feet
Get decent enough exam results to get into an ok uni
Read more
Go to font/swiss/somewhere like that
Get some stamina and climb something at the anvil (body blow??)





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#45 Re: Aims for 2014
December 28, 2013, 02:43:52 pm
i'd be really happy realizing just a single one of the following:

-Bouldering: 8A in font or 7C outside of my local area (esp. on granite) or flashing 7C

-Sport: any 8a+/b or a very respectable/feared/historic 8a in venues such as Buoux, Finale, Céuse, FJ...  or onsighting 7c

-Trad: safe crack route in between 7c and 8a (Annot/Orco/Cadarese), or 7a OW, or UK E6, or a US trip.

-Multipitch. Any big wall (more than 500 meters and mostly on gear). Or free climbing/onsighting one shorter "route i used to dream about" in Verdon, Bavella, Mt Blanc massif, Wenden, Ratikon, etc...

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#46 Re: Aims for 2014
December 28, 2013, 04:50:00 pm
move to a big house in S11

lose a couple of stone

stop whining about testicle, ankle, finger, back, toe or knee pain

do something climbing related every week even if it means going indoors

go bouldering with others

7C


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#47 Re: Aims for 2014
December 28, 2013, 11:49:52 pm
Chronologically:

1.)   On sight multiple 7a’s during Kalymnos trip (April)

2.)   Trad: Consistently on sight at E3 during summer. Including specifically Prana (E3 5c) at Black Crag, Borrowdale – proper E3 and one which I have been meaning to do for years.

3.)   Sport: Redpoint Marlina (7c) at Dunkeld.

4.)   Big Wall: The Nose or The Triple Direct on El Cap.

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#48 Re: Aims for 2014
December 28, 2013, 11:55:27 pm
1. The project
2. Light Weight
3. Gaskins Pill Box problem from standup (note this will roll over to every subsequent year of my life though could walk feet flush to kicker in position for a long time. Next step the pullon).

A year of solid focus.

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#49 Re: Aims for 2014
December 29, 2013, 02:23:11 pm
After 2013's vague aims, this year will be goal focused.

-Rays Roof, so psyched for this :boxing:

-Boulder 7c+ (the bulb most likely)

-Do some real E4's and E5's on a rope

-Pass all my law exams!  :smartass:

« Last Edit: December 29, 2013, 02:45:40 pm by Footwork »

 

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