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#50 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 09:36:14 am
Does all the man love on ukbouldering make him cringe. :whistle:

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#51 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 09:39:37 am
Does all the man love on ukbouldering make him cringe. :whistle:

I'm sure Shark would pass on your number... ;)

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#52 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 09:42:39 am
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Has he ever been motivated to try something like a 35m enduro 8c, or is climbing to him all about short hard things.
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He did cry freedom in a day 20 or so years ago. Only 8b+ but surely along the lines of what you ask.
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Progress and True North aren't shorties either.

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#53 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 09:44:11 am
Does all the man love on ukbouldering make him cringe. :whistle:

I'm sure Shark would pass on your number... ;)
I prefer tall and gangly like your good self.

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#54 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 09:48:12 am
Does all the man love on ukbouldering make him cringe. :whistle:

I'm sure Shark would pass on your number... ;)
I prefer tall and gangly like your good self.

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#55 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 10:15:00 am
Ok re-phrase my question, to:

Training hard <#understatement> to be as strong as possible for very hard sequences is what you're most well known for - why do you think you chose to focus so much on strength and how does your endurance/power endurance (insert whichever energy-system terminology you understand here) stack up versus your strength; would you say it's naturally good (and therefore not needing as much work, relative to strength) or naturally poor and something you had to work hard at to able able to do routes requiring fitness? And which route would you find most motivating -  a 35m enduro 9a or a 10m boulder-problem 9a?

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#56 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 03:00:05 pm
Just to clarify for rodma, it was fabian christoph who told me that. With the throwaway comment afterwards he probably won't remember something that was clearly insignificant to him. He also said he was a monster, clearly in awe of his strength, and fabian is no slouch at all.
i think when asked about his training malc should just say " stay open" and leave it at that, staring at shark all the while until he crumbles and runs out of the house.

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#57 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 08, 2014, 09:58:13 pm
Can he confirm or deny the mystic stylez incident?

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What's the Mystic Stylez incident?

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#58 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 09, 2014, 02:34:55 pm
Did he ever try Brandenburg Gate... if so what did he think?

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#59 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 09, 2014, 05:55:39 pm
Can he confirm or deny the mystic stylez incident?

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What's the Mystic Stylez incident?

iirc it's that he basically pissed it but didn't top out and declared it both log and piss, for which we need a new term and I propose that term as being squits, but only because I can't think of another term for diarrhoea at the moment

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#60 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 09, 2014, 06:20:51 pm
Remember hearing that, legend

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#61 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 09, 2014, 06:26:41 pm

iirc it's that he basically pissed it but didn't top out and declared it both log and piss, for which we need a new term and I propose that term as being squits, but only because I can't think of another term for diarrhoea at the moment

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Trotts?

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#62 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 09, 2014, 07:38:32 pm
I reckon a synonym for a prostitute would fit the bill for meaning easy yet also a bit dirty or unpleasant - maybe drab, slattern, strumpet, or trollop?!

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#63 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 09, 2014, 07:54:34 pm
Shark, I've thought of a question, but it's multiple choice: How would you describe Mystic Styles. A) log and shit; B) Squirts; C) Trotts; D) Trollop; E) Even shitter than the name.

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#64 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 09, 2014, 08:07:31 pm
I guess we should adopt whichever is most likely to get used?

Q: are you gonna have another go?

A: I'm not getting back on that,  it's a complete puddle of strumpet

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#65 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 10, 2014, 03:06:45 pm

I can't (really be arsed to) find it now but at some point he said something like '8C is a ridiculous grade'

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The point was UK grades are different.  So, has this been changed at all over the years or is the rest of the world still soft?

Marra Time sit?  Would Voyager sit be 8C if it was in Switzerland or Colorado?

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#66 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 10, 2014, 04:56:35 pm

I can't (really be arsed to) find it now but at some point he said something like '8C is a ridiculous grade'

http://freakclimbing.com/modules.php?name=People&rop=showcontent&pid=18

The point was UK grades are different.  So, has this been changed at all over the years or is the rest of the world still soft?

Marra Time sit?  Would Voyager sit be 8C if it was in Switzerland or Colorado?

Probably 9C but Ondra and Jens L. should meet a agreement. Time comparison will tell.

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#67 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 04:17:48 pm
Here's a question I dare you to ask - Fancy an arm wrestle Malc?

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#68 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 04:33:56 pm
Ok here's a question for you guys - what specifically has impressed you about Malc ? what do consider to be his biggest achievements ? And why ?

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#69 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 04:36:09 pm
Would be cruel  .. for you.

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#70 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 04:55:42 pm
I heard he went to Céüse and couldn't climb anything so sika'd a load of holds in a shit cave under Cascade sector to train...

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#71 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 05:02:58 pm
The last question is true. Did it With Nic Conway and Cubby as they were all worried they were getting weak on the long stamina plods.

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#72 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 05:09:07 pm
Those problems looked desperate :lol:

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#73 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 05:13:12 pm
Ok here's a question for you guys - what specifically has impressed you about Malc ? what do consider to be his biggest achievements ? And why ?
The dedication to power in a secluded environment. Fucking chalking up mid crux on Fucking Hubble! This is the real deal.

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#74 Re: Malcolm Smith Climbing Legend
March 12, 2014, 05:15:02 pm
Ok here's a question for you guys - what specifically has impressed you about Malc ? what do consider to be his biggest achievements ? And why ?

For me it's his dedication to hard training, the big numbers he's achieved as a result and that he's managed to stay on top of his game for so long.

 

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