[unclesomebody]

check 8a.nu

http://www.8a.nu/cgi-bin/scorecard/show.cgi?view=4296&page=2

I wonder if there's any photos or video's.  I just want to see what the climbing is like up there!

[Fiend]

Cold, wet, miserable, infested with midges and approximately 15,000 miles from Sheffield  :roll:

[Fingers of a Martyr]

not trying to shit stir or anything and please correct me if i'm wrong but has anyone even seen him climb? ever? according to this months climber macleod stepped onto its all over and fucked the main handhold in one go :? . not a case in itself but everythings so fishy. no videos, no photos of the 8c's. fuckin hell if i did 8c i'd have it filmed and fired all over the internet . wouldn't u? or just get some photos of the 8c lines.
perhaps skye bloc will prove every doubter wrong :?:

[Fingers of a Martyr]

bollocks i'm eating my own words already. there is a photo on 8a but its pretty shit.

[dave]

remember the old saying:

"if you sit a thousand monkeys at a thousand typwriters then eventually one of them will claim and 8c in scotland on 8a.nu".

wonder if he's going to tell anyone where it is this time.

Well done Si.

[Nigel]

Beast.

[hongkongstuey]

[unclesomebody]

No rest for the beastly strong (and isolated) it would seem... The man himself has just added another font 8B.  [taken from 8a.nu]

[Greg C]

2004-08-13  HyperBallad Eoropaidh N  V15
2004-08-14  Grip Crisis Eoropaidh N  V13
2004-08-08  Minihooligan -ext- Eoropaidh N V12

Not bad for... TWO WEEKS WORK!
                     

[Greg C]

Oh fuck it was one week!  :shock:

[Greg C]

Here's Si's description entertaining as ever!

"HyperBallad [V14-15] Font 8c 8 3 00-08-2004 Si O'Conor
somewhere around 8b+/8c. Low start on the steep left wall [boss slopey undercuts] then low onto the blunt arete. Follow the line of insanely poor finger slopers through the steep right wall to the lip. A very hard move onto the lip & headwall on no holds! then a couple of easy eng:6c moves into a highball finish. Awesome desperation & mad contortions hold to hold. "

Genius  :D

[Mr.Burns]

word up to the big man!!!

If you asked him on a monday if he had climbed V15 he would proberbly say "YYEEEESSSSS" if you asked him on a tuesday he would answer the question through the medium of dance. :dancing:

[dave]

do you recon he sends 8b+ on thurday and friday and saturday then chills on sunday like craig david?

[BoulderHog]

He should start a "Si's tour of hard problems in remote places" company, I'm sure loads of top climbers from around the world would sign up to it. Si could take them on a tour (for a small, v15 size fee) of what must be the largest number of massive grades anywhere on Earth, with the added benfit that they're all his. Not only could he earn a mint, but it would solve any of the doubts people have about the grades and his climbing ability.

He could then expand out to other places around the world, a visit of just 1 week would no doubt yield an 8C or two to get the tour up and running, the £millions would surely flood in.

[Fiend]

it would solve any of the doubts people have about the grades and his climbing ability.

Yesssssssssssssssss..........I think that would be the problem for him, though  :twisted:

[dave]

i think Si should go across the pond and try to break america.

[Mr.Burns]

He could hook up with mel b.

Kes would have to go into quarantine. :D

[a dense loner]

it's took something of this magnitude to bring greg home

[Greg C]

[a dense loner]

:wink:

[Sloper]

9 problems of font 8b and above. :shock: Has Mr O'C ever climbed at Font, Hueco, Bishop, er stanage etc?

[unclesomebody]

i think he's done all the hard problems in all those places, that's why he knows to give his own problems these grades.

[Sloper]

Me-oooow, I'm just waiting for the man to start spewing about how hard his problems are etc etc :hidesofa:

[BoulderHog]

Yes that's right, he must have done all those hard problems in all those areas, I mean, imagine for a moment that some unknown guy appears, having never climbed anything well known of any difficulty, and then goes on to grade loads of his new problems at the cutting edge of the scale. That would be insane, therefore, by the process of elimination, Si must have climbed all the hard problems in font etc.

It's funny how someone like Malc Smith, who is pretty much the strongest boulderer ever to walk the earth, takes ten years to climb his 8B+ project and has to train on a replica of dreamtime for a few years before success, whereas Si can happily despatch an 8C here, an 8B+ there, all first accents. The guy must be awesome, way better than Malc or anyone, there should be Churches erected in his honour. Why aren't there Churches in his honour? What could the reason be?

[Doylo]

looking at his record he blatantly is better than malc, and he's done the hardest trad route in the world. F8c with shit gear.