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Removing weight: helium balloons, anti-gravity belt, or eating disorder. (Read 2372 times)

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Okay I know the last one is quite fashionable in the climbing scene but I'm wondering about other options. Obviously #2 hampered by not actually existing but hopefully midgets or Coel Hellier will get on the case. #1 could be simplest by probably a pain in the arse in the howling south westerlies that have characterised this "winter". Hmmmm.

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Swallow balloons full of helium. Stops you feeling hungry and makes you lighter. Double win.

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An African swallow, maybe?

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How would it carry you?

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I’m seriously considering checking out the satellite data so I can open a wall at the spot with the lowest gravity on earth.

That’s a USP motherfuckers

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Would it not be at the equator, and plagued by terrible connies?

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Looks like it’s in Sri Lanka. I will need air con

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Isn’t the device you are talking about called an autobelay :)

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Looks like it’s in Sri Lanka. I will need air con

What sort of variation from average is there? And where has the highest gravity for some Dragon Ball style training?




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Cheers Stu, glad someone is putting the effort in to the idea.

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Surely you want to build a wall in the place with the highest gravity. Train heavy, go to the crag and climber lighter innit?

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Yes, the popularity of crags and walls with sandbag grades in no way undermines your hypothesis.

I have realised the whole plan is a crock though; variations in gravity are at most equivalent to the reduction you’d feel by increasing your height about 50m. Might as well just build a bouldering wall in the penthouse suite of trump tower

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the reduction you’d feel by increasing your height about 50m.

You mean increase to about Will's height then?

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"But I'm only 45m with a +10m ape index!!"

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so gravity is less the further away from earths centre you are - and over less dense rock masses. So probably something sedimentary - coarse sandstone/conglomerate or limestone. At altitude. Close to the equator as possible. Though getting elevation without a mountain range (a rock mass) is hard. Did think of volcanic islands (eg Tenerife) but igneous rocks are often very dense - esp the basalt of the shield below Tenerife’s stratovolcano... ramble ramble..

Also - don’t forget the gravitational pull of the moon - so always wait for when the spring/harvest new moon is at its highest in the sky for that added lift :)

 

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