McClure on Trigger Cut. Not a big number but it was the manner in which he did it. Got the first shotgun crimp and just locked it down and twisted and reached up to the shothole. Ridiculously duff beta but incredible bony fingers to lock that down like that.
Many examples of wadness but I’m so used to it that it’s “just Steve” and not as impressive as it should be any more
Thomas Huber who I'd only met briefly stopping his car a few days later when I was walking along and jumped out to find out whether I’d done Astroman or not.
QuoteThomas Huber who I'd only met briefly stopping his car a few days later when I was walking along and jumped out to find out whether I’d done Astroman or not. Please tell us you didn't disappoint him?
Watching 36C gracefully dance his way up The Hulk, flashing everything but the first move, was easily the most impressive bit of climbing I've ever witness. So much power, so much control. What a hunk.
I once saw saltbeef do an entire boulder problem.
Simpson flashing loads in the School first time I took him.
Quote from: Doylo on January 13, 2021, 07:52:54 amSimpson flashing loads in the School first time I took him.I've seen others suggest Rich wasn't all that strong on a board which is just utter nonsense. I can remember him cruising what was a project at a time when I was going fairly well, him muttering something about it not being all that hard, yet I was unable to move between the positions and TBH could barely hold them.
Here is a good one.In Rocklands, roadside, just wrapping up one of my 1000's of Monkey wedding sessions. Out from the bushes, Barefoot Charles appears, wearing what I can only describe as a towel around his waist, some fucked tracksuit bottoms, a chalk bag and a book. Nothing else, no pad, no fan, no ladder, no Bluetooth speakers. He has come to repeat Monkey Wedding for the camera. He proceeds to lay down his towel thing, I ask if he wants to borrow my pad, and he just looks at me, then sets off like some kind of lizard and climbs MW. Turns out he did it a further two times that day.It also transpires, he couldn't afford to camp, so he slept under his towel, in the caves above the campground. Bonkers.
I have also seen him in font, got to say in terms of pure talent and movement, he is hands down the most impressive person I have ever seen.
However, the main event was one day Steven Jeffrey arrived with a couple of Frenchmen. They were all pretty stoned I think and it was somebody's birthday (they were wearing little party hat/cones). SJ then proceeded to basically tick Cuvier's classics, one after the other. We were trying La Balance (which was completely fanciful at the time as we just weren't strong enough) and persuaded him to show us how it was done. He was unwilling to do so as he basically admitted to mauling it, which he then did. There wasn't any grace like the other ascents, it was just pure power.