When I was in to sports climbing which is probably before half the people on here were born. Comedy at Kilnsey had a difficult second clip, so the deal was to have it pre clipped on the red point. Once you had completed the red point, you climbed up clipped it, pulled some slack through and jumped off to ground, then hobbled around for a few days.
I watched caff downclimb half the leap on boat to naxos in about 07, pretty sure he finished off the onsight a few years later.
Best bit of this thread is boulderers arguing about something that mostly affects trad onsighting. I watched caff downclimb half the leap on boat to naxos in about 07, pretty sure he finished off the onsight a few years later. I'll leave it to those who find 6cs scary to tell him he redpointed it.
Quote from: abarro81 on June 22, 2021, 09:02:01 pmI watched caff downclimb half the leap on boat to naxos in about 07, pretty sure he finished off the onsight a few years later.Cheating bastard.
I concur with Remus. Being allowed to downclimb to the ledge 1cm off the floor but not the floor is absurd. We're not bouldering here.
Claiming its ok as sport climbing is all about the moves is balls, unless you consider a tr ascent to be just as valid.
Falling off is what ends an os or flash. The ground has nothing to do with it.
if you want to do this to allow you to have a high clip or some gear pre placed on your next go from the ground (which is what I was aiming at with my previous post but didn’t explain properly), what time limit would you place on this?
The Thing magazine, Feb '94:
Quote from: Duma on June 23, 2021, 09:20:49 amFalling off is what ends an os or flash. The ground has nothing to do with it.Agreed. I can't understand why downclimbing would invalidate an onsight, especially on trad.
The Thing magazine, Feb '94:Not much has changed! Highly amused by stories of people projecting the downclimb after the redpoint. Stay classy sportclimbing!
Quote from: Johnny Brown on June 23, 2021, 10:14:49 amThe Thing magazine, Feb '94:Not much has changed! Highly amused by stories of people projecting the downclimb after the redpoint. Stay classy sportclimbing! and here's me naively thinking that sport climbing was a clean step up from all the questionable trad antics.