[YorkshireTea]

Is it just me or could it go from a much lower start?

does anyone know if anyone got round to climbing the original version of the sitter yet? Supposedly adds 8A+ into Sleepwalker, whereas Return adds 8B.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtoE2SNlv4r/

Bosi should have had a bash after ROTSW, could have been a quick 8C+/9A FA.

There's a rumour dark horse Griff Whiteside did this before DWoods did ROTSW but not sure how true it is. Happened to speak to someone who knows him and he wasn't sure, sounds like pulling teeth to get him to admit what he's climbed even as a mate

[Wood FT]

Nice, we've all heard that story before. Did you flash the zone? "I can't say". Did you ground up Careless Torque? "I couldn't possibly comment"

[Wellsy]

If asked I could neither confirm nor deny that I onsight solo'd Hubble

[ferret]

Nice, we've all heard that story before. Did you flash the zone? "I can't say". Did you ground up Careless Torque? "I couldn't possibly comment"

Given that Whiteside published video of loads of his significant ascents I would see no reason to doubt any claim he actually made

[SA Chris]

The Killers also wrote a song about him. Poss misheard.

[edshakey]

Noticed Dave Mc did his long term project at 8B+ [Bultitude], and followed the trend of not telling anyone for a month. Will Bosi repeated in in a day a few weeks back and held off with that news until Dave released his. I had thought this would be harder as its taken him a long time.

Footage of Will's ascent around 12:28 in this video

[remus]

Big day in Portugal recently:

8A/+ flash
8A basically flash, but shares an easy start move with the above
8A+ flash
8B FA
8B+ low start FA
8A FA
8A+ low start FA
8A FA

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/praia_do_cavalo-26411/

[Fiend]

Good steady mileage session 

[teestub]

Always vaguely interested about how well the gradation of the grading scale holds up in the higher grades, like is an 8A for a 9A climber like a 7A for an 8A climber? If feel like it should be but not sure if it carries through

[jwi]

Always vaguely interested about how well the gradation of the grading scale holds up in the higher grades, like is an 8A for a 9A climber like a 7A for an 8A climber? If feel like it should be but not sure if it carries through

In the Provencal school of thought, that is a defining features of the French grading system. The grades should have a transitive property, so that someone who onsights grade X should be able to Redpoint X+3 and do three X-2 in a day etc, whatever the value of X.

For sport climbing, data supports this, except in the highest grades where there might be systematic overgrading, see fig 6-9 here https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,31697.msg653903.html#msg653903

[jwi]

I just looked at my data-base scraped from eight a in 2017, and there are much fewer bouldering ascents than sport climbing. The data weakly support the idea that Bouldering grades also have this transitive property.



More data needed, alas.

Someone with a free afternoon that could scrape ukclimbing, 8a and thecrag, etc, and send me the resulting db?