http://www.epictv.com/media/uservideo/climbing-lalchimiste-8b-in-font/605452Only slight dabs but a dab is a dab and on such a famous problem surely better morals are required.
Does anybody seriously think that whatever slight contact with a spotter there was there actually made a difference to the result?
I reckon yeah, unless you're Dave Graham.Thing that always gets me is people doing low roof problems or traverses then halfway through chalking up from a chalkbucket on the ground, and hence immediately invalidating the ascent.
Would fist bumping someone make an ascent invalid?
If you look real hard you might be able to spot the dab on this. Very minor at most. Totally legit ascent.
Calling out dabs is all very well and good in cases where it blatantly should have been "back around", but if it means that people don't get a proper spot on problems that really need it then maybe we need to have a think about whether it's better for your t-shirt to touch a spotters hand or to go home with a broken leg. FWIW, I'm happy to go back and do Suavito without a dab, but I'd still have a spotter on the block.
All this talk of crap spotting is a bit shit.
Quote from: Will Hunt on September 22, 2016, 12:54:55 pmAll this talk of crap spotting is a bit shit. No one is trying to fault Huw's spotting, he did a very good job, it's your shocking footwork that we're mocking here.
The real crap spotting in the video is from me when Dave plummets like a meteorite into the pads
to me the point of spotting is to make sure the falling person lands on the pads.surely thats what the pads are for?