Sit starts without crash pad are still a thing in Font. I suspect they use sit start pads or towels....A presumably recent example.https://bleau.info/marion/309115.html
Just an example here, but the description "sit start without crashpad" is a very common thing to see when browsing bleau.info...https://bleau.info/apremontsanglier/302391.html
I can't think of a single boulder problem I've tried where a mandated* sit start improved the quality of the problem over a hypothetical low start using the same starting holds. Difficulty yes, quality no. *sometimes a sit start might actually be easier than a crouch by allowing you to get under the holds better. In this scenario, starting sitting doesn't need to be a rule.
Any problem that starts sitting is better quality in my terms than low or crouching… that’s because my knees are fucked and sitting down is better than crouched. I actually think crouching starts are generally less satisfying than sitting.
There have been loads of thoughtful responses here and I think that's all to the good - I’m alright with being told that I’m full of shit and having holes in arguments pointed out. But there have also been a lot of comedy bits based on stereotypes of blue-haired American uni students screaming that they can identify as whatever they want and general mocking of ideas like victimisation and safe spaces and privilege that were never part of the discussion in the first place, in response to a basic argument that women in a male-dominated environment might be bothered by things that men aren’t bothered by. Obviously that’s to be expected because this is an online forum and it's much more fun than writing walls of text, but it probably also explains why in this whole discussion there have only been two contributors who have said that they’re women.
I “did” l’aerodynamite off a 3 pad stack and my friend, who can easily reach more than pad higher than me, “did” it off two. I’m just wondering who’s not done it the most?
Quote from: 36chambers on February 16, 2023, 01:09:16 pmI “did” l’aerodynamite off a 3 pad stack and my friend, who can easily reach more than pad higher than me, “did” it off two. I’m just wondering who’s not done it the most?You.Friend = -2pYou = -3pYou have failed -3/-2 = 150% more than (s)he has.