[abarro81]

Where?

[Coops_13]

Grass-dab?

[PeteHukb]

His left foot touches the green pad when he cuts loose - you can see it move.

[Bradders]

Harsh!

[Bradders]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwK_jLqN8Rk/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Where to start?

[User deactivated.]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwK_jLqN8Rk/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Where to start?

No knee bar though

[Fultonius]

The slight pause from the onlooker, wondering if he'll drop off and go "back around", to the black scuff mark on the mat. This has it all.

[yetix]

Good training go, he also said he didn't top out. Poor lad was probably psyched. Not sure why avoiding that knee as it was hard to choose not to use imo!

[M1V0]

I don't think he actually touches the pads though, does he? Can't hear anything, no movement of the pad either.

Not worth giving an extra grade for sans knee though.

[Bradders]

I don't think he actually touches the pads though, does he? Can't hear anything, no movement of the pad either.

Not worth giving an extra grade for sans knee though.

No his left foot hits the ground / rock next to the pads.

[Coops_13]

Is it meant to be a sit too?

[Bradders]

Is it meant to be a sit too?

Yes hence my

Where to start?

(pun definitely intended)

[blaciqui]

I wish I had friends like this…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzRdbn2Nu6Z/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR0HG2YgZ5-2zkdm4lmnT8F6IzTFgZ7KqD8eP3aNqNyXDw9x_92N7wluj50

[Kingy]

Its all going to fuck according to Iker Pou on Instagram. I can't tell much from that vid but he ain't very happy...

[joel182]

Looks like Loic deleted the original post and is no longer claiming the send:

Yesterday I was very close to send "Artaburu", today rest day and we will see tomorrow...

[jwi]

Here is an exercise for you: google Loïc Zehani "grimper.com" and ask yourself why France's pre-eminent rock climbing magazine has written zero lines of text on Zehani since 2020.

That's another way to solve the issue.

[jwi]

[deleted] because

[Fiend]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C09mDECNz9_/?igshid=YzZhZTZiNWI3Nw%3D%3D

  small numbers for bad beta, or...???

[Dingdong]

What does this have to do with dabbing?

[Mike Highbury]

What does this have to do with dabbing?

That's got to qualify, surely?

Nah, I take your point, he calls himself out rather elegantly.

[Fiend]

Elegance was the first word that sprang to my mind too.

[stone]

I recently saw someone climb a problem (incidentally from a full sit start), with style and ease using quite different than normal beta (intermediate holds etc). She was about 5'1".  I said it would be great if she posted a video up, as there were half a dozen videos, all of lanky blokes doing the problem when I searched. She said that many women were put off posting bouldering videos because of the nit-picking comments they tended to get.

To me that was really sobering. I'm sure that wasn't the intention people commenting had, but it appears to be the grim reality of the outcome.

If people want to get a message of purity across, then why not restrict that to positive comments bigging up exemplary ascents? So show a video and say "note my backside was planted so deeply in the wet peat, it made a sucking sound as I pulled out to start" or whatever.

[Fiend]

That description sounds like my first dump on most days.

I suspect if there's nothing to nitpick then there won't be many nitpicky comments?? (Will's video aside)

[stone]

I suspect if there's nothing to nitpick then there won't be many nitpicky comments?? (Will's video aside)

Perhaps you want to banish impure videos (seems mean to me but whatever), but are you content about (as collateral damage) frightening off loads of perfectly fine videos because posters just want to share and not to run the risk of unanticipated public criticism?

[Will Hunt]

I suspect if there's nothing to nitpick then there won't be many nitpicky comments?? (Will's video aside)

Doesn't this sentence imply that there's nothing to nitpick in my video, when in fact it should be met with nothing but contempt and decision?