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Tourniquet: First Re-ascent Fb8a+
August 16, 2007, 12:08:30 pm
Jordan Buys has re-sent Tourniquet at Little Font... http://www.lakesbloc.co.uk/8.html


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#1 Re: Tourniquet: First Re-ascent Fb8a+
August 17, 2007, 10:05:00 am
Good effort and nice shot too. Looks like a classy problem.

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#2 Re: Tourniquet: First Re-ascent Fb8a+
August 17, 2007, 10:33:10 am
Great effort by Hair Jordan. I've had a play on this after the hold broke and I would say that the grade assessment is probably right - a series of very hard stuff on slippy directional holds. It is also of very high quality. I couldn't do any of it, and I seem to recall Mr Parry asking perplexed questions about it once too. Bon work, a very good repeat, which in my mind stands as an FA.

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#3 Re: Tourniquet: First Re-ascent Fb8a+
August 21, 2007, 02:03:31 pm
Myself and Mr Katz tried this two or three years ago - did it used to get 7c+, and, what has broken off.  I seem to remember this being desperate, i.e. the holds going the wrong way and all that.  Very Roadrunner.  Nice one.

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#4 Re: Tourniquet: First Re-ascent Fb8a+
August 21, 2007, 02:28:08 pm
Yeah Chris it was a 7c+. I went to cruise it after hearing that some guy called Smeg Chipmunk had done it, unfortunately got shut down. I am well aware that this same affair has happened to quite a few (very strong) folk. It used to have a very positive large flake edge which acted as the main foothold for the majority of the climbing. This disappeared and left tension moves of despair. As Led Zep once said though, the handholds remain the same.

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#5 Re: Tourniquet: First Re-ascent Fb8a+
August 21, 2007, 02:36:35 pm
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This disappeared and left tension moves of despair

You should have built your board a 70 degrees and hammered metal edges through it, slacker.

 

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