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#11900 Re: significant repeats
April 21, 2024, 03:09:28 pm
Janja has climbed the Fontainebleau big 5 in a day , first time in Font.  Not really sure how big an achievement it is but sounds pretty impressive to me.

(source Janja's Instagram story)

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#11901 Re: significant repeats
April 21, 2024, 04:36:52 pm
Janja has climbed the Fontainebleau big 5 in a day , first time in Font.  Not really sure how big an achievement it is but sounds pretty impressive to me.

(source Janja's Instagram story)

Not huge grades by modern standards but;
First time in Font, end of April, 5 problems 7c-8a, all of which are hard for the grade if your Janja's height and some are pretty committing.
I'm impressed

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#11902 Re: significant repeats
April 21, 2024, 05:40:07 pm
First time in Font
This probably amazes me more than the stuff she did. How long’s she been climbing and never been to Font before?

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#11903 Re: significant repeats
April 21, 2024, 06:41:35 pm
Janja has climbed the Fontainebleau big 5 in a day , first time in Font.  Not really sure how big an achievement it is but sounds pretty impressive to me.

(source Janja's Instagram story)

If it was anyone other than Janja it'd be super impressive, but she's got the Ondra curse where if she's not doing something world class then it seems mundane.

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#11904 Re: significant repeats
April 21, 2024, 11:05:47 pm
Janja has climbed the Fontainebleau big 5 in a day , first time in Font.  Not really sure how big an achievement it is but sounds pretty impressive to me.

(source Janja's Instagram story)

If it was anyone other than Janja it'd be super impressive, but she's got the Ondra curse where if she's not doing something world class then it seems mundane.

You definitely have a point, but for me it's interesting to see how incredibly capable she is on rock despite not really spending that much time outside relatively (witness her 2 8c os in a week a couple of years back). 

Maybe after she wins the Olympics again she can look for a new challenge and we might find out what she can do outside if she really tries.


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#11905 Re: significant repeats
Yesterday at 04:48:20 pm
I’m more surprised that she didn’t flash them all to be honest.

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#11906 Re: significant repeats
Yesterday at 08:12:32 pm
Maybe after she wins the Olympics again she can look for a new challenge and we might find out what she can do outside if she really tries.

This please. Like a few years back when Ondra stepped back from comps and went on a rampage (not that he was ever such a pure comp climber as Janja is).

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#11907 Re: significant repeats
Today at 03:38:17 am
You definitely have a point, but for me it's interesting to see how incredibly capable she is on rock despite not really spending that much time outside relatively (witness her 2 8c os in a week a couple of years back). 

That may well be true but I'm not sure that this achievement demonstrates that itself; the big 5 would succumb to an over-strong person? That sounds really negative reading it back but that's not what I'm trying to convey.

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#11908 Re: significant repeats
Today at 09:25:24 am
Bit OT but what is people's understanding of the big 5? BITD I always thought of the original big 4 as big boss, formis rouges, tristesse, and watchtower. That was then made 5 by the inclusion of atrésie. Looks like she did big golden rather than watchtower?

There's a list on UKC but that's from Remus and I don't know how recently that was put on

 

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