[robertostallioni]

Boulderer goes bouldering etc....

Well done but.

I don't do burl or stamina

What do you do?

 

[i_a_coops]

I still have a dodgy finger, and I can't walk properly yet, but I don't care. I just did 3 full one armers. Easily.

Cha'mone!

[tommytwotone]

Boulderer goes bouldering etc....

Well done but.

I don't do burl or stamina

What do you do?

 

OK, fair play - probably low in the stakes for a YYFY but it's been a right mission. Had a session on Thurs eve where failure on said problem became a metaphor for my own general failure in life, job, relationships etc etc...strange what this game can do to one's psyche once you get something into your head.

As for the Adam Ant question...in order of preference:

Crimpy slab
Slopers / padding slab
Balancey arete
Walls
One-move wonders

and then way, way, waaaayyyy down at the end is pumpy, stamina sapping lurching coupled with technical tiptoe-ing across crimps.

And then finally dynos.

[Johnny Brown]

You must love Almscliff then. Eh???

[remus]

Did my first one armer today

[Jim]

can get my left arm straight again! yay

[highrepute]

I still have a dodgy finger, and I can't walk properly yet, but I don't care. I just did 3 full one armers. Easily.

Cha'mone!

Good to hear you're on the recovery! Are you using the beastmaker much? stay motivated!

I still have your rope and chalk bucket, need them back yet?

James

[Footwork]

Over the last few days I managed to get out and do minions way and tufted crack! I feel like i've made a step forwards in my jamming initiation

[i_a_coops]

Good to hear you're on the recovery! Are you using the beastmaker much? stay motivated!
I still have your rope and chalk bucket, need them back yet?

Hey I heard you did Comedy, nice! (and respect for getting off the grit!)

I'm not hitting the BM too hard as I want to give my finger ligament a chance. I've been doing quite a lot of pullups and core stuff though. (Minor YYFY of doing a 2 finger one armer this morning... I'm cool)

As for the rope, it'll be another 4 weeks or so before I can climb again, I'm sure we can organise to go climbing in the same place at some point after that for me to pick it up. Cheers!

[al123]

soloed pebble mill ground up today  had to get a rope lowered down from the top from the sort of ledge thing as it started raining and i thought it was going to chuck it down but did the move easy, thanks again to whoever it was who lowered the rope!!!! then went back later and soloed it, brilliant route, first anything about E3 (unless you count wings of unreason but it E2ish for me.) 

[slackline]

Nice work al 

[andybfreeman]

I've booked my flight so on 7/10/11 i am moving to Australia for a year of climbing YYFY! 

Now just need to pull my finger out and finish some UK projects before I leave.

[BB]

Good work, Australia is the future.

[Jaspersharpe]

Do they have hoverboards?

[tomtom]

Do they have hoverboards?

No, but they do have a Welsh prime minister... does that count?

[Norton Sharley]

soloed pebble mill ground up today  had to get a rope lowered down from the top from the sort of ledge thing as it started raining and i thought it was going to chuck it down but did the move easy, thanks again to whoever it was who lowered the rope!!!! then went back later and soloed it, brilliant route, first anything about E3 (unless you count wings of unreason but it E2ish for me.)

How can you have soloed it ground up if you had a rope on the top third?

[robertostallioni]

If the rope comes from the bottom can it be ground up?

[al123]

soloed pebble mill ground up today  had to get a rope lowered down from the top from the sort of ledge thing as it started raining and i thought it was going to chuck it down but did the move easy, thanks again to whoever it was who lowered the rope!!!! then went back later and soloed it, brilliant route, first anything about E3 (unless you count wings of unreason but it E2ish for me.)

How can you have soloed it ground up if you had a rope on the top third?

cause i went from the ground to the top???? like in onsight when jack gerald calls for a rope when he gets scared, he still claims the ground up? its not like I practised the moves before.

[al123]

soloed pebble mill ground up today  had to get a rope lowered down from the top from the sort of ledge thing as it started raining and i thought it was going to chuck it down but did the move easy, thanks again to whoever it was who lowered the rope!!!! then went back later and soloed it, brilliant route, first anything about E3 (unless you count wings of unreason but it E2ish for me.)

How can you have soloed it ground up if you had a rope on the top third?

and giving me negative karma for " a climber goes climbing"????? jesus, so if chris sharma, goes climbing and sends a 9b or whatever, it isnt a big achievement or a YYFY moment for him or anything cause you know its just a "climber going climbing"?????? i posted it in here because it was a yes yes fucking yes moment. first E5 climb and a brilliant one at that but if your correct i guess i should have just stayed calm and said " well im only a climber going climbing" fffooookkkkk me, if everyone took that attitude, this thread would be dead.

[Will Hunt]

Well done on Pebble Mill. I agree with you about the "climber goes climbing" jibes. However, this isn't ground up. Sorry to piss on the chips.

[fatdoc]

either way.. whatever you call it... he's done it... it an ace route ( hard mentally for the grade IMO) and that's cool..

what's missing from this thread is



well done mate!


I was well stoked ( using modern terms) when I did it... a long time ago i admitt

and yes before pads and before head pointing was named... I did check it out on a TR 1st... and frankly I didnt care.

The bloke just did something that made him happy....

well done!

[lagerstarfish]

even more importantly; he's got me thinking about doing Pebble Mill again

[ianv]

  with fatdoc and I think its a bit shit that the lad got puntered for being psyched about a climb he did, on a climbing website.

[a dense loner]

maybe the other guys are as confused as i am al? from the statement that a rope was lowered down for the top third i have inferred from this that you tied onto said rope from stood on the ledge? if so this is about as yyfy as me waking up this morn, if not then of course its ground up and good effort n all that jazz

[tomtom]

Since when has this thread moved from being an outlet for joy at having done something that means alot to the person posting; to being some sort of judgemental ranking system for whether or not it was worthy?
 
Daft.

In my view a YYFY can range from having a kid, popping your first ollie, doing an 8A... submitting your thesis/dissertation: something that means a great deal to the person doing it and they feel the need to share it with the rest of the board. Thats what it seems like to me. I've posted on here about making my first 7a+, 7B and 7B+ respectively - all of which were projects that took several weeks/months so meant alot to me....

This ISNT the signficant repeats thread... which seems to be more focused on whether or not something is significant or not.

I also suggest we all step away from the whole ground up/onsight/flash/headpoint/hamster vs gerbil debate  - as its all starting to sound a bit like the other channel....

(well done al btw...).