[Houdini]

He looks like a spider turning and wrapping his prey in silk.

[Johnny Brown]

The less rehearsal the better. End of.

The mantra 'don't practice until you get it right, practice until you can't get it wrong' (as espoused by a wierd kids choir on calendar last night) seems to me to be taking all the adventure out of grit.

You can't keep preaching to people to play to their own parameters and then telling them to jump

You've missed the point. Whether folk jump start Rambeau or not is irrelevant in the great scheme of things. Climbing a new E9 in great style is not, and should be applauded. Either way, folk should be encouraged to do things in good style, whether they do is up to them. Its not going to stop me telling them its better if they do.

[Houdini]

Does that helmet he's wearing protect side impact?  Looks like an average top-impact protection lid a la access lids.

 

[Doylo]

well impressive!

[Paz]

Dave and Johnny.  I think leading it before the link just shows he was totally confident about doing it, which in any case is probably the best frame of mind to be approaching this sort of thing in.  Sometimes the more you practise something, the more you think about the consequences of a fall, and the more you allow doubt to creep in, e.g. if you've practised the moves so much you start failing on them due to fatigue.  You're just training then, and postponing the inevitable, you cna even start to get them `unwired' by doing moves different ways.. 

I hate to compare trad to sport climbing yet again, but in there obviously despite what 8a.nu say, you don't get a tick just for top roping a route cleanly without a doctor's note.  But there, things always feel far harder on the first dog than they do on the send.  Identifying how easy something is going to feel on the send from how hard it felt on the dog is a useful skill, e.g. for doing routes 1st RP.  To see such a high leve of this skill in one so young is really impressive.  I can only conclude E9 is not his upper limit, and sadly there are not enough gaps left in the Peak for him. 

Given that you can get a substantial boost from doing a route that's important to you, how wired do you actually need it to get it, if your heads in gear already and you can do the moves? 

And of course, if there's the most exposed rest in The Peak to go for, on Braille Traille...

[cowboyhat]

Another day, another thread hijacked by a confluence of hot air about style etc.

He's wearing brown cords! Despite the precedents for this choice of apparel I have never been convinced by their suitability to throwing wild shapes. Most impressive.

[El Mocho]

Climbs E9, brown cords, goes for the lead before he has linked on top rope... ...if only he could grow a little beard and a wrap around hair do it would be the new Enigma.

[Bonjoy]

He's wearing brown cords! Despite the precedents for this choice of apparel I have never been convinced by their suitability to throwing wild shapes. Most impressive.

I've got a pair, they're stretch chords. Convinced now?

[Jim]

What do you wear for throwing shapes in char?

[Drew]

Does that helmet he's wearing protect side impact?  Looks like an average top-impact protection lid a la access lids.

 

It's a Petzl Elios. If he falls from there, it will offer as much protection as anything else except maybe one of these

[Baron]

I could almost imagine leading the thrutch section, but soloing the BT crux? No way. Well punk. Brown would have to be the only choice of trouser colour.

[El Mocho]

He's wearing brown cords! Despite the precedents for this choice of apparel I have never been convinced by their suitability to throwing wild shapes. Most impressive.

I've got a pair, they're stretch chords. Convinced now?

To quote the original brown cord wearing wad

"Ben why do you always climb in brown cords?"

"Purely vanity"

and hence the E4 at Hawkcliff with the name.

(the Ben was Tetler, not me)

And as Pete Robbins always says

"You climb harder if you look good"

This is why he always tucks he T shirt into his trousers (they have a funny idea of looking good in Wales)

[cowboyhat]

What do you wear for throwing shapes in char?

Skinny jeans are in fashion, everyone knows that granddad.

http://www.thecatchbar.com/#

[Houdini]

(they have a funny idea of looking good in Wales)

Yes, CJD loves pink T shirts.

Throbber returned (!!) a birthday gift of a cool pink T-shirt.

However, I dress better than both 

[webbo]

(they have a funny idea of looking good in Wales)

Yes, CJD loves pink T shirts.

Throbber returned (!!) a birthday gift of a cool pink T-shirt.

However, I dress better than both 

yet you'd never heard of paul smith.i bet your top man all the way.

[Houdini]

Wouldn't wear either.

[webbo]

your not another brown cords from tesco/aldi man surely.

[andy_e]

Primark brown cords or GTFO!

[webbo]

remember clothes maketh man or you are what you wear.
primark that would make you a bit of a cheap skate who only likes to wear an item of clothing once.

[andy_e]

primark that would make you a bit of a cheap skate

Yeah, that's me 

only likes to wear an item of clothing once.

I've had my current pair of brown cords for 4 years now!

[webbo]

do you own a mirror

[Houdini]

I do.


And every morning I sing it a song 

[webbo]

that must be one scared mirror.

[Drew]

 

Come on guys!

Surely half of this thread should go into the Shit Heap?!

[andy_e]

do you own a mirror

nope