Reminds me of this thread.
If you're going to top rope a sport route 50 times then you want to claim `1st headpoint'.
the whole "1st redpoint" thing is meaningless when looked at out of context in isolation. for example i could say i did OOMT 1st redpoint, which makes me look like quite the cock about town, but what that doesn't tell you is the 4 years i spent on an off trying the first 3 moves. its meaningless as a tool for evaluating performance, though i can understand people wanting to record it for their own personal reference.
...Even a half an hour session counted as a 'day'. I suppose its hard lines if conditions are bad and you have to come down, its a still a day on the route.
Quote from: Kingy on June 27, 2008, 12:34:37 pm...Even a half an hour session counted as a 'day'. I suppose its hard lines if conditions are bad and you have to come down, its a still a day on the route. Probably true, much as it will pain people (including myself) to accept this. When you're thinking back over all the rubbish sessions you had where you dogged it, felt shit, then just stripped it without a redpoint, or the days where you dog half way up and there's a wet pocket so you bag it, just ask yourself - would Jerry/Steve/Patxi/Adam have done the route. Answer YES so its a day on the route. Chalk it up!
would Jerry/Steve/Patxi/Adam have done the route.
If you think that's bollocks Jasper what about people who record ascents of indoor problems like problems at the school