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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Spad climbing

« Last post by petejh on Today at 09:25:43 pm »

Whatever happened to going about your business quietly with as little fuss and impact as possible?

What happened is you (still) don't hear about those who are.

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chuffing / Re: Quality chuffing videos...

« Last post by Fiend on Today at 08:50:41 pm »

Bit of Seb pr0n.

Phwoar. Some great footage and I like the music. Good stuff!

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chuffing / Re: Quality chuffing videos...

« Last post by jwi on Today at 08:49:13 pm »

Bit of Seb pr0n.

Very chill. Nice!

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news / Re: Significant First Ascents

« Last post by lukeyboy on Today at 08:39:22 pm »

Keenan Takahashi has made the first ascent of The Gold Standard on the Golden Boulder in Bishop. This feels pretty significant; proper LGP stuff. The face was originally climbed by Sonnie Trotter and named Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, and so named because one literally had to stand on a partner's shoulders to reach the start holds. What a line!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5loYhuJAz4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Now with particularly nice film:

Thanks, that was a lovely little film. The sort of thing you could show someone to explain what projecting is like.

Also doesn't Bishop look like a stunning place (for those like me who've not been).

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chuffing / Re: Quality chuffing videos...

« Last post by Fiend on Today at 08:17:21 pm »

Just re-discovered this which I must have seen before, definitely quality for anyone who has been to CH or read the guide or just likes outrageous-for-the-grade routes  <<< smiley is topical for the climb 

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by abarro81 on Today at 06:44:09 pm »

Weird that she said she partly did it like that because the FA didn't use pads... But in the FA video Ondra is wearing a pad... 

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equipment / Stress corrosion reminder

« Last post by jwi on Today at 06:13:23 pm »

https://www.theuiaa.org/documents/safety-standards/UIAA_Anchor_Failures_2024.pdf

A scary bit of stress corrosion on a brand new A4/316L stainless ring in Leonidio. A reminder that equipping routes near the sea is problematic.

I do not like welded rings with visible welds, and definately don't like when they are welded directly to the hanger. It is just begging for trouble. I almost always double check them because I don't trust the judgement of equipers who use them.

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chuffing / Re: Quality chuffing videos...

« Last post by remus on Today at 06:03:17 pm »

Bit of Seb pr0n.

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news / Re: There’s a bloke fighting this weekend

« Last post by Moo on Today at 05:34:58 pm »

Exactly the argument has to take into account the entire context of a fighters career.

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news / Re: There’s a bloke fighting this weekend

« Last post by Wellsy on Today at 04:37:51 pm »

You can put him in the conversation for the greatest boxer of all time, I’m not sure you can categorically call that yet.

By the standards of the time I think Usyk is definitely a contender. I'm not sure about all time, but it's always hard to compare across eras. Like how the top legendary football teams from the 70s would be thrashed now. That said I'm not sure if it's the same in boxing. Usyk vs the titans of the 60s and 70s would be hugely interesting and of course, unknowable