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news / Re: Significant First Ascents

« Last post by nik at work on Today at 07:09:41 am »

Great little film, really enjoyed it.

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

« Last post by ToxicBilberry on Today at 06:57:38 am »

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.

Yes sorry it was a rhetorical statement, I forgot about the difficulty of translating text to reality on the internet. Although the phenomenon of the 'pseudo dark horse' with a fragile ego is always around.

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news / Re: Significant First Ascents

« Last post by Fultonius on Today at 05:05:33 am »

The whole way through I just kept wondering how anyone can focus with all the inane "support" chatter in the background.

Then they shut the fuck and and he did it....

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

« Last post by Wellsy on Yesterday at 10:13:24 pm »

Points scoring in boxing works like this;

Three judges, each scores each round. Whoever wins the round gets 10, whoever loses gets 9. If a fighter is knocked down prompting a point, they lose a point (so could be 10-8 for example). They can score 10-8 without a knockdown if one fighter absolutely dominates, they can also score a 10-10 if there was nothing in it. If both fighters knock each other down the deduction cancels out

In reality judges are a bit of a law unto themselves and can be very controversial and at times just wrong. As Nibs said earlier in the thread, it is hoped for big fights that the judges will be up to it as they aren't always!

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

« Last post by Dac on Yesterday at 09:57:54 pm »

A question for those of you with a better understanding of boxing than myself (which, frankly is most people).

In both this fight (Fury vs Usyk), and one of the Fury vs Wilder matches Tyson Fury narrowly lost on points despite being knocked down by his opponent and barely making the 10 count. Does the points scoring in boxing account for a knock down and referee count, if so how, and if not why not?

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

« Last post by petejh on Yesterday 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 Yesterday 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 Yesterday 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 Yesterday 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 Yesterday 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