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

« Last post by spidermonkey09 on Today at 03:12:45 pm »

It is but I try not to think about that too much as he was so good to watch...

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chuffing / Re: Quality chuffing videos...

« Last post by jwi on Today at 03:11:42 pm »

I don't really understand why Seb makes such a big deal out of it being his "anti-style". It is an endurance route after all. It is not exactly Excalibur.

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

« Last post by tim palmer on Today at 03:07:52 pm »

10 beautiful minutes of boxers being made to miss here.

It is a shame Floyd is a horror of a human being isn't it

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

« Last post by spidermonkey09 on Today at 01:32:12 pm »

10 beautiful minutes of boxers being made to miss here.

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

« Last post by SamT on Today at 01:16:33 pm »

adventure trad climbing......hugely popular tourist beauty spot and picnic area.

I suspect this is part of the issue. Its pretty clearly not an adventurous location. Its an extremely busy walking and picnic area as you say, with dogs, prams, selfie sticks etc, at most 15/20 mins from the parking

As per Stones comment.. isn't that the beauty of it all though.. You can go and have a full on trad adventure, climb E9 etc, if you can, all within 50 ft of the normaltons posing for instagram. 

As Stone says, its very precious and it seems that access is now very precarious because a few folks can't abide by some relatively reasonable requests by the land owner that don't really inconvenience the climbing community at all.

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

« Last post by Nibile on Today at 01:15:35 pm »

Yes, and that is also why, in my opinion, the GOAT debate is good for dinner chat (which is great), but impossible to really define someone on a true and solid factual base.
Cherry-picking, too much politics, corruption, and most of all the weight classes make everything too sketchy, and so also the W/L ratios are somehow pointless.
In any case, Usyk did something extraordinary, and - unless he does something silly to his career as Holyfield or Jones Jr. did to theirs, i.e. fighting for way too long - he will go down as one of the greatest ones. As Fury, obviously, but whose armour is less shiny than Usyk's one, for his too many antics out of the ring.
Anyway, there are quite a few very bright stars shining right now, so let's hope it goes on like this, with top fighters clashing.

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news / Re: Significant First Ascents

« Last post by Stu Littlefair on Today at 12:44:35 pm »

Nice vid and beautiful line but it did make me laugh how they make such a big deal out of it being the true stand given he starts off stacked pads.

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bouldering / Re: Non-Quality Bouldering Videos

« Last post by M1V0 on Today at 12:16:12 pm »

One a friend put together of a newly developed venue in the Lakes:

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bouldering / Re: Non-Quality Bouldering Videos

« Last post by Fiend on Today at 11:29:13 am »

Something to pass a few minutes of a rainy day... The Miterdale forest boulders are less well known then Eskdale Fisherground, but offer aesthetic climbing throughout the grades in a cool setting. This wee selection includes one of the hardest, and best, problems I did this spring.

This was also the day that I met a very cute and friendly mouse, but alas I didn't get any footage of that - you'll have to go find him yourself.

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MoonBoard / Re: Moonboard - climbing by numbers or rather LED lights

« Last post by jwi on Today at 11:02:01 am »

The hold in position G11 on the minimoonboard is the one that first gets slippery very humid days, and the last to dry out when I turn on the dehumidfier. Clearly much worse than other holds, but there are a few mores that got affected when we had >70% RH at 22 C. (I cannot remember which ones from the top of my head).

Plywood holds seem more affected than the pure wood holds I have (not birch, so hard to compare). And as you say, it seems a bit random.