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places to visit => indoor walls => competitions => Topic started by: Percy B on January 27, 2015, 10:14:05 pm
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Can't believe this hasn't been on here before - the Beastmaker Indoor Footless Festival. This saturday at the Climbing Works. A selection of the worlds most hideously strong yet technically inept climbers being monsters, with lashings of beer for the spectators and a commentary that may well take the form of a torrent of abuse.
We're not going to take things too seriously, even though the female bouldering world champion will be competing! More stuff on the events page at www.climbingworks.com (http://www.climbingworks.com) of search for B.I.F.F on crackbook
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is Nibile coming over for this?
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is Nibile coming over for this?
There should be weight categories. Even with your new svelte figure you'd be in with a shout
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Any way to buy/reserve spectator tickets before the night for those not in Sheffield?
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You want to travel to watch a load of idiots do footless problems? I live a minute away if you've got a limp and it's only Percy mentioning beer that's just about tipping it for me
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ps. i think outcrops filming it as well so if you haven't seen a time lapse for ages then this ones for you!
Will be a good event really don't listen to me!
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is Nibile coming over for this?
There should be weight categories. Even with your new svelte figure you'd be in with a shout
I'm still well into the 90kg+ category
trouble is, I can't do more than 1 move at a time
(and will be at my folks golden wedding do)
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Since Percy's fiddling with his crack somewhere, tickets are £2. Will prob be sold out come Sat. Not sure about ordering them
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Sunday it's my birthday.
Hadn't I had 30 people at my place Saturday night, I would have come over to be ridiculized by real streng guys and gals.
Yesterday's BM session was gorgeous by the way.
And I am positive that Lagers and I are in the same category.
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Where will the live stream be broadcast??
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And I am positive that Lagers and I are in the same category.
I suspect that even with a stack of weights to put you in the same weight catagory as me, you would still burn me off
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And I am positive that Lagers and I are in the same category.
I suspect that even with a stack of weights to put you in the same weight catagory as me, you would still burn me off
Beware.. This self deprecation is the first phase of his hustling routine ;)
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The sound of one hand (or many) snapping...
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Phone up for tickets - less than 40 left. 01142509990 is the Climbing Works - pay by card over the phone. I feel sure you will be guaranteed some brutal displays of power by people you've never seen climb owt hard on a rock....!
:weakbench: :beer2: :chair: :whip: :lets_do_it_wild: :wall: :sick:
Wow - those little smiley things are great!
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And I am positive that Lagers and I are in the same category.
I suspect that even with a stack of weights to put you in the same weight catagory as me, you would still burn me off
Beware.. This self deprecation is the first phase of his hustling routine ;)
I sat and watched a load of lagers Peak bouldering vids one evening and the next day went to try some of them, thinking they didn't look too hard. Wrong! I wasn't strong enough to manage even a move on many of them. The man's an undercover beast.
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I have no interest in his sex life!
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Yup he's the ultimate grit hustler..
The number of times I've watched him cruise up something (usually involving slopers, pulling and slapping) and failed miserably myself..
He makes a good field expresso espresso though
I have no interest in his sex life!
The man doth protest too much? ;)
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He makes a good field expresso espresso though
This bugs me far more than it should, but there's not a chance he's getting the 9 bar of pressure to produce a proper crema without an espresso machine...
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I have climbed with several people who have had a 9 bar, but there was never any coffee involved.... :whistle:
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He makes a good field expresso espresso though
This bugs me far more than it should, but there's not a chance he's getting the 9 bar of pressure to produce a proper crema without an espresso machine...
90kg bearing down on an Aeropress....?
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9 bar is less than 10kg/cm2 innit
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Yes - my calculations show 8.88 bar if we assume the aero press filter is 10 square cm. if it's a little smaller (think it is) then it's above 9. SCIENCE.
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I have climbed with several people who have had a 9 bar, but there was never any coffee involved.... :whistle:
The great tasting nutritious mixed seed energy bar is a wonderful accompaniment to coffee
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I sat and watched a load of lagers Peak bouldering vids one evening and the next day went to try some of them, thinking they didn't look too hard. Wrong! I wasn't strong enough to manage even a move on many of them. The man's an undercover beast.
it's all done with CGI
I use the green and blue mats at The Mini Works as background to perform impossible moves on and then chroma key the fuck out of the resultant video
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While the most important event in the history of climbing will be developing, I will be celebrating my 43th birthday getting drunk and fat.
Could someone make sure that the full video is going to be online tomorrow or in the next days?
Fuck I'll miss it.
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Not as much as they will miss you :wave:
43th birthday.. Pithed already? ;D
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Ooops!
I mean 43rd!
:-[
Me no capisc.
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guessing there isn't a stream?
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Yep, just at the side of building. Next to the mini works as opposed to the main event tho
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Was i the only person that noticed the stall selling what looks like the future of campus rungs?
Just realised that i could find no info on their rungs, balls etc. on their website. i bought a pair of big balls at the biff after i finished, perhaps i should have bought them before i started, might have helped a bit ;D
the wee campus rungs look like they'll easily replace wood grips as the new standard, what with being smaller and awesomer, on every level :)
I want some, can't justify them, but still want them.
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I think you may have been the only person rodma :shrug:
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I think you may have been the only person rodma :shrug:
what's wrong with the world when I'm the only one fawning over the campus rungs at a footless comp :no:
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Yesterday I tried to do some tests, by filling in with some cardboard the lower rungs of the BM.
Unfortunately, it didn't work well, because by doing so I could only grab the steepest part of the edge, in which the radius is steepest.
A big big slice of humble pie for me.
But then I climbed a problem on my board. Using feet. Badly. Still good though.
Will try to make a good rounded 6/7 mm edge later.
I found some tests of a couple of years ago, 78" on a 1 cm, slightly rounded one.
We will see. The Winter is still long.
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Made the edge.
There's no way I can hang it.
End of story.
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Made the edge.
There's no way I can hang it.
End of story.
Perfect project then!
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No rodma I meant I think you were the only person that saw the stall. I've asked a few people who were there and none of them saw it either. We're you seeing what you wanted to see? ;D
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I saw the stall. And I'm convinced Nibs has made his edge too small. Never mind, we can have next years BIFF round his place.
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I take it ru and barrans saw it as well? Where was it, under the settee? Munchkins with their own stalls, whatever next?
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If only I could award wad points on tapatalk. You'll just have to imagine I gave you one.
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Can someone point me to a highlight reel or some such? or is it just the snippits floating through crackbook.
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It was over where the tables are at the left of the comp wall dense.
I like the idea of a borrower sized wall.
Nibs, the ring at the biff was really wide, so it was easy to get a lot of thumb involved.
I've no doubt that yours is harder to hang
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Can someone point me to a highlight reel or some such? or is it just the snippits floating through crackbook.
It's not out yet. There's a terrible clip of me failing on the thing that finished on the swinging satellite kicking about, but unfortunately that's how I climb
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(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/10/60c1b1d0fb9ca91f2ad4e5febeb5a5dc.jpg)
Yay. I wasn't imagining it :)
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Bizarre! I didn't see that table at all. Have you just spent a week wittling them rodma?
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If only I could award wad points on tapatalk. You'll just have to imagine I gave you one.
Press the menu, top right. Press "web view". There you go....
Always confuses me when people say they can't wad/punter on their phones.
That's how you do it (though isn't it?).
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Bizarre! I didn't see that table at all.
Doesn't sound like an apology to me?
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It's not meant to be an apology, I didn't see it nor did many others. The fact that rodma has took pictures from a website and stu has become complicit in the charade only lends me to think that they're about to release a dan brown type climbing book. With a foreword by Dawes
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Is the video of the comp available anywhere?
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Are you being serious nibs? Nicks doing it, it'll take longer than one of his time lapses
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;D ;D
Back on topic, is this a bleedin' bivvy ledge compared to The Hold? Is it anywhere close?
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8564/16414160790_a67b7a8a1d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/r1sS9f)20150221_145257 (https://flic.kr/p/r1sS9f) by Nibile (https://www.flickr.com/people/70381658@N00/), on Flickr
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That looks about right Nibs. Maybe even a little small.
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Cool. Will make it smaller then.
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Highball deadhang off on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/118534096)
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Brilliantly violent.
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One of my better ideas I thought :great:
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Any wall that does this after watching this should be closed down and the owners fined. A lawsuit waiting to happen.
The worrying thing is it probably is one of Graeme's best ideas ;)
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We will be toning it down for next year. The ferocity took us by surprise, it would be difficult to repeat it and ignore the potential for someone getting quite seriously nailed.
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Excellent little trailer for the upcoming BIFF video :dance1:
http://www.epictv.com/content/beastmaker-footless-climbing-competition-trailer-epictv (http://www.epictv.com/content/beastmaker-footless-climbing-competition-trailer-epictv)
Is that Stu Littlefair? He really made me laugh :great:
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Lol at uncle
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Two brilliant cameos. At least one of them was serious though.
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That beastmaker fight off would be even more amusing if the competitors were naked.
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That beastmaker fight off would be even more amusing if the competitors were naked.
and oiled
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We will be toning it down holding it in a private facility, tickets in advance, for next year.
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Is that Stu Littlefair? He really made me laugh :great:
And you haven't even seen me climb yet...
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If you haven't seen it yet... http://tv.thebmc.co.uk/video/the-biff-2015?current-channel=climbing (http://tv.thebmc.co.uk/video/the-biff-2015?current-channel=climbing)
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Good that. I'd probably struggle on most of those problems with my feet on ...
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Does Stu have a special Climbers Against Bouldering t shirt?
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I enjoyed that, thanks.
:popcorn: :boxing: :clap2:
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Does Stu have a special Climbers Against Bouldering t shirt?
Climbers Against Barrows
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Where do I sign up?
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If Stu starts selling these I want a 5 quid cut per shirt
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If you donate it all to John you have a deal. On the other hand, if you climb 9a this month, every climber in sheffield is getting one for free
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:clap2:
Will watch the video later.
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ace
some new female role models I'll be pointing my daughters at
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Should female (or male) role models be seen kicking each other in the head? :P
Sam with can of Stella = genius. :bow:
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More of this sort of thing!! :icon_beerchug:
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That was brilliant. Love the little interview snippets and the wide boys old skool crack challenge. Women's deathmatch was brutal!
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Climbing in its purest form: footless aggression.
It doesn't get any better.
Thanks!!!
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Haven't laughed so much in ages,probably since Father Ted finished :lol: :clap2:
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Who's doing this years one? Nibile you flying in?
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regretably I've pulled out, since i can barely hang off a small campus rung (two handed) at the mo, let alone move upwards. :'(
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Who's doing this years one? Nibile you flying in?
This is a footless competition, he should be parachuted in.
If Lore intends to compete he will need to start training now, by getting into a wheelchair and not using his legs for the coming months to put them in a state of atrophy. By the time the comp rolls around, I expect he will need to be carried to the start of the problems.
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By the time the comp rolls around
it's in a week and a half
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Jesusfuckingchrist guys.
I've just seen this. I didn't know anything, that's saddening. At least I could have dreamt about coming over. Now I'll have to wait for another year.
Anyway maybe it's been for good: I struggle to do a single one armer due to my shoulder and elbow issues. Yesterday I did 147 on 23 cm spaced rungs but today I'm aching. I would have disappointed you all.
But thanks for the thought. I appreciate.
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I struggle to do a single one armer due to my shoulder and elbow issues. Yesterday I did 147
I must remember to finish reading full sentences before i let it drop... :jaw:
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Ahahahahah 147 one armers wouldn't be bad at all.
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One 147-armer would be impressive as well.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-57ibF3pXdeI/Ue4gm4iUMTI/AAAAAAAADpM/NBGgGvb9_VQ/s1600/813-ART-Sahasrabhuja-Avalokitesvara-2.jpg)
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...and a one armed 147
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Come on, spill the beans, who won this year?
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Molly Thompson-Smith and Jim Pope, both team GB youth members and both probably predominantly route climbers! Both got ridiculous amounts of talent.
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Molly Thompson-Smith and Jim Pope, both team GB youth members and both probably predominantly route climbers! Both got ridiculous amounts of talent power.
Cheers.
Hopefully there will be a video sooner or later!
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Yeah need a video for sure.
And Nibble 2017 invasion is obligatory!
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Absolutely.
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On a personal note, I was very chuffed to have played a very minor part in the BIFF!
As a tree surgeon, I come accross loads of bits of wood. Dan asked me one day if I wouldn't mind saving anything I thought looked interesting, so he could work his magic and turn them into holds. Needless to say, I found a colossal amount of weird and wonderful shapes, and I was very pleased to recognise some of them in photos from last years and this years events. The bits and bobs I chopped off timber would probably go to waste or just end up as firewood anyway, so it's great to see them all cleaned up and put to good use!
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Does anyone have a link to the live stream for this years Biff please?
:)
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Not sure if it's possible without being signed in to facebook but there are two pages which are going to stream it, one is:
https://www.facebook.com/IloooveClimbing/
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Cheers Steve. I'm not on Facebook but I'll try and get it to work.
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So what happened where is/was the stream i couldn't find anything on that fb page
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Working for me. Got no headers or anything, it just says "I love climbing is live now." I click on that and it streams
Direct link https://www.facebook.com/IloooveClimbing/videos/10154981619241350/ (https://www.facebook.com/IloooveClimbing/videos/10154981619241350/)
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Been about 5 seconds worth watching so far anyway haydn, not missed much
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https://www.facebook.com/Extreme/
but yeah, it's boring
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Maybe it didn't come across on the stream but I was there and it was brilliant!
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Watched it on stream, absolutely brilliant.
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some photos from the biff http://www.domworrall.co.uk/dom/biff2017/
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To be honest, I was a bit disappointed!
Maybe you had to be there and I did only watch the finals but there seemed to be a lack of order/rules and as the wife said (and I'm paraphrasing);
"I'd rather watch some beasts campussing up shit slopers than this crap..."
The highlight was Melissa (:wub:) booting some poor girl in the foo foo (which gives you an indication of how much we enjoyed the rest...)
Sorry Ned and Shauna!
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To be honest, I was a bit disappointed!
I agree, I only watched the final and felt it was just too un-climbing related. I personally preferred it when they did the head-to-head deadhang thing.
Also would of preferred watching some nails campus problems where the competitors get a couple of minutes each to give them as many goes as they like.
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booting some poor girl in the foo foo
Dab.
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To be honest, I was a bit disappointed!
I agree, I only watched the final and felt it was just too un-climbing related. I personally preferred it when they did the head-to-head deadhang thing.
Also would of preferred watching some nails campus problems where the competitors get a couple of minutes each to give them as many goes as they like.
+1
It's like booking Yngwie Malmsteen for a gig but requesting that he only plays the flute.
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I went and enjoyed it, but looking back on it now, I think it was considerably worse than last year.
The problems themselves (which i don't think were televised) were a bit less epic, and several of the men did them all, which was a bit saddening. I'm fairly sure Jim and Louis flashed them all, and maybe Matt Cousins :S
Last year watching Janja make all the boys look crap on the boney crimp problem was awesome and no one at all topped that problem, which was epic.
This years final was probably better to televise but far less fun, throwing squishy balls at deadhanging wads is the way forward.
Mel on the buoy was indeed the highlight :wub:
Would go again, but it felt like it had lost something by televising it, perhaps the BM team trying to make it televisable neutered it a little.
Meh who knows.
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felt it was just too un-climbing related. I personally preferred it when they did the head-to-head deadhang thing.
Errr?
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felt it was just too un-climbing related. I personally preferred it when they did the head-to-head deadhang thing.
Errr?
Deadhanging is more climbing (albeit training) related than some dodgey looking trapeze set up
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I'd disagree. Climbing is by definition movement.
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I'd disagree. Climbing is by definition movement.
Get with it grandad, how long you can hang on a mooring buoy and a lattice score are the ways by which all climbing performance shall be judged.
I watched the comp online and was bored, it seemed like the sort of make it up as you go along mini Olympics we used to do as kids. Melissa le N is very competitive.
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Doesn't appeal - so I didn't watch it.. Saw the odd video clip and er meh...
Regular climbing comps I can relate to - and aspire/wonder at what the competitors do..
But BIFF feels as relevant to me and climbing as NinjaWarrior...
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Doesn't appeal - so I didn't watch it.. Saw the odd video clip and er meh...
Regular climbing comps I can relate to - and aspire/wonder at what the competitors do..
But BIFF feels as relevant to me and climbing as NinjaWarrior...
I absolutely f**king love Ninja Warrior.
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:D
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I think if you're discussing the relevance of the BIFF to climbing you've slightly missed the point, and the joke.
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I think if you're discussing the relevance of the BIFF to climbing you've slightly missed the point, and the joke.
The relevance is only relevant when making a comparison to a regular climbing comp. BIFF clearly isn't a regular climbing comp.. but it's not out of this world to make such a comparison given the personnel - where it's staged - who competes and attends etc...
I get the joke - just don't find it that funny ~ even when told for the third or fourth time.
Anyway - that's just me - and it doesn't appeal to me. No problemo- I'll do/watch something else..
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Nibs! Introduce some sanity into this thread please! ;)
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I absolutely f**king love Ninja Warrior.
Likewise, compulsory Saturday night family viewing. All about movement - proper climbing skills ;)
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Nibs! Introduce some sanity into this thread please! ;)
Ahahah! Only just seen this!
The understanding of the profund meaning and relevance of the B.I.F.F. will forever be denied to all those who aren't obsessed by pure physical performance.
If you're never lost your sleep over a poor one arm session (not that I know what it feels like :shrug: ;)); if you're never screamed with joy or jumped around after adding a couple of kg to your max; if you think that climbing is... just climbing, well you're missing loads and the B.I.F.F. will forever remain a mystery for you.
Otherwise, it will be a joy.