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

« Last post by spidermonkey09 on Today at 08:59:40 am »

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 (haven't been in ages so might be wrong). I think some limited fixed gear up the back and a bolt belay to facilitate the route being worked with minimal faff is a decent compromise.

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news / Re: Significant First Ascents

« Last post by teestub on Today at 08:23:10 am »

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

He does the same, so is obviously into it, how strange that different people are motivated by different things!

If you don’t like it I’d avoid bouldering anywhere in the states, although, like eating massive portions and drinking strong beers, it kinda comes with the territory and you get used to it very quickly.

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by TobyD on Today at 07:54:19 am »

Belfast
On Netflix now for a couple of days more before it goes. It's a beautiful film, I would have liked it to have more direction and less sentimentality, but it's definitely worth watching despite this.

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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!