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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.

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

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 10:40:00 am »

That sounds like exactly the case here.

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

« Last post by spidermonkey09 on Today at 10:32:02 am »

The first Fury Wilder fight illustrates this quite well. Fury was knocked down twice but got up on both occasions. By most observers scorecards he comprehensively won the vast majority of the other 10 rounds, which should have meant he was the winner fairly comfortably. According to the judges, it was a split decision draw; one judge scored it a draw, one scored it by a few rounds to Fury, and the other scored it (somehow!) to Wilder by 4 rounds. Boxing is about much more than knocking the opponent over. Its about ringcraft, making your opponent miss, precise punching, meaningful punching rather than glancing blows off the gloves and shoulders. Its really complex to score and is very subjective which is why there is often controversy when judges scorecards are reviewed. Individuals preferences come into it a lot. Some judges like fighters who are on the front foot and reward what they see as positivity. Others value making the opponent miss and won't penalise a fighter who dances around more. Its very interesting but obviously a lot more straightforward  when someone gets knocked out!

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

« Last post by Bonjoy on Today at 10:28:58 am »

Cross posted with JB. I'd go along with everything he's said there.
Taking advantage of a precedent of getting away with something in the past is not a great strategy in this instance.

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

« Last post by Dac on Today at 10:25:28 am »

Thanks for that, I’d always assumed it was 1 point scored for each ‘good’ blow landed, I’d never noted how the points were nearly always 10 and 9!

It’s curious how so little is gained in points from a knockdown, seeing as in essence that’s practically the aim of the match. A fighter can knock down their opponent, and that opponent only be saved from a knockout by the referee intervening and giving a standing count; but loose 2 other rounds by the narrowest of margins and it’s all for nothing. (But then the scoring in the bouldering still confuses me).