Quote from: gme on October 03, 2018, 11:23:02 pmQuote from: monkey boy on October 03, 2018, 07:06:56 pmIt's all about the pyramid! Good depthCouldn’t agree more. To climb an 8B does not make you an 8B climber.When do you become an 8B climber?
Quote from: monkey boy on October 03, 2018, 07:06:56 pmIt's all about the pyramid! Good depthCouldn’t agree more. To climb an 8B does not make you an 8B climber.
It's all about the pyramid! Good depth
I recall reading on here that the 3 should to include one on grit and one in font for true mastery.
OK, its reached the stage where its time to ask the experts.... I'm in the midst of researching an article about who are currently the UK's strongest climbers. I need to compile a list of strong people, and I'm going mad trying to pull names from my useles memory. List criteria are below."To be counted as one of the UK’s strongest climbers you need to have ticked at least one, more or all of the following criteria:A Climbed Font 8b+ (there is no point in including route climbing in here as moves on routes are never as hard as those on boulder problems.)B Climbed Font 8b at home, in Font and at least one other country abroad "So far in list A I have Malc, Johnny G, Tyler, Earl, Micky Page and possibly Liam DesroyIn list B I have no-one yet, as thats when I started to go mad. Seeing as I know how some of you love a list, I would appreciate any light anybody can throw on more names for either list. Please note that when you add a name I could do with some big numbers to back up the claim - a few swiss problems that have dodgy grades might not qualify you, although obviously confirmed Swiss dirt (Dreamtime, La Proue, Mithril, etc, etc all count cos the grades are right!)
Ben West joins the pack with Steppenwolf https://github.com/bourbonspecial/UKStrongPeople/blob/master/men_boulders.md
Neil Dyer seems like a candidate, something in the cave of justice perhaps?
Matt Wright did Serenity at impossible roof last week .