What don't people like about the video!? It's high quality footage of the best boulderer in the world raging on the hardest* boulder in the world!*Probs gets repeated before BoD though
I liked that, better than just another talking head harping on about pushing themselves. The rock looks befitting of a 'world's hardest' problem. Anyone notice how tiny his pins were in the send footage? I hope he got himself a burger afterwards.
...the best boulderer in the world raging on the hardest* boulder in the world!
I doubt both of these statements.
Quote from: Duma on June 23, 2021, 10:01:18 amI doubt both of these statements. Burden is probably going to remain a bit of a mystery as any would be suitors would have to move to Finland for 6 months and live in a depressing flat whilst it was snowing.
Whether D Woods is the 'best' boulderer or not is actually quite interesting. I believe his tick list is the strongest and I can't think what else you might judge it on
Quote from: Liamhutch89 on June 23, 2021, 04:21:52 pmWhether D Woods is the 'best' boulderer or not is actually quite interesting. I believe his tick list is the strongest and I can't think what else you might judge it on "Best" is a tricky one. Really you mean "most accomplished", which is a decent proxy for "best", but depends on whether you want to know best at a given moment or whether you give marks for longevity and consistency. It's possible to be the best very briefly and be much less accomplished than all the people you're better than, although of course you have to achieve a certain amount to actually "be good" and not just "have potential". You could have someone have a wonder year where they onsight 9a+, climb 9c quick but have done nothing else and then quit. They'd probably have been the best climber in the world that year (i.e. put them "up against" anyone else and they'd burn them off) but would not be the most accomplished climber. Perhaps easier to visualise with comps - kid comes, wins everything for a year, quits.
True, and this is an eternal debate in boxing circles e.g. a Larry Holmes type longevity vs a prime Mike Tyson peak - Who was greater? There are probably better examples.
Do you not also have to be considered cool by the cognoscenti? Feel like Woods falls down a bit on that one, kinda like James Pearson with hard trad
Quote from: Liamhutch89 on June 23, 2021, 05:07:52 pmTrue, and this is an eternal debate in boxing circles e.g. a Larry Holmes type longevity vs a prime Mike Tyson peak - Who was greater? There are probably better examples. Salvadore Sanchez is the usual poster-boy for "brief but brilliant". He died in a car crash at 23,
Woods has done friggin loads of hard stuff, this is an incomplete list: https://climbing-history.org/climber/516/daniel-woods Nalle's the other obvious contender.
Has Nalle climbed owt hard since Burden, or has he just been climbing at new venues around the world, whilst simultaneously complaining about people flying?
News to me, what was his sequence?