I think you are preaching! ... I don't really need someone else telling me what form to climb it in! Surely thats down to the individual?
This is hardly high and ... to be honest in fifteen years you are the first person I've ever heard of top-roping this line. With the crux at the bottom and every move easier than the last, its a natural one to ground up.
Well I'm going to preach - slabs like this are fragile, this one gives some of the best climbing of its kind on grit; it deserves treating with respect. People swinging around on top ropes tend to kick pebbles off. That's a sad fact. Folk on the sharp end tend to be rather more careful.This is hardly high, if you're not up to climbing it ground up there may be better lines to try first. Lots of folk have taken years to decipher the fiendish start, and, to be honest in fifteen years you are the first person I've ever heard of top-roping this line. With the crux at the bottom and every move easier than the last, its a natural one to ground up. Choosing a grading scale is irelevant, what matters is treating this very special piece of rock with the respect it deserves.
a very boney crimp move with the left hand, or a very technical right palm. Either gets you into the reasonable footholds in the scoop, from which a 6c rockover onto the left foot gains the upper slab.
(although he claims the crimp has been improved which seems unlikely to me as theres no sign of this, just a minging edge)
I've only ever done the start, crimp in right and left foot on the flake and moving up left to a pebble in the sloping break (albeit in a lank-assisted way) then getting stood in the scoop.
Just in reference to the thread, i could be wrong, but JA doesn't look a million miles from the flake