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curt wrote:
chainsaw wrote:
curt wrote:
chainsaw wrote:
...Holloway was extremely tall and his problems that have held their difficulty are just really long reaches. They are certainly hard, but are very specialized...
It's good to see you don't let facts interfere with your erroneous assumptions. You should fit right in around here. The fact is that only one of Holloway's three unrepeated problems (Slapshot) involves a long reach.
Curt
What are the other two unrepeated problems Curt? Hollows Way? That's not a reach problem? Anyway, your missing the point as usual. The thread is titled "best boulderer ever."
may very well be a reach problem. That's totally irrelevant though--because
Hollow's Way isn't a boulder problem that Jim Holloway established.
Hollow's Way was first done by Bob Candelaria. By the way, if you're so fucking smart, why are you asking me what the other two problems are?
Uh, because I don't know, but I guess that makes me an idiot. You don't seem to be giving any answers though, so what does that make you? I guess your right curt, your arguments just seem so much stronger when you call people dumb.
chainsaw wrote:
While its good to see you don't let facts interfere with your pinings for yesteryear, the fact is Holloway did a few obscure hard problems in his local area, thats it. That does not even put him in the running as the best boulderer ever...
Those problems are still unrepeated, genius. In fact, even today Holloway probably has more unrepeated boulder problems than any other boulderer in history. Just because you are ignorant of Holloway's problems does not make them "obscure." Get a fucking clue.Curt
Your claim that he has more "unrepeated problems than anyone in history" is based on what exactly? Almost all of his problems are in or around Boulder, which I am sure you think is the center of the universe, but hey, guess what, there is a big wide world out there Curt! And on the world scale, some random off the map areas around Boulder with a couple of unrepeated Holloway problems makes those problems "obscure." Are they at destination areas like Hueco, Bishop, Font, the Grit? no. Which means the real question is, how many of the top boulderers in the world have actually traveled to these areas and tried to repeat these problems? Uh, likely none? Exactly. Your the one who needs to pull his head out of his ass and get a clue Curt. Remember, this thread is about the "Best Boulderer Ever".
I suspect you have never really climbed much outside of your little world and thus have no perspective on which to base your claims. Try and lose the angry old man thing and get out more.
p.s. your ignorance is proven by the statement that "Gill" is the inventor of modern bouldering. Typical myopic colorado bullshit. Uh, the first bouldering guidebook for Fontainbleau came out in like 1942? Sorry to burst your little bubble buddy.
(This post was edited by chainsaw on Mar 14, 2007, 3:51 PM)
