joeforte
Jun 14, 2010, 12:01 PM
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MonkeyInTraining wrote: Remember, your chasing grades if your trying to get stronger and climb harder. You telling me your not into that? You don't have to be an ass and think about others grades, just were you want your own to be.
I try to get stronger and climb harder, but I'm surely not chasing any grades. Half the stuff I climb I don't even know or care about the grade. I rarely use guidebooks, and when I do its to find the crag, or a certain "classic climb" I've been suggested. I care about the onsight, and my ability to handle difficult situations on the fly. That's what I work for in my climbing. I've worked much harder onsighting some 9's than I did on 11's in the same day. The style of the climbing was the difference, and a number will never accurately measure that (nor would I want it to).
Describing endurance doesn't require a number:
Jane climbed long pumpy boulder problems all day.
Dick climbed a bunch of one-move wonders.
The problems I climbed were not as pumpy as Jane's, but were longer than most Dick's.
(This post was edited by joeforte on Jun 14, 2010, 12:02 PM)
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