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newguy5000
Apr 6, 2009, 10:54 PM
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so i read that this dude called Rashad from India invented rock climbing.
is this true? here is an exerpt i cut and pasted from a CNN report on it and it was also printed in my local newspaper.
Rashad Malikal Tahali has recently been acknowledged by both the Guinness Book of Records and the popularly used online resource 'wikipedia' as the inventor of rock climbing. Born in 1968 and hailing from a remote area of India, Rashad took to climbing the local mountainous features as a youth before fully developing the techniques and rules that define modern climbing today. Rock climber Chuck 'the stone' Jacobs had this to say about Rashad.
"well he's an absolute legend in the sport. None of us would be climbing today if it was not for him. Heck he invented the whole belay system."
Rashad continues to live in a remote area of India and continues to climb to this day. To Rashad we say, congratulations and keep on climbing.
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silascl
Apr 6, 2009, 10:57 PM
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newguy5000 wrote: so i read that this dude called Rashad from India invented rock climbing. is this true? here is an exerpt i cut and pasted from a CNN report on it and it was also printed in my local newspaper. Rashad Malikal Tahali has recently been acknowledged by both the Guinness Book of Records and the popularly used online resource 'wikipedia' as the inventor of rock climbing. Born in 1968 and hailing from a remote area of India, Rashad took to climbing the local mountainous features as a youth before fully developing the techniques and rules that define modern climbing today. Rock climber Chuck 'the stone' Jacobs had this to say about Rashad.
"well he's an absolute legend in the sport. None of us would be climbing today if it was not for him. Heck he invented the whole belay system."
Rashad continues to live in a remote area of India and continues to climb to this day. To Rashad we say, congratulations and keep on climbing.
Go away troll.
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Bats
Apr 6, 2009, 11:01 PM
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What?
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climbingtrash
Apr 6, 2009, 11:16 PM
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newguy5000 wrote: so i read that this dude called Rashad from India invented rock climbing. is this true?...
Everything that's on the internetz iz true...EVERYTHING!
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theguy
Apr 6, 2009, 11:40 PM
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newguy5000 wrote: so i read that this dude called Rashad from India invented rock climbing. is this true? here is an exerpt i cut and pasted from a CNN report on it and it was also printed in my local newspaper. Rashad Malikal Tahali has recently been acknowledged by both the Guinness Book of Records and the popularly used online resource 'wikipedia' as the inventor of rock climbing. Born in 1968 and hailing from a remote area of India, Rashad took to climbing the local mountainous features as a youth before fully developing the techniques and rules that define modern climbing today. Rock climber Chuck 'the stone' Jacobs had this to say about Rashad.
"well he's an absolute legend in the sport. None of us would be climbing today if it was not for him. Heck he invented the whole belay system."
Rashad continues to live in a remote area of India and continues to climb to this day. To Rashad we say, congratulations and keep on climbing.
Clicky
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moose_droppings
Apr 6, 2009, 11:58 PM
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You might be right. I seem to remember that rock climbing prior to 1968 was unheard of.
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cporter
Apr 7, 2009, 12:05 AM
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Warren Harding had the FA of El Cap in 1958... Where do people get this stuff?
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TheRucat
Apr 7, 2009, 12:09 AM
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newguy5000 wrote: . here is an exerpt i cut and pasted from a CNN report on it and it was also printed in my local newspaper..
Well uh, theres ya problem.. CNN? please..
FOX news FTW
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roddyheat
Apr 7, 2009, 12:51 AM
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Rashad Tahili is one of the great old hardmen of the past. There is really very little written about him and he is rather unknown and obscure compared to some of the climbing legends people are more familar with. This may be because he was climbing largely out of India rather than the West back in the day.
as to his inventing rock climbing this is obviously untrue. However, what is true is that recently his son has submitted a patent application in the US claiming ownership over several commonly used belay systems he claims Rashad invented.
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yokese
Apr 7, 2009, 1:17 AM
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Weak. Boring. T0.
I hope that, at least, you're using a different computer/network for this trolling account and your other account, so the mods cannot track who you are by your IP.
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the_leech
Apr 7, 2009, 1:25 AM
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yokese wrote: Weak. Boring. T0. I hope that, at least, you're using a different computer/network for this trolling account and your other account, so the mods cannot track who you are by your IP.
Doesn't seem to be much of a problem... I'm juggling about five accounts using the same internet provider and e-mail domain. I haven't been shut down or banzed yet.
I think one of my accounts is banzed from The Lab, but that's it. Trolling is prohibited in that forum. I can respect that.
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I_do
Apr 7, 2009, 9:15 AM
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the_leech wrote: yokese wrote: Weak. Boring. T0. I hope that, at least, you're using a different computer/network for this trolling account and your other account, so the mods cannot track who you are by your IP. Doesn't seem to be much of a problem... I'm juggling about five accounts using the same internet provider and e-mail domain. I haven't been shut down or banzed yet. I think one of my accounts is banzed from The Lab, but that's it. Trolling is prohibited in that forum. I can respect that.
Asshole
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fitzontherocks
Apr 7, 2009, 9:38 AM
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Did you check the dates of those reports? 4/1/09, perhaps?
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moose_droppings
Apr 7, 2009, 10:25 AM
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the_leech wrote: yokese wrote: Weak. Boring. T0. I hope that, at least, you're using a different computer/network for this trolling account and your other account, so the mods cannot track who you are by your IP. Doesn't seem to be much of a problem... I'm juggling about five accounts using the same internet provider and e-mail domain. I haven't been shut down or banzed yet. I think one of my accounts is banzed from The Lab, but that's it. Trolling is prohibited in that forum. I can respect that.
I troll within a troll.
We're not worthy.
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kachoong
Apr 7, 2009, 10:37 AM
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newguy5000 wrote: so i read that this dude called Rashad from India invented rock climbing. is this true? here is an exerpt i cut and pasted from a CNN report on it and it was also printed in my local newspaper. Rashad Malikal Tahali has recently been acknowledged by both the Guinness Book of Records and the popularly used online resource 'wikipedia' as the inventor of rock climbing. Born in 1968 and hailing from a remote area of India, Rashad took to climbing the local mountainous features as a youth before fully developing the techniques and rules that define modern climbing today. Rock climber Chuck 'the stone' Jacobs had this to say about Rashad.
"well he's an absolute legend in the sport. None of us would be climbing today if it was not for him. Heck he invented the whole belay system."
Rashad continues to live in a remote area of India and continues to climb to this day. To Rashad we say, congratulations and keep on climbing.
Did he utilize the ULTIMATE TRAINING PROGRAM for the steep angles?
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skovar
Apr 7, 2009, 11:03 AM
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Newguy5000, I would rather hear about your workout program, much more entertaining.
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brotherbbock
Apr 7, 2009, 11:08 AM
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newguy5000 wrote: Rock climber Chuck 'the stone' Jacobs had this to say about Rashad. "well he's an absolute legend in the sport. None of us would be climbing today if it was not for him. Heck he invented the whole belay system."
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sticky_fingers
Apr 7, 2009, 11:11 AM
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My brother's cousin's best-friend's neighbor said some guy named Mark invented climbing...or maybe he said his name was Tom...either one of those names should get you the orange wedge in Trivial Pursuit
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brotherbbock
Apr 7, 2009, 11:13 AM
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Also, it is spelled "climbing" you tard. This has to be a fake thread, if not the future is gonna be screwed. The movie Idiocracy is coming to fruition.
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Gmburns2000
Apr 7, 2009, 11:18 AM
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Wait a minute, I thought Al Gore invented rock climbing.
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no_email_entered
Apr 7, 2009, 11:55 AM
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i woulda appreciated at least one rickroll in this thread---
----or rashad and crew headin to the crag
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climbingtrash
Apr 7, 2009, 12:01 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Wait a minute, I thought Al Gore invented rock climbing.
Yur thinking of Man cauzed Global Warming and the Internets...Al Ghore only invents important thingz.
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Gmburns2000
Apr 7, 2009, 12:07 PM
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climbingtrash wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wait a minute, I thought Al Gore invented rock climbing. Yur thinking of Man cauzed Global Warming and the Internets...Al Ghore only invents important thingz.
fail.
rockclimbing.com wouldn't exist without the internet, and therefore rockclimbing would also not exist without rockclimbing.com.
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climbingtrash
Apr 7, 2009, 12:21 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: climbingtrash wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Wait a minute, I thought Al Gore invented rock climbing. Yur thinking of Man cauzed Global Warming and the Internets...Al Ghore only invents important thingz. fail. rockclimbing.com wouldn't exist without the internet, and therefore rockclimbing would also not exist without rockclimbing.com.
I never thought of it that way. That means that Ghore invented porn-0 too...the man is a Super Genius. (right up there with Ray Jardine, the inventor of Cams)
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