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fiend
Jun 19, 2001, 4:17 PM
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Just realized that this list is probably the same as my sport climber list but here goes.
My contenders for best boulderers:
Fred Nicole:
FA Dreamtime V14/15
FA Esperanza V14
as well as these V14s (some FAs and SAs?)
Spectre
-Oliphants Dawn
-Fatman
-Eve Rave
-Cave Rave
-Fatman Assis
-Slashface
-Coeur de Leon
Dave Graham:
FA Spectre V14
FA(?) Nothin But Sunshine V14
Zerberus V14
Klem Loskot:
flashed in one day:
-Bully V11/12
-Copperhead V1
-Shingles V10
-Mr. Mom V10
plus numerous hard ascents
And what about Bernd Zangerl? He got the SA of Dreamtime at night, by the light of a gas lantern.
anyways those are my top 3 .
-mark
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matt
Jun 26, 2001, 7:20 PM
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you can't forget Chris Sharma, just about the strongest climber in the world!!!!!!
I am more than salmon on a bagel, I am low designed.
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fiend
Jun 26, 2001, 8:08 PM
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Know I know Lox would never say something like that...............and you would be?
-v14fiend
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matt
Jun 26, 2001, 10:25 PM
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An admirer of lox and his immense wisdom
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matt
Jun 26, 2001, 10:27 PM
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And you would be?
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fiend
Jun 27, 2001, 3:22 AM
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Immense wisdom hahaha, good one!
I'm v14fiend on the bouldering domain board but I haven't posted anything there in a couple of weeks.
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matt
Jun 27, 2001, 1:34 PM
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Yeah, I went back and checked after you posted and found your screen name and noticedy you hadn't posted in a while. I'm DejaVu on the bouldering.com forum.
There are three types of people:
1:"Hey! The glass is half empty"-The optimist
2:" Hey! The glass is half full"-the pessimist
3: "I ordered a cheeseburger"
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boulderpaul
Oct 21, 2002, 6:42 PM
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Fred Nicole, then Chris Sharma, then Dave Grahm, then Klem Loskot, then me!
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psych
Oct 21, 2002, 7:18 PM
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Didn't Graham do Dreamtime as well...? Second ascent, but still, he's done it. I've got a video of him doing it actually...at night.
Just to split hairs.
Mike...
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bsperes
Oct 21, 2002, 7:52 PM
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yes DG did do dreamtime, but check the date at the top of the first post. At that point he had not.
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jmlangford
Oct 21, 2002, 8:10 PM
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John Gill, Sharma, Loskot, Graham
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mother_sheep
Oct 21, 2002, 8:29 PM
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I'm with Jody! I saw the subject for this thread and thought Gill would be at the top!
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rocknalaska
Oct 21, 2002, 8:31 PM
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Fred Nicole, Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Malcolm Smith, Klem Loskot, Markus Bock, Toni Lamprecht, a few more. A lot more who aren't well known either.
In the past John Gill, Jim Holloway, Ben and Jerry, Ron Kauk, and more I can't remember right now.
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jgill
Oct 21, 2002, 11:18 PM
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Thanks, guys, but my time was long, long ago when standards were much lower. I'd never be able to compete with the current crop of boulderers!
[ This Message was edited by: jgill on 2002-10-21 16:22 ]
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petsfed
Oct 22, 2002, 12:24 AM
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You are too modest John, and in any event, you were going out into new territory, just like these guys are. That definitely stands for something in my book.
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dmon
Oct 22, 2002, 8:53 AM
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This might interest y'all...
http://www.australianbouldering.com/world_rankings.html
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drivinnclimbin
Oct 22, 2002, 9:57 AM
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Bernd Zangerl recently sent a new V15, Viva la Evolution. It's in the new climbing mag.
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coclimber26
Oct 31, 2002, 3:10 AM
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I'm going with Sharma, Grham, Nicole. For women I think Rands is top notch..
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high_times
Oct 31, 2002, 5:32 PM
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Keep in mind Graham is only freakin 18...
Rands is freakin phenominal...but keep in mind too that Allen is like what...15...and comin up in the ranks
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boulderingmadman
Oct 31, 2002, 7:47 PM
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as someone once said (it may have been jgill, correct me if im wrong), "the best climber out there is the one having the most fun"...so i guess that means that I am the best climber
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mreardon
Oct 31, 2002, 11:46 PM
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Christian Core keeps winning the comps and has been for a while now.
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boltakrak
Nov 1, 2002, 1:25 AM
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all right i'll find this "Dean Potter" and tell him that he started like everyone else, except he progressed to actual climbing unlike the rest of the crappy boulderers
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topher
Nov 1, 2002, 4:15 AM
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boltakrak um i dissagre, i have a freind that only boulders and i finaly talked him into do a multy pich route its 5.11 and he walked up it like it was a 5.2 bouldering builds good climbers. mind you on some of the cracks he did some interesting moves.
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pbjosh
Nov 1, 2002, 4:42 AM
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I could be wrong but I recall Spectre and Fatman being V13 not V14.
On the Women's side Lisa Rands may be very strong but there are a number of other women who have sent V11 (check http://www.8a.nu) and Josune Berziartu has outclimbed all other women both bouldering (14c/d traverse) and routes (14d - Bain de Sang just a couple of days ago but has also sent a 14b/c and a 14c) as far as I know. We just don't hear about it as much in the US.
josh
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curt
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OK. My list now:
1) John Gill, no explanation needed.
2) Jim Holloway, because no one has repeated his hardest problems from 20+ years ago.
3) Chris Jones, because he is the strongest boulderer I have ever seen.
4) Kerwin Klein, much the same reason as C.J.
5) Chris Sharma, beacuse he is on everyone else's list.
Curt
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