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megadyno7
Jan 22, 2003, 9:49 PM
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Hey this is my first post, so bare wit me.
I have entered into my first gym bouldering competition, and as I read the little thing saying that people were put into different catagories based on ability it got me thinkin. Am I a beginner? Or am I a moderate climber? If anyone has any suggestions on how to rate ones self, let me know.
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lox
Jan 22, 2003, 9:52 PM
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If you climb v4, you are an intermediate (moderate) climber.
Anything less and you are a beginner.
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madriver
Jan 22, 2003, 10:10 PM
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Karl
Most comps will let you know what division to sign up for based upon your ability. Like Lox said..they may place you in intermediate if you climb between a V4 and V6. All comps are different. Goog luck and climb hard...let us know how you do!
Bob
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djnibs
Jan 23, 2003, 12:41 AM
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Hey, I more than likly am goin to be trying to orginize a climbing comp at my rock gym. Does anyone have any ideas as how to do it?? I have quite a few ideas down, and I have some basic rules, but what does everyone think???
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jonf
Jan 24, 2003, 12:24 AM
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Does anybody know what the grade range for advanced in ABS comps is? I saw that some of you said that above V4 is intermediate so i was wondering what the grade is that marks the beggining of advanced. thanks for your help.
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polarwid
Jan 24, 2003, 8:03 PM
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[small]This topic was moved to the Competition Climbing forum by polarwid[/small]
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gretchenfb
Jan 24, 2003, 8:17 PM
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Check out www.rockcomps.com I think that Scott actually details the process of holding a comp. Hope that helps.
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vaness
Jan 25, 2003, 2:43 AM
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well comp routes are different that "real ratings" but i would say that if you climb v3 or 4 go in advanced. i donmt know about you but whhen i go to comps i compete in advanced and place 2nd and i climb all the v3s. but i would check out who your competeing against first. it helps if you have been competeing a while though. you will get that hagn of it soon.
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megadyno7
Jan 26, 2003, 4:01 PM
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Thanks to all! I'll post how I do when I find out!
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alvchen
Jan 27, 2003, 8:45 AM
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I actually just went through my first comp last saturday. I entered as an intermediate, since I could barely do V3s at the gym. I was able to send most of the problems, a few advanced problems evaded me. I ended up getting 4th in my division.
A suggestion would be, that if you feel that you can do the high-end problems at the comp, request to be moved into the advanced category.
Here's another suggestion, time was a big issue for me. If I had another hour, I would've been satisfied. Find the problems with the shortest lines.
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aussierookie
Feb 6, 2003, 8:06 AM
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I'm going in my first comp next month. Its an onsight comp. I've been climbing for about a year and have onsighted 5.11s a few times. I was wondering, since I haven't been in a comp before, that I should go in the bottom grade and work my way up. Would people be annoyed if i went in that grade and onsighted everything and won???
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alvchen
Feb 6, 2003, 5:24 PM
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For males, if you can boulder V3-V5, that's intermediate. For females, that's advanced. Not to be sexist or anything, that's just a trend I see.
What's the fun if you can onsight everything. Enter the category that you think that you can do around half the routes, that way you can climb with people worse than you, and people better than you.
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