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orestes1724
Mar 1, 2002, 12:28 PM
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i wasent sure what forum to put this in but because its called the bouldering chair i thought this would be the best place. sombody at the gym i go to thought this up a while ago, its a chair you start sitting in and you twist around it and go under from the back then you come out from under the fromn and over back to where you started sitting all without toucking the ground. does that make sence??? has anyone ever headr of this before?
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vaness
Mar 1, 2002, 1:46 PM
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aw! i hurt myself so bad last night doing that you have to have a chair that doesnt tip over and hit you in the nose after you land on your head and hurt you neck
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clymber
Mar 1, 2002, 2:41 PM
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they do that at the Red River Gorge alot.usually after one to many beers seen people do it but wonder what problem outside is like that.i think theres a picture of it in the photo section.
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hyhuu
Mar 1, 2002, 6:46 PM
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Boulderers have been doing that problem for a long time. Look around at your kitchen (furnitures) and you'll find more problems to play with (i.e. counter top, tables)
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orestes1724
Mar 1, 2002, 9:03 PM
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hey, well now that i know more people do it, thats cool. we did that all day today with every chair we could find. i will take pictures next time and post them in the photo page. later guys.
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toprope_media
Mar 9, 2002, 2:46 AM
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Any other home grown problems? I'd have never thunk it. Damn. Pass them along.
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gregarion
Mar 9, 2002, 5:18 AM
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Not really home grrown but while at the Marriot in New York. Tried to boulder along a polished marble counter top, didn't work very well man was that think slick, but i thought it was pretty fun.
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trailrat
Mar 12, 2002, 7:09 PM
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I've done this chair @ Big Cedar Lodge... It's a throne chair, huge ... lmao, had a big crowd on the second round... Trailrat
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crackaddict
Mar 12, 2002, 10:20 PM
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Check out Masters of Stone 4 there is a guy doing some cool table problems and other various things.
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toprope_media
Mar 16, 2002, 2:07 PM
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In the spirit of inprovisation, I have been campusing up the side of my stairs. I am constantly looking for things to climb. I feel like the MacGyver of Bouldering!
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hishopper
Mar 16, 2002, 3:08 PM
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I did the 1st story of cobblestone wall (very thin!) outside my corporate job before the rentacop started spewing about liability.
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orestes1724
Mar 16, 2002, 4:03 PM
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i did that in school, and my teacher yelled at me because some kid got his finger cut off on a chair. guess we cant go anywhere near folding chairs anymore, my sisters teacher made her do it again, i wish i had her teacher. i was thinking about a problem on my desk in math.
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toprope_media
Mar 17, 2002, 3:59 AM
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The buildings around the New York State capitol are perfect for buildering. Some years back a permit was offered for authorized climbing on the walls of the Museum building. That is until then Gov. Coumo say a climber one day, asked his assistant to have him come down. Apparently, the climber was less than friendly to the assistant and Governor. From that day on, climbing on the state capitol buildings was prohibited. It is really the only place in the capitol district that you could climb on real rock without driving 45 minutes. Just goes to show you, in matters of land access, you never know who you are mouthing off to. Seen it happen with climbing, seen it happen with mountain biking.
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miagi
Mar 17, 2002, 5:27 AM
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I feel like a fool. I just tried the boulder chair, did it fine but my back slightly touched the ground. After i was done i was just fooling around twising my legs around the chair and swinging sorta and i got stuck My girlfriend had to help me get out. Im a sorry SOB lol
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timhinck
Mar 18, 2002, 5:00 AM
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I work seasonally at Rock Creek Outfitters in Chattanooga. And when things get slow there we do a "problem" called "The Pew Problem". We have a church pew for people to sit on and try on shoes. So we do the chair problem on that. Those hymnal holders make huge jugs. Then we began doing the tabletop problem. That one is the best, in my opinion. You need a table tall enough so that when you push down with straight arms on it, your feet are dangling off the ground. From that starting position, you drop down beneath, keeping your feet off the floor. Then dyno under the table for the opposite "lip". Match here and mantle up on the other side of the table, all without touching the ground. The match and mantle are the "crux". tim
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timhinck
Mar 18, 2002, 5:04 AM
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I work seasonally at Rock Creek Outfitters in Chattanooga. And when things get slow there we do a "problem" called "The Pew Problem". We have a church pew for people to sit on and try on shoes. So we do the chair problem on that. Those hymnal holders make huge jugs. Then we began doing the tabletop problem. That one is the best, in my opinion. You need a table tall enough so that when you push down with straight arms on it, your feet are dangling off the ground. From that starting position, you drop down beneath, keeping your feet off the floor. Then dyno under the table for the opposite "lip". Match here and mantle up on the other side of the table, all without touching the ground. The match and mantle are the "crux". tim
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rckfreek
Mar 18, 2002, 5:20 AM
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Hey, so i saw you guys talking about this bouldering chair thing. So of course i had to try it, and with the chairs i used it seemed next to impossible to actualy get underneith. So i was just curious what kinda of chair is normaly used. And if anyone has some pics of this it would be sweet to see. Thanks Rock Freek
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lawnboy
Mar 20, 2002, 2:52 AM
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hey vanessa rmember the bouldering chair in gym class.
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decoeric
Mar 21, 2002, 3:36 AM
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Ok, I tired it and now I have a broken chair, you guys owe me one kitchen chair and my wife an explaination... :-)
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xen_monkey
Mar 21, 2002, 4:06 AM
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My Brother's place has huge old moldings on ethe doors and stuff. We start in the kitchen doorway, cross across a narrow halway to another door, from there to a column with ledge about 3/8inch. Once your on the column you reach across about 3 or 4 feet to a matching colum for the stairway. All of this is done on wood covered in thick shiney paint with little friction Stand on the railing and pull yourself onto the second floor. But since the stairs do a 180 you have less then a foot to pull yourself to. Luckily one skinny rock monkey [ This Message was edited by: xen_monkey on 2002-03-20 20:07 ]
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xen_monkey
Mar 21, 2002, 4:08 AM
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My Brother's place has huge old moldings on ethe doors and stuff. We start in the kitchen doorway, cross across a narrow halway to another door, from there to a column with ledge about 3/8inch. Once your on the column you reach across about 3 or 4 feet to a matching colum for the stairway. Stand on the railing and pull yourself onto the second floor. But since the stairs do a 180 you have less then a foot to pull yourself to. Luckily one skinny rock monkey
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As far as variations on chair-climbing go, we had one in college called Martin-climbing. Check out this photo http://www.rockclimbing.com/photos.php?Action=ListPhoto&PhotoID=3560 Just like with chair-bouldering, the object was for you (as a small guy) to circumnavigate Martin (a big guy) without touching the ground, and with no assistance from Martin. I'd still like to see photos of how to do it with a chair. Notice the heel hook to the clavicle - key beta! C
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maddie
Mar 23, 2002, 6:43 AM
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sounds like a good idea
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orestes1724
Mar 24, 2002, 5:16 PM
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yeah, i have never untill now seen anyone try to climb another person, weird. but cool.
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Mar 29, 2002, 7:15 PM
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Body bouldering is all about the sequence, once you've got that down it's not very hard. It's also about finding a nice cute girl to boulder around you
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