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Women don't / can't boulder as hard as men.


Duang Daunk

4-Feb-2012
11:16:32 AM

After reviewing a lot of climbing literature and more recently climbing videos, I am now confirmed in my belief that women lag significantly behind men when it comes to bouldering.

In fact the gap in bouldering abilities is so great that I doubt they will ever close it enough to compete with men in setting new bouldering standards.

What do you think?

One Day Hero

4-Feb-2012
11:39:20 AM

What a lame attempt at stiring controversy!

The average woman can't do explosive power as well as the average man, just look at the 100m or the powerful bits of gymnastics.

However, there's lots of ways to skin a cat in climbing, so women can (and do) kick arse in most facets of the sport.

I'm pretty sure that a chick will do Wheel of Life sometime in the nearish future.
If they never keep up with blokes in the pathetic world of 2 move sit-starts......who gives a shit?

One Day Hero

4-Feb-2012
11:40:30 AM

Can we add a voting option "davidn is really not very good at starting controversial debates"?


Duang Daunk

4-Feb-2012
11:48:17 AM

On 4/02/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>I'm pretty sure that a chick will do Wheel of Life sometime in the nearish future.

The competitive spirit in women is equal to that in men, but I still maintain they simply aren't in the race when push comes to shove.
The only woman I see on the Australian scene who might come close on Wheel Of Life is Samantha Berry and I doubt that will happen in the nearish future.


rodw

4-Feb-2012
11:50:23 AM

Maybe its an intelligence thing....they are smart enough to realize bouldering sucks before wasting to much effort on it.

Fish Boy

4-Feb-2012
1:21:16 PM

I think I'm going to start a thread like this but regarding aid climbing.

Then I remembered Silva exists. When are the men going to catch up?

widewetandslippery

4-Feb-2012
1:41:00 PM

I thought her name was silvia

4-Feb-2012
2:29:11 PM

There are thousands of women in the world who are better boulderers than davidn.

mothrfckr

4-Feb-2012
4:05:11 PM

wtf

widewetandslippery

4-Feb-2012
4:18:35 PM

I have had the privalage of climbing with renown, great, famous And top (my idea of top) female climbers and none of them would be proud of davidns chook cooker or his achievements

Kieranl

4-Feb-2012
9:28:23 PM

Perhaps we can also have a poll "No man will ever free climb The Nose in a day"


shortman

4-Feb-2012
9:37:32 PM

On 4/02/2012 Kieranl wrote:
>Perhaps we can also have a poll "No man will ever free climb The Nose in
>a day"

yeah, shove that one up ya big fat one fellas.

kieran - fighting the cause for Women the World over......


ChuckNorris

4-Feb-2012
9:55:11 PM

On 4/02/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>Can we add a voting option "davidn is really not very good at starting
>controversial debates"?

OR Maybe Damo is so fking brainded he don't now wen hi got trolled.

One Day Hero

4-Feb-2012
10:20:42 PM

On 4/02/2012 bomber pro wrote:
>On 4/02/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>>Can we add a voting option "davidn is really not very good at starting
>>controversial debates"?
>
>OR Maybe Damo is so fking brainded he don't now wen hi got trolled.

Oh shit! Is Stugang squatting davidn too? f--- f--- f---! I got done!


shortman

4-Feb-2012
10:28:05 PM

On 4/02/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>Oh shit! Is Stugang squatting davidn too? f--- f--- f---! I got done!

Classic!

Friggen sad that this is the funniest thing on my Saturday night.


shortman

4-Feb-2012
10:32:50 PM

davidn had 1 post in january...i reckon he had a new yr's res to stop being on chocky....gave in and changed his name to Useless....

put money on it....

davidn?

Duncan

5-Feb-2012
6:16:24 AM

For those who are interested, here's a post from the Science in Sport blog comparing the performance of men vs women in track and field and triathlon:

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/04/chrissie-wellington-on-charge-and-other.html

In track and field, men outperform women by about 10-11 %. Yes, there are super strong women (I saw a girl hike v10 in Hueco the other day like it weren't no thing), but of course men will always be stronger.

Feel free to return to mindless insults now.

Mr Poopypants

5-Feb-2012
8:06:25 AM

I call bullshit.

Ask any married man - their just foxing us, so we'll drop our guard. Women are the strongest, scariest beasts on the planet.

G.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

5-Feb-2012
11:34:21 AM

On 4/02/2012 shortman wrote:
>davidn had 1 post in january...i reckon he had a new yr's res to stop being
>on chocky....gave in and changed his name to Useless....
>
>put money on it....
>
>davidn?

I think you are onto something there shortman (though I dispute the '1 post in January' portion). ☺

I am bored and have just gone back and checked a lot of http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?ForumID=&Action=Profile&UserName=Useful = davidn's posts and they as far back as Feb 2011*, have been either deleted, changed to one-liners in place of extensive original posts, or else nonsense inserted like; yada, yawp, ~, etc.; ... especially for those that started threads and can't be deleted.

He is not original in doing this type of action (2 others come to my mind readily over the years that Chockstone has been running), and many of his posts on the threads involved can still be deciphered from the quotes of him by others...

It would seem that negativity by some posters has burnt him(?), yet he has continued to make some valuable contributions under his new user-id to the 'secret squirrel' section of Chocky...
~> It would appear that he is still a Chocky-addict after all!

[*Maybe he is still working on the backlog(?), as there are about 450 posts (of perhaps 800 originals), still in original form if anyone is bothered to go back further before they disappear!].

Post edit at 9.30pm;
He is now down to 30 posts, so has obviously continued to delete his history on this website...
~> Seems to me like a lot of work to go to for an outcome that is neither here nor there, due to internet cached histories!

widewetandslippery

5-Feb-2012
3:40:56 PM

On 5/02/2012 Duncan wrote:
>For those who are interested, here's a post from the Science in Sport blog
>comparing the performance of men vs women in track and field and triathlon:
>
>http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/04/chrissie-wellington-on-charge-and-other.html
>
>In track and field, men outperform women by about 10-11 %. Yes, there
>are super strong women (I saw a girl hike v10 in Hueco the other day like
>it weren't no thing), but of course men will always be stronger.
>
>Feel free to return to mindless insults now.

Duncan, no insults but climbing is a technique,body to weight, flexibility and contact strenght sport as well as muscular strenght and power. As the social nexus continues females should have a good chance on a semi level equality in perormance like in gymnastics. Boulders are graded and the uneven bars and rings are different.

My lazy 120kg mate burnt me off today.

How's hueco and anymore info on leaded vs lite beer rehydration.

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