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Australia's first 9a(35) 10-Apr-2016 At 8:16:28 AM Dave J

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On 8/04/2016 ima.seriousyoungliza wrote:
>Davej confuses difficulty and grade....

Perhaps I am confused. Is this a list of the first routes that were given a new number or a list of routes that actually represented a new level of difficulty? if its the former then perhaps Paul the punk needs more credit for being the first to offer up oz33 for sperm bitches.

>a grade 20 can be bloody desperate
>if you hang around placing heaps of runners and pumping out....Dave's idea
>that 32 plus 32 equals 33 is silly so we will erase punks addiction .

A route would need to be pretty stout before tacking a bit of 32 on the start of it made no difference to the overall level of difficulty. I imagine that pumpy, stand-aroundy, gear-placey 20 you had in mind would jump a grade two at least.