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Your grading system is f#@ked 19-Sep-2004 At 6:36:37 PM Archangel in Oz

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Ha ha ha ha ha. Even 10 year olds in England climb 8a (that's a french grade and means harder than almost all you Australian pussys climb).

btw the point was about giving a route a stupid grade (17-23) not that .....durrrrr it gets harder toward the top.

'English grades are the biggest wank.' I did say I wasn't advocating English grades, just different ones. At least we had the intelligence to see that English grades don't work on sports climbs and bouldering so we changed them to a better system.

'This is how it is over here' ha ha ha ha ha ha. That is exactly my point most of you haven't set foot in a place where they understand the difference between one kind of climbing and another and look at the mess. But you couldn't see it is a mess, because it is your quaint old fashioned system, and you don't know any different. How terribly sweet. Do you have a better argument than this is the way it has always been done.

Just out of interest I will be on the world's best crag Stanage on Saturday, providing it isn't raining.