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One for the girls...

Sam

21-Mar-2004
3:49:19 PM

Not at all wanting to inflame some stoopid battle of the sexes, but how do other women find it climbing in a pretty male dominated arena? At gym's esp I look around and see very few females, and only then stellar performers with amazing technique. Do other girls drop out due to..what? For me sometimes it feels kinda boys clubbish, and holding your own esp as a bumbly is daunting. Lisa C- here is your invite to rave sista!


Spanky

22-Mar-2004
5:25:28 PM

I don't find it a problem myself. My biggest competitor is me and so I don't really focus on the boys club around me.

When I first started climbing I was single and indeed had NO problem with the abundance of all those finely polished, muscly specimens in the gym with no shirts on.... :-) Did I care if I was or am bumbly? No way. I can see my improvement session to session and I am completely happy with that. If I were trying to compete with someone else I would be ending up injured quick as a flash. Injury would be my only reason for dropping out.

While I guess there are a lot more males than females visible in the climbing gyms, a lot of the top climbers in the world are female so I don't really confine the climbing arena to what I see in the gym.


hex-TROLL

23-Mar-2004
4:16:24 PM

Spanky--- Neil's post (f*****) in 'naming climbs' got me all hot 'n' bothered !

'...finely polished, muscly specimens in the gym with no shirts on...'

'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, BABY !!---that makes me go all goo-ey, too !!!' (Kylie Minogue)

Luv, HEX


mousey

23-Mar-2004
8:10:35 PM

the riddle of hexes identity is beginning to unravel- either he's a she, or his local crag is Launceton....


Wonderdog

23-Mar-2004
9:33:28 PM

or he's gay, or its a red herring... come on, that hunch isn't well supported!


mousey

23-Mar-2004
10:12:21 PM

>or he's gay,

=

>or his local crag is Launceton


IdratherbeclimbingM9

23-Mar-2004
10:17:39 PM

Should that be Launceston?


mousey

23-Mar-2004
10:35:01 PM

haha yeh sorry


hex-TROLL

24-Mar-2004
12:13:19 AM

orachikwithadic !!!

Luv, HEX


neats

24-Mar-2004
8:34:08 AM

maybe just a wanker...


jens

24-Mar-2004
9:16:57 AM

hairy armpits?

adamk

24-Mar-2004
9:29:00 AM

I think from the knowledge 'Hexy Baby" has of climbing in Australia i wouldnt be suprised if he is an alter ego of someone very high profile on the climbing scene in Australia... oooohhhhhhh. Whoever he/she (i'll say it from now on) is i think it's posts are a cack. keep posting hexy in the meantime maybe we could have a guess who hex is thread and hex could help us out with the old getting warmer getting cooler hints, perhaps even getting close to the cauldron, getting further from the cauldron etc

Setha

24-Mar-2004
10:30:27 AM

Ben Cossey?

Setha

24-Mar-2004
10:31:46 AM

Actually, on second thought, his grammar is too good to be Ben.


Richard

24-Mar-2004
2:00:07 PM

On 24/03/2004 adamk wrote:
>I think from the knowledge 'Hexy Baby" has of climbing in Australia i wouldnt
>be suprised if he is an alter ego of someone very high profile on the climbing
>scene in Australia...

That's a given I reckon, so i am a bit suprised it hasn't been figured out who he is .. only so many people would have been in the places / on the climbs / around climbing for as long as Hex has.

Here'rs my clue: Hex only appeared when the bolting forum became closed. But I bet hex was a user of chockstone proir, under another (real?) name. Who suddenly stopped posting at this time also? Or does Hex still post to chockstone also under a real name??

Nothing like a bit of a puzzle.....


IdratherbeclimbingM9

24-Mar-2004
4:27:50 PM

Sorry to hyjack your thread Sam, but it seems to have morphed into a dispell the Hex item.
More clues;
* AK Dancer uses/ed the same icon.
* Hex-Troll started posting 5/2/04

If H-T still posts under another name then its a case of dude schitzophrenia controlling more than the cauldron.


Tel

24-Mar-2004
4:37:21 PM

On 24/03/2004 A5iswhereitsat wrote:

>
>If H-T still posts under another name then its a case of dude schitzophrenia
>controlling more than the cauldron.
A5 ... be careful when you use that word "sch........", on the forum as I got my wrist slapped so to speak when I used it ......: -)

gfdonc

24-Mar-2004
4:46:34 PM

I reckons we gettses twenty-questions, now, Hobbits, and we findses out who the Troll really iss.

adamk

24-Mar-2004
4:56:25 PM

I would love too know who hexy is but kinda not if you know what i mean. When i was a kid i used to love watching inspector Gadget but new that as soon as i saw Doctor Claws face i wouldnt be that interested any more smae idea with Hexy. Actually now that i think about the name Doctor "Claw" it gets my mind racing...hmmmmmm


Damietta

25-Mar-2004
4:56:54 PM

Sam, don't mind these wankers. If you would be keen to hook up for a climb without any competition let me know.

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