On 23/03/2011 davidn wrote:
>By 'finally', do you mean 'finally, in the past few years' or 'finally,
>since about the 1980s and 90s' ?
>
>It's all arguable depending on which examples you use, but given climbers
>managed to climb grade 35, free-soloing grade 32+, bouldering V15+ (Gaskins
>problems? Many are still unrepeated, and some of them he put hundreds
>or more attempts into sticking a single move) in those years... Have we
>really improved so much based on a more scientific approach? Or just done
>the same moves on longer routes (Jumbo Love) or inflated grades (any V16)?
If anything at the highest levels grades are being deflated:
http://nalle-hukkataival.blogspot.com/2010/03/bouldering-grades-everything-is-average.html
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