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THE OFFICIAL STOKED THREAD! 27-Mar-2011 At 11:34:29 PM bl@ke

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On 9/02/2011 davidn wrote:
>On 9/02/2011 Wendy wrote:
>>On 21/01/2011 bl@ke wrote:
>>>Needy as!! Any hard 2 move problems?
>>
>>And i was just joking to Sol the other day that the discrepancy between
>>your climbing and bouldering grades must be cause you can reach the finishing
>>holds from the ground ... There's a whole thread devoted to suggestions
>>for you to climb, get on the rock and pull more than 2 moves in sequence!
>> The fun lasts much longer.

No way. Real fun comes from falling off one move for days on end until you get injured and have to take a year off and then going back and sending. I have found one route I want to spend more time on. Cobwebs ! Fun as!

But also thirty schmerty if I want to do something long I'll just hit up the hollow mountain bat cave.
>
>Lies! Lies and scurrilous mistruths and misrepresentations! Bouldering
>is great!... But anyhow, from my own experience I think part of the discrepancy
>is just that you're used to pulling a few ludicrously hard moves, so you
>often try to do the easy moves the same way - just gut through them with
>no technique ;) And get halfway up most routes and drop off in exhaustion.
>
>The boulderer's motto: If you can't be good, get fuggin strong.
>
>That said, Blatke is probably spending so much time on rock he'll be climbing
>30+ by next year. The bastard.