Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - Climbing Videos

Post links and comments about your favourite climbing flicks

Topic Date User

Burly Toru Nakajima on Grit 30-Aug-2012 At 3:12:28 PM Olbert

Message

On 30/08/2012 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
...
>When I watched that vid, prior to reading the link above, I thought to
>myself that the climbing seemed pretty sussed, and if not, then the obvious
>tick marks give the game away!
>
>Nah. You boulderers (& sport climbers) can keep those tactics.
>~> I really believe that I get more from my low grade adventure onsights,
>and for that matter my high grade aid onsights...
>;-)

I think it's kinda wank on the whole but what if you saw a line, felt inspired to do it but it was out of your onsight league and wanted to do it anyway?

Would you:
a) give up and go onsight something you can.
b) toprope it and then decide that that's enough.
c) headpoint it like in the vid so that you can get the experience of leading it.
d) attempt the onsight and live (or not) with the consequences.

If it was me, and I was truly inspired by the line, I would probably do (c). I can't really see it coming about though because I would much prefer it to be something that wasn't death on a stick and I could go for the onsight and fall off without fearing injury or death.