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Lead fall Hard Rock CBD 25-Jul-2008 At 2:35:26 PM bluey

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As a disclaimer, I lead climb at the gym, (altho not so much these days with no gym in my current regional locale) basically cos it builds a bit of endurance and the falls and the extra bit of excitement are good fun.

But I said to a mate just recently that there isn't much to be gained from leading in the gym - i.e. if you're forced to TR all night cos you're with a noob or forgot your rope, you're not missing much.

But, I note two major exceptions:
1. if you're a real hard climber and want to do laps on the roof or other routes that have no toprope set up.
2. if you get off on being able to flash around your yellow lead card and impress noobs with your repeated spectacular lead falls on a grade 12.

And I reckon number 2 is probably the real reason we lead in gyms - c'mon, really, we're all pretentious twats....