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lead vs second grade gap 24-Jun-2011 At 10:15:23 AM citationx

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You can attempt to toprope any grade, in reality. Whether you make it up is another thing. Whether you snap your tendons or not in the process is also another matter.

I like to think I was relatively realistic. I wouldn't really try anything more than 1 or 2 grades over my lead limit. Why bother? That just seems vain to me, you're not realistically going to get it above that, and if so then it doesn't prove you climb that hard, just that you "got lucky" with a style that suited you or it was a "soft tick".

At my prime (long gone now) I'd only attempted around 3 26s on lead (or top-rope (i rarely toproped, in general) getting none), hardest lead 25 but onsighted plenty of 24s and lower. Who knows, perhaps I should've spent more time attempting 26s, perhaps the one straining move that I managed to learn how to do would give me an edge on the other 25s i had tried...