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Sport grades 'higher' than trad? 4-Nov-2011 At 10:44:44 AM citationx

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Fear and stamina probably have a lot to do with it.
If you can climb a 25, I dare say climbing a grade 18 sport route will feel the same as if you have to hang around on a massive jug to shove a piece of trad in and then continue. If you climb 18, that jug may not feel so good and may drain you.
The first point, fear, also has a lot to do with it too, in my mind. When climbing harder trad (near my limits), I have found myself trembling and shaking, doing my best Elvis impersonation, until I place a piece that I feel is 100% death-proof. Magically, after this point, I have literally stopped shaking and everything has returned to normal, even though i'm in exactly the same position/on the same holds as when i was scrambling to place it...
The actual moves are no harder (although doing a 25 finger-crack is probably not going to be the same as a 25 at the glen - but that's another point ;-))