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Your grading system is f#@ked 22-Sep-2004 At 9:17:57 AM Goodvibes

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Mate, there will always be people around that misinterpret and fu$% up any grading system. People who try to grade a single move using the Ewbank scale obviously have no idea WTF they are talking about. That is what bouldering grades are for. The Ewbank system grades the difficulty of the entire route, be it a route with a gnarly crux move or a sustained pumper. The seriousness of the route does not effect the Ewbank grade, it may make it harder to send mentally but the moves aren't any more difficult. Any more info other that the difficulty is put in the route description.

It is exactly the same as the American system except instead of using a bunch of stupid numbers, letters and decimals we just use a single number.

The grading system is fine, just maybe some of the people you have run into have no fu#$ing idea what they are talking about.

And I'll give you a tip, for the time being, don't mention the cricket.