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Should there be handicaps? 11-Jun-2005 At 1:24:40 PM steph

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I dunno I'm in 2 minds about it. i certainly understand the frustration of height issues especially when bouldering and i could never understand a harsher disability. but i reckon it'd b imprssive enuf if you take into account a person's handicap when looking at their ticklist. If you start adding handicap grades (which would have to differ depending on the disability) then a really awesome climber under 6 foot would suddenly be able to do a grade 36 or something equally as ridiculous. I guess at the moment if someone says "grade 21" nomatter what the context, you can get an imidiate idea of the climb difficulty for the average person. If handicap grades entered the system so would a lot of confusion.

In one sense, it seems only fair to have them, in another it could undermine the grading system. I dunno where I'm goin with this but that's my thoughts for the day.

Steph