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Trashing Tassie ... it's beyond salvation 23-Mar-2011 At 8:41:31 AM Climboholic

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On 21/03/2011 davidn wrote:
>Didn't I mention bite me in a previous post? Oh, well then, bite me.
>
>Free soloing doesn't change the grade. The technically hardest move remains
>the same. Whether you shit yourself and fall off isn't the point. Every
>subjective aspect you introduce into a grade makes it more difficult to
>understand what the fuch the grade even means. Cause then Enzo Oddo comes
>along and downgrades your shit because he's a crazy fearless 15 year old.
> Or the guy climbing Noblesse Oblige over and over calls it a different
>grade because 'runout' means something completely different to him.

You still don't get it.

M9 was not saying that the grade gets harder for a free solo (correct me if I'm wrong). The Ewbank system is actually pretty simple. Even davidn SHOULD be able to get it!