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...climbing 200+ days a year... try harder... by traveling both these roads, you can do relatively hard things without dedicated training. lol i choose to live in an area where i can work and climb full time. i realize not everybody has that luxury (made the sacrifice) i take relatively menial jobs...

I'm talking out of my ass here, but take a survey of 5.14 climbers who also have full-time jobs, and see how many of them reached that level by "just climbing a lot." I'd be willing to guess it would be approximately zero. i dont train apart from maybe 100 pushups a week, hangboarding les...

Malice and Demon Seed are among the best 12c's ive done anywhere. I dont usually give that compliment to many RRG routes....

i think it has more to do with how ready your body is to put stress on it over an extended period of time. a 25 year old with little athletic background would be "older" in this case than someone in their thirties who had been climbing for years. but for the sake of an argument, i think an...

I think that a certain amount of genetic predisposition kicks in somewhere in the 13s. No matter the amount of training, someone with a natural barrel chest and a -5 ape index will never climb 5.14 Just an example. Tim Deroehn has climbed 514. he is small of stature with T-Rex arms... I think anybo...

He did go to kentucky...

512OW wrote: Besides that, who knows what size holds he could hold on to? Most of finger strength is genetic. Ever seen Ivan Greene? He's built just like that guy and can hold onto invisible holds...

Midgets and leprechauns should be left out of all serious climbing discussions.

i like the squid. it attaches to any painter's pole and it never falls off. it clips - regardless of whether or not the draw is already on it. it also UNCLIPS. a very handy feature indeed when i accidentally stick clip the 1st bolt of the wrong route :oops: except for the fact that the squid is mad...

Keep driving South until you hit T-Wall...

RJ

Just come to Chattanooga. Rock aplenty. Nice bolders, sunny faces for you trad or sporty climbs. Whatever you want, we got...

RJ