Coffee Shop Talk

[dustonian]

Nice try Ian.... mercury and lead from batteries contaminate the groundwater. There is pretty much no such thing as "eco-friendly" when it comes to human activities.

[climb2core]

Nice try Ian.... mercury and lead from batteries contaminate the groundwater. There is pretty much no such thing as "eco-friendly" when it comes to human activities.

dood, you are so 2000 and late


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[Crankmas]

By all means stay away from the Coffee Shop area entirely...

[dustonian]

Rumor is it's a great place to pick up hot guys.

[Cleveland]

But always the diplomat, I decided to see what others thought. IN your time as a climber, what is the one thing (or two) that has happened that truly had you thinking "really?" and swearing that our 'sport" had finally jumped the shark....

Awesome!!! I love this question pigsteak. Relating sport climbing to the run of a TV show is pretty fun. I am never really sure how sport climbing is doing as a whole because I only sport climb at the Red and a few other places around here(New River and Obed). I will say that it seems that sport climbing has not jumped the shark. Here are a few indicators. It is reported on quite a bit in the "climbing media", Miguels is stuffed(no pun), Sharma is doing it, the "kids" are doing it, Europe is doing it, there is such thing as a roped comp(even though it is super lame compared to bouldering comps).

Having said that...Here is a indicator that maybe sport climbing has jumped the shark. People are having more fun partying at Miquels than actually climbing. There are about the same amount of cars at Miguels at Noon as there are at 10pm. People aren't climbing. They are chill'in. If climbers do make it to the crag, they aren't really climbing much. Chill'in. If they are roped up. They are hang dogging. Chill'in. Whole bunch of chill'in. Chill'in is fun for sure. But you really don't need sport climbing to do it.

O yeah and Roadside being closed by climber owners might be the Fonz jumping a shark. Or maybe "das Crew" policing on other peoples property.....

JR, you just painted a perfect picture in my head of what Chill'in is!

[cramacam]

I was cool with Stereos at the crag, Manky draws on just about any route left there for years to sever any one's rope. Everyone and their brother "climbing 12a now" (do you mind hanging the draws on this 5.9? actually just leave it up on t.r. Thanks bro I'm too sore from crank seshie on my 12c proj yesterday that no one saw), fights at the crag, 50-60 helmeted canuks gangbanging every warmup on a monday at the same time, entitlement that comes with owning... (oh wait, nothing...), people pooping below routes, the scene that is "so bangin bro", huge egos... all that stuff was totally cool with me.

"perma-tape" <- shark jumper (is this really what the kids say these days?)

[Spikeddem]

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"perma-tape" <- shark jumper (is this really what the kids say these days?)

It's a REALLY old saying. Like, really really old. I went to my local library and spent days going through their microfilm files searching for the origin. It's like how Gandalf had to spend years uncovering the ring, because so much time had passed and the story of the ring had died. In our case, the phrase originated in some archaic television show called "Happy Days."

[cramacam]

Oh thank God! I thought it was a reference to Shark Week. I've never had cable tv. I get paranoid about missing Discovery Channel cultural references.

[tbwilsonky]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

fascinating.

[tbwilsonky]

this might be a fonzi fish jumping moment, no?

http://vimeo.com/39794682

so. fucking. embarrassing. i'm gonna start recording wobblers/tantrums and posting them. maybe shaming these loathsome babies will help them right the ship.