Why trad just might be better than sport

Post by **meetVA** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:20 pm

After giving it some real thought (as opposed to the imitation in a can kind) I think part of it has to do with how it hurts your body.

Crimps do a real number on your joints all the way whereas with handjams you are just tearing off skin, that grows back much more easily.

Post by **stronghandman** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:30 pm

So the Red has its traddies too ? Well there may be a lil more to this place than I first thought. Are the trad ratings as soft as the sport. I saw some pics in boulderdash a while back of a fella named Ray putting up a few trad lines around here. He looked like a lil twinkle toes struggling up what looked like a 5.9 and calling it 5.11. So who knows. Guess I may have to make another trip up here to see what the traddies have to dish out. Im not getting my hopes up.

Post by **loren** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:49 pm

'twinkle toes?!" Ha! Your killing me handyman. Keep this shit coming!

Post by **ynot** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:01 pm

Shouldn't handyman's fonts be shrinking yet?

Post by **Yasmeen** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 12:49 am

stronghandman wrote:Guess I may have to make another trip up here to see what the traddies have to dish out. Im not getting my hopes up.

Why would you go somewhere that doesn't get you excited?

Post by **stronghandman** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:48 am

I still need a few high end ticks to fill my trad tick list. I figured the trad climbs were as soft as the sport. That will make my sponsers proud. Its a game that has to be played sometimes. Climbing is in my heart as deep as anyone here. Sometimes you have to slum to pay the bills. So I figured this Ray guy I hear everyone talking about can take me around to his projects and let me warm up. Then the Red can awaken and explode.

Post by **Yasmeen** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:55 am

Sounds like a tough existence... have a good time... though with as infamously soft as all the ratings are, I don't know how impressed your sponsors'll be...

Post by **stronghandman** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 2:54 am

Its all bout the #’s. If I can get all the warm up projects done here in a few visits it opens a whole new world of sponsor ass kicking. It wouldn’t be a big deal to put up a big dog sponsor-pleasing route here among all the softies. And even if you didn’t the climbing media will sell it off for you, if you tell the story just right. No need to back up your shit. Claim whatever you want, cause that’s the way it’s been. I will follow the rest of my climbing big dogs with increasing #’s every trip out. I guess it’s the wacky weed that’s letting us push #’s farther in one year than they used to progress 10.

Post by **stronghandman** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 2:56 am

ynot, why ya gotta hate man.

Post by **CBP** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 5:15 am

its november for god's sake- why aren't you all out ice climbing?!