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Personally I climb for myself. I chase the numbers because I want to see what I can do, if you are looking at what I can do then so be it. If your impressed, then even better (I am guilty of having pride). I have no desire to compete with anyone else, unless it is for the sole purpose of gaining a little temporary drive. But in the end, I did not fail because I was not as good as you are, I only fail when did not give it my best.

Yasmeen wrote:I think Kris has made a good point about this many times-- it's boring to watch good climbers after awhile, since they make everything look like 5.9. I have a better time watching gymnastics and even swimming (I can't lie-- I've been excited every time Phelps has won, even though it's a given) because I don't experience those all the time. Watching someone I don't really know do something I do all the time just doesn't get me all that psyched. The exception is watching climbing DVDs in Ray and Michelle's gym.

Sure you like to watch him win. Thats what the wife keeps telling me everytime she rewinds the DVR.

kek-san wrote: definitively require skill, but not necessarily exemplary physicality (volleyball, table tennis).

Although Kate Walsh is nearly as tall as Andrew, she still has some spring loaded legs and some punch in her arms. That takes some physicality (whatever that means), or rather intense training to reach Olympic-caliber status.

I saw badminton on the other day and thought this same thing. Not that I care if climbing becomes an olympic sport or not, but... badminton?

Sport Climbing is Neither...

I just figure on letting the badmitons get their props, same with the curlers,lord knows they probably need them. You know they must hate life because whatever is going on at home is so bad that they have dedicated all their spare time to badmiton.

A lot of climbers seem to have a lot of animosity towards anyone who trains hard for an athletic endeavor. It's almost like they are trying to say they are above that level of obsession while simultaneously secretly envying those people's dedication and hating them for it.

sex with toothless ballerinas is pretty decent

The female beach volleyball players have a ton of athletic ability:)

Saxman wrote:A lot of climbers seem to have a lot of animosity towards anyone who trains hard for an athletic endeavor. It's almost like they are trying to say they are above that level of obsession while simultaneously secretly envying those people's dedication and hating them for it.

I don't think its the training that generates the animosity, cus we all know that training is important in climbing too. I really believe its the competitive nature of most sports that means in order for someone to be good they have to beat someone else and consider them an enemy in some way. So the best at most sports are often extremely cocky, arrogant, or just plain obnoxious, the very reason I don't like sports in the first place. Sure there are a lot of arrogant climbers but the fact that we don't have to beat our friends to be good means that the best climbers can deal with that internal struggle for perfection w/out being a dick to everyone around them.

Crankmas wrote:sex with toothless ballerinas is pretty decent

flexability and no teeth to get in the way