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hey lurk, you might want to check you pic you uploaded of resurrection. there's something really strange about that pic in regard to the person climbing and the person who posted the pic. can you figure out what?

actually, i was just wondering if you could give me the beta of where that bad ass got that kneebar.

Most Flatulent Fellatio,
The suspect manuveur that Rob is employing in said photo is not a knee bar, but a drop knee (which I will concede is a dubious tactic at avoiding the issue as well, but not as glaring, audacious, and flagrant as the fullon-faggoty- butt- plugging- creme- puff- I- got- no- shame- knee bar. )
Rob however remains a friend. (He was much younger and less wiser in that photo).
The Hurkist

good memory, Hugh. However, I remember using a full-on kneebar for that move. THat is no drop knee hugh.

pictures don't lie, and i'd consider you both friends, but that ain't no kneebar watson. i admire your tactical maneuvers of avoiding the shame mr. mcfall has been caught in the act of...but you've been caught. i'm willing to let it slide if you two submit an apology explaining that the variation of resurrection photographed is .12a.

horatio it really is just a kneebar? I thought i was aid climbing? I am sure you do receive much more gratification since it is a knee bar. I thought about lying down on the ledge there, but it didn't look to comfortable to nap.
Besides, itself Resurrection merely 13a anyway?

The picture does indicate a kneebar. Maybe it's just the angle that the pic was taken from but....

Looks like a kneebar to me, too, but what the hell do I know? Here's what we need to do. One of you badass climbers needs to focus on training me to climb that hard and then when hell freezes over and I'm sending that route, I'll see if a true drop knee can be had there without resorting to such a scandalous thing as a knee bar. Deal?

so you're knee isn't lying on that ledge? i'm sorry to bring this up rob, but you've been caught. it's not a big deal. everyone sins you know.

Man, do you homos really call out kneebars?
I thought eliminates were done only on the boulders here to make it feel like real bouldering.

All this talk is so confusing...

I've always thought if the FA puts up a route and someone later on figures out how to make it easier...kneebar, hidden hold, whatever...that the route just gets downrated. Am I missing something here? So does that mean if I climb "The Return of Chris Snyder" and get a good no hand rest that I didn't really climb an 11d route?

Damn. If that's true then I should give myself a lot more credit. I mean, it's crazy how many routes I've climbed missing jugs and/or rests. So with this logic I can probably say I've onsited and redpointed a few letter grades harder than what I thought I had. Cool...