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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Nov 15, 2011 - 03:32pm PT
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^^^ BADASS!!!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Nov 25, 2011 - 05:47pm PT
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I saw this bald dude getting pretty high at Josh last weekend.
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Nov 25, 2011 - 06:49pm PT
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Great shot! I chalked up just looking at it.
When is the book due?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Nov 25, 2011 - 06:58pm PT
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Slashface might be my favorite BP in Josh...right behind KP's "Once Upon A Dime". Or is it "In My Time Of Dimes"? Off the geology tour road, down by Knuckleball. Oh so many great gems down there...
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Nov 25, 2011 - 07:11pm PT
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... the line between bouldering and free soloing is frequently blurred. In this video, Lisa Rands talks about reaching a hieght where no-matter how many pads below, jumping off or falling is not an option. I think, by definition that would be "Zone 1" soloing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSsdFlotCrA
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altieboo
Boulder climber
Livermore, Ca/ Currently: Peoples Republic
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Nov 25, 2011 - 11:57pm PT
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Nov 26, 2011 - 03:55am PT
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highball - you get hurt
free solo - you die
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Double D
climber
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Dec 15, 2011 - 12:00am PT
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and here I have the EBs.
Largo... It ain't the shoes bro.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 15, 2011 - 10:25am PT
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I'd like to hear more about those ancient photos Gill posted.
Who were those guys?
Why were they bouldering? I get it on the tower, but the other boulder looks like he's really bouldering for the sake of bouldering.
Shoes? No shoes?
Very neat, anyway you slice it.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Dec 15, 2011 - 08:46pm PT
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I'd like to hear more about those ancient photos Gill posted
Tom. go to my website for a history of bouldering, which began more or less in Great Britain during the later part of the 19th century. That's where the words "bouldering" and "problem" originated.
But it didn't become a recognized "sport" until the 1950s and 1960s.
John Gill's Website
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Jefe'
Boulder climber
Bishop
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Dec 15, 2011 - 09:43pm PT
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John, really appreciate your website.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 15, 2011 - 10:39pm PT
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That website is great. Thanks!
I'd write more, but I need to go read Gill's site.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Dec 15, 2011 - 10:51pm PT
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John Sherman pulled off some of our High Ball problems when he came to visit us.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 15, 2011 - 10:59pm PT
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How about bike shoes and no chalk?
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2 l l
Sport climber
Rancho Verga, CA
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highball - you get hurt
free solo - you die Logical enough, but I'd defer to Bachar (for one). Obviously he climbed full sized boulders, but he also spoke of a 'zone' rating on solos, where you could theoretically walk away from a fall (and he did, at times). For us mortals, anything above your own height is essentially a highball, taking into account twisting falls, bad landings and gravity herself.
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tarek
climber
berkeley
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there's tall stuff, low crux, good landing
tall, high crux, good landing
tall, high crux, horrendous shark's teeth below
not tall, super scary terrible landing anyway
had-it-wired, relaxed too much, cratered
"never came off that way before"
"my hand popped and I did a face-out"
not really high, but there's that big horn
not high, but slab crux at top
time-nearly-stopped-slo-mo mantel
conditions conditions conditions
etc.
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Blakey
Trad climber
Newcastle UK
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Highballing is a trendy term that IMHO the use accompanied, (and was coined by) the users of mats. BITD we just 'soloed'. I am often tickled by how 'low' some 'high'balling is....... I think the phrase 'Skyballing' better suits soloing with mats - say 25' and above.......
Steve
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Not necessary to do exclusively, but a continuing essential element of our paradigm.
I fell off a crack from 20' last year and broke my foot. I'd done the route, solo many times before. Two weeks later, I was climbing again on a limited basis, with two different sized climbing shoes. Later that summer I soloed a route on Devil's Tower, feeling all too mortal, which is a good way to feel when soloing. Haven't done any but the easiest solos since then. But sooner or later some crack will lure me up into the maim zone, I know it. That's how we're wired. But, as I grow in climbing, I take a more reasoned, more informed and less brazen approach.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Highballing is a trendy term that IMHO the use accompanied, (and was coined by) the users of mats.
Maybe in GB. But in SoCal the word goes back to at least the early 1980s.
As Pat notes, it's an old word in railroad circles.
I don't know the word's origins in climbing. But it could be a Largoism.
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