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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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today leo was estimated 6-8.
not the case however county was hitting at 6-8.
big crowd today at the line.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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That's some sick shakin' at Ours ß Î Ø T Ç H
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Ours, near Sydney NSW, Australia. Yet another preternatural yet gorgeous Aussie slab wave, like Shipstern Bluff and The Right.
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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o-man, Departure Delayed is more than worthy. Thanks for the clip. So cool to see these once groms forcing the evolution of the sport. Where will it go from here?
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
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I've posted from a day to day view on this but if I think of the content of the OP and try to answer "complimentary"?
The home break where I grew up has changed greatly but the rock I still love to climb has not. There are definite parallels to both pursuits and the one constant is more physical but mentally, now, entirely different.
What once was a sparsely populated stretch of coast when I first started surfing at age 8 with the same characters and pecking orders is now overrun with the aged (trying not to be too judge-mental) trying to fit their corporate lifestyles (because that's what it takes to be able to afford the lifestyle in California now) into what I grew up with. My home brake is now scathing with forty year old beginners changing the rules of the road and my mental status with it. I haven't been able to adapt.
And this is the fundamental difference for me. The mental aspect of it. And though both rock climbing and surfing both share many characteristics (Surf spots have names and so do climbing routes) the rock is still perfect and uncrowded. Where as my home break, which is only occasionally good, is now always crowded, even when windblown and sloppy, I can always drive to the base of Stateley, swim the lake, put my shoes and chalk bag on and climb a perfect piece of rock, on any given day when the suns out,uncrowded on one of my favorite routes, just like when I first started out.
The rock, to me, is almost always perfect and the permanence is what is so different.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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The only inherent thing wrong with surfing is "the bizness" lasts only 10 to 180 seconds, usually more like 25 seconds while climbing usually lasts a great deal longer. In this shortness, surfing shares aspects with figure skating, I am afraid.
Thanks O, for the John John video. I'd have to say he is my favorite to watch these days. He seems Honnoldesque even. A new young genius seeker. As Kelly said last year, "John John's going to know the waves on North Shore like no one we've ever seen before".
If asked, I would say the future of the sport is clearly taking those "airs above the ground" and getting them to happen on much larger surf and also continuing the crusade to find even more interesting spots worldwide. So much has been accomplished since the sixties' short board revolution and surfers sure are a bit more community and fellowship-oriented than in the past.
Fairly recent John John diptych:
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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