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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Jerry...Maxi-pads eh? Doesn't anybody make a real 'Maxi-Pad' out there!
Russ baby! Fish products Maxi-pads for super highballs! whip something up bro - you're the only company that could do this any justice!
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2006 - 04:09pm PT
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BACKer!!! I want one fo those!!
Coming soon to a crag near you, courtesy of the SSFSCA, the Super Safe Free Solo CLimbing Assasination!
Gillman, you going to make em or what?
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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That's better John. You shouldn't need wings with that thing.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
St. Louis
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I think "assasination" would make be a poor name, or even part of a name, for this device. But hey, what do I know....
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2006 - 05:16pm PT
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Crimpestuous one, it was supposed to be a funny play on Association. DOH!!!!
Laugh at my jokes, Damn you all!!!
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2006 - 11:00am PT
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Riley, I thkn it's all in what you practice, I am(was) OK on 45 degree overhangs but suck at roof cracks, but then I have that 45 degree wall 15 minutes away,and no roof crack there to play on.
BTW, 45 overhang is still feet, you sort of hang on your arms and rock around them, driving with your feet.
The guys who try to pull their way up overhangs have a lot of trouble.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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The hardest climbs of the future will not be clipable! Maxi-pads are the only answer....I think....hmmmm
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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Maybe even the now?
Good thing there's so much more to enjoy about climbing than how difficult it can be.
Good thing for me at least.
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Hootervillian
climber
the Hooterville World-Guardian
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that would put Pad People on The Cutting Edge?
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2006 - 10:51pm PT
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Well isn't part of the fun of it that thaere is alwasys an easy one, a hrd one an challenging one and an impossible one, and that while this particuparu probs change there is one in each caterogy froever?
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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JB is on the right path...the cutting edge~~movement only~~. I think Ben Moon was talking about this stuff a decade ago...
Roun' here clips are routinely skipped to redpoint. I've heard about a guy skipping 5 or 6 in a row (and taking some nasty falls) on some 14 proj. Another crew is skipping 4-5 clips on another testpiece, "Apes on Acid". Taking 60'ers on an 85' route...
I recently belayed a guy who skipped the last clip on an (already) pretty run route. Would've been a huge whipper, but pretty safe (steep). Still kind of nervewracking to belay.
Being the n00b I am, last time I skipped a clip I wrecked my shoulder with poor "panicky" technique a move from the chains.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 6, 2006 - 01:39pm PT
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I have a 4 x 8 x 1 gym training mat but it is still rough over 20 feet, and you need help to cart it around.
but for 61 feet and up, nothing beats it until--
MAXI-PAD!
a subsidiary of Acopa.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2006 - 09:58am PT
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Shameless bump.
Post pics of stuff you can DOWNCLIMB! I downclimb the ones I posted for DC practice.
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