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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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What kind of kneepads?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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I think those are called san francisco sandals...?
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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pure style
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Protects the knuckles.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Trick question, right?
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Where the Hoback and the mighty Snake River meet
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troll
(Haven't you guys figured it out yet that this avatar is ALWAYS a troll?)
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Young dudes don't do chimneys.....no bolts to clip.
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ryankelly
Trad climber
el portal
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haha, nice one donini
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thirsty
climber
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Maybe its belayers who won't drop them enough for a soft catch, so they are smacking into the wall and cracking their knee caps after they have just finished hanging on the rope to take all the stretch out and then coming off three feet above the protection they were hanging from.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Where the Hoback and the mighty Snake River meet
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OMG! locker........
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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...old dudes wearing knee pads while climbing....sup wit dat
Hey, I resemble that remark...
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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it's not just old guys...
anyone who spends a lot of time on their knees wears knee pads...The knee pads tell me just how MUCH they like spending time on their knees heheheheh!
maybe those old guys are having more fun on their knees then you could ever imagine.
why would any guy want to spend that much time on his knees?!?!
Bet their hair is super messy too ;)
cheers
ls
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Like this old fart?
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Sometimes old dudes have to do certain awful things to get a partner...
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Who makes those neoprene rubber knee pads for awful-widthing? Think they had 5.10 C4 rubber on the front? Was it 5.10? Those were pretty dang sticky in OWs.
Can I still get a pair? They seemed to fit old guys, young guys, women, girls and dogs.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Bruce, it's that climbing shoppe in Boulder. They take grandmas neoprene support hose and put C4 on it.
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the idle rich
climber
Estes Park, CO
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Old climbers spend more time on their knees praying to get up the route?
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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'Cause old dudes = PAs = roller skates.
Do you have another question?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Old dudes in shorts with white, skinny legs look about as ridiculous wearing knee pads as do a pod of twenty somethings marching off to the boulders with pads overhead.
Knee pads....bouldering pads, they both seem to do the job.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Who you callin' old?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Talkin' to me?
First climb after right meniscus removal & ACL replacement, 1979. I've always considered the surgery was necessitated by activity in chimneys and in OWs, but had a two week layoff from HS swimming for knee pain.
I used to use a neoprene sleeve on the knee after this when I played racquetball, but no pads. The knee pads I had for climbing walls were covered in duct tape. The immediate pain following knee surgery was the most intense pain I've ever known.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Some of us have good reason to wear knee pads.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I'm too young to presume to know the minds of "old guys," but knee pads come in handy sometime!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oh, feel free to presume away. It's nothing, really, having constant pain despite surgery to correct it, I assure you. It's all in the mind, innit?
And cats love mice.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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I'm too young to presume to know the minds of "old guys,"
LOL!
A few years back I was leading some pitch in Indian Creek and heard some other climbers at the base snidely commenting on my knee pads. My partner turns to them and says "Hey, he isn't using chalk, isn't wearing tape gloves, and is leading on hexes and Tri-Cams. Oh and he has an artificial knee so cut the old dude some slack".
Knee pads and hiking poles rule!
And Geezers (like Jaybro) still gettin' after it ROCK!
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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I don't understand what's 'awful' about the things old people have to do to get partners... please explain?
DMT
It involves knee pads...
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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you mean you have to put on knee pads to get your point across?
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane ~:~
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What's up with old doods... Keep in mind that this is the same group/generation that pranced around in lycra tights for a season or two (so nothing should surprise you). With that said (like someone else mentioned) they have their place/purpose. It is rather odd though (imo) when someone wears them 24/7, as if it was part of their identity, or something. But, so what ... get over it. We were/are a generation of All American F*#k Ups, Dirtbags Extraordinaire (well, some of us) that figured a lot of sh#t out the hard way (some paid with their lives) paved the way so this generation would learn from our mistakes and, hopefully, benefit from our achievements. So, cut us a little slack! Regardless, we are survivors, and we don't really give a sh#t what ya think...
edit: in the 60's, 70's & 80's, most people were lucky to have one pair of shoes (street shoes) usually sneekers or hiking boots (and one pair of climbing shoes that you wore to the bone/rand). Anything else was considered excess, and no one could afford it anyway. This current generation has gone totally material. There are benefits to it, but also many downfalls. end of rant! :)
some mentions were made about kneepads being beneficial for, walls/nailing, chimneys & ice. I would also add that on long face climbs they are good for kneeling against the rock (scoping the route, belaying, etc). ... wudevah.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Has anyone asked Terrible Herbst?
Tony is so knee pad passe.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I love my knee pads!
But they're not the thick roofing contractor things. They're the thin ones that are more like support hose for the knee. I like wearing them with Lycra tights.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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I have seen a bunch of old school old dudes wearing knee pads while climbing....sup wit dat?
Obviously asked by some ignorant young punk who has never ventured off the couch.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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A few years back I was leading some pitch in Indian Creek and heard some other climbers at the base snidely commenting on my knee pads. My partner turns to them and says "Hey, he isn't using chalk, isn't wearing tape gloves, and is leading on hexes and Tri-Cams. Oh and he has an artificial knee so cut the old dude some slack".
You're my hero. Go Philo!
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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And for us old dudes who haven't replaced out knees, realize that we've spent 50 -plus years replacing the skin between our knees and ankles with tissue paper. This long cultivation process is worth protecting thus, the knee pads.
So BACK OFF.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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who you callin' old?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Speaking of old dudes with knee pads...
Hey PopLockeandDropIt, I saw your momma wearing knee pads the last time I fed her a giant schnitzel.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Nature, what kind of knee pad is that? Clearly knott the standard contractors gig....
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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counch... those are the 5.10s. Jaybro had 'em out at sushifest in vedauwoo so I gave 'em a test drive. This was a fashion shoot or somesuch...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nature on the bighouse catwalk!
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weezy
climber
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dang, looks like kneepads don't protect old guys from getting butthurt about wearing kneepads.
i never understood why people wear kneepads on walls. my knees never touch the wall while climbing or jugging. i'd maybe consider them on some route like epinephrine or some other mega-chimbley but i'd probably just sack up and deal with it. you know, "like we did back in the olden days..."
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Old climbers who do not wear knee pads have stopped climbing long ago.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Here, this may help explain it.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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dang, looks like kneepads don't protect old guys from getting butthurt about wearing kneepads.
Hehe
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