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Bogen

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  1. Better than Banff?????????????

    This years line up turns me off. I'd like to go see Jojo on tues, and the Croft show of course. I think I won't go to the Croft show, because then I'll be contributing money to the idiot show about the quadripalegic who didn't climb the grand wall, and I just can't stomach that.

    I enjoyed last years show, but I don't think it's as good as Banff's show this year.

  2. I have teenage kids that, along with their friends, speak in netspeak. Like, rather than actually laughing out loud, they say LOL to each other. wOOt is another very common one.

  3. I think it was senator Eugene McCarthy that said:

     

    "Being a politician is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to play the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

  4. Hmm, most gyms are too well protected, if anything. We got a new route setter just this year that is setting some riskier ones, trying to traverse and shit to make the routes longer and more interesting. I end up skipping clips fairly often, but I understand most gyms would freak out about that.

     

    To be honest, I like to climb in a gym where there is a little risk involved...

     

     

    As far as TRing, I HATE reclipping the bloody directional draws on the overhangs on the way down, I'd rather lead it. And, to reiterate, it is a waay better exercise.

  5. I agree with all that, but what are the alternatives? Chin ups in the basement? Fitness world? Take it for what it is, and have fun with it!

     

     

    Yeah its real sweet when you're like 15 feet off the deck and have only clipped the first bolt five feet off the deck and your busting akward 5.12 moves. Stupid.

     

    Problem is the routes are too short and the route setters are retahded.

  6. The gym is for working out. There are plenty of people in there that do nothing but climb in the gym, and feel pretty brave for being "lead" climbers. I resisted leading in the gym for a while, saying it was lame and no different than TRing anyway.

     

    The truth is, finding stable clipping positions on that overhanging 5.12 changes the experience, and more importantly the workout, very dramatically.

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    fucking backclipped my first draw (actually, i clipped it properly, but the draw was twisted when i clipped it, so the end-result was a backclip)

     

     

    Whoever failed you for that is a tool.

  8. Picture didn't turn out.

     

    I'm starting to wonder, Bogen.

     

    You're starting to wonder! Those racoons were calling me some pretty dirty names, I'm sure!

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