Rig a top rope. You get your safe, comfortable practice climb without making a messy bolt trail. Pure safety and pure movement is found on the end of a TR and most of the routes at J-tree can be TR'd. Everybody wins. Just a thought.
Wrong. Top-roping by it's nature will not allow you to focus like you are forced to while on lead.
The point is sport climbing allows you to learn movement and focus without scaring the shit out of you. The end result should be to transfer your ability to trad climbing. Trad is still at the top of the food chain as far as I'm concerned, but sport climbing is a good thing that you shouldn't dismiss.
So jkassidy/dwayner, you told me that you think bolts are bullshit. Well have you ever rapped or belayed off a bolted anchor? I expect a yes or no answer not your typical windbag bs.