Climbing Slang

[Recriminator]

The first word is from a climbig slang guide from Rock and Ice .Feel free to add any known climbing slang .After all we all know climbers need a bigger volcabulary

Aggro: short for aggressive.Can also be a world view."BURNING" is such an aggro route I have to drink 4 cups of spro just to pull off the ground

[freeclimb9]

Omelette: as in "for choppin my route, I oughtta bust a cap in your ass, but because of my probation requirements, omelette it slide."

[pope]

Ignorant climbers would do well to abandon the ridiculous and insulting jargon they've developed and to invest a little time learning more about the English language (instead of degrading it). I'm sorry, but when I need to hang from the rope (say, to retrieve a nut), I refuse to demand my belayer to "take". I will be requesting tension. I won't be "sending the sickness" out at the crags; I'll simply be scaling difficult walls competently. Not that a little jargon is so terrible, but traditional belay signals have facilitated safe climbing for decades.

[Cpt.Caveman]

I'll be the dude yelling "Hey bro I am gonna French free this 5.9 offwidth dude! So prepare for the hang fest if necessary cuz this crack is sick and I wanna send it mo fro stylee! Summit or plummet! TAKE!!!"

[ 11-26-2001: Message edited by: Cpt.Caveman ]

[Dru]

quote:

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Originally posted by pope:

Ignorant climbers would do well to abandon the ridiculous and insulting jargon they've developed and to invest a little time learning more about the English language (instead of degrading it). I'm sorry, but when I need to hang from the rope (say, to retrieve a nut), I refuse to demand my belayer to "take". I will be requesting tension. I won't be "sending the sickness" out at the crags; I'll simply be scaling difficult walls competently. Not that a little jargon is so terrible, but traditional belay signals have facilitated safe climbing for decades.

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"Are you ready, Ski King?""Make it happen, Captain""Send mode enabled""Chick power, check."(climbs)"Weak sauce alert!""Gotcha" (locks off)"Fuckin* goddam* mother-fuckin* whor* of a route! OK sending""Send on!"

"Yeaaaa! Whaaaa!" (swish, boing)"Nice Airtime!""OK sending!""Give er the dose dude!"

(Clip clip)

"Sent! Dominated!""Got it on video!""Ok dirt me!""Dirting!"

[Recriminator]

Plastic Mechanic : Gym Climber

That dude can realy crank.Yea right pussboy is just a plastic mechanic he thinks gear is a quick draw and multi pitch is baseball.

[pope]

Now that one could be useful.

[Recriminator]

From issue#67 Rock&Ice Sept\Oct 1993 Ya I know some of you were still pissen in your britches back then and thought climbing was playing king of the monkey bars at kindergarten,but it still relates today.Ethics Police; People who feel frustrated with life and sublimate a desire to be Nazis by enforcing rules that only they are clear about.Used in a sentence:Who F!#$en made retrosoreass crag ethics police!

[ 11-28-2001: Message edited by: Recriminator ]