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redlude97


May 13, 2011, 4:18 PM

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Re: [jacques] Trad climbing, what's in a name?
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jacques wrote:
cchas wrote:
I agree with guangzhou about the psychological side of climbng. Assuming a climber is experienced and isn't alpine climbing, if they get hurt its usually because of making multiple bad choices in 95% of the cases and in 5% bad luck. With the redundancy and quality of todays gear, to have something go terribly wrong requires several bad decisions.

I agree with both of you, I use hex and nut for twenty year and I climb 5.10. I just buy cam five years ago.

On the other side, can we say that those who learn to climb bolt have more problem to find good placement because they look for somethink obvious and becaums they climb hard before learning to protect.

Someone who learn trad before sport have to protect the route well. So, they climb less harder, but they make more god decision because they have time to think at what is a good placement and what is not a good placement.
No. you keep trying to put trad climbing on some type of pedestal, but it really isn't. You aren't better than anyone else. IME people who are sport climbers who get into trad progress much faster than those who start with trad alone. Sport climbers have already developed quite a repertoire of climbing skills which translate well to trad. They in general are less pumped, have a better head while finding placements and understand resting better than complete noobs. If your argument that a climber with 2 years of experience strictly trad climbing is a better trad climber than a climber with 2 years experience split between sport and trad, then DUH thanks for stating the obvious.


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